Martin Miller (Czech actor)
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Martin Miller, born Rudolph Muller (2 September 1899 – 26 August 1969) was a Czech
character actor
who played many small roles in British films and television series from the early 1940s until his death. He was best known for playing eccentric doctors, scientists and professors, although he had a wide range of small obscure roles from photographers and waiters, to a pet store dealer, rabbis, a Dutch sailor and a Swiss tailor. He had some minor roles in notable films such as Squadron Leader X
(1943), English Without Tears
(1944), Mine Own Executioner
(1947), Counterblast
(1948), Man on the Run
(1949), Encore
(1951), You Know What Sailors Are (1954), The Gamma People
(1956), Mark of the Phoenix
(1958), 55 Days at Peking
(1963), The V.I.P.s
(1963) and The Pink Panther
(1963). The characters he portrayed of most substance were probably as George II of England in Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) and his recurring role as Kublai Khan
in Doctor Who
in the 1960s. In the 1960s he appeared in episodes of numerous cult spy ITC Entertainment
productions, including Ghost Squad
, Danger Man
, The Saint
, The Avengers
, The Baron
, The Prisoner
, and Department S
.
n city of Kroměříž
, then known as Kremsier in Austria-Hungary
, on September 2, 1899. He began a career as an actor working in Vienna
in 1925 but fled Austria at the outbreak of World War II
to escape the persecution of the Jews and reportedly arrived in London in 1940 to pursue a career in the British industry.
's World War II
spy drama Squadron Leader X
, alongside Beatrice Varley
and Ann Dvorak
.This role was quickly followed by his first of many roles as a doctor, playing Doctor Novotny in Harold S. Bucquet
's spy film The Adventures of Tartu
. In 1944, Comfort hired him again to appear in his picture Hotel Reserve
, about a hunt for a spy in a hotel in southern France just before World War II. Based on a novel by Eric Ambler
, the film saw Miller appear alongside James Mason
, Lucie Mannheim
and Raymond Lovell
.He then had a small role as Schmidt in Harold French
's romantic comedy English Without Tears
(1944) alongside Michael Wilding
, Margaret Rutherford
and Penelope Dudley-Ward.
In 1945, he played a morgue
keeper in Vernon Sewell
's thriller Latin Quarter
and in 1946 played Professor Hansen alongside Robert Newton
, Raymond Lovell
, Guy Middleton
, Muriel Pavlow
and Herbert Lom
in Lawrence Huntington
's Night Boat to Dublin
and a postman in Maclean Rogers
's Woman to Woman
opposite Douglass Montgomery
, Joyce Howard
and Adele Dixon
. The film, a romance drama, was based on the play Woman to Woman
by Michael Morton
.
In 1947 he starred as a professor in Vernon Sewell's comedy The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
opposite Robert Morley
and Felix Aylmer
. The film is an adaptation of the novel No Nightingales by Caryl Brahms
and S. J. Simon
, inspired by the enduring reputation of the property at 50 Berkeley Square
as "the most haunted house in London".That year he also portrayed Dr. Hans Tautz in Anthony Kimmins
's drama Mine Own Executioner
opposite Burgess Meredith
, Dulcie Gray
and Michael Shepley
. The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival
.
In 1948 he portrayed a police inspector in Terence Young's One Night with You
, alongside Nino Martini
, Patricia Roc
(and a young Christopher Lee
with a minor role) an uncredited role as an Italian waiter at the Savoy Hotel
in The Blind Goddess
and a role as George II of England in Anthony Kimmins
's biopic Bonnie Prince Charlie about the Jacobite Risings in a cast which included David Niven
(as Charles II
), Margaret Leighton, Judy Campbell
, Jack Hawkins
, Morland Graham
and Finlay Currie
. In 1949, he appeared as Tony the Cafe Proprietor in Lawrence Huntington
's Man on the Run
, a customer in Jack Warner
's The Huggetts Abroad
, Leon Stolz in Arthur Crabtree
's Don't Ever Leave Me
alongside Petula Clark
, Jimmy Hanley
, Hugh Sinclair
, Edward Rigby
, and Anthony Newley
and had uncredited roles as black marketeer Herr Schindler in I Was a Male War Bride
and as a headwaiter in The Third Man
.
's I'll Get You for This
, played a Dutch seaman in Paul L. Stein
's Counterblast
alongside Robert Beatty
, Mervyn Johns
and Nova Pilbeam
and played the character of Carlo Penezii in the segment "Gigolo and Gigolette" of the anthology film Encore
, a film which was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival
. In 1952, Miller played a rabbi
in the TV series Portrait by Rembrandt and a photographer in Where's Charley?
.
In 1953 he starred in Emeric Pressburger
's Twice Upon a Time alongside Hugh Williams
, Elizabeth Allan, Yolande Larthe and Charmaine Larthe and The Genie and between 1953 and 1954 he appeared in two episodes of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents
. In 1954, Miller portrayed Dr. Brukmann in Front Page Story
, Professor Hyman Pfumbaum in You Know What Sailors Are, Dr. Fergus in Mad About Men
and Brodcynsky in To Dorothy a Son
. In 1955, Miller played Iggy Pulitzer in George More O'Ferrall
's The Woman for Joe
opposite Diane Cilento
and George Baker
, a pet dealer in the television movie Mother Michel and Her Cat , a Swiss tailor in John Paddy Carstairs
's comedy Man of the Moment
alongside Norman Wisdom
, Belinda Lee
, Lana Morris
and Jerry Desmonde
, and had an uncredited role as a Bandleader at an alligator rally in An Alligator Named Daisy
.
A busy year, in 1956, Miller portrayed a hotelkeeper in the It Started in Paris episode of Sailor of Fortune, and as Chella in the Festival of Fear episode of The Adventures of Aggie
. He had an uncredited role in Jay Lewis
's comedy The Baby and the Battleship
, starring John Mills
, Richard Attenborough
and André Morell
, and played Professor Topolski in Child in the House
and Lochner in John Gilling
's science fiction
picture The Gamma People
alongside Paul Douglas
, Eva Bartok
and Leslie Phillips
. In 1957 he played he starred in Hugo Fregonese
's World War II picture Seven Thunders
about two British escaped prisoners of war, opposite Stephen Boyd
, James Robertson Justice
and Kathleen Harrison
. He also portrayed Papa Kolinsky in the A Penn'orth of Allsorts episode of Dixon of Dock Green
.
In 1958 he played Brunet in Maclean Rogers
's drama Mark of the Phoenix
, alongside Julia Arnall
, Sheldon Lawrence and Anton Diffring
. He also appeared twice as Nat Danziger in ITV Play of the Week in 1955 and 1958, appeared in three episodes of BBC Sunday-Night Theatre, one in 1956 and two in 1959. He also appeared in three episodes of ITV Television Playhouse, in 1956, 1959 and 1960, the first of which he had again portrayed a rabbi in the episode Skipper Next to God. In 1959, Miller had an uncredited role as Kakky in Expresso Bongo
under the director's helm of Val Guest
, starred as Hendricks in Violent Moment,and as a doctor in the TV film Henry IV, He played Dr. Schrott in Anthony Asquith
's Libel
, starring alongside Olivia de Havilland
, Dirk Bogarde
, Paul Massie
, Wilfrid Hyde-White
and Robert Morley
.The film's screenplay was written by Anatole de Grunwald
and Karl Tunberg
from a 1935 play of the same name by Edward Wooll. He also made an appearance in the TV series Armchair Theatre
in the episode Light from a Star.
The Rough and the Smooth
opposite Tony Britton
, William Bendix
and Edward Chapman
, Dr. Pfeiffer in the episode Twentieth Century Theatre: The Price of Freedom of the BBC Sunday Night Play
and starred as Dr. Rosen in the psychological horror thriller Peeping Tom
, directed by Michael Powell
. The film, which saw Miller star alongside Carl Boehm
, Moira Shearer
, Anna Massey
and Maxine Audley
revolves around a serial killer
who murders women while using a portable movie camera with a spike to record their dying expressions of terror. It was a highly controversial subject with themes of child abuse
, sadomasochism and fetishism
and the extremely harsh reception by critics effectively destroyed the director's career as a director in the United Kingdom. However, it attracted a cult following, and in later years, it has been re-evaluated and is now considered a masterpiece.In 1960, Miller also portrayed Stravros in the episode The Lovers of the series Danger Man
and Dr. Samuel Odenheim in Otto Preminger
's war film Exodus opposite Paul Newman
, Eva Marie Saint
, Ralph Richardson
and Sal Mineo
. In 1961 he made appearances in the television series Theatre 70 in the episode The Watchman of Saul and
as Hymie in Echo Four Two, in the episode There She Blows.
In 1962, Miller starred as Rossi in the Hammer Film Productions
horror The Phantom of the Opera
under the directorship of Terence Fisher
, as Mr. Green in the episode Between the Balance Sheets of Dial RIX, as Dr. Steliz in the episode Blaze of Glory in Man of the World, as Papa Kadopolis in the episode The Marriage Broker of Zero One and as Braun
in the episode The Green Shoes of Ghost Squad
.
In 1963, a particularly busy and high-status year, Miller featured as the man with the microscope in Ken Annakin
's comedy The Fast Lady
starring Stanley Baxter
, James Robertson Justice
, Leslie Phillips
, Kathleen Harrison
and Julie Christie
, as Dr. Schroeder in Incident at Midnight, reprising this same character in the TV series The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre version and played Davidoff in the TV movie The Bergonzi Hand. He starred as Hugo Bergmann in the Samuel Bronston Productions
-Allied Artists historical epic
55 Days at Peking
, directed by Nicholas Ray
and opposite Charlton Heston
, Ava Gardner
, and David Niven
. The film is a dramatization of the Battle of Peking
during the Boxer Rebellion
which took place in 1900 in China and received two Academy Award nominations for Dimitri Tiomkin
(Best Song and Original Music Score
). In 1963, Miller also appeared in another top picture, Anthony Asquith
's The V.I.P.s
in which he played Dr. Schwatzbacher in an all-star cast which included Richard Burton
, Elizabeth Taylor
, Louis Jourdan, Orson Welles
and Margaret Rutherford
, who won both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
and the Golden Globe in the same category
for her performance in the film. The film was one of the biggest British MGM productions in years.According to the playwright Terence Rattigan
, who wrote the screenplay, the film was based on the true story of Vivien Leigh
's attempt to leave her husband Laurence Olivier
and fly off with her lover Peter Finch
, only to be delayed by a fog at Heathrow Airport. The team of director Asquith, producer Anatole de Grunwald
and writer Rattigan were to produce another portmanteau film the following year entitled The Yellow Rolls-Royce
, in which Miller also starred, albeit with a minor role as a head waiter.Again Miller was featured alongside prominent actors such as Rex Harrison
, Jeanne Moreau
, Ingrid Bergman
, Shirley Maclaine
and Omar Sharif
. In 1963 he also played the photographer Pierre Luigi in the original Blake Edwards
film The Pink Panther
opposite Niven, Peter Sellars
and Robert Wagner
and all in the same year, he also starred as Mr. Smith in the TV series Espionage
in the episode The Incurable One and Astolat in The Sentimental Agent
in the episode A Little Sweetness and Light.
