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John Rutland

John Rutland

Acting
1916-08-31
Southwark, London, England

Biography

John Rutland was a British character actor, born in Southwark, London, England. He worked in theatre, film and on television. He appeared in films such as in The Hostage, Take Me Over, Calculated Risk, Quatermass and the Pit, Chariots of Fire, and Memoirs of a Survivor.

Known For & Full Filmography23 Titles

#1EastEnders

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes • as Reggie

4.2 / 10
SoapDramaCrime

The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.

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#2Minder

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes • as Colin Stamp

7.2 / 10
ComedyDramaAction & Adventure

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

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#3Bergerac

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • as Tobin

6.7 / 10
Drama

Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.

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#4Last of the Summer Wine

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes • as Husband

7.2 / 10
Comedy

Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.

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#5The Adventures of Robin Hood

Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes • as Earl

6.4 / 10
Action & AdventureFamily

The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.

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#6All Creatures Great and Small

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes • as Tommy Thwaite

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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#7'Allo 'Allo!

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • as Clock Repairer

7.8 / 10
ComedyWar & Politics

The misadventures of hapless cafe owner René Artois and his escapades with the Resistance in occupied France.

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#8Jeeves and Wooster

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes • as Henberry

8.1 / 10
Comedy

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.

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#9One Foot in the Grave

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes • as Wilfred

7.7 / 10
Comedy

One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series. The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew and his long-suffering wife, Margaret. The programmes invariably deal with Meldrew's battle against the problems he creates for himself. Living in a typical household in an unnamed English suburb, Victor takes involuntary early retirement. His various efforts to keep himself busy, while encountering various misfortunes and misunderstandings are the themes of the sitcom. Despite its traditional production, the series supplants its domestic sitcom setting with elements of black humour and surrealism.

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#10Never the Twain

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • as Charlie

7.0 / 10
Comedy

Never the Twain is a British sitcom that ran for eleven series from 7 September 1981 to 9 October 1991. It was created by Johnnie Mortimer, and was the only sitcom he ever created without his usual writing partner, Brian Cooke. Mortimer wrote the entirety of the first two series and four episodes out of six of the eighth, with the rest being mainly written by Vince Powell and John Kane. It starred Windsor Davies and Donald Sinden as rival antique dealers, and also starred Derek Deadman, Zara Nutley, Robin Kermode, Tacy Kneale, Julia Watson, Honor Blackman, Teddy Turner and Maria Charles. The title is taken from the Rudyard Kipling poem; The Ballad of East and West.

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#11Open All Hours

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes • as Black Lead Customer

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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#12Chariots of Fire

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m • as Caius Porter

6.8 / 10
DramaHistory

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.

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#13Father Brown

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes • as Max

6.8 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

Based on the short stories by G. K. Chesterton, Father Brown is a Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective.

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#14Porridge

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes • as Verger

8.1 / 10
Comedy

Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence, porridge once being the traditional breakfast in UK prisons. The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would not be going back to prison again. Porridge was voted number seven in a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms.

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#15Hi-de-Hi!

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes • as Elderly Man

7.0 / 10
Comedy

Hi-de-Hi! is a British sitcom set in Maplins, a fictional holiday camp, during 1959 and 1960, and was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who also wrote Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum amongst others. It aired on the BBC from 1980 to 1988. The series revolved around the lives of the camp's management and entertainers, most of them struggling actors or has-beens. The inspiration was the experience of writers Perry and Croft: after being demobilised from the army, Perry was a Redcoat at Butlin's, Pwllheli during the holiday season. The series gained large audiences and won a BAFTA as Best Comedy Series in 1984. In 2004, it came 40th in Britain's Best Sitcom and in a 2008 poll on Channel 4, 'Hi-de-Hi!" was voted the 35th most popular comedy catchphrase.

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#16Seven of One

Drama Series - 1973, 16 episodes • as Opposing Trainer

7.3 / 10
Comedy

Seven of One is a 1973 BBC2 comedy anthology starring Ronnie Barker. 7 of 1 is a series of seven separate comedies that would serve as possible pilots for sitcoms, three of which were picked up for a full series run. Originally called Six of One, which Barker planned to follow up with another series called Half Dozen of the Other.

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#17Hallmark Hall of Fame

Drama Series - 1951, 16 episodes • as Leo Amery

8.8 / 10
Drama

Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.

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#18Money Sings

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
Music

A lively pop musical with a variety of talent and music; featuring Johnny Carson, Patricia Shakesby and The Condors.

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#19Remembrance

Movie - 1982, 2h 15m • as Alf

4.5 / 10
Drama

A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port, hitting Plymouth's notorious Union Street district, with violent results.

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#20A Little Of What You Fancy

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10

Documentary following the history of British Music Hall, its stars and architecture, interspersed with revivals of old favourites by todays performers.

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#21The Two Ronnies Old Fashioned Christmas Mystery

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as Party Guest

5.8 / 10
MysteryComedy

On Christmas Eve in 1874, the turkey has been stolen from Sir Giles and Lady Hampton. What are they going to serve their guests? They call in the detectives Piggy Malone and Charley Farley to find who stole it.

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#22Calculated Risk

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as Kenneth Ian "Kip" Walton

8.0 / 10
DramaCrime

After spending a long time in prison, Kip is still willing to pull off one more big job

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#23It’s the Only Way to Go

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

6.0 / 10
Comedy

A black comedy, in mime, about the funeral of an old man who dies from an overdose of excitement while watching a young girl strip.

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