Known for Acting
Born
September 29, 1923 (age 103)
Birthplace
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Filmography
16 films, 12 shows


Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
2016 · 2h 7m · US
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.


ABCs of Death 2
2014 · 2h 4m · BR
Taking all that was great from the first instalment, the movie aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster-paced and even more entertaining anthology this time around, with a new crop of award-winning, visionary filmmakers from around the globe.


The Deep Blue Sea
2011 · 1h 38m · UK
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.


The Awakening
2011 · 1h 47m · UK
In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.


Waiting for Gorgo
2010 · 18m · UK
In the basement of a Ministry of Defence building, two forgotten old men of the Department of Monsters and Over-sized Animals are standing by to protect Britain.


The Whipping Boy
1994 · 1h 36m · FR
A bored little prince makes a poor rat hunter his whipping boy but after his pranks at the royal court almost causes a war with the neighbor king he runs away with the whipping boy to escape from his first spanking. After being in the real world his life will change making him a prince fit to rule.


Treasure Island
1990 · 2h 11m · UK
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure map for which the buccaneers had come. Jim agrees to sail on the S.S. Hispaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious island. Upon arriving at the island, ship's cook and scallywag Long John Silver leads a mutiny of crew members who want the treasure for themselves. Jim helps the Squire and Hispaniola officers to survive the mutiny and fight back against Silver's men, who have taken over the ship.


The Tragedy of Coriolanus
1984 · 2h 25m · UK
A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.


The Draughtsman's Contract
1982 · 1h 48m · UK
R. Neville, a brash young draftsman, is hired to make a dozen landscape illustrations at the estate of Mr Herbert and his wife Virginia. Aside from monetary compensation, the arrangement includes a sexual liaison offered to Neville by Virginia while her estranged husband is away. But when the murdered body of Mr Herbert is discovered at the estate, mysterious clues found in Neville's drawings point to the identity of the killer.


Gauguin the Savage
1980 · 2h 5m · US
Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to abandon his wife and five children in Paris for a life of contentment in Tahiti.


Lady Oscar
1979 · 2h 4m · FR
Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antonette. Her privileged, noble life comes under fire as she discovers the hard life of the poor people of France. She is caught up in the French Revolution, and must choose between her loyalty and love.


Spaghetti Two-Step
1977 · 52m
A waiter hurrying from table to table in a crowded Italian restaurant picks up titbits of conversation from the varied clientele.


The Message
1976 · 2h 58m
In sixth-century Mecca, Prophet Muhammad receives his first revelation from God as a messenger. Three years later, he's not alone in his quest and publicly declares his prophecy. Muhammad is fought by Abu Sufian and his wife Hind, rulers of Mecca. Muhammad's followers are hunted and tortured but he continues his calling.


Disciple Of Death
1972 · 1h 24m · UK
A henchman of Satan poses as a priest in order to get closer to young virgins he needs for human sacrifice.


Henry VIII and His Six Wives
1972 · 2h 5m · UK
Adapted from the BBC2 serial The Six Wives of Henry VIII. 1547, King Henry VIII's life has taken a turn for the worse and he is forced to look back over his life and the many loves which had brought him his three children, only one of which was the desired male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty.


The Mudlark
1950 · 1h 34m · US
It's 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria...