David King

Acting
1930-08-23
Rochester, Kent, England, UK

Known For & Full Filmography36 Titles

#1The Professionals

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Ambassador

7.6 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeDrama

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.

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#2All Creatures Great and Small

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Mr Mount

7.8 / 10
ComedyDrama

The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.

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#3Secret Army

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Louis-Victor Condé

7.8 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.

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#4The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes as Gillow

7.5 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

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#5Mind Your Language

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Captain Ivan

8.2 / 10
Comedy

Jeremy Brown, a language teacher, tries to make a living by teaching English to immigrants. With pupils from India, France, China, and many other countries, his lessons do not always go as planned.

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#6New Scotland Yard

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Raymond Deacon

6.3 / 10
CrimeDrama

New Scotland Yard is a police drama series produced by London Weekend Television for ITV from 1972 and 1974. It features the activities of two officers from the Criminal Investigations Department in the Metropolitan Police force headquarters at New Scotland Yard, as they dealt with the assorted villains of the day.

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#7Sergeant Cork

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes as Walter Roper alias 'Wilson / Granger

7.2 / 10
Drama

Sergeant Cork is a British detective television series which first aired between 1963 and 1968 on ITV. It was a police procedural show that followed the efforts of two police officers and their battle against crime in Victorian London. In all 66 hour-long episodes were aired during the five-year run, although the last episode was not broadcast until January 1968, 16 months after the others. Journalist Tom Sutcliffe has credited it as a first example of the use of the Victorian-era policeman in a television crime series. A 1969 review in The Age opined that rather than suspense, the strengths of the series were its "excellent period settings and wonderfully thick pea-soupers" which "add up to splendid evocative stuff", as well as the performance of star John Barrie. At no time during the whole series is Sergeant Cork's first name given.

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#8Father Brown

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Sir Wilfred Underhill, K.C.

6.8 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

Based on the short stories by G. K. Chesterton, Father Brown is a Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective.

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#9Colditz

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Obergruppenfuhrer Berger

7.7 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974. The series deals with Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at the supposedly escape-proof Colditz Castle when designated Oflag IV-C during World War II, and their many attempts to escape captivity, as well as the relationships formed between the various nationalities and their German captors.

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#10The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

Drama Series - 1956, 16 episodes as Dramas

7.0 / 10
Action & Adventure

The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened on the ITV network. The series starred William Russell as the eponymous Sir Lancelot, a Knight of the Round Table in the time of King Arthur at Camelot.

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#11Wilde Alliance

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Benedict

7.0 / 10
ComedyMysteryCrime

Wilde Alliance is a 1978 British television programme created by Ian Mackintosh and produced by Yorkshire Television for l ITV. The light-hearted mystery series follows husband-and-wife amateur detectives Rupert and Amy Wilde.

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#12Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.6 / 10
Comedy

Meet Frank Spencer, an eager young man trying to find his way in the world. He's enthusiastic, well-meaning... and disaster-prone.

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#13Oliver Twist

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Giles

6.3 / 10
Drama

An orphan endures a harsh life in a workhouse before fleeing to London, where he falls in with a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the criminal Fagin, and eventually finds a better life, exposing the cruelties of poverty and child labor in Victorian England.

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#14Revenge of the Pink Panther

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m as Douvier's Boardmember

6.4 / 10
ComedyCrimeMystery

Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.

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#15Edward and Mrs Simpson

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Lord Kelmsley

6.8 / 10
Drama

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intention to marry her.

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#16Shine

Movie - 1996, 2h 15m as Viney

7.4 / 10
Drama

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

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#17Number 10

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes as King George IV

7.0 / 10
Drama

Follows the private lives of seven British PMs who lived at Number 10 Downing Street between the 1780s and the 1920s: William Pitt the Younger, the Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley), Benjamin Disraeli, William Ewart Gladstone, David Lloyd-George, Herbert Henry Asquith and James Ramsay MacDonald.

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#18Another World

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

5.5 / 10
Soap

Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC for 35 years from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. Set in the fictional town of Bay City, the show in its early years opens with announcer Bill Wolff intoning its epigram, “We do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand other worlds,” which Phillips said represented the difference between “the world of events we live in, and the world of feelings and dreams that we strive for.” Another World focused less on the conventional drama of domestic life as seen in other soap operas, and more on exotic melodrama between families of different classes and philosophies.

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#19The Misfit

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes as Bobby Lambert

9.0 / 10
Comedy

The Misfit is an ATV sitcom created by Roy Clarke, broadcast from 1970 to 1971 on ITV. Basil Allenby-Johnson returns from Colonial Malaya to an England just emerging from the swinging sixties, a home he no longer recognises.