In 1964, Miller appeared as Professor Gruber in the science fiction horror picture Children of the Damned
, had a stint playing Kublai Khan
in two episodes of Doctor Who
, Assassin at Peking and Mighty Kublai Khan,and also portrayed Dr. Zoren in the episode Fish on the Hook of Danger Man
. He became an ITC
productions regular from 1964 onwards, albeit with minor roles. He appeared in two episodes of The Saint
, playing Jerome in the episode Jeannine (1964) and Mr. Justin in the episode The Smart Detective (1965) and played the role of Lazlo in two episodes of A Little Big Business in 1964 and 1965. In 1965 he portrayed Heinrich Miron in the The House of Bons Bons episode of The Third Man
, had an uncredited role as Professor Spencer in The Avengers
in the episode The Master Minds and had a role as Herman in the Christopher Miles
comedy film Up Jumped a Swagman
which also incidentally co-starred some ITC regulars such as Annette Andre
and Ronald Radd
.
In 1966, Miller appeared in the TV series Theatre 625
in the episode Focus, the The Baron
in the episode Enemy of the State and as Dr. Heindrick in the series Adam Adamant Lives!
, in the episode A Slight Case of Reincarnation. In 1967 he notably starred as Montross in The Forsyte Saga
in the episode Portrait of Fleurand as a watchmaker in The Prisoner
, in the episode It's Your Funeral. In 1969 he appeared in BBC Play of the Month
, playing Professeur Vivier in the episode Maigret at Bay, the TV movie Mord nach der Oper, Dr. Israel Berg in the episode They Call Me Israel of the The Troubleshooters, Professor Pearson in the episode It's All Go... of Doctor in the House
before making his last ever appearance portraying Dutrov in the series Department S
.
He was booked for a role in The Last Valley
, but while shooting on location in Innsbruck
, died of a heart attack on August 26, 1969, aged 69.
Czech people
Czechs, or Czech people are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic. Small populations of Czechs also live in Slovakia, Austria, the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Russia and other countries...
character actor
Character actor
A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or...
who played many small roles in British films and television series from the early 1940s until his death. He was best known for playing eccentric doctors, scientists and professors, although he had a wide range of small obscure roles from photographers and waiters, to a pet store dealer, rabbis, a Dutch sailor and a Swiss tailor. He had some minor roles in notable films such as Squadron Leader X
Squadron Leader X
Squadron Leader X is a 1943 British World War II spy drama, directed by Lance Comfort and starring Eric Portman and Ann Dvorak. The screenplay was adapted by Miles Malleson and Wolfgang Wilhelm from a short story by Emeric Pressburger.-Plot:...
(1943), English Without Tears
English Without Tears
English Without Tears is a 1944 British Comedy film directed by Harold French and starring Michael Wilding, Penelope Dudley-Ward and Lilli Palmer. The niece of a British aristocrat falls in love with the butler.-Cast:* Michael Wilding ... Tom Gilbey...
(1944), Mine Own Executioner
Mine Own Executioner
Mine Own Executioner is a 1947 British drama film directed by Anthony Kimmins. It was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Burgess Meredith - Felix Milne* Dulcie Gray - Patricia Milne* Michael Shepley - Peter Edge...
(1947), Counterblast
Counterblast (film)
Counterblast is a 1948 British drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Robert Beatty, Mervyn Johns and Nova Pilbeam.-Plot:A Nazi scientist experiments with biological warfare with which he intends to wage the next war against Britain.-Cast:...
(1948), Man on the Run
Man on the Run
Man on the Run is a 1949 British drama film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Edward Chapman, Kenneth More and Laurence Harvey.-Synopsis:...
(1949), Encore
Encore (1951 film)
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham:*"The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B...
(1951), You Know What Sailors Are (1954), The Gamma People
The Gamma People
The Gamma People is a 1956 British science fiction film directed by John Gilling and starring Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok and Leslie Phillips.-Plot:...
(1956), Mark of the Phoenix
Mark of the Phoenix
Mark of the Phoenix is a 1958 British drama film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Julia Arnall, Sheldon Lawrence and Anton Diffring. A newly developed and valuable metal is stolen and formed into a cigarette case for transportation to the Far East, but an American jewel thief comes into...
(1958), 55 Days at Peking
55 Days at Peking
55 Days at Peking is a 1963 historical epic film starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven, made by Samuel Bronston Productions, and released by Allied Artists. The movie was produced by Samuel Bronston and directed by Nicholas Ray, Andrew Marton , and Guy Green...
(1963), The V.I.P.s
The V.I.P.s
The V.I.P.s, also known as Hotel International, is a 1963 British drama film. It was directed by Anthony Asquith, produced by Anatole de Grunwald and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
(1963) and The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther (1963 film)
The Pink Panther is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and co-written by Edwards and Maurice Richlin, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, and Claudia Cardinale...
(1963). The characters he portrayed of most substance were probably as George II of England in Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) and his recurring role as Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan , born Kublai and also known by the temple name Shizu , was the fifth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire from 1260 to 1294 and the founder of the Yuan Dynasty in China...
in Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
in the 1960s. In the 1960s he appeared in episodes of numerous cult spy ITC Entertainment
ITC Entertainment
The Incorporated Television Company was a British television company largely involved in production and distribution. It was founded by Lew Grade.-History:...
productions, including Ghost Squad
Ghost Squad (TV series)
Ghost Squad, known as G.S.5 for its third season, was a crime drama series about an elite division of Scotland Yard that ran between 1961 and 1964. Each episode the Ghost Squad would investigate cases that fell outside the scope of normal police work...
, Danger Man
Danger Man
Danger Man is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the program and wrote many of the scripts...
, The Saint
The Saint (TV series)
The Saint was an ITC mystery spy thriller television series that aired in the UK on ITV between 1962 and 1969. It centred on the Leslie Charteris literary character, Simon Templar, a Robin Hood-like adventurer with a penchant for disguise. The character may be nicknamed The Saint because the...
, The Avengers
The Avengers (TV series)
The Avengers is a spy-fi British television series set in the 1960s Britain. The Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed . Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants...
, The Baron
The Baron
The Baron is a British television series, made in 1965/66 based on the book series by John Creasey, written under the pseudonym Anthony Morton, and produced by ITC Entertainment. It was the first ITC show without marionettes to be produced entirely in colour...
, The Prisoner
The Prisoner
The Prisoner is a 17-episode British television series first broadcast in the UK from 29 September 1967 to 1 February 1968. Starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan, it combined spy fiction with elements of science fiction, allegory and psychological drama.The series follows a British former...
, and Department S
Department S
Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969–1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Jason King , Joel Fabiani as Stewart Sullivan, and Rosemary Nicols as computer expert Annabelle Hurst...
.
Biography
Miller was born Rudolph Muller in the MoraviaMoravia
Moravia is a historical region in Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, and one of the former Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Silesia. It takes its name from the Morava River which rises in the northwest of the region...
n city of Kroměříž
Kromeríž
Kroměříž is a town in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. The town's main landmark is the Baroque Kroměříž Bishop's Palace, where some scenes from Amadeus and Immortal Beloved were filmed...
, then known as Kremsier in Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...
, on September 2, 1899. He began a career as an actor working in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
in 1925 but fled Austria at the outbreak of World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
to escape the persecution of the Jews and reportedly arrived in London in 1940 to pursue a career in the British industry.
1940s
It wasn't until 1943 that he had a major role in a major film, playing Mr. Krohn in Lance ComfortLance Comfort
Lance Comfort was an English film director and producer born in Harrow, London.With a career spanning over 25 years he became one of the most prolific film directors in Britain though never gained critical attention and remained on the fringes of the film industry creating mostly B movies.Comfort...
's World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
spy drama Squadron Leader X
Squadron Leader X
Squadron Leader X is a 1943 British World War II spy drama, directed by Lance Comfort and starring Eric Portman and Ann Dvorak. The screenplay was adapted by Miles Malleson and Wolfgang Wilhelm from a short story by Emeric Pressburger.-Plot:...
, alongside Beatrice Varley
Beatrice Varley
Beatrice Varley was a British actress who appeared in a variety of television and film roles between 1936 and 1964...
and Ann Dvorak
Ann Dvorak
Ann Dvorak was an American film actress.Asked how to pronounce her adopted surname, she told The Literary Digest: "My name is properly pronounced vor'shack. The D remains silent...
.This role was quickly followed by his first of many roles as a doctor, playing Doctor Novotny in Harold S. Bucquet
Harold S. Bucquet
Harold S. Bucquet was an English film director. He directed 26 films between 1936 and 1945. His 1937 film Torture Money won an Academy Award for the Best Short Subject ....
's spy film The Adventures of Tartu
The Adventures of Tartu
The Adventures of Tartu is a 1943 British Second World War spy film starring Robert Donat.-Plot:...
. In 1944, Comfort hired him again to appear in his picture Hotel Reserve
Hotel Reserve
Hotel Reserve is a spy film starring James Mason as an innocent man caught up in pre-Second World War espionage. It was based on Eric Ambler's novel Epitaph for a Spy.-Plot:...
, about a hunt for a spy in a hotel in southern France just before World War II. Based on a novel by Eric Ambler
Eric Ambler
Eric Clifford Ambler OBE was an influential British author of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda.-Life:...
, the film saw Miller appear alongside James Mason
James Mason
James Neville Mason was an English actor who attained stardom in both British and American films. Mason remained a powerful figure in the industry throughout his career and was nominated for three Academy Awards as well as three Golden Globes .- Early life :Mason was born in Huddersfield, in the...
, Lucie Mannheim
Lucie Mannheim
Lucie Mannheim was a German singer and actress.Mannheim was born in Berlin–Köpenick where she studied drama and quickly became a popular figure appearing on stage in plays and musicals. Among other roles, she played Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House, Marie in Büchner's Woyzeck, and Juliet in...
and Raymond Lovell
Raymond Lovell
Raymond Lovell was a Canadian-born film actor who performed in British produced films. He mainly played supporting roles, and was often seen as slightly pompous characters...
.He then had a small role as Schmidt in Harold French
Harold French
Harold French was an English director and actor of stage and screen. As an actor most of his roles occurred between 1912 and 1936. He did not garner as much attention as an actor as he would as a director. From 1940 to 1955 he had a several solid box-office successes...
's romantic comedy English Without Tears
English Without Tears
English Without Tears is a 1944 British Comedy film directed by Harold French and starring Michael Wilding, Penelope Dudley-Ward and Lilli Palmer. The niece of a British aristocrat falls in love with the butler.-Cast:* Michael Wilding ... Tom Gilbey...
(1944) alongside Michael Wilding
Michael Wilding (actor)
-Early life:Born in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, Wilding was a successful commercial artist when he joined the art department of a London film studio in 1933. He soon embarked on an acting career.-Career:...
, Margaret Rutherford
Margaret Rutherford
Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford DBE was an English character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest...
and Penelope Dudley-Ward.
In 1945, he played a morgue
Morgue
A morgue or mortuary is used for the storage of human corpses awaiting identification, or removal for autopsy or disposal by burial, cremation or otherwise...
keeper in Vernon Sewell
Vernon Sewell
Vernon Campbell Sewell was a British film director, screenwriter, producer writer and, briefly, an actor. Sewell was born in London, England in 1903. He was educated at Marlborough College. He directed over 30 films during his career, starting with Morgenrot in 1933...
