Fred Wood

Acting
1922-10-26
Rotherhithe, London, England, UK

Biography

Fred Wood (born 26 October 1922, Rotherhithe, London), died January 2003, was an English actor. Wood was best known for roles in Star Wars (1977), Elephant Man (1980) and From Russia with Love (1963). Wood has appeared in a large number of American films, due to filming taking place partly or entirely in Britain. As a British-based actor and supporting artist, he worked extensively in British films since the late 1940s until 2001 and television since the 1950s. He appeared in a wide range of television shows including Dangerman, Gideon's Way, The Professionals, The Baron and Gone to Seed (1992). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Known For & Full Filmography70 Titles

#1Minder

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Boxing Match Spectator (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
ComedyDramaAction & Adventure

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

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#2Minder

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Racecourse Spectator (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
ComedyDramaAction & Adventure

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

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#3Star Wars

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m as Cantina Patron (uncredited)

8.2 / 10
AdventureActionSci-Fi

Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.

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#4The Fifth Element

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m as Emissary (uncredited)

7.6 / 10
Sci-FiActionAdventure

In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.

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#5From Russia with Love

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Gypsy (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
ActionThrillerAdventure

Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.

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#6Willow

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as Druid (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
FantasyAdventureAction

The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with delivering her from evil.

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#7The Elephant Man

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as Injured Man (uncredited)

8.1 / 10
DramaHistory

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.

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#8Where Eagles Dare

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as German Soldier in Bier Keller (uncredited)

7.5 / 10
AdventureWar

World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general before it's too late.

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#9Nineteen Eighty-Four

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m as Prol (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
DramaSci-FiThriller

Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.

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#10The Wicker Man

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Parishioner (Singing Hymn In Church) (uncredited)

7.3 / 10
Horror

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

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#11Gandhi

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Man in the Crowd (uncredited)

7.6 / 10
DramaHistory

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.

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#12The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes as Drummer (uncredited)

8.0 / 10
DramaAction & Adventure

The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.

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#13The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes as Soldier (uncredited)

8.0 / 10
DramaAction & Adventure

The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.

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#14Blow-Up

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Homeless Man (uncredited)

7.3 / 10
DramaMysteryThriller

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

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#15Young Sherlock Holmes

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m as Patron (Lower Nile Tavern) (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
MysteryAdventureThriller

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by an Egyptian cult, they move to stop it.

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#16Battle of Britain

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m as Rescue Worker (uncredited)

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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#17Frenzy

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m as Pub Patron (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
CrimeThrillerHorror

London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.

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#18The Offence

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Billy

6.8 / 10
CrimeDramaThriller

A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.

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#19Tales from the Crypt

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m as Mortician

6.8 / 10
Horror

When a tourist group become lost within ancient catacombs, they meet the sinister Crypt Keeper, who tells them each their fate. The enigmatic figure's macabre stories involve a wife dabbling in murder, a retired sanitation worker targeted by his suspicious neighbors, and an adulterer who may face a fitting demise if the yarns come true.

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#20The Man in the Iron Mask

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m as Prisoner

6.4 / 10
HistoryAdventureTV Movie

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.

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#21Becket

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Congregation Member (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
DramaHistory

Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.

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#22Anne of the Thousand Days

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m as Court Scribe (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
DramaHistoryRomance

Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

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#23The Mouse That Roared

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m as Bird Seller (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
Comedy

The Duchy of Grand Fenwick decides that the only way to get out of their economic woes is to declare war on the United States, lose and accept foreign aid. They send an invasion force (in chain mail, armed with bows and arrows) to New York and they arrive during a nuclear drill that has cleared the streets.

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#24The Curse of the Werewolf

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m as Angry Villager (Bottom Left) in Assembled Mob (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
Horror

A child conceived by a mute servant girl transforms from an innocent youth to a killer beast at night with uncontrollable urges.

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#25Lassiter

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m as Fight Spectator (uncredited)

5.4 / 10
CrimeDramaThriller

A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.

