Basil Dignam
출생 : 1905-10-24, Sheffield, Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
사망 : 1979-01-31
약력
Basil Dignam (24 October 1905 - 31 January 1979) was an English character actor.
Brigadier
In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style.
Commissioner McCloud (uncredited)
Carol Hammond, the sexually frustrated wife of a successful London lawyer, is having bizarre, erotic dreams about her uninhibited neighbour, Julia Durer, who presides over noisy, sex and drug filled parties in the house next door. One night, Carol dreams culminate in violent death and she wakes to find her nightmares have become reality - Julia has been murdered and Carol is the main suspect. Was she set up, or did she really do it?
Member of Medical Board
전셋집을 운영하면서 사이비 진료 행위를 하던 크리스티(John Reginald Christie: 리차드 어텐보로 분)는 아내가 집을 비운 틈을 타 천식으로 고생하는 뮤리엘(Muriel Eady: 필립스 맥마혼 분)을 집으로 불러 들인다. 자신이 고안한 최면 개스를 흡입시켜 기절시키고는 아무런 저항도 못하는 여자를 폭행하는 희열감에 들뜨는 크리스티, 끝내 뮤리엘은 목이 졸린 채 살해되고 만다. 5년후, 비어있는 3층에 티모시(Timothy John Evans: 존 허트 분) 일가가 세들어 온다. 일자무식이지만 나름대로 똑똑한 체 하는 티모시와 그의 아름다운 부인 베릴(Beryl Evans: 쥬디 기슨 분)이 싸우는 장면을 목격한 크리스티는 여인의 속살을 보고 또다시 잠들어 있던 욕망이 꿈틀거리는 것을 느끼는데. 크리스티는 그들이 원치 않던 임신을 하게 된 사실을 알고는 중절을 해주겠노라며 교묘히 접근, 같은 수법으로 베릴을 살해한다. 티모시가 아내를 살해했다는 누명을 쓰고 교수형을 당하자 어렴풋이 남편의 정체를 눈치채게 된 자신의 아내마저 죽이는 크리스티의 변태적인 살인행각은 그후로도 계속되어 마침내 그가 체포되고서야 엄청난 연쇄 살인 사건의 전모가 드러나게 된다.
Sir Harold
From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the world. They are also the pawns of powerful nations, the victims of dangerous drugs and the object of many men's ambitions. Once every four years they come together... for the Olympic Games.
Dealer
Swinging London in the 1960's. Deals with the affection of a middle-aged man for a very young woman, resulting in a mutually parasitic relationship.
Doctor
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.
Snodgrass
Freddie and the Dreamers play part of a Scout troupe that get caught up in a series of misadventures on their way to camp.
David's Bank Manager
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Jim Benson
Jamaican obi-man hexes student hostel manager, eventually causing the manager's death, before being killed himself by the manager's vengeful spirit.
Major Harding
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.
The General
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Prison Governor
A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...
Sir Francis Walsingham
Sir Francis Drake fights to take over Spain's treasure routes for Queen Elizabeth I.
Cavalry General at Field Briefing (uncredited)
영국 정보국 소속 장교 로렌스 는 1차대전 중 중동지역의 전투에서 아랍 부족의 지원을 받기 위해 아랍 지역으로 파견된다. 그런데 그는 영국 정부가 바라던 것 이상으로 아랍의 지도자들을 사로 잡고 아랍의 독립을 위해 열심히 싸워 아랍 민족으로 부터 ‘아라비아의 로렌스’라는 영웅적인 칭호를 받게 된다. 그는 아랍 전사들을 이끌고 터키군들과 싸우면서 규율을 잡기 위해 남의 마을의 우물물을 마신 병사를 과감히 처형하는 등 독한 모습을 보여준다. 그러나 그의 그런 용맹성은 터키 군에게 포로로 잡힌 후 그곳에서 받은 성적 학대를 통해 병적으로 발전된다. 그리고 마침내 영국 정부의 소환을 받고 런던으로 돌아오지만 중동으로 보내 줄 것을 요구하면서 사막으로 돌아가길 원한다. 그러나 이미 정치적으로 타결이 된 아라비아 사막은 그를 원치 않았는데.
Mapleton
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would have saved her life. Doctor Brown is determined to seek justice for what he sees as the needless death of a young girl.
Wheeler
When a mail bag full of post that was taken in a robbery is discovered fifteen years later, a Post Office employee and local reporter decide to deliver the letters to their original intended addressees. This solitary incident has profound ramifications on several of the recipients and this film tells the story of how just five of those letters changed peoples lives forever.
