Geoffrey Chater

Geoffrey Chater

Nacimiento : 1921-03-23, Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Muerte : 2021-10-16

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Geoffrey Chater

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Sir Norbert Smith, a Life
Cyril Freebody
a spoof TV documentary film (a "mockumentary") charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith.
The Dog It Was That Died
Wren
Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent who's been tailing Purvis, of which side Purvis is really on--once he finds out what it is.
Indiscreet
Finley
A British movie star falls for an American diplomat. Unfortunately, he is still married...or so she believes. It turns out that his claims of marriage are just a way of ensuring his bachelorhood.
Life Story
Sir Lawrence Bragg
Watson and Crick race to find the structure of DNA before Linus Pauling, Maurice Wilkins, or Rosalind Franklin can find the key to unlocking the secret.
Blunt
Guy Liddell
Anthony Blunt is an eminent Cambridge-educated art historian who is also working as a spy for the Soviet Union. In love with double agent Guy Burgess, he helps Burgess get yet another treasonous British agent to safety in Moscow. When Burgess unexpectedly defects as well, the government becomes suspicious of Blunt, but investigators have trouble believing such a refined and aristocratic gentleman would ever betray his nation and his class.
Northanger Abbey
Mr Allen
Los Allen, un matrimonio sin hijos, invitan a Catherine Morland, hija de unos amigos, a que viaje con ellos a Bath, Inglaterra. Catherine y la Sra. Allen pasan el tiempo comprando y paseando para que las vean pues no conocen a nadie ahí.
In the Secret State
Michael Hatherley
A Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its ex-Head intended. Frank Strange sets out to clear his own name and finds he is investigating a murder.
The Burston Rebellion
Magistrate
Drama reconstructing the events of a strike by the schoolchildren of a Norfolk school in 1914, who refused to accept the dismissal of their teachers, Tom and Annie Higdon, who were both socialists.
The Aerodrome
Dr. Faulkner
In the future England is ruled by a fascist government, and one day the leaders begin the construction of a heavily guarded, mysterious airport. BBC adaptation of Rex Warner's 1941 novel of the same name. A stereotypical village in a somewhat alternative England is taken over wholesale by 'The Air Force.' Living in the village is young Roy, who has just learned he is not who he thought he was. Attempting to forge a new sense of identity, he joins the dashing Air Force, seduced by its dynamism and direct and brutal ways.
Gandhi
Government Advocate
Después de defender los derechos de los ciudadanos africanos en Sudáfrica, Gandhi, considerando que también los hindúes son ciudadanos de segunda clase en su propia tierra, los incita a sublevarse contra el Imperio Británico mediante la doctrina de la no-violencia.
Troilus & Cressida
Nestor
The bitter Trojan War drags on - the Greeks blame Achilles' apathy for low morale, while Troy's hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal duel. And after her father exchanges Cressida for a Trojan prisoner, the war becomes personal for her distraught lover Troilus.
Othello
Brabantio
Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to his friend -- who had hoped to marry Desdemona -- that he serves Othello to further his own ends. Venice needs Othello to protect its commercial interests in Cyprus where the Turkish fleet is headed. Desdemona insists on going to Cyprus, too. In Cyprus, Iago plots to convince Othello that Desdemona has betrayed him with Cassio. A lot more than political ambition seems to be motivating Iago.
Sorry
Mr. Calder
Play by Carol Bunyan. Two very different ladies share an office, a common enemy and a sense of humour. Sorry follows them through a day and their very different, and in one case, traumatic, lunch hour.
The Network
Philip Hartley
What do Rose from Devon and Christina from Stuttgart have in common? And in what way is their fate linked to that of wealthy Fiona Dunkerley?
Barry Lyndon
Dr. Broughton
Siglo XVIII. El joven Redmond Barry, huérfano de padre, se ha enamorado de su prima, a la que también pretende el Capitán John Quin. El asunto se resuelve por medio de un duelo, del que Redmond resulta vencedor. A continuación se va a Dublín y decide alistarse en el ejército inglés, donde empieza a desarrollar sus extraordinarias habilidades para sobrevivir. Estando en Alemania, se le presenta la posibilidad de desertar, pero es capturado por el Capitán Potzdorf, un oficial prusiano que le ofrece la posibilidad de unirse a sus tropas o ser colgado por desertor. Una vez en el ejército prusiano, tiene la fortuna de salvarle la vida a Potzdorf, lo que le abre las puertas del servicio secreto prusiano.
