Iain Anders

Acting
1933-02-08
Barnet, London, England, UK

Known For & Full Filmography9 Titles

#1The Avengers

Drama Series - 1961, 16 episodes as Frank Compton

7.8 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeSci-Fi & Fantasy

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).

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#2Hart to Hart

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Inspector Drayton

6.8 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeMystery

Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.

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#3Thirty-Minute Theatre

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Kelly

4.3 / 10
Drama

An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.

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#4Taggart

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes as Supt. Jack McVitie

6.4 / 10
CrimeDrama

Taggart is a Scottish detective television program. The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines have happened in other parts of the Greater Glasgow area, and as of the most recent series the team have operated out of the fictional John Street police station across the street from the City Chambers.

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#5The Expert

Drama Series - 1968, 16 episodes as Sgt Fennell

9.0 / 10
Drama

The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.

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#6Shoestring

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Joe

7.7 / 10
CrimeDrama

Shoestring is a BBC detective drana set in Bristol and starring Trevor Eve as private detective Eddie Shoestring, who operatee his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 hour-long episodes. Eve opted not to return after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre, so the production team changed the setting to Jersey and created Bergerac, also following a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.

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#7A Married Man

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes as Returning Officer

5.0 / 10
Drama

A bored British barrister's affair with a rich American, discovered by his wife, ends in murder.

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#8Diana

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Uncle Reuben

6.5 / 10
Drama

The very different lives of Jan Leigh, a poor but studious young country lad, and Diana Gayelorde-Sutton, the equally single minded daughter of a rich landowner, from the 1920s through to post-war Britain.

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#9Safe at Work?

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as The Safety Officer

8.8 / 10
Documentary

Made for senior and middle British Rail management and supervisory staff, to stimulate discussion and provoke action, by alerting them to their responsibilities for staff safety, and the pressing need to reduce accident figures.

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