Ralph Michael

Ralph Michael

Nacimiento : 1907-09-27, Edmonton, London, England, UK

Muerte : 1994-11-09

Historia

Ralph Michael (26 September 1907 – 9 November 1994) was an English actor. He was born as Ralph Champion Shotter in London. His film appearances included Dead of Night, A Night to Remember, Children of the Damned, Grand Prix, The Assassination Bureau and Empire of the Sun.

Perfil

Ralph Michael

Películas

Selling Hitler
Wilhelm Mohnke
In 1981, Gerd Heidemann (Jonathan Pryce), a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' (Alexei Sayle) for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'. However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.
El imperio del sol
Mr. Partridge
Cuando, en diciembre de 1941, el ejército japonés ocupa Shanghai, la privilegiada vida de James Graham, un niño inglés de clase alta, toca a su fin. Es separado de sus padres y confinado en un campo de concentración próximo a un aeropuerto militar chino. En un ambiente dominado por la tristeza y la miseria se verá obligado a madurar prematuramente, y eso condicionará su visión del mundo.
Diary of a Mad Old Man
In this erotic drama, Marcel (Ralph Michael) fantasizes about being with his daughter-in-law Simone (Beatie Edney) after the death of his wife. The woman pretends to be surprised over his attention but does nothing to discourage his advances. He promises to build her a swimming pool in order to further his fantasies. The story is taken from the novel by Junichiro Tamizaki.
Romance on the Orient Express
Harry
Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, who met and had a tender romance ten years earlier while vacationing in France, which ended abruptly when he walked out on her without saying a word. Now Alex tries to make up for lost time with Lily while she digs into his past to find out what haunting secrets that he has which led to their abrupt break-up.
And the Wall Came Tumbling Down
Father Harris
Workmen digging in a building discover the remains of a 300-+year-old devil cult.
Henry IV Part 2
Lord Chief Justice
The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth.
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Balaton
The Doctor and Romana learn the second segment of the Key to Time is on the planet Calufrax. Yet they arrive on a planet called Zanak, which has been hollowed out and fitted with hyperspace engines, allowing its insane, half-robot Captain to materialise it around smaller planets and plunder their resources.
El conde de Montecristo
M. Dantes
Adaptación televisiva de la famosa novela de Alejandro Dumas. Edmond Dantes (Richard Chamberlain), falsamente acusado de traición por sus enemigos, es condenado a pasar el resto de su vida en las mazmorras de la isla de If. Allí conoce al abate Faria, un sabio al que todo el mundo toma por loco. Faria, además de instruir al joven en todas las disciplinas, le revela la existencia de un fabuloso tesoro escondido en una isla. Éste será el instrumento de su venganza.
El club de los asesinos
Editor
Principios del siglo XX. Una intrépida periodista se propone desmantelar una organización internacional de criminales. Aunque su propósito parece descabellado y muy peligroso, la situación cambia cuando el jefe de la banda se enamora de ella.
Castillo de naipes
Claude de Gonde
Leschenhaut y Morillon están preparando un golpe de estado para derrocar al gobierno francés y crear una nueva organización fascista. Sus planes se ven interrumpidos por Davis, un boxeador americano, tutor del joven Pauul de Villemont. (FILMAFFINITY)
Más peligrosas que los hombres
Board Member
Varios ejecutivos de empresas petroleras han sido asesinados. El investigador de seguros Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond es enviado a examinar los casos. Todas las víctimas han sido liquidadas por unas implacables asesinas, las cuales desaparecen sin dejar rastro. Pero Drummond descubre que estas mujeres operan bajo las órdenes de un siniestro genio criminal, decidido a apoderarse de concesiones petroleras en territorios árabes que han quedado vacantes ya que sus titulares han sido eliminados. Ahora deberá correr contra el tiempo para salvar la vida del Rey Fedra, quien se encuentra en la mira de los asesinos.
Grand Prix
Mr. Stoddard
Pete Aron (James Garner), corredor del Grand Prix americano, es expulsado de su equipo, el Jordan-BRM, por su responsabilidad en un accidente, en Mónaco, en el que resultó herido su compañero, el británico Scott Stoddard. Al mismo tiempo que empieza a competir en un equipo japonés, mantiene relación con la mujer de Stoddard.
Kartum
Sir Charles Dilke
A finales del siglo XIX, en Sudán, región bajo dominio anglo-egipcio, se pone en marcha un movimiento independentista acaudillado por "El Esperado", un visionario que proclama la Guerra Santa contra los infieles. Inglaterra envía entonces al mítico general Gordon para intentar restablecer la paz y el orden.
Los héroes de Telemark
Nilssen
II Guerra Mundial. En 1942, en la Noruega ocupada por los nazis, los aliados encuentran un documento que es la prueba irrefutable de que los alemanes están avanzando en la búsqueda de la fisión atómica. Con la ayuda de partisanos noruegos, un comando británico intenta sabotear las instalaciones alemanas dedicadas a la fabricación de la bomba atómica.
La señora McGinty ha muerto
Ralph Summers
La señorita Marple se une a una compañía de teatro para demostrar la inocencia de un hombre acusado de asesinar a una ex actriz. Durante el juicio, el jurado decide que los hechos no están suficientemente probados. Tercera película de Margaret Rutherford en el papel de la señorita Marple.
Los hijos de los malditos
Minister of Defense
Seis jóvenes niños superdotados suponen una amenaza para el mundo. Los niños, que viven el Inglaterra pero proceden de diferentes partes del mundo, serían normales desde todos los puntos de vista si no fuera porque se trata de genios con poderes físicos muy desarrollados. Sin embargo, tienen algo más en común que sus coeficientes intelectuales: ninguno de ellos tiene padres y ninguno parece saber de dónde viene. Cuando un psicólogo intenta averiguar algo más, descubre un misterio terrorífico que puede llevar a la destrucción del universo. Asustados, los niños se retiran a una iglesia abandonada, donde utilizan sus poderes para protegerse del gobierno, que quiere destruirlos.
