Edward Palmer

Acting
1910-03-07
Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK

Known For & Full Filmography13 Titles

#1Emmerdale

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as George

4.3 / 10
SoapDrama

The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village.

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#2Theatre 625

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes as Shopkeeper

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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#3Upstairs, Downstairs

Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes as Bunting

7.8 / 10
Drama

Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.

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#4Nicholas Nickleby

Drama Series - 1968, 16 episodes as Charles Cheeryble

7.0 / 10
Drama

Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.

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#5Room at the Top

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as Porter (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
DramaRomance

An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.

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#6Don't Forget to Write!

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Chairman

6.2 / 10
Comedy

Once a successful playwright, George Maple is now procrastinating, lacking self-confidence and suffering from writer's block. He is seen at home with his supportive wife Mabel, son Wilfred and daughter Kate. They're frequently visited by neighbour Tom Lawrence, a confident, suave and successful playwright, and cleaner Mrs Field.

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#7The Love School

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Vicar

8.8 / 10
Drama

The Love School is a BBC television drama miniseries originally broadcast from 22 January to 26 February 1975 about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The series was written by John Hale, Ray Lawler, Robin Chapman, and John Prebble, and directed by Piers Haggard, John Glenister and Robert Knights. The drama was a significant influence on the subsequent 2009 series Desperate Romantics. It was also the basis of the historical novel of the same name by Hale.

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#8Carry On Girls

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Elderly Resident (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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#9Witchfinder General

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Shepherd

6.5 / 10
DramaHistoryHorror

England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.

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#10The Mind Benders

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

6.3 / 10
ThrillerDrama

A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.

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#11The World Cup: A Captain's Tale

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as FA Member

7.5 / 10
ActionDrama

The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham.

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#12The Small Voice

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m as Joe Wallis

6.4 / 10
Thriller

A man and his wife take to their house some men they rescue from a road crash and then find they have picked up some dangerous criminals.

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#13Stand Up, Nigel Barton

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as Ernie

9.0 / 10
TV MovieDrama

Semi-autobiographical TV play by Dennis Potter, from the BBC's 'Wednesday Play' series. It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University. The villagers accuse him of snobbery, while the rich University students treat him like a peasant. Uncertain of which sphere he should be moving in, Nigel tries to reconcile himself with his proud but stubborn father, and also succeed at University, despite its pretentions which apall him.

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