Alan Tilvern

Alan Tilvern

Birth : 1918-11-05, London, England, UK

Death : 2003-12-17

History

Alan Tilvern (5 November 1918 – 17 December 2003) was a British film and television actor with a tough-guy image. He is possibly best known for his role as R.K. Maroon in the film Who framed Roger Rabbit. He was born in Whitechapel, in the East End of London, to Jewish Lithuanian parents, who changed their name from Tilovitch. After leaving school he became a barrow boy in Brick Lane. In the Second World War he served in the Army but was invalided out in 1945

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Alan Tilvern

Movies

Who Framed Roger Rabbit
R.K. Maroon
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
Nineteen Nineteen
Sophie's Father
Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier.
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
William Alexander
Firefox
Air Marshal Kutuzov
The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are rumours that it is undetectable by radar—the British send ex-Vietnam War pilot, Mitchell Gant on a covert mission into the Soviet Union to steal the Firefox.
Invasion
Bilak
Docu-drama surrounding the events leading to the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Brass Target
Frank Ferraro
General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. However, now speculates that his death was actually a murder carefully prepared by his staff to cover a large theft of gold.
Superman
2nd Controller (uncredited)
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
One Bummer News Day
Richard Devizes
What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?
The Lord of the Rings
Innkeeper (voice)
The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle-earth.
Love and Death
Sergeant
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
Percy's Progress
General Dodds
Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.
The Revolutionary
Sid
"A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to effect real change. Emboldened to pursue more radical methods by the older, experienced leftist organizer Despard, "A" unwittingly becomes party to a labor strike that turns violent. Ultimately held responsible by the authorities for the fracas, "A" allies himself with terrorist Leonard, who intends to avenge those jailed in the protest.
The Frozen Dead
Karl Essen
A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third Reich.
Khartoum
Awaan
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Patron
Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand of one of the drinkers. As the bitter locals plan their revenge, the evil Rasputin works his satanic power over the beautiful women who serve at the Tsar's palace. Even the Tsarina herself is seduced by his evil ways and, as his influence begins to dominate government policy, there is only one course of action left... to destroy him before he destroys them all.
Doctor Who: Planet of Giants
Forester
When the TARDIS malfunctions, it and its travellers land on Earth at the size of insects. They uncover a murderous plot involving a new insecticide, but how can they stop the crime in their miniaturised condition?
Hot Enough for June
Simenova's Assistant
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
Shadow of Fear
Warner
An American returning home from Baghdad and seeing his girl in Britain on the way agrees to take a message to the secret service. Once in London he is picked up by the gang involved, who have by then killed the original Middle East agent. He escapes, but he and his girl friend are a marked couple as they retreat to Seaford on the south coast to act as bait in an MI5 plan to catch the thugs.
Danger by My Side
Venning
A girl tracks down the gang who had her detective brother killed.
Anna Karenina
Makhotin
Adaptation from Tolstoy's novel.
Adventure Story
The story of Alexander the Great.
The Siege of Pinchgut
Superintendent Hanna
An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.
Tank Force!
Silverio
During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.
A Tale of Two Cities
Grave Robber
British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of the brutal French Revolution and is himself jailed and condemned to the guillotine. But Sydney Carton, in love with a woman he cannot have, comes up with a daring plan to save her husband.
Chase a Crooked Shadow
Carlos
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.
House of Secrets
Brandelli
Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.
Bhowani Junction
Ted Dunphy
Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
The Bespoke Overcoat
Mr. Ranting
Fender is a lowly clerk in the warehouse of clothing manufacturers Ranting and Co. His one ambition is to have an overcoat of his own. Refused one by the cold hearted Ranting he asks a tailor friend, Morry, to make him one instead, but dies of cold before he can take delivery of it. Unwilling to give up his only desire even in death, he returns as a ghost to persuade Morry to steal him the overcoat he so coveted in life.
The Master Plan
Otto Szimek (uncredited)
Following WW II, a U.S. army officer stationed in West Germany is assigned with keeping classified information away from the Communists. Unfortunately, Red spies know that he suffers from sudden black-outs and use this to hypnotise him, and make it appear that he is a traitor.
Knights of the Round Table
Steward (uncredited)
In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection.
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
Hernandez
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.
Cairo Road
Photographer
A police chief stationed in Egypt sets out to crack down on drug traffickers along the frontiers. With his assistant, he attempts to block the smugglers' passage along the notorious Cairo Road route into the country.
Night and the City
Beggar (uncredited)
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.