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#26The Day of the Triffids

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Train Passenger (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
Sci-FiHorror

After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.

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#27Scrooge

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Human Billboard (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
FantasyDramaFamily

A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.

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#28History of the World: Part I

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Revolutionary Peasant (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
Comedy

An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.

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#29Ivanhoe

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Cloaked Rider (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
HistoryAdventureTV Movie

Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars, and finds England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the power-struggle for the throne of England.

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#30H.M.S. Defiant

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as French Sailor (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
AdventureHistoryWar

Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.

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#31The MacKintosh Man

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Prisoner Working in Laundry (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
Thriller

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...

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#32A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Train passenger

6.5 / 10
HorrorThrillerMystery

Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.

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#33A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
HorrorThrillerMystery

Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.

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#34The Ruling Class

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m as Corpse (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
ComedyDrama

When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.

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#35Captain Clegg

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Parishioner (Uncredited)

6.3 / 10
AdventureCrimeThriller

A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but their search is hindered by a local reverend and a horrifying curse.

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#36Robbery

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Hammer's Supporter (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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#37The Evil of Frankenstein

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Karlstaad Pedestrian (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
HorrorSci-Fi

Once hounded from his castle by outraged villagers for creating a monstrous living being, Baron Frankenstein returns to Karlstaad. High in the mountains they stumble on the body of the creature, perfectly preserved in the ice. He is brought back to life with the help of the hypnotist Zoltan who now controls the creature. Can Frankenstein break Zoltan's hypnotic spell that incites the monster to commit these horrific murders or will Zoltan induce the creature to destroy its creator?

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#38Carry On Cowboy

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as Townsman (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
ComedyWestern

Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a 'sanitary engineer' named Marshal P. Knutt is mistaken for a law marshal. Being the conscientious sort, Marshal tries to help the town get rid of Rumpo, and a showdown is inevitable. Marshal has two aids—revenge-seeking Annie Oakley and his sanitary expertise.

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#39The Hour of the Pig

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m as Torch bearer at Feast (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
DramaHistoryThriller

In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterious gypsy Samira. The pig has been arrested for the murder of a young boy.

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#40Gone to Seed

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Toothy

3.3 / 10
ComedyDrama

Gone to Seed is a British comedy-drama series created by Tony Grounds, a standalone spin-off to his earlier Gone to the Dogs. With much of the cast returning—albeit in new roles—the six-episode series follows the Plant family, who have run a garden centre in Rotherhithe since Dickens’ time, surviving both war and redevelopment. But now, family rivalry threatens to poison their unlikely paradise when matriarch Mag refuses to hand over control to her triplet children. Frumpy Hilda has only one passion in life: Milwall FC. Country/western singer Monty dreams of turning the run-down nursery into a floral oasis in the heart of Docklands, whilst his one-eyed jobless builder and part-time wrestler Winston doesn’t know a begonia from a buttercup! Meanwhile, local conman Wesley Willis lurks in the shadows and knows the true-worth of prime-location London real-estate.

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#41Dad's Army

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Townsman (uncredited)

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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#42The Mouse on the Moon

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Bird Seller (Uncredited)

6.3 / 10
ComedySci-Fi

Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the moon.

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#43The Pied Piper

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m as Burger (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
FantasyDrama

Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.

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#44Carry On Girls

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Audience Member (uncredited)

5.7 / 10
Comedy

Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the local women's liberation movement, has other ideas. It's open warfare as the women's lib attempt to sabotage the contest.

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#45Berserk!

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.7 / 10
CrimeDramaHorror

A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.

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#46Crooks Anonymous

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
ComedyCrime

A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.

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#47Carry On at Your Convenience

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Strike-Breaker (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
Comedy

At WC Boggs' Lavatory factory, Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat. However, eventually everyone gets fed up with him.

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#48Eye of the Devil

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Church Parishioner (far right) (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
HorrorMysteryThriller

A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.

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#49Theatre of Death

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Audience Member (Far Right) (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
MysteryHorrorThriller

The Theatre of Death in Paris specialises in horror presentations. A police surgeon finds himself becoming involved in the place through his attraction to one of the performers. When bloodless bodies start showing up all over town he realises there could be links with the theatre.

