David Neal

David Neal

Acting
1932-02-13
Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, UK

Biography

David Neal was born on February 13, 1932 in Kettering, Northants, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Superman (1978), Flash Gordon (1980) and Hereward the Wake (1965). He died on June 27, 2000 in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, UK.

Known For & Full Filmography45 Titles

#1Agatha Christie's Poirot

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes as Bruno Vizzini

8.2 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

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#2Play for Today

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes as Dr. Ackerly

6.6 / 10
Drama

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

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#3Play for Today

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes as Walter Dodds

6.6 / 10
Drama

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

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#4Doctor Who

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes as President

7.9 / 10
DramaAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

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#5Crown Court

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Jonathan Fry QC

5.7 / 10
Drama

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.

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#6BBC Play of the Month

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as King of France

5.3 / 10
Drama

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

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#7Inspector Morse

Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes as Dr. Julian Dear

7.9 / 10
CrimeDramaMystery

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.

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#8Playhouse

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Aidallbery

7.0 / 10
Drama

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

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#9The Professionals

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Bauer

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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#10The Bill

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.8 / 10
CrimeDrama

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.

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#11The Persuaders!

Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes as Jerry Sandford

7.7 / 10
ComedyAction & AdventureCrime

An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.

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#12Blake's 7

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Gerren

7.3 / 10
DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.

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#13Superman

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m as 7th Elder

7.2 / 10
Sci-FiActionAdventure

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.

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#14Wycliffe

Drama Series - 1994, 16 episodes as Donald Thorne

6.8 / 10
CrimeDrama

Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. It was produced by HTV and broadcast on the ITV Network, following a pilot episode on 7 August 1993, between 24 July 1994 and 5 July 1998. The series was filmed in Cornwall, with a production office in Truro. Music for the series was composed by Nigel Hess and was awarded the Royal Television Society award for the best television theme. Wycliffe is played by Jack Shepherd, assisted by DI Doug Kersey and DI Lucy Lane. Each episode deals with a murder investigation. In the early series, the stories are adapted from Burley's books and are in classic whodunit style, often with quirky characters and plot elements. In later seasons, the tone becomes more naturalistic and there is more emphasis on internal politics within the police.

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#15Churchill's People

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Edward

5.0 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.

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#16Softly, Softly

Drama Series - 1966, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.5 / 10
DramaCrime

Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.

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#17Flash Gordon

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as Captain of Ming's Air Force

6.3 / 10
Sci-FiAdventureAction

A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

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#18Fall of Eagles

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Baltazzi

7.0 / 10
Drama

"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns) and Russia (the Romanovs).

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#19The Agatha Christie Hour

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Prince Osric

6.8 / 10
Action & AdventureMysteryCrime

This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.

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#20Warship

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

6.7 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

Written and filmed to reflect the reality of life in the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines in the 1970s, most stories focus on the Captain and his fellow officers, with subplots dealing with life on the lower decks. Episodes typically featured a variety of events at sea (the Cold War, smuggling, the evacuation of civilians from crisis-hit places, etc.), as well as the personal lives of officers and ratings and the impact their personal lives had on their professional lives and duties.

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#21The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Farmer (voice)

6.4 / 10
AnimationFamily

Nine animated stories based on the original Peter Rabbit books by Beatrix Potter.

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#22The Man in Room 17

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Walker

6.3 / 10
CrimeDrama

The Man in Room 17 is a British television series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s, produced by the Northern ITV franchise, Granada Television. Key to the series' success was the involvement of writer/producer Robin Chapman. The show was set in Room 17 of the Department of Social Research, where former wartime agent-turned-criminologist Edwin Oldenshaw solved difficult police cases through theory and discussions with his assistants. The novelty of the series was that Oldenshaw and his colleagues never needed to leave their office in order to resolve cases, preferring to spend their time playing the Japanese board game of Go. They simply provided their prognosis and left the police to do the cleaning up. Different directors were often appointed to film the Room 17 and outside-world scenes independently, to maintain a sense of distance between the two worlds.

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#23Number 10

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes as Dr Addington

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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#24Shadow of the Noose

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes as Sir Edward Clarke

9.0 / 10
Drama

A look at the real cases and personal demons of Sir Edward Marshall Hall, Edwardian London's most celebrated barrister. Presiding over trials that made headlines and drew large crowds to the public gallery, the Old Bailey defence counsel was Britain's first legal celebrity. A champion of justice for all, Marshall Hall earns a reputation as The Great Defender as he pleads the innocence of clients other lawyers refuse to represent.

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#25M. Butterfly

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m as Judge

6.6 / 10
RomanceDramaHistory

In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with opera singer Song Liling – but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.

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#26Crime Traveller

Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.3 / 10
Drama

Detective Jeff Slade teams up with scientist Holly Turner, whose late father has created a time machine that can travel back several hours. Together they solve mysteries using the device. In the beginning of episodes (before they travel back in time), things happen because they DID travel back in time, and they are constantly working to avoid paradoxes. This approach to time-travel is unusual in sci-fi movies, and keeps the plot twisted.