Lyle
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
Admiral Brooks
한 인간의 무한한 욕망과 상상으로 대참사가 빚어진다. 지하의 괴물이 땅바닥을 가르고 나와 가공할만한 힘으로 대도시를 붕괴하며 살육과 파고를 일삼는다. 현대 과학으로 도저히 풀 수 없는 불가사의한 비밀을 캐내기 위해 집념의 사나이가 이 사건에 뛰어드는데...
Army Officer
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.
Dr Childs
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into what, technically, could be a treasonable act.
Hugo
Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie story.
Lt. Cmdr. Evans at P.R.O. (uncredited)
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
Ralph Thompson
An engineer is wrongly convicted of selling secrets to enemy agents and is sentenced to life in prison. Convinced it was his former partner who framed him, he enlists his son to investigate.
Doctor Burgess
연방국가에서 온 이주자들에게 인종적인 적대감을 공공연히 표출하던 1950년대 런던. 임신한 한 음대학생이 살해되는 일이 발생한다. 경시청의 형사 2명(니겔 패트릭, 마이클 크레이그 분)이 수사에 나서게 되면서, 피살자 주변에 있던 모든 사람들이 용의선상에 떠오른다. 실상 그녀는 백인으로 행세하던 흑인 여성이었고, 여자가 흑인임이 밝혀지면 자신의 인생마저 망가질 것을 두려워하는 백인 애인과 그녀의 부모, 그리고 그녀가 백인 사회에 받아들여졌을 때 버림받은 소년들까지 광범위한 수사가 진행되는 동안 형사들은 자신이 갖고 있던 사회적 편견들과 하나하나 만나게 되는데...
Security Officer
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.
Hospital Chairman
An 1840s British surgeon, experiments with anesthetic gases in an effort to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel of his peers ends in a horrific mishap with his patient awakening under the knife; he is forced to leave his position in disgrace. To complicate matters, he becomes addicted to the gases and gets involved with a gang of criminals, led by Black Ben and his henchman Resurrection Joe.
Flagship Commander
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.
R.A.F. Officer (uncredited)
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world would be the perfect place for a rocket launch site.
Dyson
A neglected girl (June Archer) in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
Inspector Adams
American airman loves English girl whose father refuses permission for their marriage out of hatred for all Yankees.
Tom Wilton
Fed up with her wealthy but abusive husband, Tom (Basil Dignam), young English homemaker Laura Wilton (Anne Heywood) conspires with her lover, American Army captain Dave Dillon (Robert Arden), to have her boozy spouse meet an "accidental" demise. But a nosy copper (Denis Shaw) suspects foul play, and soon the lovers' crafty scheme deteriorates into fear, distrust and betrayal. Paul Dickson directs this vintage noir thriller.
Davitt
Band leader Frank Martin is convicted and sentenced to death for murdering the owner of a club in which he had performed. Frank's innocent of the crime, and singer Ruth Chapman can provide him with an alibi. But Ruth is missing, and records show she died years before. As Frank awaits execution, he enlists the help of his heiress girlfriend and his lawyer to clear his name.
Police Commissioner
An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who knew nothing of his past, to counterfeit 5-pound notes for mass distribution around the countryside.
Sir Lionel Henry Lamb, British Ambassador to China
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.
Mr. Justice Emery
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
Currie
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.
Air Ministry Doctor
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
Det. Sgt. Crawford
Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene, commandeer a boat and take the three women on board hostage as they try to outrun the law.
George Pacey
A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.
Stevens
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm, that his new furniture designs, are not in keeping with the firms image. he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family, and emigrate to Australia. but his problems are only just beginning.
Wing Commander Riddle
A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.
Sir Lionel Dean (uncredited)
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
Superintendent
A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.
Security Officer
A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony
R.A.M.C. Captain
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis.
Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale (Anna Neagle), the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.
Ship’s Captain
A married couple both face temptations while separated for a few days. The husband meets an attractive female fellow traveler in Paris while the wife accidentally spends a night aboard a Royal Navy ship with a male friend after she is stranded following a party. Despite knowing the essential innocence of both husband and wife, their sinister new butler uses information about their discretions to demand blackmail payments.
Defense Attorney
A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.
Commissionaire (uncredited)
Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. His intention is to sell it as quickly as possible, but on meeting Ellen, chief designer and manager, he quickly changes his mind and turns his attention to courting her.