's thriller Latin Quarter
Latin Quarter (film)
Latin Quarter is a 1945 British thriller, directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Derrick De Marney, Joan Greenwood and Beresford Egan. The film is an adaptation of the play L'Angoisse by Pierre Mills and C. Vylars...
and in 1946 played Professor Hansen alongside Robert Newton
Robert Newton
Robert Newton was an English stage and film actor. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the most popular actors among the male juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially with British boys...
, Raymond Lovell
Raymond Lovell
Raymond Lovell was a Canadian-born film actor who performed in British produced films. He mainly played supporting roles, and was often seen as slightly pompous characters...
, Guy Middleton
Guy Middleton
Guy Middleton Powell, usually credited as Guy Middleton, was an English film character actor.Middleton was born in Hove, England and originally worked in the London Stock Exchange, before turning to acting in the 1930s...
, Muriel Pavlow
Muriel Pavlow
Muriel Lilian Pavlow is a British actress. Her mother was French and her father was Russian.-Film career:She began work as a child actor with John Gielgud and the Royal Shakespeare Company...
and Herbert Lom
Herbert Lom
Herbert Lom is a Czech film actor, best known for his role as former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in the Pink Panther movie series.-Life and career:...
in Lawrence Huntington
Lawrence Huntington
Lawrence Huntington was a British film director, screenwriter and producer.Huntington was born in London on 9 March 1900, he directed more than thirty films following his debut feature After Many Years in 1930, later going on to work in television before his death in 1968.-Partial filmography:*...
's Night Boat to Dublin
Night Boat to Dublin
Night Boat to Dublin is a 1946 British thriller film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Robert Newton, Raymond Lovell, Guy Middleton, Muriel Pavlow and Herbert Lom.-Plot:...
and a postman in Maclean Rogers
Maclean Rogers
-Selected filmography:Director* The Third Eye * The Mayor's Nest * Up for the Derby * The Crime at Blossoms * Trouble * Summer Lightning * It's a Cop * Virginia's Husband...
's Woman to Woman
Woman to Woman (1946 film)
Woman to Woman is a 1946 British drama film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Douglass Montgomery, Joyce Howard and Adele Dixon. It is based on the play Woman to Woman by Michael Morton...
opposite Douglass Montgomery
Douglass Montgomery
Robert Douglass Montgomery was an American film actor.-Career:Son of a jeweler, he used the stage name of Douglass Montgomery when he first acted on stage in New York. He appeared as a ruggedly handsome fair-haired man, often slightly naive. He started his career in Hollywood, often playing the...
, Joyce Howard
Joyce Howard
Joyce Howard was a British film actress.-Filmography:* Freedom Radio * Love on the Dole * The Common Touch * Back-Room Boy * The Night Has Eyes...
and Adele Dixon
Adele Dixon
Adele Dixon was a London-born British musical theatre and film actress best known for performing in Broadway musicals, British musicals and in musical, comedy films of the 1930s and 1940s....
. The film, a romance drama, was based on the play Woman to Woman
Woman to Woman (play)
Woman to Woman is a 1921 play by the British writer Michael Morton. During the First World War a British officer and a French dancer meet in a doomed romance.-Film adaptations:...
by Michael Morton
Michael Morton (dramatist)
Michael Morton was an English dramatist in the early Twentieth Century.His comedy called Detective Sparks opened at the Garrick Theatre in August 1909 to good reviews...
.
In 1947 he starred as a professor in Vernon Sewell's comedy The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square is a 1947 British comedy film, directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer. The film is an adaptation of the novel No Nightingales by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, inspired by the enduring reputation of the property at 50 Berkeley Square as...
opposite Robert Morley
Robert Morley
Robert Adolph Wilton Morley, CBE was an English actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment...
and Felix Aylmer
Felix Aylmer
Sir Felix Edward Aylmer Jones, OBE was an English stage actor who also appeared in the cinema and on television.-Early life and career:...
. The film is an adaptation of the novel No Nightingales by Caryl Brahms
Caryl Brahms
Caryl Brahms, born Doris Caroline Abrahams was an English critic, novelist, and journalist specialising in the theatre and ballet. She also wrote film, radio and television scripts....
and S. J. Simon
S. J. Simon
S.J. "Skid" Simon was a British author and bridge player. From 1937 until his death he collaborated with Caryl Brahms on a series of comic novels and short stories, mostly with a background of ballet or of English history...
, inspired by the enduring reputation of the property at 50 Berkeley Square
50 Berkeley Square
50 Berkeley Square is a reportedly haunted townhouse on Berkeley Square in Mayfair, in Central London. In the 1900s it became known as "The Most Haunted House in London"; mostly due to Peter Underwood's description of the house in Haunted London....
as "the most haunted house in London".That year he also portrayed Dr. Hans Tautz in Anthony Kimmins
Anthony Kimmins
Anthony Kimmins was a director, playwright, screenwriter, producer and actor.Kimmins was born in Harrow, Middlesex, England on 10 November 1901, the son of the social activists Charles William Kimmins and Grace Kimmins. He served in the Royal Navy, and upon leaving the navy he became an actor.His...
's drama Mine Own Executioner
Mine Own Executioner
Mine Own Executioner is a 1947 British drama film directed by Anthony Kimmins. It was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Burgess Meredith - Felix Milne* Dulcie Gray - Patricia Milne* Michael Shepley - Peter Edge...
opposite Burgess Meredith
Burgess Meredith
Oliver Burgess Meredith , known professionally as Burgess Meredith, was an American actor in theatre, film, and television, who also worked as a director...
, Dulcie Gray
Dulcie Gray
Dulcie Gray, CBE was a British singer and actress of stage, screen and television, a mystery writer and lepidopterist.-Early life and career:...
and Michael Shepley
Michael Shepley
Michael Shepley , was a British actor, appearing in films and some television between 1931 and 1961....
. The film was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival
1947 Cannes Film Festival
- Jury :The entire jury at this festival were French.*Georges Huisman *Raymond Borderie *Georges Carriere *Chosson *Joseph Dotti *Escoute *Jean Grémillon...
.
In 1948 he portrayed a police inspector in Terence Young's One Night with You
One Night with You
"One Night with You" is a single by US5, taken from their album, In Control. Elvis Presley released a song of the same name as a B-side in 1958.The song is played frequently in the recently made romantic musical comedy, "All Shook Up."...
, alongside Nino Martini
Nino Martini
Nino Martini was an Italian operatic tenor and actor. He began his career as an opera singer in Italy before moving to the United States to pursue an acting career in films...
, Patricia Roc
Patricia Roc
Patricia Roc , born Felicia Miriam Ursula Herold, was a British film actress, popular in the Gainsborough melodramas such as Madonna of the Seven Moons and The Wicked Lady , though she only made one film in Hollywood, Canyon Passage...
(and a young Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...
with a minor role) an uncredited role as an Italian waiter at the Savoy Hotel
Savoy Hotel
The Savoy Hotel is a hotel located on the Strand, in the City of Westminster in central London. Built by impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte with profits from his Gilbert and Sullivan operas, the hotel opened on 6 August 1889. It was the first in the Savoy group of hotels and restaurants owned by...
in The Blind Goddess
The Blind Goddess
The Blind Goddess is a 1926 film by Victor Fleming....
and a role as George II of England in Anthony Kimmins
Anthony Kimmins
Anthony Kimmins was a director, playwright, screenwriter, producer and actor.Kimmins was born in Harrow, Middlesex, England on 10 November 1901, the son of the social activists Charles William Kimmins and Grace Kimmins. He served in the Royal Navy, and upon leaving the navy he became an actor.His...
's biopic Bonnie Prince Charlie about the Jacobite Risings in a cast which included David Niven
David Niven
James David Graham Niven , known as David Niven, was a British actor and novelist, best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and Sir Charles Lytton, a.k.a. "the Phantom", in The Pink Panther...
(as Charles II
Charles II of England
Charles II was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War...
), Margaret Leighton, Judy Campbell
Judy Campbell
Judy Campbell was an English light comedy actress and occasional playwright, Noël Coward's muse. Her daughter is the actor and singer Jane Birkin, her son the screenwriter and director Andrew Birkin, and among her grandchildren are the actresses Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon, the poet Anno...
, Jack Hawkins
Jack Hawkins
Colonel John Edward "Jack" Hawkins CBE was an English actor of the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s.-Career:Hawkins was born at Lyndhurst Road, Wood Green, Middlesex, the son of master builder Thomas George Hawkins and his wife, Phoebe née Goodman. The youngest of four children in a close-knit family,...
, Morland Graham
Morland Graham
Morland Graham was a British film actor.Married to Elsie Cole in 1926.-Selected filmography:* Man of the Moment * Moscow Nights * Get Off My Foot * Where's Sally?...
and Finlay Currie
Finlay Currie
Finlay Jefferson Currie was a Scottish actor of stage, screen and television.Currie was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1878. His acting career began on the stage. He and his wife Maude Courtney did a song and dance act in the US in the 1890s. He made his first film in 1931...
. In 1949, he appeared as Tony the Cafe Proprietor in Lawrence Huntington
Lawrence Huntington
Lawrence Huntington was a British film director, screenwriter and producer.Huntington was born in London on 9 March 1900, he directed more than thirty films following his debut feature After Many Years in 1930, later going on to work in television before his death in 1968.-Partial filmography:*...
's Man on the Run
Man on the Run
Man on the Run is a 1949 British drama film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Edward Chapman, Kenneth More and Laurence Harvey.-Synopsis:...
, a customer in Jack Warner
Jack Warner
Jack Leonard "J. L." Warner , born Jacob Warner in London, Ontario, was a Canadian American film executive who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California...
's The Huggetts Abroad
The Huggetts Abroad
The Huggetts Abroad is a 1949 British film starring Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Petula Clark and Susan Shaw. It was the final film of the Huggetts Trilogy. After Joe Huggett loses his job, the family decide to emigrate to South Africa travelling via a land route which takes them across Africa....
, Leon Stolz in Arthur Crabtree
Arthur Crabtree
Arthur Crabtree was a British cinematographer and film director....
's Don't Ever Leave Me
Don't Ever Leave Me
Don't Ever Leave Me is a 1949 English romantic comedy film starring Petula Clark, Jimmy Hanley, Hugh Sinclair, Edward Rigby, and Anthony Newley...
alongside Petula Clark
Petula Clark
Petula Clark, CBE is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II...
, Jimmy Hanley
Jimmy Hanley
Jimmy Hanley was a British actor.Born in Norwich, Norfolk, Hanley began his career as a child actor before becoming popular in juvenile roles...
, Hugh Sinclair
Hugh Sinclair (actor)
Hugh Sinclair was a British actor born in London, England, the son of a clergyman. He was educated at Charterhouse School and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His first marriage was to the actress Valerie Taylor...
, Edward Rigby
Edward Rigby
Edward Rigby was a British character actor.-Early life:Rigby was the son of Jamaican-born Dr. William Harriot Coke and his wife Liverpool-born Mary Elizabeth of 17 High Street, Ashford. He was educated at Haileybury, and Wye Agricultural College...
