Steve Ubels

Acting
Birmingham, England, UK

Known For & Full Filmography15 Titles

#1Screen Two

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Mac

7.1 / 10
Drama

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

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#2Shōgun

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes as Roper

7.7 / 10
Action & AdventureDramaWar & Politics

An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.

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#3Secret Army

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Bistro Local

7.7 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.

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#4The New Avengers

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Young Man at Seance

7.1 / 10
DramaAction & Adventure

The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit, a top agent, crack marksman and trained martial artist, and Purdey, a former trainee with The Royal Ballet who was an amalgam of many of the best talents from Steed's previous female partners.

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#5Top Secret!

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m as German Soldier

7.1 / 10
Comedy

Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.

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#6The Grey Zone

Movie - 2001, 2h 15m as Hauptman

6.6 / 10
DramaWarHistory

The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.

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#7The Fourth Arm

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes as Telephone Operator

6.5 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

Starring Paul Shelley in a role reminiscent of his Secret Army character in all but name, this 12-part serial follows a team of secret agents parachuted into occupied Europe during World War II, exploring their recruitment, training, and first mission behind enemy lines.

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#8Pennies from Heaven

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Pedestrian

7.6 / 10
Drama

Pennies From Heaven is a 1978 BBC television drama serial written by Dennis Potter. The title is taken from a song of the same name written by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston. It was one of several Potter serials to mix the reality of the drama with a dark fantasy content, and the earliest of his works where the characters burst into miming to popular 1930s songs. During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.

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#9Escape to Athena

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Lantz

5.7 / 10
AdventureComedyWar

During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the summit of the island's mountain.

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#10Q.E.D.

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Technician

7.1 / 10
Action & AdventureMysteryComedy

Q.E.D. is a 1982 short-lived adventure series set in Edwardian England, starring Sam Waterston as Professor Quentin Everett Deverill. The Professor was a scientific detective in the mold of Sherlock Holmes, and the series had a smattering of what would later be called steampunk. In the show, the lead character was known primarily by his initials, Q.E.D; the reference here is that Q.E.D. usually stands for quod erat demonstrandum, a statement signalling the end of a proof. The show aired on the CBS network in the United States, and on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom.

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#11Still Crazy

Movie - 1998, 2h 15m as Dutch Local

6.8 / 10
ComedyMusic

In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. Twenty years on, these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.

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#12The Draughtsman's Contract

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Hoyten

7.1 / 10
HistoryMysteryComedy

R. Neville, a brash young draftsman, is hired to make a dozen landscape illustrations at the estate of Mr Herbert and his wife Virginia. Aside from monetary compensation, the arrangement includes a sexual liaison offered to Neville by Virginia while her estranged husband is away. But when the murdered body of Mr Herbert is discovered at the estate, mysterious clues found in Neville's drawings point to the identity of the killer.

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#13The Dress

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m as Sales Assistant

7.0 / 10
Drama

A BAFTA award winning drama about a mistake when buying a dress for his mistress leads Howard to look again at his wife.

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#14The Unknown Soldier

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m as Mac

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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#15An Ordered Life

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as Music Student

8.8 / 10

Colin Jeavons is the German composer Anton Webern who survives Naziism only to be shot by an American GI in the closing days of WW2. Daniel Gerroll plays his son Stephen who, against his father's wishes, joined the Wehrmacht and was killed in a railway accident in 1943.

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