The Next Voice You See
An American jazz pianist, blinded in a London bank robbery ten years before, makes his first return appearance in England at an engangement party where he believes he hears the voice of the gunman who cost him his sight.
Haunted: The Ferryman
Miles Attingham
A horror novelist and his wife go to a house in the country for a short vacation. However, they soon find that one of his novels is coming true when they are haunted by the ghost of a drowned ferryman.
The Colour of Blood
A young girl on a train finds out that her companion is a serial killer.
Un hombre de suerte
Bishop/Vicar
Original y surrealista crítica al capitalismo a través de las aventuras de un joven vendedor de café. Brillante reparto. Música de Alan Price, candidato en 1974 a un Globo de Oro por la mejor banda sonora y galardonado por la Academia Británica con el premio "Anthony Asquith". Arthur Lowe fue elegido en el mismo año, mejor actor secundario por la Academia Británica.
The Best Pair of Legs in the Business
Rev. Thorn
Capitalising on his remarkable success in On the Buses, Reg Varney took on the contrasting role of a third-rate holiday camp entertainer dreaming of stardom in this mid-seventies comedy feature. Also starring fellow sitcom favourite Diana Coupland and Lee Montague, The Best Pair of Legs in the Business was adapted from an individual ITV Playhouse drama and scripted by Emmerdale Farm creator Kevin Laffan. 'Sherry' Sheridan, a middle-aged compère and drag artiste currently stationed at a caravan site, is low on talent but high on ambition. Convinced he just needs one decent break to launch himself into the big time, he's relentlessly optimistic - but sadly unaware that his family life is crumbling around him. Can Sherry manage to secure both his job, and his marriage?
Noche sin fin
Coroner
Michael conduce un Rolls Royce para los acaudalados americanos que están de vacaciones por Europa. Cuando conoce a Ellie, una encantadora jovencita americana, se atraen mutuamente y tienen un affaire. Pero son interrumpidos por una extraña y siniestra anciana, quien advierte a Ellie "vete ahora antes de que te hagan daño”
Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse'?
Miles
They write so many innocent words, but what are the authors of your children's stories really like?
El estrangulador de Rillington Place
Christmas Humphreys
En el Londres de la posguerra una joven pareja y su bebé encuentran un hogar en el número 10 de Rillington Place, una preciosa vivienda cuyo inquilino del piso inferior, John Reginald Christie, resulta de lo más inquietante. Lo que desconocen ambos es su violento historial de asesinatos en serie de mujeres mediante gas y sus posteriores actos necrófilos, impulsos criminales que Beryl acabará reavivando en su mente.
One of Those Things
Falck
A successful auto executive Vinther becomes entwined with a young nubile girl, following an avoidable car accident, that results in the death of a man. The girl mentally blackmails our executive through manipulation leading to an affair that threatens Vinther's career and marriage.
Male of the Species
Toby Pears
Nunca confíes en un hombre sea quien sea. Esta es la amarga lección que aprende Mary McNeil (Anna Calder-Marshall) en sus relaciones con tres hombres diferentes: su padre mujeriego (Sean Connery), un zalamero oficinista, Cornelius (Michael Caine) y un abogado, Emlyn (Paul Scofield), que está encantado con la vitalidad juvenil de Mary y su encanto. Sólo uno de estos hombres va a ganar su corazón al final...
If... (Si...)
Chaplain
Polémica película en la que el pionero del Free Cinema inglés arremete contra la enseñanza superior y hace una sátira violenta y sin matices de los colegios superiores y del establishment británico.
El día en que la Tierra se incendió
Pat Holroyd (uncredited)
Periodistas británicos sospechan del encubrimiento internacional de un desastre global en curso ... y tienen razón. El pánico histérico se ha apoderado del mundo después de que Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética hayan detonado simultáneamente artefactos nucleares y causado la alteración de la órbita de la Tierra, enviándola a toda velocidad hacia el sol.
The Strange World of Planet X
Gerard Wilson
En un pequeño laboratorio británico, el Dr Laird y su personal han creado un aparato que genera un campo magnético ultra-intenso. Inexplicablemente, el aparato produce un efecto a distancia que transforma el tamaño de algunos insectos. Una noche, despues de una fuerte tormenta, el pueblo de Bryerly Woods se verá amenazado por los efectos del aparato, a la vez que un extraño hombre aparece en el distrito.