Russell Napier

Russell Napier

Nacimiento : 1910-11-28, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Muerte : 1974-08-19

Historia

Russell Napier was born in Perth, Western Australia. Originally a lawyer, Napier was active as an actor on the stage as early as 1936; on the screen, from 1947 to 1974, playing both comedic and dramatic roles in both cinema and television. Notably, he starred in a liveBBC television production of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine in 1949; still photographs of this production exist, but no actual footage.

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Russell Napier

Películas

Nervios rotos
Professor Fuller
Martin es un joven con la mente perturbada que tiene una madre que lo trata como si fuera un niño pequeño, un padrastro que lo desprecia, y un hermano retrasado encerrado en una institución mental. Su única amiga es Susan, con quien le une un vínculo muy especial cuando Martin se refugia en su "otra" personalidad... la de Georgie, un niño de seis años. Pero cuando Susan se distancia de él, Martin entra en cólera y se obsesiona de tal forma con Susan que inicia un oleada de inusitada violencia.
Nadie huye eternamente
Leeds
Scobie Malone (Rod Taylor), un detective australiano, debe viajar a Londres para detener al Alto Comisario Sir James Quentin (Christopher Plummer), acusado de haber matado a su primera esposa. Sir Quentin admite el crimen, pero Malone sospecha que con esa confesión el caso no queda resuelto. Además, Malone, sin pretenderlo, se convierte en el guardaespaldas del diplomático, salvándolo de dos atentados. Entre los sospechosos se encuentran Sheila (lilli Palmer), la actual esposa del funcionario, su secretaria Lisa (Camilla Sparv), la fascinante señora Cholon (Daliah Lavi) e, incluso, el embajador norteamericano Townsend (Franchot Tone)
El deseo y la bestia
Landlord
Tras ocurrir una serie de inexplicables crímenes, el inspector Quenell es asignado al caso. Sus investigaciones le llevarán hasta un científico que ha conseguido crear una especie de mariposa vampiro que crece desmesuradamente y ataca a los seres humanos para beberse su sangre.
Entre dos fuegos
Colonel Thompson
Adaptación de la novela "The Winston Affair", escrita por Howard Fast, y cuyo argumento tiene lugar en la India colonizada por los ingleses durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuando un teniente norteamericano con evidentes problemas mentales es acusado de haber matado a un soldado británico. Durante el juicio, saldrán a la luz distintas cuestiones que hacen que el caso no esté tan claro.
The Hole In The Ground
Narrator
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation, who's duties included the issuing of public warnings of any nuclear missile strike and the subsequent fallout.
Francisco de Asís
Brother Elias
Misticismo, entrega, espiritualidad y pobreza conforman la historia de Francisco de Asís, hijo de un acaudalado comerciante de telas, que un día abandonó todas las comodidades y riquezas de la casa paterna para dedicarse en cuerpo y alma a servir a Dios y a los necesitados. Biografía de uno de los personajes religiosos más importantes de la Historia.
Hombre marcado
2nd Plain Clothes Officer
Jim Fuller (Stuart Whitman), que ha sido condenado a tres años de cárcel por haber intentado abusar de un niño, intenta rehacer su vida con la ayuda del psiquiatra de la prisión (Rod Steiger), que le consigue incluso un trabajo cuando queda en libertad.
Hell Is a City
Superintendent
Cuenta la persecución del criminal Don Starling recién escapado de la cárcel, tras dejar malherido a uno de sus carceleris, quien supuestamente tiene que pasar por Manchester, ya que allí deben estar guardadas las joyas que robó y que tratará de recuperar.
Amargo silencio
Thompson
Al negarse a participar en una huelga, Tom Curtis tiene que hacer frente a las airadas represalias de los demás trabajadores y a los reproches de su mujer, que no entiende las razones por las que mantiene una postura tan impopular en perjuicio de su seguridad.
¡Hundid el Bismarck!
Air Vice Marshal (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.
Son of Robin Hood
Squire Myles
Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize the British kingdom from its rightful heir, the boy prince, and only Robin's men stand in his way.
Tread Softly Stranger
Potter
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.
La última noche del Titanic
Capt. Stanley Lord
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 Shiralee
Parker
An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding.
Robbery Under Arms
Banker Green
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief Captain Starlight. Making their way to Melbourne with the proceeds of a recent raid, the brothers meet and romance the Morrison sisters, Kate and Jean, whom they eventually marry; but just as they are poised to start a new life in America, Captain Starlight and his gang arrive in town, planning a raid at the local bank.
The Case of The Smiling Widow
Inspector Duggan
From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger.
The Last Man to Hang
Detective Sgt. Bolton
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
Guilty?
Inspector Hobson
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
Mi vida empieza en Malasia
Jack Burns
Un grupo de mujeres inglesas, hechas prisioneras por los japoneses durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), tiene que ser trasladado de un campo de concentración a causa del elevado número de prisioneros. Custodiado por soldados japoneses, el grupo se pone en marcha a través de selvas pantanosas. Las enfermedades y el cansancio harán estragos tanto en las prisioneras como en los soldados nipones. En una aldea, de manera inesperada, encuentran a un aviador australiano que es un luchador nato.
The Man in the Road
Scotland Yard Supt. Davidson
A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret formula.
The Narrowing Circle
Sir Henry Dimmock
A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.
A Time to Kill
Inspector Simmons
A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper journalist pursue the truth.
Little Red Monkey
Supt. John Harrington
Several murders of nuclear scientists, that baffles Scotland Yard, occur in London about the same time that Bill Locklin, a special officer from the United States State Department, arrives to oversee the transfer of Professor Leon Dushenko, a Russian scientist who as fled the U.S.S.R. An attempt is made on Dushenko's life with a monkey's paw-print found at the scene.
The Brain Machine
Insp. Durham
A British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.
The Unholy Four
Insp. Treherne
Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return. Two more murders and a frame-up befall the quartet before an inspector closes the case.
Conflict of Wings
Wg. Cmr. Rogers
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.
36 Hours
Detective at Ann's Apartment (Uncredited)
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.
The Saint's Return
Col. Stafford
A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.
Cara robada
Det. Cutler
Un cirujano plástico, apasionadamente enamorado de una célebre pianista, se vuelve loco cuando ella lo rechaza. Entonces decide operar a una convicta y reconstruir su rostro haciéndolo identico al de su amada.
Blind Man's Bluff
Stevens
Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results in nothing but irritation for his elders. But when a boarding house becomes the headquarters for a criminal gang, it is Pendrell who cracks the case.
The Time Machine