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#20To Serve Them All My Days

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes as Barnaby

7.8 / 10
Drama

To Serve Them All My Days is a 1980-81 British television drama serial, adapted by Andrew Davies from R. F. Delderfield's 1972 novel of the same name. David Powlett-Jones, a shell-shocked World War I veteran, becomes a teacher at an elite English boarding school, Bamfylde. The drama explores his personal growth, relationships, and evolving views on society over his 20-year career at the school.

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#21The Last of the Mohicans

Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

5.5 / 10
DramaFamilyWar & Politics

The adventures of Natty 'Hawkeye' Bumppo and his Indian companions, caught in a war between the French and English in upstate New York in 1757.

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#22Hostile Waters

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m as Admiral 2nd Class

6.1 / 10
TV MovieDramaThriller

Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.

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#23The Legend of Robin Hood

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Father Ambrose

7.4 / 10
Action & AdventureDrama

The Legend of Robin Hood was a 1975 BBC television serial that told the story of the life of Robin Hood.

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#24Robbery

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Detective at Airport (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
CrimeThrillerDrama

In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying millions in cash.

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#25The Bunker

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Hermann Goering

6.3 / 10
WarDrama

Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.

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#26Don't Drink the Water

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Willie

6.3 / 10
Comedy

This short-lived sequel to On the Buses (1969) saw Blakey move to Spain with his sister.

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#27Don't Drink the Water

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Willi

6.3 / 10
Comedy

This short-lived sequel to On the Buses (1969) saw Blakey move to Spain with his sister.

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#28The Matchmaker

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m as Local Lad No. 1

6.1 / 10
ComedyRomance

Marcy, a worker in the reelection campaign of bumbling Senator John McGlory, is sent to Ireland on a quest to find the Irish ancestry of Sen. McGlory, to help him win the Irish vote. But when Marcy arrives in the small village of Ballinagra, she finds herself in the middle of a matchmaking festival, and the local matchmaker is determined to pair her off with one of the local bachelors.

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#29A Chorus of Disapproval

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m as Mr. Ames

5.4 / 10
DramaComedyRomance

Guy Jones (Irons) moves to a small British town and joins the local amateur dramatics society as a way to meet people. However he soon finds the drama offstage far outweighs those onstage.

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#30The Old Crowd

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Male Entertainer

5.4 / 10
ComedyDramaTV Movie

George and Betty, a middle-class English couple, have just moved into a big Edwardian house in London and are throwing a party to celebrate. Unfortunately, after ten days none of their furniture has arrived, having been sent to Carlisle by mistake, three of the four toilets don't work and cracks are starting to appear in the ceiling. However, nothing can dent their determination to have a good time.

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#31Tale of a Vampire

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m as Waiter

5.6 / 10
RomanceHorrorDrama

Condemned to life without end, and to an undying passion for a lost love he can never find, a vampire stalks a beautiful young woman.

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#32The Cape Canaveral Monsters

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as Second Deputy

3.5 / 10
TV MovieSci-Fi

When a couple are killed in an auto accident their bodies are immediately inhabited by extraterrestrial beings. Taking refuge in an underground cave, the aliens attempt to sabotage the U.S. space program.

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#33Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m as Isaac Newton

7.8 / 10
Documentary

Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World belongs to a 35-hour film cycle, The Book of All the Dead, which comprises the bulk of Toronto-based Bruce Elder’s filmmaking from 1975 to 1994. In ancient Egyptian culture, the Book of the Dead consisted of religious texts intended to help preserve the spirit of the departed in the afterlife — but in Elder’s reading, that comforting idea of continuity takes on a rather darker cast. Lamentations is comprised of a complex audio and visual patchwork: a philosophical meditation superimposed as text throughout the film; vignettes featuring a comical but disturbing Franz Liszt, a debate between Isaac Newton and George Berkeley, an angry, deranged man in an alley, and an arrogant psychiatrist; and a final search for salvation in the forests of British Columbia, the American Southwest, and Mexico’s Yucatan.

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#34Miss Pym's Day Out

Movie - 1992, 2h 15m as Larkin Readings (Voice)

8.0 / 10
DramaDocumentaryTV Movie

In 1977, after a fourteen year dry spell, the novelist Barbara Pym was nominated for a Booker Award for her novel, Quartet in Autumn. This drama documentary biopic sees Patricia Routledge as Pym and follows the day of the prize presentation, as she observes people and reminisces about life and love.

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#35The Chief Mourner

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Detective Chief Superintendent Richards

8.8 / 10
CrimeDramaTV Movie

"Suppose you heard I was someone you couldn't possibly approve of." For a successful man with public responsibilities Alan Berry is strangely reluctant to help the police when his wife is murdered.

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#36The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m as HRH

5.5 / 10
DramaTV Movie

The workers of Milton Colliery prepare for a royal visit from Prince Charles.

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