, and Anthony Newley
Anthony Newley
Anthony George Newley was an English actor, singer and songwriter. He enjoyed success as a performer in such diverse fields as rock and roll and stage and screen acting.-Early life:...
and had uncredited roles as black marketeer Herr Schindler in I Was a Male War Bride
I Was a Male War Bride
I Was a Male War Bride is a 1949 comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan.This film was based on I was an Alien Spouse of Female Military Personnel Enroute to the United States Under Public Law 271 of the Congress, a biography of Henri Rochard, a Belgian who...
and as a headwaiter in The Third Man
The Third Man
The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Many critics rank it as a masterpiece, particularly remembered for its atmospheric cinematography, performances, and unique musical score...
.
1950s
In 1951, Miller played a pawnbroker in the TV movie The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp, had an uncredited role as a photographer in Joseph M. NewmanJoseph M. Newman
Joseph M. Newman was an American film director most famous for his 1955 film This Island Earth. His credits include episodes of The Twilight Zone and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour....
's I'll Get You for This
I'll Get You for This
I'll Get You for This is a 1951 UK black-and-white film made by Kaydor. It was directed by Joseph M...
, played a Dutch seaman in Paul L. Stein
Paul L. Stein
Paul Ludwig Stein was an Austrian-born film director with 67 films to his credit. Stein began his career in Berlin in 1918 and worked exclusively in the German silent film industry until 1926, when he first went to Hollywood, and spent the next five years commuting between Germany and the U.S.,...
's Counterblast
Counterblast (film)
Counterblast is a 1948 British drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Robert Beatty, Mervyn Johns and Nova Pilbeam.-Plot:A Nazi scientist experiments with biological warfare with which he intends to wage the next war against Britain.-Cast:...
alongside Robert Beatty
Robert Beatty
Robert Beatty was a Canadian actor who worked in film, television and radio for most of his career and was especially known in the UK.-Career:Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Beatty began his acting career in Britain in 1939....
, Mervyn Johns
Mervyn Johns
Mervyn Johns was a Welsh film and television character actor. He was a mainstay of Ealing Studios.Among his dozens of film roles were Walter Craig in Dead of Night , the Church Warden in Went the Day Well? and Bob Cratchit in Scrooge...
and Nova Pilbeam
Nova Pilbeam
Nova Margery Pilbeam is a British film and stage actress. She was born in Wimbledon. Her father was RADA-trained actor Arnold Pilbeam.-Career:Pilbeam had widely noted roles as a child stage actress...
and played the character of Carlo Penezii in the segment "Gigolo and Gigolette" of the anthology film Encore
Encore (1951 film)
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham:*"The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B...
, a film which was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival
1952 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:The jury at this festival was all French.*Maurice Genevoix *Tony Aubin*Mme. Georges Bidault*Pierre Billon*Chapelain-Midy *Louis Chauvet *A...
. In 1952, Miller played a rabbi
Rabbi
In Judaism, a rabbi is a teacher of Torah. This title derives from the Hebrew word רבי , meaning "My Master" , which is the way a student would address a master of Torah...
in the TV series Portrait by Rembrandt and a photographer in Where's Charley?
Where's Charley?
Where's Charley? is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by George Abbott. The story was based on the play Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas. The musical debuted on Broadway in 1948 and was revived on Broadway and in the West End...
.
In 1953 he starred in Emeric Pressburger
Emeric Pressburger
Emeric Pressburger was a Hungarian-British screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell, in a multiple-award-winning partnership known as The Archers and produced a series of classic British films, notably 49th Parallel , The...
's Twice Upon a Time alongside Hugh Williams
Hugh Williams
Hugh Williams was an English actor and dramatist of Welsh descent.-Personal life:...
, Elizabeth Allan, Yolande Larthe and Charmaine Larthe and The Genie and between 1953 and 1954 he appeared in two episodes of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents, is a 1950s syndicated anthology series hosted and occasionally starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.. The series offered Buster Keaton in his first dramatic role in the episode entitled "The Awakening". British actor Christopher Lee appeared in varied role in thirteen...
. In 1954, Miller portrayed Dr. Brukmann in Front Page Story
Front Page Story
Front Page Story is a 1954 British drama film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Allan and Eva Bartok.-Cast:* Jack Hawkins as Grant* Elizabeth Allan as Susan Grant* Eva Bartok as Mrs. Thorpe* Derek Farr as Teale...
, Professor Hyman Pfumbaum in You Know What Sailors Are, Dr. Fergus in Mad About Men
Mad About Men
Mad About Men is a British comedy film, made in 1954. It was directed by Ralph Thomas and written by Peter Blackmore, who also wrote the 1948 film Miranda which preceded Mad About Men...
and Brodcynsky in To Dorothy a Son
To Dorothy a Son
To Dorothy a Son is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Muriel Box and starring Shelley Winters, John Gregson and Peggy Cummins. It is also known as Cash on Delivery. It is based on a play by Roger MacDougall...
. In 1955, Miller played Iggy Pulitzer in George More O'Ferrall
George More O'Ferrall
George More O'Ferrall was a British film and television director.-Selected filmography:*The Holly and the Ivy *Angels One Five *The Heart of the Matter...
's The Woman for Joe
The Woman for Joe
The Woman for Joe is a 1955 British drama film starring Diane Cilento, George Baker, Jimmy Karoubi and David Kossoff. The owner of a circus sideshow and his prize attraction become romantically involved with the same woman.-Cast:...
opposite Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento
Diane Cilento was an Australian theatre and film actress and author.-Biography:Cilento's parents, Sir Raphael Cilento and Lady Phyllis Cilento, were both distinguished medical practitioners....
and George Baker
George Baker (actor)
George Baker, MBE was an English actor and writer. He was best-known for portraying Tiberius in I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.-Personal life:...
, a pet dealer in the television movie Mother Michel and Her Cat , a Swiss tailor in John Paddy Carstairs
John Paddy Carstairs
John Paddy Carstairs was a British film director and television director , usually of light-hearted subject matter. He was also a comic novelist and painter....
's comedy Man of the Moment
Man of the Moment (1955 film)
Man of the Moment is a 1955 comedy film starring Norman Wisdom, Belinda Lee, Lana Morris and Jerry Desmonde.-Cast:* Norman Wisdom as Norman* Lana Morris as Penny* Belinda Lee as Sonia* Jerry Desmonde as Jackson* Karel Stepanek as Lom...
alongside Norman Wisdom
Norman Wisdom
Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, OBE was an English actor, comedian and singer-songwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character Norman Pitkin...
, Belinda Lee
Belinda Lee
Belinda Lee was an English actress.Born in Budleigh Salterton, England, Lee was signed to a film contract in 1954 by the Rank Studios after being seen performing as a student of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art...
, Lana Morris
Lana Morris
Lana Morris, born Averil Maureen Anita Morris was a British film, stage and television actress during the 1950s and 1960s....
and Jerry Desmonde
Jerry Desmonde
Jerry Desmonde was an English stage musical, film, and television actor principally in comedies and drama. He is probably best known as a straight man to Norman Wisdom.Jerry is sometimes credited as Jerry Desmond....
, and had an uncredited role as a Bandleader at an alligator rally in An Alligator Named Daisy
An Alligator Named Daisy
An Alligator Named Daisy is a 1955 British comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Donald Sinden, Jeannie Carson, James Robertson Justice, Diana Dors, Roland Culver and Stanley Holloway.-Plot:...
.
A busy year, in 1956, Miller portrayed a hotelkeeper in the It Started in Paris episode of Sailor of Fortune, and as Chella in the Festival of Fear episode of The Adventures of Aggie
The Adventures of Aggie
The Adventures of Aggie was a black-and-white sitcom starring Joan Shawlee that was made by ME Films and broadcast on ITV. It lasted for one series of twenty-six episodes. Also being aimed at the American market, it was broadcast in the US from December 1957 under the name Aggie...
. He had an uncredited role in Jay Lewis
Jay Lewis
Jay Lewis was a film director, a film producer and writer born in Warwickshire, England.-Director:*A Home of Your Own starring Ronnie Barker *Live Now - Pay Later *Invasion Quartet...
's comedy The Baby and the Battleship
The Baby and the Battleship
The Baby and the Battleship is a colour 1956 British comedy film directed by Jay Lewis and starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough and André Morell. It is based on the 1956 novel by Anthony Thorne with a screenplay by Richard De Roy, Gilbert Hackforth-Jones and Bryan Forbes...
, starring John Mills
John Mills
Sir John Mills CBE , born Lewis Ernest Watts Mills, was an English actor who made more than 120 films in a career spanning seven decades.-Life and career:...
, Richard Attenborough
Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough , CBE is a British actor, director, producer and entrepreneur. As director and producer he won two Academy Awards for the 1982 film Gandhi...
and André Morell
André Morell
André Morell was a British actor. He appeared frequently in theatre, film and on television from the 1930s to the 1970s...
, and played Professor Topolski in Child in the House
Child in the House
Child in the House is a 1956 British drama film directed by Cy Endfield and starring Phyllis Calvert, Eric Portman and Stanley Baker. A girl struggles to cope with her uncaring relatives...
and Lochner in John Gilling
John Gilling
John Gilling was an English film director and screenwriter, born in London. He was chiefly known for his horror films, especially for Hammer Films, for whom he directed Shadow of the Cat , The Plague of the Zombies , The Reptile and The Mummy's Shroud, among others...
's science fiction
Science fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
picture The Gamma People
The Gamma People
The Gamma People is a 1956 British science fiction film directed by John Gilling and starring Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok and Leslie Phillips.-Plot:...
alongside Paul Douglas
Paul Douglas (actor)
Paul Douglas was an American actor, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as Paul Douglas Fleischer.-Career:...
, Eva Bartok
Eva Bartok
Eva Bartok , born Eva Ivanova Szöke, was an actress born in Budapest, Hungary. She began acting in films in 1950 and her last credited appearance was in 1966...
and Leslie Phillips
Leslie Phillips
Leslie Samuel Phillips, CBE is an English actor with a highly recognisable upper class accent. Originally known for his work as a comedy actor, Phillips subsequently made the transition to character roles.-Early life:...
. In 1957 he played he starred in Hugo Fregonese
Hugo Fregonese
Hugo Fregonese was an Argentine film director who worked both in Hollywood and in Argentina....
's World War II picture Seven Thunders
Seven Thunders (film)
Seven Thunders is a 1957 World War II film about two British escaped prisoners of war.-Plot:...
about two British escaped prisoners of war, opposite Stephen Boyd
Stephen Boyd
Stephen Boyd was an Irish actor, from Glengormley, Northern Ireland, who appeared in around 60 films, most notably in the role of Messala in Ben-Hur.-Biography:...
, James Robertson Justice
James Robertson Justice
James Robertson Justice was a popular British character actor in British films of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.-Biography:...
and Kathleen Harrison
Kathleen Harrison
Kathleen Harrison was a prolific English character actress best remembered for her role as Mrs. Huggett in a trio of British post-war comedies about a working class family's misadventures. To modern viewers she is better remembered as Mrs...
. He also portrayed Papa Kolinsky in the A Penn'orth of Allsorts episode of Dixon of Dock Green
Dixon of Dock Green
Dixon of Dock Green was a popular BBC television series that ran from 1955 to 1976, and later a radio series. Despite being a drama series, it was initially produced by the BBC's light entertainment department.-Overview:...
.
