Robert Urquhart
Nacimiento : 1921-10-16, Ullapool, Scotland
Muerte : 1995-03-21
Historia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Urquhart (16 October 1921 – 21 March 1995) was a Scottish character actor who mainly worked in British television during his career.
He was born in Ullapool, Scotland on 16 October 1921, educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh and made his stage debut in 1947. He starred in many shows of the detective/special-agent type, such as Department S, Callan, The Professionals, Man in a Suitcase, The Avengers, and opposite Patrick McGoohan in the 1965 episode of Danger Man titled "English Lady Takes Lodgers". He also played the lead role in Jango, a short lived 1961 production by Associated Rediffusion
His first film role was in 1952 in You're Only Young Twice. He died in Edinburgh on 21 March 1995.
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Peter McVurrich
An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children to inform them of the news. During the journey, the couple rediscover their love for each other.
D.C. McKinnon
En Kenia comienza la lucha por la independencia contra la soberanía británica. El padre de Mwangui es asesinado frente a este. Mwangui debe meterse a trabajar en la oficina del jefe de la policía local.
Minister
A 19th Century photographer travels to the North of Scotland to document the fishing industry, where he falls in love with one of the Gaelic-speaking fish gutting girls.
Godfrey
To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South London to a charity game with comical results.
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A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips from Hammer productions and interviews with actors, actresses, directors and producers who worked on these films.
Albrecht Hoffman
Dos hermanos descubren lo más oscuro del nazismo tras alistarse en la SS y las SA. (FILMAFFINITY)
Baird
Two lads in Edinburgh embark on a non-violent spree of robberies. They dress up in clown masks and act as modern highwaymen, robbing coach loads of tourists in the highlands. In the process they become folk heroes to the locals. Their adventures make for a whimsical and gentle comedy, in the Bill Forsyth vein.
A young would-be science-fiction writer finds out that his new girlfriend's father is his favorite author.
Headmaster
Summer, 1948. 14-year-old Alan has just three wishes: that there will be lasting peace, that England will win the Ashes, and that he will finally kiss classmate Ann. So when he's cast opposite her in a play that requires a kiss and England seem to be doing well in cricket, life couldn't be better.
Headmaster
Light-hearted tale about an enterprising Edinburgh boarding school boy who sets up an insurance scheme for fellow pupils in 1953 against getting caned, which quickly earns him a small fortune
Attorney General
Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.
Harry
A married couple, lost in the woods, stumbles across a creepy mansion and its inhabitants - an overly-kind old woman and deadly wolf children that scour the country-side looking for victims. Originally an episode of British horror anthology TV series, Hammer House of Horror, that later received a feature release in the United States.
Jerry
The thirteen-part series recounted the lives of the titular Fox family, who lived in Clapham in South London and had gangland connections.
Sid Morton
"You've been a good man with us, Eddie. Made a lot of contacts. But two things you'd better realise. One: a salesman who doesn't sell is a liability. Two: don't charge your private life to our account." Salesman Edie Cameron experiences setbacks in his work and personal life.
Tom Stockman
Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People as a direct response to the public's outcry over his earlier play Ghosts. Channeling his feelings into on Dr. Stockman, whose single voice of reason is drowned out by those with paranoid and ulterior interests, Ibsen had no qualms remarking on the irrational nature of the masses and the corrupt political systems which encourage them.
1978 adaptation of Muriel Spark's classic novel.
3rd Agent
Burt Reynolds recupera su personaje de Gator después de "White Lightning" (los traficantes). En esta ocasión investiga la responsabilidad de un alto cargo político en el reciente estallido del crimen en la ciudad. Debut como director cinematográfico de Reynolds.
A play from 1976
It's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swinging the mace soon turns to horror as he learns the truth behind the costumes and songs.
Vic
Two provincial newspaper reporters - one a young idealist starting out on his career, the other an embittered man who previously wrote for a failed national daily - swap views.
Auctioneer
Having left her husband, Hilary moves in with her unbalanced brother, Pink, who uses wit and humor to hide his amorous yearnings.
Johnson
Años de la Guerra Fría. El servicio de inteligencia británico sospecha que los soviéticos están colocando misiles en la frontera alemana. El polaco Leiser se traslada detrás el Telón de acero para investigar, pero su vida corre peligro. Una joven alemana le ayudará a evitar a la policía secreta y a cumplir con su misión. (Filmaffinity)
Major Kemble (uncredited)
Mientras las fuerzas aliadas luchan contra las poderosas fuerzas aéreas alemanas, surge una amenaza aún mayor en la forma del destructivo misil V3 que está a punto de ser perfeccionado en un centro de pruebas secreto. Todo depende de que el escuadrón "Mosquito", de la RAF (Fuerza Aérea Británica), destruya el complejo, pero su líder, Quint Monroe (McCallum), entra en lucha con su conciencia cuando descubre algo nefasto: un ataque aéreo podría matar a cientos de prisioneros de guerra británicos.
