Ronald Radd

Nacimiento : 1929-01-22, Sunderland, County Durham, England, UK

Muerte : 1976-04-23

Películas

For Services to Myself
Andy Banks
A proud socialist and community activist wrestles with the decision to accept an honour from the Queen
Siete hombres al amanecer
Carl, Aunt Marie's Husband
En 1942, el general de las SS Reinhard Heydrich es nombrado gobernador de la Checoslovaquia ocupada por los nazis. Pero un grupo de siete soldados checos, exiliados en el Reino Unido, son enviados a su país para eliminarlo. La película detalla la planificación del atentado, su ejecución y la dura represión que sufrieron los checos tras la muerte de Heydrich.
La escalera de caracol
Oates
Helen vive con un terrible recuerdo: asistió impotente a la muerte de su esposo e hija al quedarse atrapados en un incendio provocado en su propia casa. Incapaz de gritar para pedir ayuda, esta traumática experiencia le provoca la pérdida de la voz, debiendo iniciar un tratamiento con un especialista para recuperar el habla. Mientras pasa unos días en la mansión de su abuela moribunda, en la zona aparece un psicópata que está sembrando el pánico entre las mujeres a las que asesina sin piedad. Pronto este hombre se fija en Helen. Remake de "La escalera de caracol" (The Spiral Staircase, 1945), de Robert Siodmak.
King Lear
Gloucester
When England's aging King Lear renounces his throne to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, treachery, madness and murder soon follow. After banishing Cordelia, his most loyal daughter, Lear is betrayed and cast out by her elder sisters Regan and Goneril. Meanwhile, evil brews at the Gloucester castle as Edgar falls victim to his brother's deception. As battle lines are drawn and backs are stabbed, Lear rages against a fearsome storm. Can a man undo his wrongs? Will Cordelia be saved? Or will the wheels of fate crush all in its way?
Murder In Mind
Mystery author's wife confesses to murder.
La ofensa
Lawson
Alterado psicológicamente por los atroces hechos que ha visto en su carrera y alejado moralmente de su esposa, un sargento de policía, mientras interroga brutalmente al supuesto violador de una muchacha, le causa la muerte. A continuación es sometido a un proceso en el que intenta justificar su conducta.
La carta del Kremlin
Captain Potkin
Los servicios secretos estadounidenses y soviéticos intentan recuperar un documento en el que el gobierno de Washington se muestra dispuesto a ayudar a la URSS en la destrucción de las instalaciones nucleares chinas.
La Gaviota
Shamraev
Adaptación de la célebre obra de Chejov. Describe la visita que una actriz madura hace a su hermano y a su hijo en su casa de campo. Le acompaña para la ocasión un afamado novelista, de la que se enamora una jovencita que vive cerca del lugar.
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.
Mi doble en los Alpes
Russian General
Un agente de la CIA, Dan Slater, tiene que trasladarse a Los Alpes austriacos, tras la muerte de su hijo en un accidente de esquí. Debido a las inconsistentes explicacionesque ofrecen las autoridades del país, Dan comienza a barajar la posibilidad de que la muerte de su hijo haya podido ser provocada. Un antiguo compañero, Frank Wheatley, le ayuda a investigar, y sus sospechas se van confirmando poco a poco. La muerte de su hijo forma parte de un sofisticado plan de los servicios secretos rusos para atraer al agente hasta Austria.
A Magnum for Schneider
Hunter
Introducing David Callan, in his first case after being invalided out of the special services.
Mister Ten Per Cent
Publicity Man
Percy Pointer's passion in life is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted to the play he is writing.When it's finished it arrives on the desk of a London impresario, at a time when he wants to stage a flop.
Where the Spies Are
Stanilaus
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.
Up Jumped a Swagman
Harry King
A dreamy Australian singer comes to London to seek his fortune and falls for a down-to-earth lass and a high-strung debutante at the same time.
The Small World of Sammy Lee
Big Alf
The compère of a seedy strip club struggles to keep one step ahead of the bookies to whom he owes money.
The Iceman Cometh
The Captain
Theodore Hickman, a hardware salesman, makes by-yearly visits to Harry Hope's 1910-era waterfront bar for his periodical drinking binges. But on this visit he has decided to try to save the bar's patrons from their "lying pipe dreams."
The Tempest
Stephano
Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who lives in exile on a remote island as a sorcerer, uses his powers to shipwreck his usurper brother on the island.
The Camp on Blood Island
Commander Yamaitsu
Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.