A Taste of Money
An elderly spinster plans a perfect robbery in Soho.
La última noche del Titanic
Mr. Yates
El novelista Eric Ambler adaptó el libro del historiador Walter Lord que relata minuciosamente la primera y última travesía del Titanic, el lujoso barco de pasajeros, que se hundió en las frías aguas del Atlántico Norte en abril de 1912.
The Birthday Present
Crowther (uncredited)
Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife's birthday through Customs. He is arrested and, due to a bungled defence by his solicitor, obliged to serve a three-month prison sentence. It is only the beginning of his woes; his employer, Colonel Wilson, is understanding, but he is ultimately forced to sack Simon, who discovers that finding another job under such circumstances is extremely difficult. But Colonel Wilson is determined to help his former employee find a solution.
Women Without Men
Julian Lord
In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. He presses charges, claiming she hit him deliberately, and she is convicted and sent to prison. As her fiance is at sea and out of contact, she is terrified he will think she has jilted him when she does not keep a New Year's date. A kindly old convict, Gran', notorious as a prison-breaker, agrees to engineer an escape for Angela...
Blonde Bait
Julian Lord
Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is currently in a British prison. Angela has refused to give Nick up to the law, so the combined authorities arrange for Angela to escape, aided by stoolie Gran' Ramsey who is at the same prison. The police will then follow Angela to Nick. Gran' stages the getaway, and the two women, accompanied by a third convict, Marguerite, whose prison-born baby is about to be turned over to welfare authorities. It is up to Gran' to keep the police informed of Angela's movements without being detected by the escapees, until Angela contacts Nick. This film is a reworking of principal footage from the UK film WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (1955), q.v., which, with added new footage (including scenes with original star Beverly Michaels), significantly revises the plot and central characters from a story about a wrongly imprisoned waif to one about a gangster's moll.
The Sound Barrier
Fletcher
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
The Astonished Heart
Philip Lucas
Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonora could do without Barbara's husband, Christian (Noel Coward), whom she finds arrogant and off-putting ... at first. One evening alone together, romance is set ablaze, leaving Christian with a lot of explaining to do to Barbara.
The Hasty Heart
Kiwi
In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.
Penny and the Pownall Case
Michael Carson
A glamour model helps Scotland Yard to catch a criminal gang.
A Song for Tomorrow
Roger Stanton
Derek Wardwell (Shaun Noble) is struck with amnesia, and the last thing he remembers is the beautiful voice of opera singer Helen Maxwell (Evelyn Maccabe). When he regains consciousness, Wardwell thinks he's in love with her. After his amnesia is cured, Wardwell returns to his fiancee while Helen begins a romance with his doctor.
Emma
George Knightly
Corazón cautivo
Capt. Thurston R.A.M.C.
En el verano de 1940, el capitán checo Karel Hasek (Michael Redgrave) escapa del campo de concentración de Dachau y asume la identidad de un oficial británico muerto, el capitán Geoffrey Mitchell. Después de ser atrapado, acompañará a miles de prisioneros de guerra británicos a un campo de prisioneros.
Johnny Frenchman
Bob Tremayne
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.
Al morir la noche
Peter Cortland (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")
En un caserón inglés se reúne un grupo de personas que comienzan a contar historias de misterio: la de un conductor de autobús que parece anunciar la muerte, la de un fantasma infantil que mora en una mansión, la de dos amigos enfrentados por una mujer incluso después de la muerte, la de un espejo maldito, la de un muñeco de ventrílocuo que controla a su propietario.
For Those in Peril
Rawlings
A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking them to safety.
San Demetrio London
2nd. Officer Hawkins - M.V. San Demetrio
British drama documentary from 1943, based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned. When one of the lifeboats drifted back to the burning tanker the day after, and found that she still hadn't exploded, they decided to board her and put out the fires. Eventually, they managed to start the engine again and decided to try to reach Britain against all odds.
The Bells Go Down
Dunkirk Survivor (uncredited)
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
Women Aren't Angels
Jack
Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the men are left unattended and dangerously bored. The trouble starts when Bandle is late for an end-of-leave party after giving a girlfriend a lift; Popday promises the wives he ll restrain his wayward friend when they return to duty, but Bandle evidently thinks otherwise.
Gert and Daisy Clean Up
Jack Gregory
Two friends set about trying to run a restaurant and bringing a gang of black marketeers to justice during the Second World war.
The Girl Who Forgot
Tony Stevenage
A young women under a lot of pressure in her life decides to take a train trip to mellow out, but is suddenly stricken with a case of amnesia. A con artist takes advantage...
John Halifax
Phineas Fletcher
Adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Craik it tells the story of John Halifax who, despite humble beginnings, becomes a highly respected local businessman. As partner in a mill he weathers the turbulent economic times of the early 1800s.