In 1958 he played Brunet in Maclean Rogers
Maclean Rogers
-Selected filmography:Director* The Third Eye * The Mayor's Nest * Up for the Derby * The Crime at Blossoms * Trouble * Summer Lightning * It's a Cop * Virginia's Husband...
's drama Mark of the Phoenix
Mark of the Phoenix
Mark of the Phoenix is a 1958 British drama film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Julia Arnall, Sheldon Lawrence and Anton Diffring. A newly developed and valuable metal is stolen and formed into a cigarette case for transportation to the Far East, but an American jewel thief comes into...
, alongside Julia Arnall
Julia Arnall
-Selected filmography:* I Am a Camera * Value for Money * Simon and Laura * Man of the Moment * Lost * The Man Without a Body * Mark of the Phoenix * Model for Murder...
, Sheldon Lawrence and Anton Diffring
Anton Diffring
Anton Diffring , born Alfred Pollack, was a German actor.-Biography:Diffring was born in Koblenz...
. He also appeared twice as Nat Danziger in ITV Play of the Week in 1955 and 1958, appeared in three episodes of BBC Sunday-Night Theatre, one in 1956 and two in 1959. He also appeared in three episodes of ITV Television Playhouse, in 1956, 1959 and 1960, the first of which he had again portrayed a rabbi in the episode Skipper Next to God. In 1959, Miller had an uncredited role as Kakky in Expresso Bongo
Expresso Bongo
Expresso Bongo, a 1958 West End musical and a 1959 film, was a satire of the music industry. It was first produced on the stage at the Saville Theatre, London on 23 April 1958. Its book was written by Wolf Mankowitz and Julian More, with music by David Heneker and Monty Norman, also the...
under the director's helm of Val Guest
Val Guest
Val Guest was a British film director, best known for his science-fiction films for Hammer Film Productions in the 1950s, but who also enjoyed a long, varied and active career in the film industry from the early 1930s up until the early 1980s.-Early life and career:He was born Valmond Maurice...
, starred as Hendricks in Violent Moment,and as a doctor in the TV film Henry IV, He played Dr. Schrott in Anthony Asquith
Anthony Asquith
Anthony Asquith was a leading English film director. He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on The Winslow Boy and The Browning Version , among other adaptations...
's Libel
Libel (film)
Libel is a 1959 British drama film. It stars Olivia de Havilland, Dirk Bogarde, Paul Massie, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Robert Morley. The film's screenplay was written by Anatole de Grunwald and Karl Tunberg from a 1935 play of the same name by Edward Wooll, and it was directed by Anthony Asquith.The...
, starring alongside Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland
Olivia Mary de Havilland is a British American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946 and 1949. She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine. The sisters are among the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s.-Early life:Olivia de Havilland...
, Dirk Bogarde
Dirk Bogarde
Sir Dirk Bogarde was an English actor and novelist. Initially a matinee idol in such films as Doctor in the House and other Rank Organisation pictures, Bogarde later acted in art-house films such as Death in Venice...
, Paul Massie
Paul Massie
Paul Massie was a Canadian actor and academic. He later became a theater professor at the University of South Florida in the 1970s...
, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Wilfrid Hyde-White was an English character actor.-Early life and career:Wilfrid Hyde White was born at the rectory in Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire, the son of William Edward White, canon of Gloucester Cathedral, and his wife, Ethel Adelaide Drought...
and Robert Morley
Robert Morley
Robert Adolph Wilton Morley, CBE was an English actor who, often in supporting roles, was usually cast as a pompous English gentleman representing the Establishment...
.The film's screenplay was written by Anatole de Grunwald
Anatole de Grunwald
Anatole "Tolly" de Grunwald was a British film producer and screenwriter.Anatole de Grunwald was born in Petrograd , Russia, the son of a diplomat in the service of Tsar Nicholas II. He was seven years old when his father was forced to flee with his family to England during the 1917 Bolshevik...
and Karl Tunberg
Karl Tunberg
Karl Tunberg was an American screenwriter and occasional film producer.Born in Spokane, Washington, Tunberg's earliest writings included short stories, and a novel entitled While the Crowd Cheers, which was published in 1935 by the Macaulay Company...
from a 1935 play of the same name by Edward Wooll. He also made an appearance in the TV series Armchair Theatre
Armchair Theatre
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series, which ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television after 1968....
in the episode Light from a Star.
1960s-death
In 1960, Miller portrayed Piggy in Robert SiodmakRobert Siodmak
Robert Siodmak was a German born American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for the series of Hollywood film noirs he made in the 1940s.-Early life:...
The Rough and the Smooth
The Rough and the Smooth
The Rough and the Smooth is a 1959 British drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton, William Bendix and Edward Chapman. An archaeologist has an affair with a German woman putting his engagement to another woman in jeopardy...
opposite Tony Britton
Tony Britton
Anthony Edward Lowry "Tony" Britton is an English actor. He is the father of presenter Fern Britton, scriptwriter Cherry Britton and actor Jasper Britton.-Life and career:...
, William Bendix
William Bendix
William Bendix was an American film, radio, and television actor, best remembered in movies for the title role in the movie The Babe Ruth Story and for portraying clumsily earnest aircraft plant worker Chester A. Riley in radio and television's The Life of Riley...
and Edward Chapman
Edward Chapman (actor)
Edward Chapman was an English actor who starred in many films and television programmes, but is chiefly remembered as "Mr. Wilfred Grimsdale", the officious superior and comic foil to Norman Wisdom's character of Pitkin in many of his films from the late 1950s and 1960s.Chapman was born in...
, Dr. Pfeiffer in the episode Twentieth Century Theatre: The Price of Freedom of the BBC Sunday Night Play
Sunday Night Theatre
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of plays created by the BBC first in early 1950, and was regularly shown on Sundays until late 1959, when the last play, A Cup of Kindness, was staged...
and starred as Dr. Rosen in the psychological horror thriller Peeping Tom
Peeping Tom (film)
Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological thriller directed by Michael Powell and written by the World War II cryptographer and polymath Leo Marks. The title derives from the slang expression 'peeping Tom' describing a voyeur...
, directed by Michael Powell
Michael Powell (director)
Michael Latham Powell was a renowned English film director, celebrated for his partnership with Emeric Pressburger...
. The film, which saw Miller star alongside Carl Boehm
Karlheinz Böhm
Karlheinz Böhm is an Austrian actor. The son of conductor Karl Böhm, he is best known internationally for his role as Mark, the psychopathic protagonist of Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell...
, Moira Shearer
Moira Shearer
Moira Shearer, Lady Kennedy , was an internationally famous Scottish ballet dancer and actress.-Early life:She was born Moira Shearer King in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, the daughter of actor Harold V. King...
, Anna Massey
Anna Massey
Anna Raymond Massey, CBE was an English actress. She won a BAFTA Award for the role of Edith Hope in the 1986 TV adaptation of Anita Brookner’s novel Hotel du Lac.-Early life:...
and Maxine Audley
Maxine Audley
Maxine Audley was an English theatre and film actress. She made her professional stage debut in July 1940 at the Open Air Theatre. Throughout her career, Audley performed with both the Old Vic company and the Royal Shakespeare Company multiple times...
revolves around a serial killer
Serial killer
A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...
who murders women while using a portable movie camera with a spike to record their dying expressions of terror. It was a highly controversial subject with themes of child abuse
Child abuse
Child abuse is the physical, sexual, emotional mistreatment, or neglect of a child. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Children And Families define child maltreatment as any act or series of acts of commission or omission by a parent or...
, sadomasochism and fetishism
Fetishism
A fetish is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a man-made object that has power over others...
and the extremely harsh reception by critics effectively destroyed the director's career as a director in the United Kingdom. However, it attracted a cult following, and in later years, it has been re-evaluated and is now considered a masterpiece.In 1960, Miller also portrayed Stravros in the episode The Lovers of the series Danger Man
Danger Man
Danger Man is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the program and wrote many of the scripts...
and Dr. Samuel Odenheim in Otto Preminger
Otto Preminger
Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austro–Hungarian-American theatre and film director.After moving from the theatre to Hollywood, he directed over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura and Fallen Angel...
's war film Exodus opposite Paul Newman
Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver and auto racing enthusiast...
, Eva Marie Saint
Eva Marie Saint
Eva Marie Saint is an American actress who has starred in films, on Broadway, and on television in a career spanning seven decades. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama film On the Waterfront , and later starred in the thriller film North by...
, Ralph Richardson
Ralph Richardson
Sir Ralph David Richardson was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, also appeared in several classic films....
and Sal Mineo
Sal Mineo
Salvatore "Sal" Mineo, Jr. , was an American film and theatre actor, best known for his performance as John "Plato" Crawford opposite James Dean in the film Rebel Without a Cause...
. In 1961 he made appearances in the television series Theatre 70 in the episode The Watchman of Saul and
as Hymie in Echo Four Two, in the episode There She Blows.
In 1962, Miller starred as Rossi in the Hammer Film Productions
Hammer Film Productions
Hammer Film Productions is a film production company based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1934, the company is best known for a series of Gothic "Hammer Horror" films made from the mid-1950s until the 1970s. Hammer also produced science fiction, thrillers, film noir and comedies and in later...
horror The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera (1962 film)
The Phantom of the Opera is a 1962 British film based on the novel by Gaston Leroux. The film was made by Hammer Film Productions.-Plot:The film opens in Victorian London on a December night in 1900....
under the directorship of Terence Fisher
Terence Fisher
Terence Fisher was a film director who worked for Hammer Films. He was born in Maida Vale, a district of London, England.Fisher was one of the most prominent horror directors of the second half of the 20th century...
, as Mr. Green in the episode Between the Balance Sheets of Dial RIX, as Dr. Steliz in the episode Blaze of Glory in Man of the World, as Papa Kadopolis in the episode The Marriage Broker of Zero One and as Braun
in the episode The Green Shoes of Ghost Squad
Ghost Squad (TV series)
Ghost Squad, known as G.S.5 for its third season, was a crime drama series about an elite division of Scotland Yard that ran between 1961 and 1964. Each episode the Ghost Squad would investigate cases that fell outside the scope of normal police work...
.
In 1963, a particularly busy and high-status year, Miller featured as the man with the microscope in Ken Annakin
Ken Annakin
Kenneth Cooper Annakin, OBE was an English film director.- Biography :Annakin grew up in Beverley, Yorkshire where he attended the local school. He began his career in feature films following an early experience making documentaries. His first filmwork was in 1947 with the Rank Organisation...
's comedy The Fast Lady
The Fast Lady
The Fast Lady is a 1962 British comedy film, directed by Ken Annakin. The screenplay was written by Henry Blyth and Jack Davies, based on a story by Keble Howard.It marked the film debut of Julie Christie.-Plot:...
starring Stanley Baxter
Stanley Baxter
Stanley Baxter is a Scottish comic actor and impressionist, best known for his British television shows. He worked in radio, theatre, television and film.-Early life:...
, James Robertson Justice
James Robertson Justice
James Robertson Justice was a popular British character actor in British films of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.-Biography:...
, Leslie Phillips
Leslie Phillips
Leslie Samuel Phillips, CBE is an English actor with a highly recognisable upper class accent. Originally known for his work as a comedy actor, Phillips subsequently made the transition to character roles.-Early life:...
