Anthony Dawes

Anthony Dawes

Acting
1928-02-10
Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, UK

Known For & Full Filmography45 Titles

#1Play for Today

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes as Man in Car

6.6 / 10
Drama

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

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#2The Avengers

Drama Series - 1961, 16 episodes as Actor

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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#3The Saint

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes as The Clerk

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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#4Minder

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Mr. Notting QC

7.2 / 10
ComedyDramaAction & Adventure

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

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#5Tales of the Unexpected

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Clergyman

6.8 / 10
Drama

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.

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#6Grange Hill

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Mr. Golightly

6.7 / 10
Drama

Children's drama series following the lives of students and teachers at Grange Hill comprehensive school.

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#7Playhouse

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Bank Manager

7.0 / 10
Drama

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

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#8Keeping Up Appearances

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes as The Jeweler

7.7 / 10
Comedy

Hyacinth Bucket (whose name, she insists, is pronounced "Bouquet") is a suburban housewife in the West Midlands. She would be the first to tell you that she is a gracious hostess, a respected citizen, and a well-connected member of high society. If you don't believe that, just ask her best friend Elizabeth, held captive in Hyacinth's kitchen; or the postmen and neighbours who bristle at the sound of her voice; or Richard, her weary and compliant husband. In fact, Hyacinth's reputation could be as perfect as her new lounge set, if not for her senile father's love of running wild in the nip. Oh, and she would prefer it if her brother-in-law was a sharper dresser. And that her husband was more ambitious. And that her sisters were more presentable. And do take your shoes off before you come in the house, dear. Mind that you don't brush against the wallpaper.

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#9All Creatures Great and Small

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Colonel Tremayne

7.8 / 10
ComedyDrama

The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.

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#10Upstairs, Downstairs

Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes as Breeze

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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#11Rumpole of the Bailey

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Dr. Lewis Bleen

7.1 / 10
DramaComedyCrime

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.

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#12Rumpole of the Bailey

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Mordaunt Bissett Q.C.

7.1 / 10
DramaComedyCrime

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.

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#13Thriller

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes as Car Salesman

7.0 / 10
DramaCrimeMystery

Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.

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#14Dr. Finlay's Casebook

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes as Commercial Traveller

6.7 / 10
ComedyDrama

Dr Finlay's Casebook is a BBC television series that was broadcast from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella Country Doctor, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s.

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#15Barry Lyndon

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m as British Soldier

8.0 / 10
DramaHistory

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.

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#16Fawlty Towers

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Mr. Libson

8.3 / 10
Comedy

Owner Basil Fawlty, his wife Sybil, a chambermaid Polly, and Spanish waiter Manuel attempt to run their hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding guests.

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#17The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes as Defence Counsel

7.5 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

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#18Dalgliesh

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes as Mr. Mitching

6.9 / 10
CrimeDrama

Centred on the cases of P. D. James' gentleman detective Adam Dalgliesh. In addition to his career as a policeman, Dalgliesh is also a published poet and an intensely private man.

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#19The Adventurer

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Lawson

6.3 / 10
Action & Adventure

The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the UK on 29 September 1972. The show starred Gene Barry as Gene Bradley, a government agent of independent means who poses as a glamorous American movie star.

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#20Theatre Night

Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes as Craddock

8.8 / 10
Drama

A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.

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#21Big Deal

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Driving Examiner

7.3 / 10
Drama

The ups and downs of small time London gambler Robby Box, and the effect that his poker addiction has on his long suffering girlfriend Jan Oliver and family.

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#22That's My Boy

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes as Solicitor

6.6 / 10
Comedy

That's My Boy is a British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV from 1981 to 1986. It stars Mollie Sugden as Ida Willis, who takes a job as a housekeeper for her son, whom she gave up for adoption years earlier.

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#23Number 10

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes as Hampton

7.0 / 10
Drama

Follows the private lives of seven British PMs who lived at Number 10 Downing Street between the 1780s and the 1920s: William Pitt the Younger, the Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley), Benjamin Disraeli, William Ewart Gladstone, David Lloyd-George, Herbert Henry Asquith and James Ramsay MacDonald.

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#24The Misfit

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes as Salesman

9.0 / 10
Comedy

The Misfit is an ATV sitcom created by Roy Clarke, broadcast from 1970 to 1971 on ITV. Basil Allenby-Johnson returns from Colonial Malaya to an England just emerging from the swinging sixties, a home he no longer recognises.

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#25A Sharp Intake of Breath

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Martin

7.2 / 10
Comedy

British sitcom in which happy-go-lucky character Peter Barnes comically and haphazardly tries to deal with the daily frustrations his life throws at him.

