Alan Starkey
Biography
Alan Starkey was born on March 24, 1931 in Barnoldswick, Lancashire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), A Sort of Innocence (1986) and Open All Hours (1976). He died on November 3, 2003 in Bressuire, Deux-Sèvres, France.
Known For & Full Filmography17 Titles
Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes • as Harold
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes • as Mr. Dinsdale
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.
Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes • as Jeweller
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.
Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes • as Mayor
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes • as Man
A young couple from Merseyside and their off again/on again relationship.
Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes • as Thorndyke
Open All Hours is a British television sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke, starring Ronnie Barker as penny-pinching corner-shopkeeper Albert Arkwright, and David Jason as his nephew and assistant Granville. The programme originated as a 1973 episode of Barker’s comedy anthology Seven of One, and later ran for 26 episodes; the first series broadcast on BBC2, the remaining three series broadcast on BBC1.
Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes • as Muntsey
Environmental activist Emma Craven is murdered in front of her father, local police inspector Ronald Craven. Investigating the death leads him through a haunting revelation of the murkiness of British nuclear policy of the 1980s.
Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes • as Black Murderer Marionette
Supernatural is a 1977 British anthology television programme broadcast on BBC One. Each episode follows the Club of the Damned, where a prospective member is required to tell a horror story, and their application would be judged on how fright factor. Applicants who fail to tell a sufficiently frightening story are killed.
Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • as Landau Man
An fifty-year-old mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to romantically please every woman that fancies him.
Drama Series - 1987, 16 episodes • as Man at Funeral
The Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part 1987 British television comedy-drama serial written by Alan Plater. The second installment in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, it stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne. When a tape recording of a conversation about nuclear waste inadvertently falls into Chaplin's hands, he and Swinburne find themselves being pursued by national security agents.
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Train Guard
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorating star as the company struggles to carry on during the London Blitz. The pathos of his backstage efforts rival the pathos in the story of Lear and the Fool that is being presented on-stage, as the situation comes to a crisis.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Policeman
In Yorkshire during the twenties, it seems that everyone who holds a driver's licence wants to run his own private bus company, and young Jim Stone is no exception.
Movie - 1975, 2h 15m • as Timekeeper
Pubs, pigeons, weight-lifting – that's Terry's life, and his wife Glenda feels neglected. But now Terry's best mate, Albert, is on leave from the Merchant Navy, and Albert knows how to treat a lady. 'Fireworks assured,' says the wrestling poster.
Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as Hospital Clerk
When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They've never really got on, so Midgley wants to be sure he's there if his father ever regains consciousness. As he hates his job as a schoolteacher, and his home-life with his wife, her senile mother and their insolent teenage son, he has no qualms about lingering around the hospital. But as days turn into weeks, his father obstinately refuses to 'slip away', and Denis' motivation for staying by his father's bedside has more and more to do with Valery, a young nurse.
Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as Harold
A darts tournament is put in peril when the players' wives stage a sit-in in the pub.
Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • as Mr. Leach
As the Lady Chatterley court case puts its seal on the 1950s, three boys set out for a day's train-spotting. They see more than just trains, though, on a day when innocence and illusion are lost.
Movie - 1986, 2h 15m • as Geoff
The weekly brass band rehearsal is an enjoyable, light-hearted occasion. Then Mathew, the conductor, introduces James, a newcomer to the village, who is an enthusiastic bandsman from the north, where they do these things properly.