, Kathleen Harrison
Kathleen Harrison
Kathleen Harrison was a prolific English character actress best remembered for her role as Mrs. Huggett in a trio of British post-war comedies about a working class family's misadventures. To modern viewers she is better remembered as Mrs...
and Julie Christie
Julie Christie
Julie Frances Christie is a British actress. Born in British India to English parents, at the age of six Christie moved to England, where she attended boarding school....
, as Dr. Schroeder in Incident at Midnight, reprising this same character in the TV series The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre version and played Davidoff in the TV movie The Bergonzi Hand. He starred as Hugo Bergmann in the Samuel Bronston Productions
Samuel Bronston Productions
Samuel Bronston Productions was an independent American film production company, founded by Samuel Bronston in 1943.The company produced several epic films, the most notable of which are, John Paul Jones , King of Kings , El Cid , 55 Days at Peking and The Fall of the Roman Empire .The films were...
-Allied Artists historical epic
Epic film
An epic is a genre of film that emphasizes human drama on a grand scale. Epics are more ambitious in scope than other film genres, and their ambitious nature helps to differentiate them from similar genres such as the period piece or adventure film...
55 Days at Peking
55 Days at Peking
55 Days at Peking is a 1963 historical epic film starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven, made by Samuel Bronston Productions, and released by Allied Artists. The movie was produced by Samuel Bronston and directed by Nicholas Ray, Andrew Marton , and Guy Green...
, directed by Nicholas Ray
Nicholas Ray
Nicholas Ray was an American film director best known for the movie Rebel Without a Cause....
and opposite Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston was an American actor of film, theatre and television. Heston is known for heroic roles in films such as The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, El Cid, and Planet of the Apes...
, Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner
Ava Lavinia Gardner was an American actress.She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in The Killers . She became one of Hollywood's leading actresses, considered one of the most beautiful women of her day...
, and David Niven
David Niven
James David Graham Niven , known as David Niven, was a British actor and novelist, best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and Sir Charles Lytton, a.k.a. "the Phantom", in The Pink Panther...
. The film is a dramatization of the Battle of Peking
Battle of Peking
The Battle of Peking, or the Relief of Peking, was the battle on 14–15 August 1900 in which a multi-national force relieved the siege of foreign legations in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion...
during the Boxer Rebellion
Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion, also called the Boxer Uprising by some historians or the Righteous Harmony Society Movement in northern China, was a proto-nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" , or "Righteous Fists of Harmony" or "Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists" , in China between...
which took place in 1900 in China and received two Academy Award nominations for Dimitri Tiomkin
Dimitri Tiomkin
Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian-born Hollywood film score composer and conductor. He is considered "one of the giants of Hollywood movie music." Musically trained in Russia, he is best known for his westerns, "where his expansive, muscular style had its greatest impact." Tiomkin...
(Best Song and Original Music Score
Academy Award for Original Music Score
The Academy Award for Original Score is presented to the best substantial body of music in the form of dramatic underscoring written specifically for the film by the submitting composer.-Superlatives:...
). In 1963, Miller also appeared in another top picture, Anthony Asquith
Anthony Asquith
Anthony Asquith was a leading English film director. He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on The Winslow Boy and The Browning Version , among other adaptations...
's The V.I.P.s
The V.I.P.s
The V.I.P.s, also known as Hotel International, is a 1963 British drama film. It was directed by Anthony Asquith, produced by Anatole de Grunwald and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
in which he played Dr. Schwatzbacher in an all-star cast which included Richard Burton
Richard Burton
Richard Burton, CBE was a Welsh actor. He was nominated seven times for an Academy Award, six of which were for Best Actor in a Leading Role , and was a recipient of BAFTA, Golden Globe and Tony Awards for Best Actor. Although never trained as an actor, Burton was, at one time, the highest-paid...
, Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond "Liz" Taylor, DBE was a British-American actress. From her early years as a child star with MGM, she became one of the great screen actresses of Hollywood's Golden Age...
, Louis Jourdan, Orson Welles
Orson Welles
George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...
and Margaret Rutherford
Margaret Rutherford
Dame Margaret Taylor Rutherford DBE was an English character actress, who first came to prominence following World War II in the film adaptations of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest...
, who won both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...
and the Golden Globe in the same category
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
The Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1944 for a performance in a motion picture released in the previous year....
for her performance in the film. The film was one of the biggest British MGM productions in years.According to the playwright Terence Rattigan
Terence Rattigan
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan CBE was one of England's most popular 20th-century dramatists. His plays are generally set in an upper-middle-class background...
, who wrote the screenplay, the film was based on the true story of Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh, Lady Olivier was an English actress. She won the Best Actress Academy Award for her portrayal of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire , a role she also played on stage in London's West End, as well as for her portrayal of the southern belle Scarlett O'Hara, alongside Clark...
's attempt to leave her husband Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century. He married three times, to fellow actors Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright...
and fly off with her lover Peter Finch
Peter Finch
Peter Finch was a British-born Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as "crazed" television anchorman Howard Beale in the film Network, which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best Actor, his fifth Best Actor award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and a...
, only to be delayed by a fog at Heathrow Airport. The team of director Asquith, producer Anatole de Grunwald
Anatole de Grunwald
Anatole "Tolly" de Grunwald was a British film producer and screenwriter.Anatole de Grunwald was born in Petrograd , Russia, the son of a diplomat in the service of Tsar Nicholas II. He was seven years old when his father was forced to flee with his family to England during the 1917 Bolshevik...
and writer Rattigan were to produce another portmanteau film the following year entitled The Yellow Rolls-Royce
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
-External links:, a promotional short subject for the film...
, in which Miller also starred, albeit with a minor role as a head waiter.Again Miller was featured alongside prominent actors such as Rex Harrison
Rex Harrison
Sir Reginald Carey “Rex” Harrison was an English actor of stage and screen. Harrison won an Academy Award and two Tony Awards.-Youth and stage career:...
, Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau
Jeanne Moreau is a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director.She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française...
, Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of American cinema of all time by the American Film Institute...
, Shirley Maclaine
Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine is an American film and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation. She has written a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her spiritual beliefs as well as her Hollywood career...
and Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif
Omar Sharif is an Egyptian actor who has starred in Hollywood films including Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Funny Girl. He has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won two Golden Globe Awards.-Early life:...
. In 1963 he also played the photographer Pierre Luigi in the original Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards was an American film director, screenwriter and producer.Edwards' career began in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon turned to writing radio scripts at Columbia Pictures...
film The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther (1963 film)
The Pink Panther is a 1963 American comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and co-written by Edwards and Maurice Richlin, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, and Claudia Cardinale...
opposite Niven, Peter Sellars
Peter Sellars
Peter Sellars is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays...
and Robert Wagner
Robert Wagner
Robert John Wagner is an American actor of stage, screen, and television.A veteran of many films in the 1950s and 1960s, Wagner gained prominence in three American television series that spanned three decades: It Takes a Thief , Switch , and Hart to Hart...
and all in the same year, he also starred as Mr. Smith in the TV series Espionage
Espionage
Espionage or spying involves an individual obtaining information that is considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, lest the legitimate holder of the information change plans or take other countermeasures once it...
in the episode The Incurable One and Astolat in The Sentimental Agent
The Sentimental Agent
The Sentimental Agent is a television drama series spin-off from Man of the World. It was produced in the UK in 1963 by Associated TeleVision and distributed by ITC Entertainment. It stars Carlos Thompson as Argentinian Carlos Varela, a successful import-export agent based in London.The series ran...
in the episode A Little Sweetness and Light.
In 1964, Miller appeared as Professor Gruber in the science fiction horror picture Children of the Damned
Children of the Damned
Children of the Damned is a 1963 science fiction film, a thematic sequel to the 1960 version of Village of the Damned. It is about a group of children, with similar psi-powers to the original seeding, but without the obvious 'alien' differences in the earlier film.-Plot:Six children are identified...
, had a stint playing Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan
Kublai Khan , born Kublai and also known by the temple name Shizu , was the fifth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire from 1260 to 1294 and the founder of the Yuan Dynasty in China...
in two episodes of Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
, Assassin at Peking and Mighty Kublai Khan,and also portrayed Dr. Zoren in the episode Fish on the Hook of Danger Man
Danger Man
Danger Man is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the program and wrote many of the scripts...
. He became an ITC
ITC Entertainment
The Incorporated Television Company was a British television company largely involved in production and distribution. It was founded by Lew Grade.-History:...
productions regular from 1964 onwards, albeit with minor roles. He appeared in two episodes of The Saint
The Saint (TV series)
The Saint was an ITC mystery spy thriller television series that aired in the UK on ITV between 1962 and 1969. It centred on the Leslie Charteris literary character, Simon Templar, a Robin Hood-like adventurer with a penchant for disguise. The character may be nicknamed The Saint because the...
, playing Jerome in the episode Jeannine (1964) and Mr. Justin in the episode The Smart Detective (1965) and played the role of Lazlo in two episodes of A Little Big Business in 1964 and 1965. In 1965 he portrayed Heinrich Miron in the The House of Bons Bons episode of The Third Man
The Third Man
The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Many critics rank it as a masterpiece, particularly remembered for its atmospheric cinematography, performances, and unique musical score...
, had an uncredited role as Professor Spencer in The Avengers
The Avengers (TV series)
The Avengers is a spy-fi British television series set in the 1960s Britain. The Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed . Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants...
in the episode The Master Minds and had a role as Herman in the Christopher Miles
Christopher Miles
Christopher Miles was born in London, England, the eldest of four children to ‘Wren’, a councilor, and John Miles, a consulting engineer, whose family had been in the steel industry for several generations...
comedy film Up Jumped a Swagman
Up Jumped a Swagman
Up Jumped a Swagman is a 1965 British musical comedy film directed by Christopher Miles and starring Frank Ifield, Annette Andre, Ronald Radd and Suzy Kendall...
which also incidentally co-starred some ITC regulars such as Annette Andre
Annette Andre
Annette Andre is an Australian actress best known for her work on British television throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She was educated at Brigidine College, Sydney. Her father was an upholsterer....
and Ronald Radd
Ronald Radd
Ronald Radd was a British television actor.Radd starred in some 60 different TV shows between 1955 and 1976 including The Avengers, Danger Man, and Z-Cars...
.
In 1966, Miller appeared in the TV series Theatre 625
Theatre 625
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line...
in the episode Focus, the The Baron
The Baron
The Baron is a British television series, made in 1965/66 based on the book series by John Creasey, written under the pseudonym Anthony Morton, and produced by ITC Entertainment. It was the first ITC show without marionettes to be produced entirely in colour...
in the episode Enemy of the State and as Dr. Heindrick in the series Adam Adamant Lives!
Adam Adamant Lives!
Adam Adamant Lives! is a British television series which ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC. Proposing that an adventurer born in 1867 had been revived from hibernation in 1966, the show was a comedy adventure that took a satirical look at life in the 1960s through the eyes of an Edwardian .- Character...
, in the episode A Slight Case of Reincarnation. In 1967 he notably starred as Montross in The Forsyte Saga
The Forsyte Saga
The Forsyte Saga is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by John Galsworthy. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of an upper-middle-class British family, similar to Galsworthy's own...
in the episode Portrait of Fleurand as a watchmaker in The Prisoner
The Prisoner
The Prisoner is a 17-episode British television series first broadcast in the UK from 29 September 1967 to 1 February 1968. Starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan, it combined spy fiction with elements of science fiction, allegory and psychological drama.The series follows a British former...