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#50Adam and Evelyne

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Race Spectator (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
RomanceComedyDrama

A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.

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#51Quest for Love

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Unhelpful Neighbour (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
RomanceDramaSci-Fi

After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself trapped in an alternate reality that bears some similarities to our own, but also has some striking differences. In this other reality the Second World War had never occurred, mankind had not yet traveled into Space and Mt. Everest had not yet been conquered, just to name a few things. Also in this other reality he is no longer a scientist but rather a well known author. After a personal tragedy in this alternate world, he finds himself back in his own world and desperately trying to locate the woman he fell in love with in the other world. Little does she know, however, that her life depends on him finding her.

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#52Steptoe & Son Ride Again

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Mourner (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
DramaComedy

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.

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#53The Plague of the Zombies

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Lone Villager on steps

6.4 / 10
HorrorMystery

Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the population. He discovers that one of the squires is a disciple of Haitian witchcraft and using dark magic to resurrect the dead. As the plan to create undead servants unravels, the squire unleashes his zombie army on the unsuspecting village.

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#54Stranger in the House

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Protester Against Execution (uncredited)

5.4 / 10
CrimeDrama

John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him. When his daughter's boyfriend is accused of murder, Sawyer decides to try to pull himself together and defend him in court.

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#55Brief Encounter

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Customer at Station Cafe (uncredited)

5.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.

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#56Up the Chastity Belt

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m as Peasant (uncredited)

4.1 / 10
Comedy

A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place, but on this day Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives to sack the castle, and to get the lovely Lobelia Custard in the sack! Lurkalot must help Custard cream the knight in pining armour...

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#57Steptoe & Son

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m as Strip Club Patron (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
ComedyDrama

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live together at the junk yard. Harold, who likes the bright lights in the West End of London, meets a stripper, marries her and takes her home. Albert is furious and tries every trick he knows to drive the new bride from his household.

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#58A Kind of Loving

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Pub Patron (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
DramaRomance

As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.

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#59Press for Time

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Unimpressed Beauty Pageant Observer (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
Comedy

Norman is quite happy selling newspapers outside Westminster station but his Grandfather (the Prime Minister) wants to get him "a more responsible job". A few favours are called in and Norman becomes the newest reporter at the seaside town of Tinmouth. After causing chaos at a local council meeting and causing the demolition of a new house he tries to organise a beauty pageant. A slapstick tale of corruption in high and low places

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#60The Trygon Factor

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
Crime

A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The detective comes to suspect that neither the family nor the nuns is quite what they seem to be.

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#61The Man Who Finally Died

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Exhumation Worker (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
ThrillerMystery

Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play.

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#62Demons of the Mind

Movie - 1972, 2h 15m as Villager Carrying Torch (uncredited)

5.3 / 10
HorrorThriller

A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.

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#63Hue and Cry

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Congregation Member (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
ComedyCrimeAdventure

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.

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#64I Thank a Fool

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Marquee Observor (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
Drama

After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted Christine, Stephen Dane, hires her to care for his emotionally unstable wife, Liane. Christine takes the job, but when Liane's allegedly dead father reappears, Christine sets out to reveal the family's dark secrets.

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#65I'll Never Forget What's'isname

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Undertaker in Dream Sequence (uncredited)

5.4 / 10
ComedyDrama

Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.

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#66The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Protester (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
ComedyDrama

Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.

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#67Father Came Too!

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Man at Auction (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
Comedy

When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.

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#68Mister Ten Per Cent

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Audience Member (uncredited)

5.6 / 10
Comedy

Percy Pointer's passion in life is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted to the play he is writing. When it's finished it arrives on the desk of a London impresario, when he wants to stage a flop.

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#69Fame Is the Spur

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Unimpressed Welsh Miner (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
Drama

A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.

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#70The Master of Bankdam

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m as Striker in Crowd (uncredited)

8.0 / 10
Drama

Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam.

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