Richard Vernon
Nacimiento : 1925-03-07, Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
Muerte : 1997-12-04
Aged Professor
El doctor Jonathan Dempsey (Ted Danson), un zoólogo americano, viaja a Escocia con la intención de descubrir la verdad sobre la leyenda del monstruo del lago Ness. En su investigación cuenta con la ayuda de su casera (Joely Richardson) y de su hija Isabel, pero tropieza con ciertas dificultades por culpa de un viejo y misterioso guarda de pesca (Ian Holm) que desea preservar los secretos del lago.
Miriam's father
While English professor Loretta Lawson is attending a conference in Paris, she stays the night in the flat of a friend's acquaintance. She discovers a sleeping man in one of the bedrooms, and the next morning finds the man gone, but the bed soaked with blood. Returning to Cambridge, she begins to suspect her friend's acquaintance, and others on the staff of the college, are involved with the missing (murdered?) man, and decides to investigate for herself.
Colonel Hebron
Cinco siglos atrás, un mural fue creado en una iglesia rural al norte de Inglaterra, para ser luego cubierto bajo capas de pintura blanca. Tom Birkin, veterano de la Primera Guerra Mundial, llega al pequeño pueblo para restaurar el mural, en contra de los deseos del Reverendo y gran parte del pueblo, quienes lo ven como un intruso que llega para alterar el orden establecido.
Sir Nicholss Fanner
A clergyman noted for his support of left-wing causes, leaves his considerable estate to a Conservative member of parliament. Adaptation of the novel by John Mortimer.
The Marquess of Winchester
Siglo XVI. A la muerte de Enrique VIII, Inglaterra queda sumida en el caos, ya que Eduardo VI (1547), el nuevo rey, es un niño enfermizo que está a punto de morir. En tal situación, el primer ministro obliga a su hijo Guildford (Elwes) a casarse contra su voluntad con Lady Jane Grey (Bonham Carter) y, muerto Eduardo, los coloca en el trono de Inglaterra. La relación entre ambos es gélida como el hielo, pero con el paso del tiempo se convertirá en un amor fuerte e imperecedero que les llevará a un destino incierto...
Sir Roland Hall
Life changes dramatically for radio amateur Norman when he gets in touch with a round-the-world yachtsman who introduces him to a different life - and a taste of fame.
Uncle Felix
When Eric's niece Kathy becomes one of the heirs to a considerable fortune, her life (and those of the other heirs) is placed in jeopardy by the actions of a mysterious inter-loper.
Brogan-Moore
Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the practise of his lawyer skills, he takes the case of Leonard Vole, an unemployed man who is accused of murdering an elderly lady friend of his, Mrs. Emily French. While Leonard Vole claims he's innocent, although all evidence points to him as the killer, his alibi witness, his cold German wife Christine, instead of entering the court as a witness for the defense, she becomes the witness for the prosecution and strongly claims her husband is guilty of the murder.
Sir Edward Gait
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.
Flewitt (uncredited)
La investigación sobre un diamante falso lleva al detective Hércules Poirot a alojarse en un hotel donde coincide con Arlena, una actriz con un pasado tumultuoso a la que los demás huéspedes parecen odiar.
(voice)
Several individuals have been packed in a box; they disagree regarding what should be done.
Makato
On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across the Pacific, to crash into American ships. Thirty-five years later, the men who serviced the aeroplanes are still meeting up for their annual dinner. Now settled into civilian jobs - dentist, baker, taxi-driver, insurance salesman - and with children and grandchildren, they bemoan the decay of traditional Japanese values. Hard liquor is imbibed, toasts raised to the memory of the heroic dead, and old rivalries resurface. The survivors' dissatisfaction with post-war life comes to a head when, in a moment of drunken inspiration, Tokkotai the airline pilot decides on a symbolic gesture to show that the kamikaze spirit lives on.
Quimby Charles
Browning is a PI with a bad cold, who's sent to investigate a case by a mysterious client. He stumbles across the body of a young woman and is stabbed to death, and when he wakes up in heaven, they tell him he's "marginal material," and they can only decide on his final destination through one last assignment: to go back and solve his own murder. As a dog. A cute fluffy little dog (Benji). Undaunted, Browning begins to investigate the case as best he can around his canine disabilities (dialing the phone presents a special challenge) to solve the murders, save the girl, and see justice done.