, in the episode It's Your Funeral. In 1969 he appeared in BBC Play of the Month
Play of the Month
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles...
, playing Professeur Vivier in the episode Maigret at Bay, the TV movie Mord nach der Oper, Dr. Israel Berg in the episode They Call Me Israel of the The Troubleshooters, Professor Pearson in the episode It's All Go... of Doctor in the House
Doctor in the House
Doctor in the House is a 1954 British comedy film, directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty Box. The screenplay, by Nicholas Phipps, Richard Gordon and Ronald Wilkinson, is based on the novel by Gordon, and follows a group of students through medical school.It was the most popular box office...
before making his last ever appearance portraying Dutrov in the series Department S
Department S
Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969–1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Jason King , Joel Fabiani as Stewart Sullivan, and Rosemary Nicols as computer expert Annabelle Hurst...
.
He was booked for a role in The Last Valley
The Last Valley
The Last Valley is a 1970 historical drama film directed by James Clavell. Set during the Thirty Years War, it stars Michael Caine as the leader of a band of mercenaries, and Omar Sharif as a teacher fleeing from the violence endemic to Germany during this period...
, but while shooting on location in Innsbruck
Innsbruck
- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...
, died of a heart attack on August 26, 1969, aged 69.
Films
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | Squadron Leader X Squadron Leader X Squadron Leader X is a 1943 British World War II spy drama, directed by Lance Comfort and starring Eric Portman and Ann Dvorak. The screenplay was adapted by Miles Malleson and Wolfgang Wilhelm from a short story by Emeric Pressburger.-Plot:... |
Mr. Krohn | |
| The Adventures of Tartu The Adventures of Tartu The Adventures of Tartu is a 1943 British Second World War spy film starring Robert Donat.-Plot:... |
Dr. Novotny | ||
| 1944 | Hotel Reserve Hotel Reserve Hotel Reserve is a spy film starring James Mason as an innocent man caught up in pre-Second World War espionage. It was based on Eric Ambler's novel Epitaph for a Spy.-Plot:... |
Walter Vogel | |
| English Without Tears English Without Tears English Without Tears is a 1944 British Comedy film directed by Harold French and starring Michael Wilding, Penelope Dudley-Ward and Lilli Palmer. The niece of a British aristocrat falls in love with the butler.-Cast:* Michael Wilding ... Tom Gilbey... |
Schmidt | ||
| 1945 | Latin Quarter Latin Quarter (film) Latin Quarter is a 1945 British thriller, directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Derrick De Marney, Joan Greenwood and Beresford Egan. The film is an adaptation of the play L'Angoisse by Pierre Mills and C. Vylars... |
Morgue keeper | |
| 1946 | Night Boat to Dublin Night Boat to Dublin Night Boat to Dublin is a 1946 British thriller film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Robert Newton, Raymond Lovell, Guy Middleton, Muriel Pavlow and Herbert Lom.-Plot:... |
Professor Hansen | |
| Woman to Woman Woman to Woman (1946 film) Woman to Woman is a 1946 British drama film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Douglass Montgomery, Joyce Howard and Adele Dixon. It is based on the play Woman to Woman by Michael Morton... |
Postman | ||
| 1947 | The Ghosts of Berkeley Square The Ghosts of Berkeley Square The Ghosts of Berkeley Square is a 1947 British comedy film, directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer. The film is an adaptation of the novel No Nightingales by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon, inspired by the enduring reputation of the property at 50 Berkeley Square as... |
Professor | |
| Mine Own Executioner Mine Own Executioner Mine Own Executioner is a 1947 British drama film directed by Anthony Kimmins. It was entered into the 1947 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Burgess Meredith - Felix Milne* Dulcie Gray - Patricia Milne* Michael Shepley - Peter Edge... |
Dr. Hans Tautz | ||
| 1948 | One Night with You One Night with You "One Night with You" is a single by US5, taken from their album, In Control. Elvis Presley released a song of the same name as a B-side in 1958.The song is played frequently in the recently made romantic musical comedy, "All Shook Up."... |
Police Inspector | |
| The Blind Goddess The Blind Goddess The Blind Goddess is a 1926 film by Victor Fleming.... |
Mario, the Waiter at Savoy | (uncredited) | |
| Bonnie Prince Charlie | George II of England | ||
| 1949 | Man on the Run Man on the Run Man on the Run is a 1949 British drama film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Edward Chapman, Kenneth More and Laurence Harvey.-Synopsis:... |
Tony, the Cafe Proprietor | (as Martyn Miller) |
| The Huggetts Abroad The Huggetts Abroad The Huggetts Abroad is a 1949 British film starring Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Petula Clark and Susan Shaw. It was the final film of the Huggetts Trilogy. After Joe Huggett loses his job, the family decide to emigrate to South Africa travelling via a land route which takes them across Africa.... |
Customer | ||
| Don't Ever Leave Me Don't Ever Leave Me Don't Ever Leave Me is a 1949 English romantic comedy film starring Petula Clark, Jimmy Hanley, Hugh Sinclair, Edward Rigby, and Anthony Newley... |
Leon Stoltz | ||
| I Was a Male War Bride I Was a Male War Bride I Was a Male War Bride is a 1949 comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan.This film was based on I was an Alien Spouse of Female Military Personnel Enroute to the United States Under Public Law 271 of the Congress, a biography of Henri Rochard, a Belgian who... |
Herr Schindler, the Black Marketeer | (uncredited) | |
| The Third Man The Third Man The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Many critics rank it as a masterpiece, particularly remembered for its atmospheric cinematography, performances, and unique musical score... |
Headwaiter | (uncredited) | |
| 1951 | Lucky Nick Cain | Photographer | (uncredited) |
| Counterblast Counterblast (film) Counterblast is a 1948 British drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Robert Beatty, Mervyn Johns and Nova Pilbeam.-Plot:A Nazi scientist experiments with biological warfare with which he intends to wage the next war against Britain.-Cast:... |
Van Hessian | ||
| Encore Encore (1951 film) Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham:*"The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B... |
Carlo Penezzi | ||
| 1952 | Where's Charley? Where's Charley? (film) Where's Charley? is a 1952 British musical comedy film directed by David Butler and starring Ray Bolger, Allyn Ann McLerie and Robert Shackleton... |
Photographer | |
| 1953 | Twice Upon a Time | Eipeldauer | |
| The Genie | . | ||
| 1954 | Front Page Story Front Page Story Front Page Story is a 1954 British drama film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Allan and Eva Bartok.-Cast:* Jack Hawkins as Grant* Elizabeth Allan as Susan Grant* Eva Bartok as Mrs. Thorpe* Derek Farr as Teale... |
Dr. Brukmann | |
| You Know What Sailors Are | Prof. Hyman Pfumbaum | ||
| Mad About Men Mad About Men Mad About Men is a British comedy film, made in 1954. It was directed by Ralph Thomas and written by Peter Blackmore, who also wrote the 1948 film Miranda which preceded Mad About Men... |
Dr. Fergus | ||
| To Dorothy a Son To Dorothy a Son To Dorothy a Son is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Muriel Box and starring Shelley Winters, John Gregson and Peggy Cummins. It is also known as Cash on Delivery. It is based on a play by Roger MacDougall... |
Brodcynsky | ||
| 1955 | The Woman for Joe The Woman for Joe The Woman for Joe is a 1955 British drama film starring Diane Cilento, George Baker, Jimmy Karoubi and David Kossoff. The owner of a circus sideshow and his prize attraction become romantically involved with the same woman.-Cast:... |
Iggy Pulitzer | |
| Man of the Moment Man of the Moment (1955 film) Man of the Moment is a 1955 comedy film starring Norman Wisdom, Belinda Lee, Lana Morris and Jerry Desmonde.-Cast:* Norman Wisdom as Norman* Lana Morris as Penny* Belinda Lee as Sonia* Jerry Desmonde as Jackson* Karel Stepanek as Lom... |
Swiss Tailor | ||
| An Alligator Named Daisy An Alligator Named Daisy An Alligator Named Daisy is a 1955 British comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Donald Sinden, Jeannie Carson, James Robertson Justice, Diana Dors, Roland Culver and Stanley Holloway.-Plot:... |
Bandleader | (uncredited) | |
| 1956 | The Baby and the Battleship The Baby and the Battleship The Baby and the Battleship is a colour 1956 British comedy film directed by Jay Lewis and starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough and André Morell. It is based on the 1956 novel by Anthony Thorne with a screenplay by Richard De Roy, Gilbert Hackforth-Jones and Bryan Forbes... |
Paolo | (uncredited |
| Child in the House Child in the House Child in the House is a 1956 British drama film directed by Cy Endfield and starring Phyllis Calvert, Eric Portman and Stanley Baker. A girl struggles to cope with her uncaring relatives... |
Professor Topolski | ||
| The Gamma People The Gamma People The Gamma People is a 1956 British science fiction film directed by John Gilling and starring Paul Douglas, Eva Bartok and Leslie Phillips.-Plot:... |
Lochner | ||
| 1957 | The Beasts of Marseilles | Heinrich Isadore Schlip | |
| 1958 | Mark of the Phoenix Mark of the Phoenix Mark of the Phoenix is a 1958 British drama film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Julia Arnall, Sheldon Lawrence and Anton Diffring. A newly developed and valuable metal is stolen and formed into a cigarette case for transportation to the Far East, but an American jewel thief comes into... |
Brunet | |
| 1959 | Rebound | Hendricks | |
| Libel Libel (film) Libel is a 1959 British drama film. It stars Olivia de Havilland, Dirk Bogarde, Paul Massie, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Robert Morley. The film's screenplay was written by Anatole de Grunwald and Karl Tunberg from a 1935 play of the same name by Edward Wooll, and it was directed by Anthony Asquith.The... |
Dr. Schrott | ||
| Expresso Bongo Expresso Bongo Expresso Bongo, a 1958 West End musical and a 1959 film, was a satire of the music industry. It was first produced on the stage at the Saville Theatre, London on 23 April 1958. Its book was written by Wolf Mankowitz and Julian More, with music by David Heneker and Monty Norman, also the... |
Kakky | (uncredited) | |
| 1960 | The Rough and the Smooth The Rough and the Smooth The Rough and the Smooth is a 1959 British drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton, William Bendix and Edward Chapman. An archaeologist has an affair with a German woman putting his engagement to another woman in jeopardy... |
Piggy | |
| Peeping Tom Peeping Tom (film) Peeping Tom is a 1960 British psychological thriller directed by Michael Powell and written by the World War II cryptographer and polymath Leo Marks. The title derives from the slang expression 'peeping Tom' describing a voyeur... |
Dr. Rosen | ||
| Exodus | Dr. Odenheim | ||
| 1962 | The Phantom of the Opera The Phantom of the Opera (1962 film) The Phantom of the Opera is a 1962 British film based on the novel by Gaston Leroux. The film was made by Hammer Film Productions.-Plot:The film opens in Victorian London on a December night in 1900.... |
Rossi | |
| 1963 | The Fast Lady The Fast Lady The Fast Lady is a 1962 British comedy film, directed by Ken Annakin. The screenplay was written by Henry Blyth and Jack Davies, based on a story by Keble Howard.It marked the film debut of Julie Christie.-Plot:... |
Man with Microscope | |
| Incident at Midnight | Dr. Schroeder | ||
| 55 Days at Peking 55 Days at Peking 55 Days at Peking is a 1963 historical epic film starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven, made by Samuel Bronston Productions, and released by Allied Artists. The movie was produced by Samuel Bronston and directed by Nicholas Ray, Andrew Marton , and Guy Green... |
Hugo Bergmann | ||
| The V.I.P.s The V.I.P.s The V.I.P.s, also known as Hotel International, is a 1963 British drama film. It was directed by Anthony Asquith, produced by Anatole de Grunwald and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer... |
Dr. Schwatzbacher | ||
