Joe Ritchie

Acting
1910-11-14
Kirkdale, Liverpool, England, UK

Known For & Full Filmography23 Titles

#1Minder

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Grundy

7.2 / 10
ComedyDramaAction & Adventure

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

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#2Playhouse

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Mr. Drucker

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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#3All Creatures Great and Small

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Mr. Allen

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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#4New Scotland Yard

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as George Summers

6.3 / 10
CrimeDrama

New Scotland Yard is a police drama series produced by London Weekend Television for ITV from 1972 and 1974. It features the activities of two officers from the Criminal Investigations Department in the Metropolitan Police force headquarters at New Scotland Yard, as they dealt with the assorted villains of the day.

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#5Sergeant Cork

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes as Street Vendor

7.2 / 10
Drama

Sergeant Cork is a British detective television series which first aired between 1963 and 1968 on ITV. It was a police procedural show that followed the efforts of two police officers and their battle against crime in Victorian London. In all 66 hour-long episodes were aired during the five-year run, although the last episode was not broadcast until January 1968, 16 months after the others. Journalist Tom Sutcliffe has credited it as a first example of the use of the Victorian-era policeman in a television crime series. A 1969 review in The Age opined that rather than suspense, the strengths of the series were its "excellent period settings and wonderfully thick pea-soupers" which "add up to splendid evocative stuff", as well as the performance of star John Barrie. At no time during the whole series is Sergeant Cork's first name given.

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#6Dick Turpin

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Grummit

7.4 / 10
DramaComedy

Richard O'Sullivan stars as Dick Turpin in this action-filled adventure series chronicling the exploits of England's most celebrated highwayman.

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#7Budgie

Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes as Yorkshire Man

7.2 / 10

Budgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was produced by ITV company London Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network between 1971 and 1972. The series was created by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall . The show was produced by Verity Lambert, Rex Firkin was the Executive producer.

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#8Please Sir!

Drama Series - 1968, 16 episodes as Postman

7.0 / 10
Comedy

A hapless but caring teacher tries to control his class of unruly kids. The teacher sees much good and potential in his pupils, much to the dismay of his fellow teachers who have lost hope in these kids.

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#9Please Sir!

Drama Series - 1968, 16 episodes as Mr. Stone

7.0 / 10
Comedy

A hapless but caring teacher tries to control his class of unruly kids. The teacher sees much good and potential in his pupils, much to the dismay of his fellow teachers who have lost hope in these kids.

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#10Romany Jones

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as The Taxi Driver

6.8 / 10
Comedy

Romany Jones is a British sitcom created and written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe for LWT. Broadcast between 1973 and 1975, the programme follows the comic misadventures of two layabout families living on a caravan site. Originally designed as a starring vehicle for James Beck (Dad's Army), the 1972 pilot and 1973 first series centred on Bert and Betty Jones (Jo Rowbottom), newlywed after seven years, who spend their wedding night in their rickety caravan, natural to Bert but distinctly alien to Betty, born and bred in Streatham. Most of the humour focused on life in theirs and a neighbouring caravan housing Lily and Wally Briggs (Queenie Watts and Arthur Mullard, although Arthur English was cast in the pilot). Following Beck's death after completion on the second series, Bert and Betty were written out, and replaced with a city gentleman and his debutante wife, both of whom remain blissfully oblivious to the Briggs' antics.

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#11The Frighteners

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Mr Edmunds

8.5 / 10
MysteryDrama

A horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale.

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#12Brannigan

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m as Larkin's Club doorman (uncredited)

6.0 / 10
ActionCrimeDrama

A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard but has to contend with a stuffy old London first.

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#13One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m as Cabbie

5.8 / 10
ActionAdventureComedy

Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies.

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#14The Big Sleep

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m as Taxi Driver

5.9 / 10
CrimeMystery

Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.

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#15Follow a Star

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m as Club Member (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
ComedyMusic

Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself.

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#16Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Workman

6.2 / 10
CrimeComedyTV Movie

When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15-year-old cold case.

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#17Henry V

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Court

6.2 / 10
DramaWarTV Movie

Insulted by the Dauphin, the newly-crowned King Henry V gathers his troops for war. But Henry must convince his men that he has left his wild days behind, and prove himself as a leader.

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#18The Aerodrome

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as The Carter

7.0 / 10
DramaSci-FiTV Movie

In the future England is ruled by a fascist government, and one day the leaders begin the construction of a heavily guarded, mysterious airport. BBC adaptation of Rex Warner's 1941 novel of the same name. A stereotypical village in a somewhat alternative England is taken over wholesale by 'The Air Force.' Living in the village is young Roy, who has just learned he is not who he thought he was. Attempting to forge a new sense of identity, he joins the dashing Air Force, seduced by its dynamism and direct and brutal ways.

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#19Richard II

Movie - 1978, 2h 15m as Groom

8.0 / 10
DramaHistoryTV Movie

Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet he is a weak and ineffective king - wasteful in his spending habits, unwise in his choise of chansellors, and detached from his country and its people. When he seizes the land of his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, both the commoners and the barons decide that their king has gone too far...

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#20A Pattern of Roses

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as Holy Moses

6.0 / 10
MysteryTV MovieHorror

While his parents are renovating a cottage in an English village, teenager Tim and his friend Rebecca uncover information about the mysterious death of a 15-year-old boy who lived in the house decades prior, and as they dig deeper, Tim begins to find events from the past being mirrored in his own life.

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#21Seventy Deadly Pills

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Milkman

7.5 / 10
DramaFamily

A small boy, Dickie Goodwin, finds some strychnine pills mixed with sweets in a stolen car left in a deserted garage. With them he buys his way into the Rocket Gang. Brian, the leader, shares out the pills for swaps next day. One of the gang eats hers and collapses. The police frantically search for the pills and a broadcast appeal is made. Brian hears this and reaches the gang at Battersea funfair just in time to save them.

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#22Hancock at the Royal Festival Hall

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Self

8.0 / 10

A one-off special performance by Tony Hancock of his stand-up comedy act (which rarely changed), at the Royal Festival Hall, London.

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#23Rocky Marciano Is Dead

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Old man

8.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

Boxing's lost its soul. The noble art is now big business, and Harry's a has-been manager. But his dream remains-to find a champion, a new Louis, a new Marciano.

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