Sir John Hargreaves
Maurice Castle (Nicol Williamson) es un mediocre empleado del servicio de inteligencia británico que trabaja recopilando rutinaria información de los países de África. En la época del Appartheid estuvo destinado en Sudáfrica y se casó con una nativa. Castle observa impotente cómo un compañero y amigo suyo es implicado erronéamente en un caso de contraespionaje.
Mr. Price
A comic extravaganza about a young woman's adventures in the world of big business charity.
Mr. Becket
A young boy's lucky t-shirt is transformed through a power surge and gives its wearer super-powers.
Fassbender
Mientras el jefe del inspector Clouseau, Paul Dreyfus, se recupera paulatinamente de una crisis nerviosa provocada por su temible subordinado, éste decide acudir al hospital a visitarlo. Al verlo en su habitación, Dreyfus, sufre un arrebato de locura y jura que en lo sucesivo dedicará su vida a la venganza.
Gentleman
Joe North is a London taxi driver who manages to get himself into any number of sexual situations with various women.
Sir Maxwell Dean
Life in the fast lane becomes deadly for Wilde and Sinclair when the mob tries to "fix" the sport of high-speed racing. Wilde then finds himself mixed up with lady luck and a network of communist killers.
George Cornfield
When a young soldier suddenly dies, his parents and his girlfriend are naturally shocked and upset by the news. Several months later a young man turns up at the parent's house claiming to be their dead son's best friend. They welcome him and invite him to stay for a while. They also introduce him to their son's girlfriend and she is similarly impressed by him. It is later discovered, however, that he is not what he appears to be and may have had a hand in their son's death.
Col. Mathews
Londres, años 70. El inspector Murray de Scotland Yard, investigando unas extrañas muertes, llega a la conclusión de que se enfrenta a un caso de vampirismo. Decide entonces pedir ayuda al profesor Van Helsing, famoso investigador experto en la materia y desacendiente de un famoso cazador de vampiros. Al parecer, los asesinatos están relacionados con una secta satánica de la que forman parte destacados miembros del gobierno de su Majestad.
Dr Whitman
Jack Black is a disturbed actor who believes himself to be trapped in a television play, followed around by an invisible camera.
Lewis
They write so many innocent words, but what are the authors of your children's stories really like?
Andrew Coombes
By chance the perfume creators Mike and Al produce a scent that makes women go wild for sex. While they desperately try to find the recipe for their product of chance, they use it on random women they meet in the train and fuck their brains out in a hut in the forest. A central problem is to explain their absence from work to wives and colleagues.
Councilman
Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars Toralv Maurstad as Grieg and features an international cast including Florence Henderson, Christina Schollin, Robert Morley, Harry Secombe, Oskar Homolka, Edward G. Robinson and Frank Porretta (as Rikard Nordraak). Filmed in Super Panavision 70 by Davis Boulton and presented in single-camera Cinerama in some countries, it was an attempt to capitalise on the success of The Sound of Music.
The story deals with the situation of a mature man, his mistress, his daughter and a young girl who comes into their lives.
Chairman of the Board of Governors (uncredited)
Mediados del siglo XIX. A la escuela de Brookfield, llega el joven profesor Mister Chips, que pasará allí toda su vida como maestro de varias generaciones, hasta la Primera Guerra Mundial... Nueva adaptación musical de la novela de James Hilton que supuso el debut como director de Herbert Ross.
Lord Hetherby
Mientras investiga un caso, un joven policía logra ascender a inspector gracias a los consejos de su entrometida madre.
Sir Edward Seabrook
A chance meeting with a Schlecht agent forces a humble coffee shop manager into the secret world of spies in Swinging London. With the help of his MI5 friend, he poses as the recently dead Major Cavendish who had managed to infiltrate the dreaded organization; he knows that they are intending to assassinate someone - could it be the famous Russian ballerina who has recently arrived for an appearance at Covent Garden?