| The Pink Panther The Pink Panther The Pink Panther is a series of comedy films featuring the bungling French police detective Jacques Clouseau that began in 1963 with the release of the film of the same name. The role was originated by, and is most closely associated with, Peter Sellers... |
Pierre Luigi | ||
| Children of the Damned Children of the Damned Children of the Damned is a 1963 science fiction film, a thematic sequel to the 1960 version of Village of the Damned. It is about a group of children, with similar psi-powers to the original seeding, but without the obvious 'alien' differences in the earlier film.-Plot:Six children are identified... |
Professor Gruber | ||
| 1964 | The Yellow Rolls-Royce The Yellow Rolls-Royce -External links:, a promotional short subject for the film... |
Head Waiter | |
| 1965 | Up Jumped a Swagman Up Jumped a Swagman Up Jumped a Swagman is a 1965 British musical comedy film directed by Christopher Miles and starring Frank Ifield, Annette Andre, Ronald Radd and Suzy Kendall... |
Herman | |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp | Webman the Pawnbroker | TV film |
| 1952 | Portrait by Rembrandt | Rabbi Menasseh Ben Israel | TV film |
| 1953 | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents, is a 1950s syndicated anthology series hosted and occasionally starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.. The series offered Buster Keaton in his first dramatic role in the episode entitled "The Awakening". British actor Christopher Lee appeared in varied role in thirteen... |
Papa | Series episode "The Genie" |
| 1954 | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents, is a 1950s syndicated anthology series hosted and occasionally starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.. The series offered Buster Keaton in his first dramatic role in the episode entitled "The Awakening". British actor Christopher Lee appeared in varied role in thirteen... |
Polwatski | Series episode "The Relative Truth" |
| 1955 | ITV ITV ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK... Play of the Week Play of the Week Play of the Week is an American anthology series of televised stage plays which aired in NTA Film Network syndication from October 12, 1959 to May 1, 1961... |
Series episode "The Salt Land" | |
| Mother Michel and Her Cat | Dealer in pets | TV film | |
| 1956 | Sailor of Fortune | Hotelkeeper | Series episode "It Started in Paris" |
| ITV ITV ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK... Television Playhouse Television Playhouse Television Playhouse was a live television series on the NBC Television network which aired from December 4, 1947 to April 11, 1948 on Sundays from 8pm to 10pm EST. The program was in cooperation with the National Theater and Academy, a federally sponsored theater group, and featured live... |
Rabbi | Series episode "Skipper Next to God" | |
| BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff... Sunday Night Theatre Sunday Night Theatre Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of plays created by the BBC first in early 1950, and was regularly shown on Sundays until late 1959, when the last play, A Cup of Kindness, was staged... |
Nicholas Loewenschild | Series episode "The Cold Light" | |
| The Adventures of Aggie The Adventures of Aggie The Adventures of Aggie was a black-and-white sitcom starring Joan Shawlee that was made by ME Films and broadcast on ITV. It lasted for one series of twenty-six episodes. Also being aimed at the American market, it was broadcast in the US from December 1957 under the name Aggie... |
Chella | Series episode "Festival of Fear" | |
| 1957 | Dixon of Dock Green Dixon of Dock Green Dixon of Dock Green was a popular BBC television series that ran from 1955 to 1976, and later a radio series. Despite being a drama series, it was initially produced by the BBC's light entertainment department.-Overview:... |
Papa Kolinsky | Series episode "A Penn'orth of Allsorts" |
| 1958 | ITV ITV ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK... Play of the Week Play of the Week Play of the Week is an American anthology series of televised stage plays which aired in NTA Film Network syndication from October 12, 1959 to May 1, 1961... |
Nat Danziger | Series episode "The Big Knife" |
| 1959 | BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff... Sunday Night Theatre Sunday Night Theatre Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of plays created by the BBC first in early 1950, and was regularly shown on Sundays until late 1959, when the last play, A Cup of Kindness, was staged... |
Matyas Rakosi | Series episode "Shadow of Heroes" |
| ITV ITV ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK... Television Playhouse Television Playhouse Television Playhouse was a live television series on the NBC Television network which aired from December 4, 1947 to April 11, 1948 on Sundays from 8pm to 10pm EST. The program was in cooperation with the National Theater and Academy, a federally sponsored theater group, and featured live... |
Gus | Series episode "A Memory of Two Mondays" | |
| Henry IV | Doctor | TV film | |
| Armchair Theatre Armchair Theatre Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series, which ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television after 1968.... |
Series episode "Light from a Star" | ||
| BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff... Sunday Night Theatre Sunday Night Theatre Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of plays created by the BBC first in early 1950, and was regularly shown on Sundays until late 1959, when the last play, A Cup of Kindness, was staged... |
Abraham Kaplan | Series episode "Street Scene" | |
| 1960 | ITV ITV ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK... Television Playhouse Television Playhouse Television Playhouse was a live television series on the NBC Television network which aired from December 4, 1947 to April 11, 1948 on Sundays from 8pm to 10pm EST. The program was in cooperation with the National Theater and Academy, a federally sponsored theater group, and featured live... |
Ambrose Solto | Series episode "Night School" |
| BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff... Sunday Night Play Sunday Night Theatre Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of plays created by the BBC first in early 1950, and was regularly shown on Sundays until late 1959, when the last play, A Cup of Kindness, was staged... |
Dr. Pfeiffer | Series episode "Twentieth Century Theatre: The Price of Freedom" | |
| Danger Man Danger Man Danger Man is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the program and wrote many of the scripts... |
Stavros | Series episode "The Lovers" | |
| 1961 | Theatre 70 | Series episode "The Watchman of Saul" | |
| Echo Four Two | Hymie | Series episode "There She Blows" | |
| 1962 | Dial RIX | Mr. Green | Series episode "Between the Balance Sheets" |
| Man of the World | Dr. Stelitz | Series episode "Blaze of Glory" | |
| Zero One | Papa Kadopolis | Series episode "The Marriage Broker" | |
| Ghost Squad Ghost Squad (TV series) Ghost Squad, known as G.S.5 for its third season, was a crime drama series about an elite division of Scotland Yard that ran between 1961 and 1964. Each episode the Ghost Squad would investigate cases that fell outside the scope of normal police work... |
Braune | Series episode "The Green Shoes" | |
| 1963 | The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre | Dr. Schroeder | Series episode "Incident at Midnight" |
| The Bergonzi Hand | Davidoff | TV film | |
| Espionage Espionage (TV series) Espionage is a 1963 Associated TeleVision series, distributed outside the UK by ITC Entertainment and networked in the United States by NBC.-Synopsis:... |
Mr. Smith | Series episode "The Incurable One" | |
| The Sentimental Agent The Sentimental Agent The Sentimental Agent is a television drama series spin-off from Man of the World. It was produced in the UK in 1963 by Associated TeleVision and distributed by ITC Entertainment. It stars Carlos Thompson as Argentinian Carlos Varela, a successful import-export agent based in London.The series ran... |
Astolat | Series episode "A Little Sweetness and Light" | |
| 1964 | A Little Big Business | Lazlo | Series episode "Episode #1.1" |
| The Saint The Saint (TV series) The Saint was an ITC mystery spy thriller television series that aired in the UK on ITV between 1962 and 1969. It centred on the Leslie Charteris literary character, Simon Templar, a Robin Hood-like adventurer with a penchant for disguise. The character may be nicknamed The Saint because the... |
Jerome | Series episode "Jeannine" | |
| Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior... |
Kublai Khan Kublai Khan Kublai Khan , born Kublai and also known by the temple name Shizu , was the fifth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire from 1260 to 1294 and the founder of the Yuan Dynasty in China... |
Series episodes "Mighty Kublai Khan", "Assassin at Peking" | |
| Secret Agent Danger Man Danger Man is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the program and wrote many of the scripts... |
Dr. Zoren | Series episode "Fish on the Hook" | |
| 1965 | A Little Big Business | Lazlo | Series episode "Funny Things: People" |
| The Saint The Saint (TV series) The Saint was an ITC mystery spy thriller television series that aired in the UK on ITV between 1962 and 1969. It centred on the Leslie Charteris literary character, Simon Templar, a Robin Hood-like adventurer with a penchant for disguise. The character may be nicknamed The Saint because the... |
Mr. Justin | Series episode "The Smart Detective" | |
| The Third Man The Third Man The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Many critics rank it as a masterpiece, particularly remembered for its atmospheric cinematography, performances, and unique musical score... |
Heinrich Miron | Series episode "The House of Bon Bons" | |
| The Avengers The Avengers (TV series) The Avengers is a spy-fi British television series set in the 1960s Britain. The Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed . Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants... |
Professor Spencer | Series episode "The Master Minds" | |
| 1966 | Theatre 625 Theatre 625 Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line... |
Father | Series episode "Focus" |
| The Baron The Baron The Baron is a British television series, made in 1965/66 based on the book series by John Creasey, written under the pseudonym Anthony Morton, and produced by ITC Entertainment. It was the first ITC show without marionettes to be produced entirely in colour... |
. | Series episode "Enemy of the State" | |
| Adam Adamant Lives! Adam Adamant Lives! Adam Adamant Lives! is a British television series which ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC. Proposing that an adventurer born in 1867 had been revived from hibernation in 1966, the show was a comedy adventure that took a satirical look at life in the 1960s through the eyes of an Edwardian .- Character... |
Dr. Heindrick | Series episode "A Slight Case of Reincarnation" | |
| 1967 | The Forsyte Saga The Forsyte Saga The Forsyte Saga is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and 1921 by John Galsworthy. They chronicle the vicissitudes of the leading members of an upper-middle-class British family, similar to Galsworthy's own... |
Montross | Series episode "Portrait of Fleur" |
| The Prisoner | Number Fifty Four | Series episode "It's Your Funeral" | |
| 1969 | BBC BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff... Play of the Month Play of the Month Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles... |
Professeur Vivier | Series episode "Maigret at Bay" |
| Mord nach der Oper | . | TV film | |
| Mogul | Dr. Israel Berg | Series episode "They Call Me Israel" | |
| Doctor in the House Doctor in the House Doctor in the House is a 1954 British comedy film, directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty Box. The screenplay, by Nicholas Phipps, Richard Gordon and Ronald Wilkinson, is based on the novel by Gordon, and follows a group of students through medical school.It was the most popular box office... |
Professor Pearson | Series episode "It's All Go..." | |
| Department S Department S Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969–1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Jason King , Joel Fabiani as Stewart Sullivan, and Rosemary Nicols as computer expert Annabelle Hurst... |
Dutrov | Series episode "The Perfect Operation" | |