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#27Annika

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Gordon Rissel

4.2 / 10
Drama

Pete, an eighteen year old Isle of Wight deck chair attendant, meets fifteen gear old Swedish exchange student Annika. After a holiday romance, he follows her back to Sweden.

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#28Julius Caesar

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Cinna the Conspirator

5.9 / 10
WarDramaHistory

All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, and the resulting war between the faction led by the assassins and the faction led by Mark Anthony.

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#29The Cut-Throats

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m as German Officer in Convoy

3.8 / 10
ActionWarAdventure

Captain Kohler recruits an outfit of five American soldiers besides himself (dubbed "The Cut-Throats,") to attack a German stronghold to capture battle plans... although his real motive is to steal a cache of jewels that is Nazi plunder. After the enemy soldiers are gunned down, the beautiful women in the compound treat The Dirty Half-Dozen to a stage show and, later, themselves.

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#30Fair Stood the Wind for France

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes as Doctor

7.0 / 10
Action & AdventureDramaWar & Politics

When John Franklin crash-lands his Wellington bomber in occupied France at the height of the Second World War, he is concerned for the safety of his crew and worried about his own badly injured arm. His crew escapes, but the family of a mill owner risk their lives to hide Franklin in their home until he regains his health. During the following balmy summer months, the pilot's situation is further complicated by his feelings for Francoise, the daughter of the house, but as German patrols move in, his only chance of survival is to flee from France.

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#31Hands of a Murderer

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m as Minister

6.7 / 10
AdventureActionThriller

Sherlock Holmes must track down his nemesis, Professor Moriarty, after the villain kidnaps Holmes' brother, Mycroft. The evil doctor is forcing his captive to decode highly classified military documents.

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#32King Lear

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m as King of France

10.0 / 10
Drama

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.

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#33The Garden of Redemption

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m as Don Sebastiano

7.0 / 10
TV Movie

A priest struggles with his religious beliefs as he sees his countrymen murdered in Nazi occupied Italy and as he becomes attracted to a woman operating in the resistance.

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#34Timon of Athens

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as First Senator

8.5 / 10
DramaTV Movie

Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.

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#35Antony & Cleopatra

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Proculelus

7.3 / 10
DramaHistoryRomance

Octavius Caesar (later renamed Augustus Caesar, son of the murdered Julius Caesar), Marc Antony, and Lepidus form the triumvirate, the three rulers of the Roman Empire. Antony, though married to Fulvia, spends his time in Egypt, living a life of decadence and conducting an affair with Queen Cleopatra. In Antony's absence, Caesar and Lepidus worry about Pompey's increasing strength.

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#36Henry IV Part 1

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Scroop

7.3 / 10
DramaHistoryTV Movie

Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in favour of heavy drinking and petty theft in the company of a debauched elderly knight, Sir John Falstaff. Hal must extricate himself from some legal problems, regain his father's good opinions and help suppress the uprising.

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#37The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Pigling Bland

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m as Farmer (voice)

8.8 / 10
AnimationComedyFantasy

"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 6. Pigling Bland is a young pig who is forced to leave home, along with his brother Alexander, when his mother realizes that she is unable to feed all eight of her piglets. Pigling Bland becomes separated from Alexander and gets hopelessly lost.

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#38Doctor Who: The Caves of Androzani

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m as The President

9.8 / 10
AdventureDramaSci-Fi

Arriving on the barren world of Androzani Minor, the Doctor and Peri find themselves embroiled in a long running, literal underground war. At the heart of the conflict is a substance called Spectrox - both valuable and deadly! The Doctor & Peri wind up being poisoned by the material, which is killing them slowly and painfully unless they can find a cure. As the conflict heats up and the situation gets more desperate, the Doctor realises time is running out - both for Peri and himself...

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#39Henry IV Part 2

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Scroop, Archbishop of York

8.5 / 10
DramaHistoryTV Movie

The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth.

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#40The Childhood Friend

Movie - 1974, 2h 15m as Dr. Ackerly

7.5 / 10
RomanceDramaTV Movie

On holiday, with his family, nothing to do and his wife ill, Sasha (Alexander) is only too pleased to meet again the girl he loved at 17.

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#41London Is Drowning

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Walter Dodds

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

A fictional look at what might happen if the Thames were to flood before completion of the Thames Barrier at the end of 1982. A series of freak weather conditions coincide and there is a real possibility that the Thames will flood as a surge tide is racing down the East Coast.

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#42Elizabeth Alone

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Aidallbery

8.8 / 10

"Guilty," pleads Elizabeth, "in marriage, in parenthood, in every close relationship. I have failed!" But should we condemn her as she condemns herself?

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#43Da Silva, Da Silva

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m as Daemon

8.8 / 10

Dramatisation of part of Wilson Harris' novel "Da Silva's Cultivated Wilderness".

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#44Murrain

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m as Leach

7.5 / 10
DramaHorrorMystery

When a mystery illness infects the pigs of a village farmer and a local boy is also taken ill, the villagers try to convince a veterinarian that it is caused by a curse from a woman they believe to be a witch.

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#45The Unknown Soldier

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m as Wehrmacht Colonel

8.8 / 10
DramaTV Movie

The soldier in the spinal carriage can neither move nor speak. Who is he? His fellow wounded and officers are intent on finding out.

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