Maurice Lane

Acting
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK

Known For & Full Filmography7 Titles

#1The Professionals

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Taxi Driver

7.6 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeDrama

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.

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#2Campion

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes as Postmaster

6.3 / 10
MysteryDramaComedy

Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg and Andrew Burt as his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates. A total of eight novels were adapted, four in each series, each of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes. Peter Davison sang the title music for the first series himself; in the second series, it was replaced with an instrumental version.

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#31001 Nights

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

5.2 / 10
FantasyComedyAdventure

Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this unfortunate conclusion by putting off the connubial event for a thousand and one nights, telling irresistible stories instead. In this one, she gets hold of a magic lamp.

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#4The Slipper and the Rose

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Dancer

6.9 / 10
FantasyRomanceMusic

Prince Edward wants to marry for love, but the King and court of the Kingdom of Euphrania are anxious for the Prince to wed no matter what. When the Prince meets Cinderella at a ball, he's sure she's the one, and when she loses her slipper upon exiting the dance, the Prince is determined to find and marry her.

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#5Don't Lose Your Head

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

6.7 / 10
Comedy

Amidst the French revolution, Citizen Robespierre is beheading the aristocracy! When word gets to England, noblemen Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy Pue take it upon themselves to aid their French counterparts. Sir Rodney is a master of disguise, and becomes 'The Black Fingernail' scourge of Camembert and Bidet, leaders of the French secret police.

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#6The Teckman Mystery

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m as Messenger Boy

6.1 / 10
Mystery

A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a series of murders.

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#7Rockets in the Dunes

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as Richard Clifford

7.0 / 10
Family

Story of a group of children and their efforts to prevent the War Office from closing their beloved beach to make a rocket-launching site.

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