Richard Neller

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography26 Titles

#1Steptoe and Son

Drama Series - 1962, 16 episodes as Auction Bidder (uncredited)

7.8 / 10
Comedy

Steptoe and Son is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father and son played by Wilfred Brambell and Harry H. Corbett who deal in selling used items. They live on Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC from 1962 to 1965, followed by a second run from 1970 to 1974. Its theme tune, "Old Ned", was composed by Ron Grainer. The series was voted 15th in a 2004 BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It was remade in the US as Sanford and Son, in Sweden as Albert & Herbert and in the Netherlands as Stiefbeen en zoon. In 1972 a movie adaptation of the series, Steptoe and Son, was released in cinemas, with a second Steptoe and Son Ride Again in 1973.

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#2The Ipcress File

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as Scientist (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
Thriller

Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.

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#3Carry On Camping

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m as Man in Cinema (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
Comedy

Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea, so when they decide to take them on a holiday to Paradise Camp, they think they're off to a nudist colony—but they couldn't be more wrong, and meet up with the weirdest bunch of campers you can imagine.

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#4The Key

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as Officer in Operations Room (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
DramaRomanceWar

In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.

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#5Carry On Cleo

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Senator (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
Comedy

Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Julius Caesar.

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#6Fiend Without a Face

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as Townsman (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
HorrorSci-Fi

An American airbase in Canada provokes resentment from the nearby residents after fallout from nuclear experiments at the base are blamed for a recent spate of disappearances. A captain from the airbase is assigned to investigate, and begins to suspect that an elderly British scientist who lives near the base and conducts research in the field of mind over matter knows more than he is letting on..

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#7The Blue Lamp

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Man in Crowd (Uncredited)

6.6 / 10
CrimeThrillerAction

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

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#8That's Carry On!

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m as Senator / Man in Cinema (archive footage) (uncredited)

5.8 / 10
Comedy

Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood film studios to unwrap some rib-tickling moments from the series. From the original, military mayhem of Carry On Sergeant, through to the really ancient archaeological gags of Carry On Behind, our saucy hosts get their titters out for this laugh-a-second gallop through the most successful series of British comedy films ever made.

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#9The Hands of Orlac

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as Surgeon in Clinic Hallway / Concert Audience (uncredited)

4.4 / 10
HorrorCrimeThriller

A famed concert pianist's hands are destroyed in a plane crash; when he receives transplants from a recently executed strangler, his murderous new mitts attract the attention of a sleazy illusionist turned blackmailer.

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#10Doctor in Distress

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Council Official (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
Comedy

"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.

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#11Life at the Top

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as Election Agent (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
Drama

Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But his career seems to have plateaued, leaving him disillusioned. This feeling is only exacerbated when he discovers his wife's infidelity with local man Mark. So he takes up with attractive TV host Norah and moves with her to London, aiming to reignite the fire that drove him to the top.

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#12Doctor in the House

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m as Doctor (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
Comedy

The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.

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#13There Was a Crooked Man

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as Admiral at Washington Meeting

6.6 / 10
Comedy

When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught and jailed. When he is released he goes straight and then notices a leading citizen in his town is cheating his neighbours.

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#14One Good Turn

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m as Man on Train / Theatre Audience (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
Comedy

Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The adventures start when a nasty property developer who is also the chairman of the orphanage board wants to close the orphanage and build a factory on the site. The children are sent to Brighton for the day and Norman is very excited because he's "Never seen the Sea". When they get back they discover the plan to close the orphanage and have to decide what to do

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#15Battle of the V-1

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m as German Scientist (uncredited)

5.2 / 10
DramaWar

1943: A schoolmaster called Stefan Novak and his watchmaker friend Tadek are working for the Polish resistance lead by Stanislav Muski and allow themselves to be captured by the Nazis and taken to a labour camp on the Baltic coast so that they can spy on the operations there. Stefan and Tadek discover that the camp houses a huge production unit where the V1 rocket is being built, which Hitler intends to use to destroy London. The pair succeed in informing the resistance of what is happening who in turn tip off the allies who launch a full scale raid on the plant and destroy it therefore setting back the Nazis' plan by months. However, the fight is far from over as Hitler's generals proceed with plans to build yet another plant and Stefan and Tadek are faced with a dangerous challenge, they must capture a complete V1 rocket and help in smuggling it back to Britain so that the allies can prepare themselves for Hitler's proposed invasion...

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#16The Love Match

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.7 / 10
Comedy

After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his £55 fine. He knows he's going to be discovered though, leaving him no choice but to get the money back by hook or by crook! His last chance is to run a book on the United v City football derby. If that wasn't tense enough, Bill's son is also making his debut for United. It looks like it's going to be a day to remember - do you dare look? ...The Love Match.

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#17The Third Alibi

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m as Sleeping Man in Theater (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
ThrillerDrama

A composer (Laurence Payne) is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister (Jane Griffiths) has resulted in a pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.

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#18A Time to Kill

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m as Juror at Inquest (uncredited)

7.7 / 10
ThrillerCrimeMystery

A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper journalist pursue the truth.

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#19The Limping Man

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Party Guest (Uncredited)

5.4 / 10
Thriller

An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a limping sniper.

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#20The Franchise Affair

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Police Sergeant (Uncredited)

7.3 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.

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#21The Cracksman

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Museum Visitor (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
Comedy

Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a beautiful hostess as a trap, into which the hapless Ernest inevitably falls..!

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#22Press for Time

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Councillor (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
Comedy

Norman is quite happy selling newspapers outside Westminster station but his Grandfather (the Prime Minister) wants to get him "a more responsible job". A few favours are called in and Norman becomes the newest reporter at the seaside town of Tinmouth. After causing chaos at a local council meeting and causing the demolition of a new house he tries to organise a beauty pageant. A slapstick tale of corruption in high and low places

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#23Father Came Too!

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Man at Auction (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
Comedy

When Dexter Munro and his new wife Juliet get married, they decide to escape Juliet's meddling father by buying a rundown cottage and doing it up themselves. But when the cottage proves to be more ramshackle than they thought, and the scale of the repairs needed far out of their budget, the newlyweds are forced into calling on Juliet's father after all. Before long he's employed incompetent builder Josh Wicks, and the situation goes from bad to worse.

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#24Boys in Brown

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m as Borstal Master

6.3 / 10
Crime

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.

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#25The Broken Horseshoe

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Hospital Visitor (uncredited)

7.5 / 10
CrimeDrama

When a hit and run patient is murdered an attending doctor is placed under suspicion.

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#26Lease of Life

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m as Member of Congregation (uncredited)

7.4 / 10
Drama

William Thorne, vicar of a small village, leads a modest life as a clergyman. Supporting his wife Vera and musically talented daughter Susan with his work, Thorne is also thoroughly devoted to his community. When he finds out that he doesn't have long to live, however, Thorne rethinks his staid existence and develops a more vibrant way of being, affecting all of those around him.

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