André Morell
Nascimento : 1909-08-20, St. Pancras, London, England, UK
Morte : 1978-11-28
História
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André Morell (20 August 1909 – 28 November 1978; sometimes credited as Andre Morell) was a British actor. He appeared frequently in theatre, film and on television from the 1930s to the 1970s. His best known screen roles were as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the BBC Television serial Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59), and as Doctor Watson in the Hammer Film Productions version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959). He also appeared in the Academy Award-winning films The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and Ben-Hur (1959), in several of Hammer's well-known horror films throughout the 1960s and in the acclaimed ITV historical drama The Caesars (1968).
His obituary in The Times newspaper described him as possessing a "commanding presence with a rich, responsive voice... whether in the classical or modern theatre he was authoritative and dependable."
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Elrond (voice)
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Bride's Father
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Dr. Druring
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Sir Basil Walden
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Marshal Tavannes
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Haim
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Sir James Forbes
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Richard Heyrick
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Haumeid
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Yacht Captain
Nikky conhece Mark enquanto está em Creta nas férias e os dois se apaixonam. O problema é que Mark está sendo procurado por um roubo a uma joalheria e, para provar sua inocência, precisa achar o verdadeiro ladrão. Nikky concorda em ajudá-lo, mas o culpado pode estar mais perto do que ela imagina.
Judge
Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
Colonel Gore Hepburn
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Walter Venable
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Capt. Edward Manningham
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Sextus
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Williamson
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Commissioner Breckner
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Marshal
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Sheik Salem ben Yussef
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Sir Bernard Spilsbury
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Robert Isaac Pitt
A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.
Chief Inspector Blake
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Dr. Audlin ("Lord Mountdrago" segment)
Three stories of murder and the supernatural: A museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. When two lifelong friends fall in love with the same woman and she is killed, they are obvious suspects. Is their friendship strong enough for them to alibi each other? When a young politician is hurt by the arrogant Secretary for Foreign Affairs Lord Mountdrago, he uses Mountdrago's dreams to get revenge.
Englishman in Train Compartment (uncredited)
Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she does, she uses her savings to finance a summer in romantic Venice, where she finally meets the man of her dreams, the elegant Renato Di Rossi.
O'Brien
Um homem que trabalha para 'The Party' (O Partido) (um império todo poderoso liderado por um homem conhecido apenas como 'Big Brother' (Grande Irmão)) começa a ter pensamentos de rebelião e amor por um colega. Juntos, eles procuram ajudar a derrubar a festa.
Sir Ontzlake
John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeoniland, so he creates a secret alternate identity as the Black Knight. In this new role, he is now able to help King Arthur when Saracens and Cornish men—disguised as Vikings -- plot to take over the country.
Alfred Tetins
Men steal for it. Nations go to war for it. The it is oil - and it grows on trees. Coconut oil is the precious lifeblood of 1870s South Seas traders. And lots of real blood will be spilled to get it! Screen royalty Burt Lancaster ist His Majesty O'Keefe in this last of three adventures that (along with The Flame and the Arrow and The Crimson Pirate) blew a revitalizing wind into the sails of the swashbucker genre. Action, cunning and derring-do are watchwords of the title seafarer as he befriends, defends and ultimately rules the islanders of exotic Yap. Lensed on gorgeus Fiji locations, grandly scored by Robert Farnon and rousingly directed by Byron Haskin, His Majesty O'Keefe delivers heroics of regal proportions.
David
A doctor changes a woman's face to match the one that broke his heart. Trouble starts when his love returns.
George Rackham
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
Supt. Folland
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
Dr. "Willie" Marshall
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
Secret Service Chief Chubb (as Andre Morell)
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.
Superintendent G.W. Folland
Um cientista inglês foge de um centro de pesquisa com uma bomba atômica. Em uma carta enviada ao primeiro-ministro britânico, ele ameaça explodir o centro de Londres se o governo não anunciar o fim de qualquer pesquisa nesse campo dentro de uma semana. Agentes especiais da Scotland Yard tentam detê-lo, com a ajuda do futuro genro e assistente do cientista para encontrar e impedir o homem louco. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Dr. Lennox
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Doctor Hart
Vicky Barton and her brother, Johnny, take a trip to the 1896 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in a hotel. When the sister gets up the next morning, she finds her brother and his room had disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother.
Inspector Byard
Jane resolve ajudar o amigo Jonathan, acusado de matar o marido da amante, a atriz Charlotte. Para isso, ela se infiltra na vida da atriz como governanta, tentando provar que Charlotte é a verdadeira responsável pelo crime.
Defense Attorney
The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.
Counsel
A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.
Hindley Earnshaw
Tale of love and revenge set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire Moors.
Marchand
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
Charles Klein
An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.
Victor
Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.
Mr. Wickham
O Sr. e a Sra. Bennet têm cinco filhas solteiras, e a Sra. Bennet está especialmente ansiosa para encontrar maridos adequados para elas. Quando os ricos e solteiros Bingley e Darcy vêm morar nas proximidades, os Bennets têm grandes esperanças. Mas orgulho, preconceito e mal-entendidos se combinam para complicar seus relacionamentos e dificultar a felicidade.
