John McKelvey

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography14 Titles

#1The Flying Doctors

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Old Rodney

6.6 / 10
Drama

The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.

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#2Theatre 625

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes as David's Father

7.2 / 10
Drama

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

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#3Churchill's People

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Prince Rupert

5.0 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.

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#4New Scotland Yard

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Mr Hever

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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#5New Scotland Yard

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Mr Docherty

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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#6Open All Hours

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Hard of Hearing Man

7.9 / 10
Comedy

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.

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#7Cilla

Drama Series - 1968, 16 episodes as Self

8.0 / 10

A mostly live weekly entertainment show starring Cilla Black and her special guests.

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#8Bill Brand

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Wilks

7.3 / 10
Drama

Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as Labour candidate for a Lancashire textile constituency.

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#9The Protectors

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes as Traynor

8.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

Ex-insurance investigator Ian Souter sets up his own security agency — the SIS (Specialists in Security) — alongside ex-cop Robert Shoesmith and secretary Heather Keys - and fight crime.

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#10The Protectors

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes as Matthews

8.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

Ex-insurance investigator Ian Souter sets up his own security agency — the SIS (Specialists in Security) — alongside ex-cop Robert Shoesmith and secretary Heather Keys - and fight crime.

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#11Wessex Tales

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes as Doctor Charlson

7.0 / 10
Drama

An anthology series based on the Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories by novelist Thomas Hardy.

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#12The Cuckoo Waltz

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Austen Tweedale

7.5 / 10
Comedy

Follows news reporter Chris Hawthorne, his wife Fliss, and their twins, whose simple lives are upended when they take in a lodger after his wife leaves him.

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#13Every Home Should Have One

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Col. Belper

4.9 / 10
Comedy

Teddy works for a large advertising company. Given the seemingly impossible task of selling frozen porridge, he decides to produce commercials that make the product seem sexy. This leads him to confrontation with the "Keep Television Clean" movement, of which his wife is a senior member.

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#14The Tale of Ruby Rose

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as Tasker

5.5 / 10
HorrorDramaThriller

The year is 1933. Ruby Rose (Melita Jurisic) is an Australian woman living with her Welsh immigrant husband Henry (Chris Haywood) in the Tasmanian highlands. Cut off from her superjudgmental family, for whom Henry had once worked as a humble farm hand, Ruby remains isolated in her tiny house. Superstitiously terrified of the dark, she begins developing her own folklore about the inky blackness that surrounds her each night; this folklore eventually develops into Ruby's own personal religion, created to ward off the evils that she imagines lurk in every corner. Only by venturing out of her house and rekindling her relationship with her embittered father is Ruby able to exorcise her fears. Almost hypnotic in its stark beauty, Tale of Ruby Rose is proof enough that writer/director Roger Scholes deserves to be far better known.

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