Race Course Official (uncredited)
Ambientada en los años 20. Un lujoso Rolls Royce Phantom II de color amarillo va pasando, a través de los años, por las manos de los más extraños personajes. Así, será testigo de las pintorescas historias de amor que protagonizan sus dueños, todos ellos orgullosos de poseer tan elegante vehículo: un aristócrata inglés engañado por su esposa francesa, un gángster de Chicago que pasa las vacaciones en Italia con su prometida, y una intrépida millonaria americana. (FILMAFFINITY)
Dr. Vivian
Tras la muerte de Ligeia (Elizabeh Shepherd) su marido Verden Fell (Vincent Price) la entierra en una abadía, a pesar de la oposición de un sacerdote. Años después, en una cacería del zorro, la pelirroja Rowena (Shepherd) conoce a Verden e inmediatamente se siente atraída por él, sin detenerse a pensar en su extraña e inquietante conducta.
Lord Brisburn
An extremely funny film about a group of French rugby supporters who go to see a match at Twickenham and one of them inadvertently receives a blow in the mouth from someone else's elbow. In the process he loses some front teeth and needs to see a dentist urgently ... this is only the beginning of a long series of adventures befalling our poor friend who doesn't speak a word of English and who nevertheless needs to return urgently to France to get married in the following days sporting a decent mouth !
Smithers
Un malvado magnate, Auric Goldfinger, quiere hacer estallar una bomba atómica en Fort Knox, donde está toda la reserva federal de oro de los Estados Unidos, para poder así incrementar enormemente el precio del metal dorado.
Man on Train
Por primera vez los Beatles han decidido romper todas las reglas: saltarse el programa, ignorar sus obligaciones y saborear la libertad. Pero, para ello, tendrán que dar esquinazo a sus admiradores, esquivar a los periodistas y desobedecer a sus mánagers.
Roddinghead
Comedia de espías, en la que un modesto empleado es enviado por su empresa a Checoslovaquia, donde, sin saberlo, se convierte en un agente secreto. (FILMAFINITY)
Lord Mounset
Un intrigante y manipulador mayordomo consigue, gradualmente, dominar la vida del señor al que sirve, aprovechándose de sus debilidades sexuales. Un tenso y adulto drama psicológico que obtuvo excelentes críticas.
Government Official at Enquiry (uncredited)
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.
Prime Minister
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.
Dr. Aldrich
During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war games, hoping dearly that the war won't end before they can fight in it.
A gang of high class corporate thieves use blackmail to induce their victims to sell property at knock-down prices.
Pearson
Un criminal encantador pero despiadado toma como rehén a la familia de un gerente de banco como parte de un plan para robar 97,000 libras.
Edgar Hargraves
Inexplicablemente, los habitantes de un apacible pueblo pierden el conocimiento durante unas horas. Poco después se produce otro extraño e inquietante fenómeno que parece estar relacionado con aquel desmayo: muchas mujeres del pueblo descubren que están encintas. Agentes del gobierno supervisan estos embarazos para investigar si existe o no tal relación. Cuando las madres dan a luz, resulta que curiosamente todos los recién nacidos son albinos y tienen unos intensos ojos azules, además de una increíble inteligencia; pero a medida que crecen muestran una conducta tan sobrenatural como inhumana.
Doctor at Crime Scene
Un solitario día de invierno, la policía halla un cadáver en Hampstead Heath. Se trata de una joven y bella muchacha que ha sido apuñalada en el corazón. La única pista es un pañuelo teñido de sangre con la inicial "S". Su vestido, medias de lana y zapatillas planas corresponden al típico atuendo estudiantil. La investigación se pone en manos del superintendente Hazard y del detective inspector Learoyd.
Under Secretary
An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.
Screenplay
A saloon owner falls in love with the abused wife of a heavy gambler. He is snared into a web of intrigue when an ex-girlfriend is found murdered in his apartment.
Director
A saloon owner falls in love with the abused wife of a heavy gambler. He is snared into a web of intrigue when an ex-girlfriend is found murdered in his apartment.