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#26Death of an Expert Witness

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes as Mr Mitching

6.5 / 10
MysteryDramaCrime

When Dr. Edwin Lorrimer, a forensic scientist working at a private laboratory is found killed, Detective Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh is sent to investigate. Dalgliesh had been in the area a few months previously investigating the murder of a young woman found in an abandoned car. There are several suspects: Lorrimer's subordinate, Clifford Bradley, who despises him; the new head of the laboratory, Maxim Howarth, who is jealous of his sister's relationship with him; a colleague, Paul Middlemass, who had a fight with Lorrimer. There is also a gruff and likely unethical policeman who was on the grounds of the laboratory at the time of the killing and a local pathologist who is raising his two young children after his wife leaves him for another man. When one of the suspects is also murdered, Dalgliesh learns a key piece of information.

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#27The Assassination Bureau

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m as Assistant Editor (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
ActionAdventureCrime

In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are called into question, she commissions the assassination of its chairman. Knowing that his colleagues have recently become more motivated by greed than morality, he turns the situation into a challenge for his board members: kill him or be killed.

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#28Armchair Theatre

Drama Series - 1956, 16 episodes as Tony

6.0 / 10
Drama

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

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#29Armchair Theatre

Drama Series - 1956, 16 episodes as PC Morgan

6.0 / 10
Drama

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

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#30Armchair Theatre

Drama Series - 1956, 16 episodes as Sqn. Ldr. Wink Wagstaff

6.0 / 10
Drama

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

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#31Champions

Movie - 1984, 2h 15m as Fred

6.6 / 10
DramaRomance

The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National

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#32Julius Caesar

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Ligarius

8.7 / 10
DramaTV MovieHistory

The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.

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#33Nightmare for a Nightingale

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m as Doctor

6.5 / 10
TV MovieMysteryThriller

An opera singer finds out her late husband isn't actually dead when he shows up at her apartment. In the heat of the moment, she kills him but his body mysteriously disappears.

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#34Edna: The Inebriate Woman

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Man in Car

8.8 / 10
TV MovieDrama

A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.

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#35Smokescreen

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as John Dexter

7.3 / 10
CrimeMystery

A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud.

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#36The Midas Plague

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as Henry 397121

7.0 / 10
TV MovieSci-Fi

The Future. Robot labour and free energy make the creation of goods easy and automatic. Now people are continually supplied with more things than they can possibly consume.

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#37It's All Happening

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Cyril Bong

6.3 / 10
ComedyMusic

Tommy Steele stars as a talent-spotter at a recording company who determines to organize a concert featuring all the most up-to-date singers and bands, in order that the orphanage where he was brought up be saved from closing.

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#38A Room in Town

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Tony

10.0 / 10
Drama

A woman discovers that her husband has rented a flat in London for his mistress, and sets out to catch him in the act

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#39Pocketful of Dreams

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m as Bank Manager

8.8 / 10

At the moment money is scarce and times are hard for everyone -even villains like Charlie and Denny are feeling the pinch. But their luck could change when a chance encounter with a film crew provides them with an eccentric method of getting their hands on a lot of loot.

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#40The Man Who Was Nobody

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as Police Sergeant

7.0 / 10
Crime

A slick young man buys a jewel with a cheque that bounces. He then disappears and both the police and a lawyer try to find him. The lawyer hires a female detective to track down the missing man, but when his body is found in the Thames the case is by no means over.

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#41Roald Dahl’s Tales of the Unexpected: The Landlady

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Clergyman

8.8 / 10
DramaHorrorComedy

The unnamed Landlady (Siobhan McKenna) is the titular main villainess from "The Landlady", episode 1.05 of Tales of The Unexpected (airdate April 21, 1979), based on the Roald Dahl short story of the same name. The episode begins with Billy Weaver (The main protagonist), arriving in Bath as part of a work trip. While there, he looks for accomdation, and sees a bed and breakfast sign in the window of a house. The unnamed woman then invites him in, claiming that a hotel he had been planning to stay at was booked out. Although finding the landlady's overly friendly demeanour off-putting, Billy decides to spend the night.

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#42Emergency

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Sergeant Phillips

6.0 / 10
Drama

When a little girl is knocked down it is discovered that there are only three donors of the right blood type to help with a life-saving operation. One is a murderer awaiting execution, one an atomic scientist selling secrets, and one an international footballer about to get his hundreth cap.

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#43One Deadly Owner

Movie - 1974, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.5 / 10
TV MovieHorror

A fashion model buys a Rolls-Royce. What she doesn't know is that it's haunted.

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#44Ten Days to D-Day

Movie - 2004, 2h 15m as Adm. Ramsey

5.2 / 10
WarDocumentaryHistory

Following the lives of ten characters through their letters and diaries in the ten days before D-Day. The mini-series contains documentary interviews with the people on which the book, and this mini-series were based.

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#45The Cherry on the Top

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Sqn. Ldr. Wink Wagstaff

8.8 / 10
TV Movie

A comic play set against the background of the Air Force.

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