Walter Fitzgerald

Walter Fitzgerald

Nascimento : 1896-05-18,

Morte : 1976-12-20

História

Walter Fitzgerald was a distinguished British character actor.   He was born in 1896 in Devon.   His first film was in 1932 in “Murder In Covent Garden”.   His cinema highlights include “In Which We Serve”, “San Demitro, London”, “The Fallen Idol” and “Treasure Island”.  He went to Hollywood in 1959 to make “Darby O’Gill and the Little People” for Walt Disney.    He died in 1976 in London at the age of 80.

Perfil

Walter Fitzgerald

Filmes

Doctor Who: The Dominators
Director Senex
When two belligerent Dominators and their robotic servant Quarks land on the peaceful planet Dulkis planning to drop a radioactive seed into the planet's core to refuel their spaceship, the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe must attempt to inspire the pacifist Dulcians to resist.
Decision at Midnight
Adaptation of the play Music at Midnight, set in the Iron Curtain.
We Joined the Navy
Admiral Thomas
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.
O Terceiro Homem na Montanha
Herr Hempel
Filme sobre um jovem aventureiro que apesar de perder seu pai escalando uma montanha irá tentar subir uma montanha jamais escalada.
A Lenda dos Anões Mágicos
Lord Fitzpatrick
Pegue um pouco de folclore antigo, misture alguns efeitos especiais espetaculares e um elenco mágico (incluindo Sean Connery) - e você tem uma das fantasias mais encantadoras de todos os tempos! Um velho contador de histórias chamado Darby O'Gill está procurando desesperadamente o proverbial Pote de Ouro. Há apenas uma pequena coisa em seu caminho: um Leprechaun de 21 polegadas (53 cm) chamado King Brian. Para conseguir o ouro, Darby deve toda sua perspicácia contra o maldito malandro - o que não é um trabalho fácil, na verdade! Caia sob o feitiço de A Lenda dos Anões Mágicos para uma noite cheia de diversão de magia, alegria e malandragens sem parar!
The Camp on Blood Island
Cyril Beattie
Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
The Birthday Present
Sir John Dell
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.
Sangue Sobre a Terra
A White Settler - Henry McKenzie
Peter (Rock Hudson) e Kimani (Sidney Poitier) são dois amigos de infância que cresceram juntos. Quando acontece a Revolta dos Mau-Mau, Kimani - que é negro - se junta a um grupo de rebeldes que almeja expulsar os estrangeiros Quênia, já que os negros vêm sendo discriminados no país e o próprio pai de Kimani fora preso por causa de seus costumes culturais. As ações, porém, são violentas e acabam tirando a vida dos irmãos menores de Peter - que é branco. Mesmo assim, ele acredita que pode se reconciliar com o amigo e resolver o conflito apesar do racismo da sociedade entre eles.
The Man in the Sky
Reginald Conway
The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself. At the Conway Aero-Manufacturing Company of Wolverhampton, Mitchell is to take the company's new rocket-propulsion transport plane up for tests, fully loaded and carrying two important passengers - Ministry official Crabtree and buyer's representative Ashmore. Mitchell learns from his boss, Reg Conway, that if Ashmore does not recommend the plane, the company will be out of business and Mitchell out of a job, since the plane is not even insured as the firm's entire capital is tied up in the plane. Aloft, an engine catches fire and the passengers and other crew bail out, but Mitchell refuses to obey orders to jettison the plane in the Irish Sea.
A Volta ao Mundo em Oitenta Dias
Club Member
Em 1872, o nobre inglês Phileas Fogg (David Niven) aposta vinte mil libras com seus colegas do Clube Reformatório de Londres de que ele consegue dar a volta no planeta em exatamente oitenta dias. Ao lado do engenhoso Valet Passepartout (Mario Moreno), ele busca cumprir o seu objetivo com aventuras em todos os continentes, acaba conhecendo e se encantando pela bela viúva Aouda (Shirley MacLaine), ao mesmo tempo que, em uma conspiração, é acusado de ter roubado o dinheiro que investiu na aposta.
Os Sobreviventes
Gestapo Comdt.
Durante a WW2 um Major da Reserva da Marinha Real deve trabalhar com um Capitão veterano e um grupo de recrutas incorrigíveis na tentativa do que é geralmente considerada como uma missão suicida. A ordem era a destruição secreta de todos navios alemães atracados num estaleiro rio acima em Bordeaux, na França ocupada. E o ataque seria feito usando... canoas.
Lease of Life
The Dean
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
Front Page Story
Anthony Black
A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane crash, the one which his wife took....
3 Homens e um Biquíni
Captain
Rich Sadie Patch is marooned on a desert island after an emergency on her cruise-ship. With her are Irish stoker Pat, prickly young Jimmy Carrol, and bald and bookish Professor Gibble. All fancy their chances.
Tormento da Suspeita
Henry Vining
A British girl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.
Mar Cruel
Warden (uncredited)
The Cruel Sea é um filme britânico de 1953, do gênero drama de guerra, dirigido por Charles Frend e estrelado por Jack Hawkins e Donald Sinden. O filme, no estilo docudrama, é uma das produções mais subestimadas e comoventes entre aquelas ambientadas na Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Appointment in London
