William Sherwood

Acting
1898-09-12
Dublin, Ireland

Known For & Full Filmography13 Titles

#1Maigret

Drama Series - 1960, 16 episodes as Doctor

7.1 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.

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#2Hancock's Half Hour

Drama Series - 1956, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.4 / 10
Comedy

Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.

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#3Dracula

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as Priest (uncredited)

7.3 / 10
Horror

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

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#4The Scales of Justice

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes as Ronald Milsom

6.7 / 10
CrimeDrama

The Scales of Justice is a series of thirteen British cinema featurettes produced from 1962 to 1967 for Anglo-Amalgamated at Merton Park Studios in London. The first nine were made in black and white, and the last four in colour. The finale, Payment in Kind, was Merton Park's final production. Episodes were based on criminal cases, and each film was introduced by criminologist Edgar Lustgarten. The series derives its title from the symbolic scales held by the statue of Justice, situated above the dome of London's Central Criminal Court, The Old Bailey. The opening narration describes her as having "in her right hand, the Sword of Power and Retribution, and in her left – The Scales of Justice".

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#5The Mafu Cage

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m as Will

5.9 / 10
ThrillerHorror

Two strange sisters live in a crumbling mansion, where they keep a pet ape, which belonged to their late father, locked in a cage. While one of the sisters seems to be keeping her head on straight, as it were, the other appears to be sinking further and further into barbarism and insanity.

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#6The Girl on the Boat

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Mr Dennis Bennett

6.0 / 10
Comedy

Norman Wisdom does to P.G. Wodehouse in Girl on the Boat what Jerry Lewis did to Gore Vidal in Visit to a Small Planet. The zany Wisdom, put in charge of his aunt's cottage during an English summer in the roaring twenties, decides to invite several of his friends to his posh new digs. Among the invitees is the title character, played by the delightful comedienne Millicent Martin. All sorts of slapstick chaos ensues, but Wisdom manages to save the day before things get hopelessly out of hand. Like Jerry Lewis, Norman Wisdom is an acquired taste, but he's worth sampling at least once. ...The Girl on the Boat

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#7Offbeat

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m as Bank Manager

6.2 / 10
Crime

When Scotland Yard finds themselves up against a brick wall in tracking down a vicious gang of thieves and bank robbers, they call in Layton, a loner from MI5 to work his way into the gang and help bring them down.

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#8Up in the World

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m as Labour Exchange Manager (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
Comedy

Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can't remember Norman's heroic stand

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#9Charleston

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as 2nd Soldier

8.0 / 10
DramaWarTV Movie

Stella Farrell is a southern belle in 1860's Charleston, South Carolina who is determined to hang onto her aristocratic family's mansion following the Civil War.

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#10Dublin Nightmare

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as Edward Dillon

6.6 / 10
Crime

Loot goes missing in robbery double-cross. Gang members, an ex-lover and a handsome stranger are left to sort it out.

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#11Dilemma

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Mr. Ridley - Banker

5.8 / 10
Thriller

Respectable schoolmaster returns from work on the eve of a wedding anniversary holiday to find a strange man dead in their bathroom and his wife missing.

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#12The Undefeated

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Documentary

Looking at how soldiers injured and disabled during WWII would be helped to live as normal a life as possible in the post war years.

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#13Operation Third Form

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Admiral

6.9 / 10

Operation Third Form, features a fresh-faced John Moulder-Brown (Deep End) in a sparkling performance as the schoolboy out to foil a pair of north London crooks, is a pacey boy's own adventure complete with a groovy 1960s soundtrack.

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