John Roden
Known For & Full Filmography9 Titles
Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes • as Tomsun
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes • as Col. Erinson
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as 2nd Settler (uncredited)
A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it.
Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes • as Porter
A four-part drama adaptation about the life of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Based on Shackleton’s own journals. In 1914 Ernest Shackleton chooses to lead a team on their famous journey aboard the Endurance. When the ship is trapped and crushed by pack-ice, Shackleton and five of his men embark on a desperate 800-mile journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia.
Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes • as Porter
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Guest
A devestating, yet bracing look at a family whose proximity to each other belies the decay of their relationships, The Wild Duck is just as modern today as it was when first staged. When Gregors Werle comes to stay with the Ekdals, his idealist nature refuses to tolerate the dreamworld of lies the family is living. However, in his bid to force the Ekdals to see the truth, the skeletons he unearths destroy the family that he wanted to redeem.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • as Police Sergeant
Henry sets out to join a church and passionately help the parish. Slowly but surely his habits of exaggeration and lying begin to catch up with him.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Commisionaire
A dangerous psychological game plays out between a man and the husband of the lover who spurned him.
Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • as London Crook
English schoolboy and his Dutch pen friend chase a diamond smuggling gang in Holland.