George Brant
Two vehicles lurch across the east African bush, carrying an ill-assorted party of prospectors who have formed a syndicate to search for uranium deposits. As their four-week window for digging starts to close, trouble soon starts amongst the group and there are some sinister 'accidents'... It is obvious that one of the party is trying to sabotage the expedition; but who?
George Crossfield
Miss Marple y Mr Stinger son testigos de la muerte por ataque cardíaco de Mr. Enderby, un personaje muy anciano y muy rico. A pesar de las apariencias, tienen dudas sobre lo que ha sucedido realmente. Como la policía no comparte sus sospechas, Miss Marple deberá investigar por su cuenta. Segunda película de Margeret Rutherford en el papel de Miss Marple.
China, año 1900. Las embajadas extranjeras en Pekín deben hacer frente a la sangrienta revuelta nacionalista desencadenada por los boxers, que asesinan cristianos. Dentro del recinto asediado, el embajador inglés se une a los miembros de otras delegaciones en un desesperado intento por resistir el asedio.
Pearson
A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but are doggedly chased by police.
Cmdr. Clayton
Norman Puckle (Norman Wisdom), es vendedor, de bote en bote, de la tienda Dalton’s. Es un tipo bien intencionado pero algo torpe, y luego de ser rechazado por su enamorada Marlene, intenta suicidarse pero falla en todos sus intentos. Salvado, por un ofical de la marina, de caer desde un acantilado (su último intento de abandonar este mundo), su salvador lo convence para que ingrese a la armada prometiéndole que podrá tener muy cerca a numerosas chicas… pero antes tendrá muy cerca un buen número de líos.
Bob
A woman with extra-sensory perception has a vision of a murder.
Major Wilson
Un agente alemán en Libia vuelve a Rommel con información falsa.
What happens when an attractive girl from Paris arrives in a sleepy riverside village.
Mike
Durante la II Guerra Mundial en 1940, después de realizar un sabotaje delante de sus líneas, una unidad británica en Francia pierde a su oficial. El cabo se encuentra entonces con la responsabilidad de liderar al grupo y encontrar a su unidad, en plena retirada. Mientras, el cerco sobre Dunkerque se termina de cerrar, y tanto civiles como militares, al otro lado del canal, tratan por todos los medios de socorrer a los soldados cercados. (FILMAFFINITY)
Paul Krempe
Condenado a muerte por una serie de crímenes que no ha cometido, el Barón Victor Frankenstein trata en vano de explicar a sus carceleros que el autor de esas muertes es un monstruoso ser, creado por él en su laboratorio secreto. Su diabólica ambición de crear vida llevó a Frankenstein a desafiar a Dios, fabricando un ser abominable a partir de cadáveres.
Flight Lieutenant Fearnley
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
Peter Darwin
Novelist Peter Darwin is engaged to heiress Kay March. When he accidentally kills Claire, his former mistress, during a quarrel, he persuades a reluctant Kay to help him bury the body in a wood. When the body is found and with the truth close to being uncovered, Darwin resorts to desperate actions to cover his crime.
Sir Philip
Inglaterra, siglo XIV. Eduardo, Príncipe de Gales, y su padre el rey Eduardo III de Inglaterra (1327-1377), conducen un ejército a la provincia francesa de Aquitania para protegerla de los franceses. Tras ser derrotada en el campo de batalla, Francia intenta, sin éxito, asesinar al príncipe Eduardo, por lo que secuestran a su esposa, la hermosa Juana de Holanda.
Frank, Charles' brother
Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.
Jim Dobson
Set amid the magnificent scenery of the Kenyan bush, this safari adventure from 1954 depicts the many dangers faced by a group of British settlers in East Africa during the last decade of the nineteenth century.
Dr. Michael Flynn
El alcalde de Rathberney en Irlanda, es asesinado y le sucede un pariente lejano que está dispuesto a limpiar la ciudad de todo tipo de rateros, desaprensivos y delincuentes. Pero los ciudadanos deciden eliminarlo.
Gawaine
Después de una dura guerra, el rey Arturo, con la ayuda de Lanzarote, su caballero más fiel, consigue unificar toda Inglaterra bajo su mando. Después de ser derrotado por Arturo, Sir Mordred descubre la relación entre Ginebra, la esposa del rey, y Lanzarote, y se servirá de este hecho para acabar con el reinado de Arturo.
Jim Frobisher
A London solicitor and a French detective investigate the mysterious death of an elderly woman suspected of being poisoned.
Clifford Brett
Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre.
Slater
A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the victims, and Scotland Yard is baffled. Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, is warned to stay away from the case, but he and his glamorous wife Steve can never refuse a good mystery.
Sheltie
Seeking her long lost uncle, Ada Shore arrives at Skerryvore University to find him working under another name as the Gate Keeper. Ada is mistaken by the Principal as his new secretary so she jumps headlong into the role
Dadda Whalby
Stephen Whalby loves the moor. When a series of senseless murders of young women invades his beloved moor, he becomes intrigued...and a suspect.
