Edwin Richfield

Edwin Richfield

Nacimiento : 1921-09-11, London, England, UK

Muerte : 1990-08-02

Perfil

Edwin Richfield

Películas

Tumbledown
Group Captain
Basada en la historia real del Teniente Robert Lawrence M.C., ex oficial del ejército británico, que peleó y fue gravemente herido en la guerra de Las Malvinas en la batalla de Tumbledown Hill en Junio de 1982. El relato de sus experiencias durante y después de la guerra fue luego adaptado para esta controversial película. También co-escribió con su padre John Lawrence el libro “Después de la batalla Tumbledown”.
Reto al destino
Ashton
Melodrama deportivo que narra la historia de Bob Champion, un jockey que consiguió ganar el Grand National pese a sufrir un grave cáncer.
Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
Mestor
A race of giant Gastropods has taken over the planet Jaconda. Their leader, Mestor, now intends to cause an enormous explosion in order to spread his people's eggs throughout the galaxy, and he kidnaps juvenile twin geniuses from Earth to work out the necessary mathematical equations. Space fighters led by Lieutenant Hugo Lang are dispatched to get the twins back, but they come under attack and Lang is the sole survivor when his ship crashes on the asteroid Titan III. A newly regenerated Doctor and Peri become involved and help Jaconda's elderly former ruler Professor Edgeworth, who is really a Time Lord named Azmael, to defeat Mestor and free the planet's bird-like indigenous people from the gastropods' reign of terror. Azmael, however, sacrifices his life in the process.
Doctor Who: The Sea Devils
Captain Hart
The Master joins forces with The Sea Devils to take over the world, unless The Doctor and The Royal Navy can stop them.
¿Qué sucedió entonces?
Minister
Durante unas excavaciones en Londres, aparece un extraño objeto de gran tamaño. Al principio se cree que puede ser una bomba de la Segunda Guerra Mundial lanzada por los nazis. El ejército descubre que no es nada parecido y llama al profesor Quatermass, que junto con el doctor en antropología Roney y su ayudante Bárbara Judd intentaran explicar el enigma. El profesor Quatermass descubre en su interior unas criaturas alienígenas que intentaron conquistar la Tierra en tiempos prehistóricos y, a través de sus experimentos en los primeros hombres, alteraron la evolución humana hasta llegar a su estado actual. Aunque adormecidas por muchos siglos, ahora existe el peligro de que puedan despertar y tratar de dominar a la humanidad.
El regreso de Fu-Manchú
Chief Magistrate
Una serie de misteriosos estrangulamientos en Londres hacen sospechar a Nyland Smith, de Scotland Yard, que el diabólico Fu Manchú sigue vivo.
The Secret of Blood Island
Tom O'Reilly
Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall on all the POW's as the Japanese embark on a policy of ruthless terror to extract her and the focus shifts to the conflicts of the group' s collective concerns against the necessities of personal survival.
The Comedy Man
Commercial Director
A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.
Calculated Risk
Writer
After spending a long time in prison, Kip is still willing to pull off one more big job
Just for Fun
Man with Badge
When the government cuts the quota of musical programs permitted on television, teenagers Mark and Cherry lead others youngsters in forming their own political party.
Locker Sixty-Nine
Peters
A shady business man has perpetrated a fraud that has resulted in the death of a large number of people. His business partner has evidence of the fraud and threatens the fraudster with exposure in the event of any further dishonest dealing. But when the fraudster suddenly receives death threats he decides to fake his own murder in a plan both to get his hands on the evidence.
The Break
Moses
A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but are doggedly chased by police.
La espada del bosque de Sherwood
The Sheriff's Lieutenant
Robin de Loxley y sus hombres descubren un complot para derrocar a Hubert Walter, Canciller del rey y Arzobispo de Canterbury. Los conspiradores son el Sheriff de Nottingham y el Conde de Newark.
El chico que robó un millón
Commissionaire
Un joven que trabaja en un banco de Valencia toma "prestado" un millón de pesetas, con el fin de que su padre pueda pagar la reparación del taxi. Como resultado, le persigue no sólo la policía, sino una serie de hampones que desean apoderarse del botín.
Life Is a Circus
Driver
Encompassing three hugely popular double acts, The Crazy Gang were one of Britain's best-loved, most enduring variety troupes – their antics delighting audiences for over three decades from the early 1930s and their career taking in numerous Royal Command performances. Their efforts to save a struggling circus provide the laughs in this uproarious comedy, also starring Goldfinger icon Shirley Eaton and featuring Flanagan and Allen's rendition of their greatest hit, Underneath the Arches. The Crazy Gang have been jacks-of-all-trades with Joe Winter's Monster Circus for almost as long as Joe has been on the road, and they're still hoping for a big break. But Joe has hit hard times: his equipment is mortgaged, most of his acts have deserted him and even the elephants have walked out. So the Gang set about finding a way to save the circus... and come up with a typically novel solution!
