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John Baskcomb

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1916-02-07
Purley, Surrey, England, UK

Biography

John Baskcomb (7 February 1916 – 29 March 2000) was an English character actor who made numerous television and film appearances over a 35-year period. He was the son of the founder of the Bank of England Operatic and Dramatic Society and was educated at Croydon High School for Boys. He then appeared on stage in repertory theatre in Croydon and Henley-on-Thames and in clubs, pantomimes and concert parties. He made appearances in numerous British television plays and series including; Doctor Who (Terror of the Autons), The Saint, Softly, Softly and Poldark and he played the role of Cardinal Wolsey in The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970). His film roles included Oliver! (uncredited), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (uncredited), Battle of Britain, Dad's Army and Omen III: The Final Conflict. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Terence Alexander,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For & Full Filmography23 Titles

#1Doctor Who

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes as Rossini

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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#2The Saint

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes as Lewis Enstone

7.4 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeDrama

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.

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#3BBC Play of the Month

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Telyeghin

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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#4Theatre 625

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes as Bolshintzov

7.2 / 10
Drama

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 format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

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#5Z-Cars

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.3 / 10
Drama

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.

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#6Poldark

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Nat Pearce

6.9 / 10
Drama

Poldark is a television drama based on Winston Graham's novels of the same title. It was first transmitted on BBC Two across two seasons between 1975 and 1977. The adaptation covered all seven novels (of the eventual twelve) published up to the time. In late 18th-century Cornwall, Ross Poldark loses his fiancée, well-bred beauty Elizabeth, to his cousin Francis. He ends up marrying his servant, Demelza Carne, but his passion for Elizabeth simmers on for years. Meanwhile, he strives to make his derelict copper mines a success. Life is hard, smuggling is rife, and Ross finds himself taking the side of the underclass against the ruthless behaviour of his enemies, the greedy Warleggan clan.

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#7The Forsyte Saga

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes as Uncle Timothy Forsyte

8.5 / 10
Drama

The Forsyte Saga is a 1967 BBC television adaptation of John Galsworthy's series of The Forsyte Saga novels, and its sequel trilogy A Modern Comedy. The series follows the fortunes of the upper middle class Forsyte family, and stars Eric Porter as Soames, Kenneth More as Young Jolyon and Nyree Dawn Porter as Irene. It was adapted for television and produced by Donald Wilson and was originally shown in twenty-six episodes on Saturday evenings between 7 January and 1 July 1967 on BBC2, at a time when only a small proportion of the population had television sets able to receive this channel. It was therefore the repeat on Sunday evenings on BBC1 starting on 8 September 1968 that secured the programme's success with 18 million tuning in for the final episode in 1969. It was shown in the United States on public television and broadcast all over the world, and became the first BBC television series to be sold to the Soviet Union.

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#8Detective

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
Crime

A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC programmes made before the early 1970s, many of its episodes no longer exist. Of the eighteen episodes from the first season only twelve are currently known to exist; likewise six of the sixteen editions from the second run are considered lost, and just one of the final ten survives in the archives.

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#9Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Castle Chef (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
FamilyAdventureFantasy

A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign government sets out to take for himself.

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#10The Final Conflict

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Diplomat

5.8 / 10
HorrorMysteryThriller

Damien Thorn has helped rescue the world from a recession, appearing to be a benign corporate benefactor. When he then becomes U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Damien fulfills a terrifying biblical prophecy. He also faces his own potential demise as an astronomical event brings about the second coming of Christ.

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#11Battle of Britain

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m as Farmer

6.8 / 10
WarHistoryAction

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing an attempted Nazi invasion.

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#12The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes as Cardinal Wolsey

8.1 / 10
Drama

A six-episode dramatisation of Henry VIII's relationships with each of his six wives. Each episode, with a different writer, is devoted to one wife, and is a complete play in itself.

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#13Victorian Scandals

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Bargrave Dean

10.0 / 10

Featuring dramatised versions of true stories that shocked mainstream Victorian society.

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#14The Protectors

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes as Farnham

8.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

Ex-insurance investigator Ian Souter sets up his own security agency — the SIS (Specialists in Security) — alongside ex-cop Robert Shoesmith and secretary Heather Keys - and fight crime.

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#15The First Lady

Drama Series - 1968, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
Drama

The First Lady is a British television drama produced for BBC One, starring Thora Hird as crusading local councillor Sarah Danby, set around the fictional Lancashire borough of Furness. Capitalising on the popularity of its lead actress, The First Lady was a down-to-earth series exploring the inner workings of local government.

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#16Quiller

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Hastings

10.0 / 10
Drama

Quiller is a British drama television . Quiller is the alias of a fictional spy created by English novelist Elleston Trevor who featured in a series of Cold War thrillers written under the pseudonym "Adam Hall".

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#17The Lady and the Highwayman

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as Archbishop

5.1 / 10
ActionDramaRomance

During one of his robberies, a highwayman with a heart of gold falls in love with an aristocratic lady. Now, he is forced to choose between his true love or his true cause.

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#18Memento Mori

Movie - 1992, 2h 15m as Fat Old Man

6.3 / 10
DramaTV MovieComedy

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...

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#19Dad's Army

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Mayor

5.0 / 10
ComedyWar

Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film told the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise.

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#20Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Rossini

7.8 / 10
Sci-FiDramaAdventure

The Master, an old adversary of the Doctor, has arrived on Earth to destroy humanity with the aid of the Nestene Consciousness and their army of Autons and killer plastic daffodils - unless the Doctor, joined by new assistant Jo Grant, can stop them.

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#21The World in Silence

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Eric Lonsbury

8.8 / 10
Sci-FiTV Movie

College student Sarah Richards is alone in fearing and disliking the new teaching machines but even she does not foresee the terrifying situation that arises when her supervisor, Stephen Kershaw, re-arranges the machines to conform with revised fire regulations.

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#22The Portland Millions

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Bargrave Dean

8.8 / 10
Drama

Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland.

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#23The Darwin Adventure

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m as Prof. Draper

7.0 / 10
Drama

The story of Charles Darwin's journey on The Beagle.

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