Mulvaney
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.
The Net
Sir Charles Craddock
A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in a mysterious accident, and there are many arguments concerning the flight itself; some think it should be ground-controlled while Heathley (James Donald) wants it to be a manned flight with himself at the controls. Conflict also arises when one of his fellow scientists, taking advantage of Heathley's lack of attention toward his wife, Lydia (Phyllis Calvert), makes some moves on her. Then there is the question of just who is the enemy agent on the project.
The Ringer
Commissioner
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
The Pickwick Papers
Mr. Wardle
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
A Ilha do Tesouro
Squire Trelawney
Após receber o mapa do tesouro escondido pelo capitão Flint, o garoto Jim Hawkins embarca num barco pirata rumo a uma ilha do Caribe. E vive uma incrível quando, entre outros perigos, tem de encarar velhos companheiros do bucaneiro como o nada simpático Long John Silver. Aventura, produção dos estúdios Disney, baseada no clássico da literatura de Robert Louis Stevenson.
Meu Filho
Mr. Kedner
Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.
De Volta ao Pequeno Apartamento
Brine
De Volta ao Pequeno Apartamento detalha as angústias de um pesquisador e especialista em desarme de bombas militares Sammy Rice. Ele vive um relacionamento complexo com a secretária Susan e é contratado pelo governo para orientar sobre uma nova e perigosa arma alemã.
O Ídolo Caído
Dr. Fenton
Um mordomo que trabalha em uma embaixada estrangeira em Londres torna-se o principal suspeito quando sua esposa cai acidentalmente e morre. A única testemunha é um menino impressionável. Philippe, filho de um diplomata e bom amigo de Baines, o mordomo, confunde-se com as complexidades e evasões da vida adulta. Ele tenta manter segredos, mas acaba dizendo a eles. Ele mente para proteger seus amigos, mesmo sabendo que deve dizer a verdade. Ele resolve não ouvir mais as histórias de adultos quando Baines é suspeito de assassinar sua esposa e ninguém vai ouvir as informações vitais de Philippe. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
The Winslow Boy
First Lord
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
Blanche Fury
Simon Fury
Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a daughter. But before long, boredom sets in, and Blanche begins a tempestuous romance with stableman Philip Thorn. Together, they hatch a murderous plan to gain control of the estate.
This Was a Woman
Arthur Russell
The woman here is Sylvia Russell, who is a bit power mad and has some set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, able to possess and direct them; subtly ruins her daughter's marriage by corrupting a servant girl and, then, uses her to compromise her son-in-law; slowly breaks her bumbling, unambitious husband's confidence, finds in her husband's executive friend the man she desires, and then poisons her husband in her own manner in their quiet English manor
Mine Own Executioner
Dr. Norris Pile
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
Great Day
Bob Tyndale
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
Strawberry Roan
Walter Morley
Farmer Chris Lowe meets and falls in love with Molly , a chorus-girl. Despite the fact that she is a city girl through and through, she accepts his proposal of marriage and after the wedding goes to live on the farm. Chris realises that the transition for Molly will be difficult, and in an attempt to ease her into farm life, buys her a strawberry roan calf to look after. Unfortunately Molly finds the adjustment to rural life extremely difficult and does not settle down. She fails to integrate into the local community and starts to feel she has made a big mistake.
San Demetrio London
Chief Engineer Charles Pollard - 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.
Squadron Leader X
Inspector Milne
Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British propaganda. Unfortunately for him he chooses a night when the Belgian resistance are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the channel. Before he knows it he is landing on the south coast of England. With MI5 hot on his trail, the fugitive tries to contact his old German émigré friends in London. But they have all been interned on the Isle of Man. How will he escape back to Germany ?
Nosso Barco, Nossa Alma
Colonel Lumsden
O contratorpedeiro Torrin resiste bravamente a um ataque das potências do Eixo, porém precisa retornar às praias inglesas para reparos. De volta à ativa, ele participa da retirada de Dunquerque e acaba por soçobrar em Creta, vitimado pelo inimigo. Enquanto aguardam socorro, os sobreviventes revelam porque e para quem continuam a lutar.
This England
Vicar
Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.
Let George Do It!
Dockside Policeman
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
Murder at Covent Garden
Donald Walpace
A detective goes undercover and poses as a criminal to try to discover the reasons behind the murder of a night club owner.