¡Hundid el Bismarck!
Bridge Officer (uncredited)
Basada en una historia real, reLata una de las más famosas batallas navales de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En la primavera de 1941, el Bismarck, el acorazado más temible de la armada alemana, considerado el azote de la flota del Atlántico, permanece anclado en la costa noruega. Buscando el camino hacia la libertad y seguridad proporcionada por la Luftwaffe, el acorazado es perseguido por la Marina Real Británica.
Ben-Hur
Supplier to Leper Colony (uncredited)
Antigua Roma, bajo el reinado de los emperadores Augusto y Tiberio (s. I d.C.). Judá Ben-Hur, hijo de una familia noble de Jerusalén, y Mesala, tribuno romano que dirige los ejércitos de ocupación, son dos antiguos amigos, pero un accidente involuntario los convierte en enemigos irreconciliables: Ben-Hur es acusado de atentar contra la vida del nuevo gobernador romano, y Mesala lo encarcela a él y a su familia. Mientras Ben-Hur es trasladado a galeras para cumplir su condena, un hombre llamado Jesús de Nazaret se apiada de él y le da de beber. En galeras conocerá al comandante de la nave y más tarde a un jeque árabe que participa con sus magníficos caballos en carreras de cuadrigas.
Model for Murder
Costard
An American officer scours Britain in search of his dead brother's girlfriend and becomes involved in a jewel heist.
No Trees in the Street
Jackie
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
Further Up the Creek
Bennett
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship Aristotle and, together with his second-in-command, Fairweather wreaks havoc when he is ordered to deliver the Aristotle to its new owners in a mythical Middle-Eastern country.
The Camp on Blood Island
Sergeant-Major
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.
Black Ice
British B-movie adventure.
The Big Chance
Café Owner
A clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.
Quatermass 2
Peterson
El profesor Quatermass descubre por casualidad, investigando un área de mucha actividad de meteoritos, una instalación gubernamental secreta rodeada de fuertes medidas de seguridad. Aparentemente el misterioso complejo se dedica a la fabricación de comida sintética, pero Quatermass llega a la terrible conclusión de que los extraterrestres están invadiendo la Tierra usando esta instalación como tapadera. Para salvar al país y al mundo entero de los invasores, Quatermass deberá enfrentarse a peligros terribles con un final incierto.
The Hide-Out
Teacher
An insurance investigator in London attempts to thwart smugglers trafficking stolen lambskins infected with anthrax.
Find the Lady
Max
During New Year's Eve, a young model spends the day searching for her grandmother, who has suspiciously gone missing.
Lo desconocido
Soldier Burned on Back
En una zona rural, se descubre una fuente de radiación potentísima, y el ejército junto con varios científicos acordonan la zona para investigar las causas de la radiación. Sin embargo, mientras están investigando, algo emerge del subsuelo y empieza a arrasar todo lo que encuentra a su paso, especialmente la energía eléctrica y radioactiva. El equipo de científicos debe ir contrarreloj para detener ese extraño y deforme fenómeno nunca antes visto por el hombre.
The Brain Machine
Henry Arthur Ryan
A British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.
Mask of Dust
Cynical Reporter in Lounge
An idol of auto-racing fans attempts a comeback after serving in the Air Force. When his former rival lies dying in the hospital he must decide whether to continue in the Grand Prix, or make peace with his adversary. Featuring race car greats Stirling Moss, Reg Parnell, John Cooper, Alan Brown, Geoffrey Taylor and Leslie Marr.
Devil's Point
Daller
A Thames River barge operator finds a mysterious package dropped by smugglers.
Radio Cab Murder
Nat
Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.
What Every Woman Wants
Frank
Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house. Meanwhile, Jane’s cousin, Jim - back from the war in Korea - and Mark’s involvement in left-wing politics place further strain on the relationship. Can grandfather help?
Conflict of Wings
'Smother' Brooks
In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice.
Flannelfoot
Bill Neilson
Ace crime reporter Watling tries to discover the identity of a notorious jewel thief, but his informant is murdered. At a house party, Watling helps detective Adam expose the criminal.
The Blue Parrot
Guido "Taps" Campelli
'Rocks' Owen, the well-off owner of a car-hire business, is found murdered; the last place he was seen alive was the Blue Parrot nightclub. Scotland Yard go in to investigate, with the help of a visiting American detective and a nightclub hostess who may not be all she appears to be.
Ha'penny Breeze
David King
A demobbed serviceman finds that his village has fallen on hard times. With the help of family, friends and the villagers he enters his boat in a yacht race. Winning will mean orders for new boats and life for the village.
The Jack of Diamonds
George Paxton
Down on their luck, a couple rent out their ship to a mysterious man looking for treasure he'd hidden during the war. Complications ensue when it turns out he's not the only one looking for it.