Keith James

Acting
1937-12-10
Southend on Sea, Essex, England, UK

Known For & Full Filmography16 Titles

#1Doctor Who

Drama Series - 1963, 16 episodes as Patterson

7.9 / 10
DramaAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

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#2The Sweeney

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Lakin

8.1 / 10
Action & AdventureDramaCrime

Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.

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#3Justice

Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes as Clerk of the Court

7.3 / 10
Drama

Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.

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#4Public Eye

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Mercer

8.2 / 10
CrimeDrama

Public Eye is a British television drama broadcast from 1965 to 1975 on ITV1. Produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four, the programme follows the investigations and cases handled by the unglamourous enquiry agent Frank Marker.

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#5Public Eye

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Clerk

8.2 / 10
CrimeDrama

Public Eye is a British television drama broadcast from 1965 to 1975 on ITV1. Produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four, the programme follows the investigations and cases handled by the unglamourous enquiry agent Frank Marker.

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#6Dick Turpin

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Davy

7.4 / 10
DramaComedy

Richard O'Sullivan stars as Dick Turpin in this action-filled adventure series chronicling the exploits of England's most celebrated highwayman.

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#7Target

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Purser

7.0 / 10
DramaCrime

A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.

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#8Father Brown

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Milkman

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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#9Hi-de-Hi!

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes as Camper At Bar

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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#10The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder

Drama Series - 1969, 16 episodes as Sparrow

5.0 / 10
Drama

The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder is based on a character created by Edgar Wallace in a series of 1925 short stories of the same name, Hugh Burden played the titular character – A mild-mannered investigator with the Department of Public Prosecutions.

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#11Holly

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Vicar

8.8 / 10
Drama

Holly Elliot is a university graduate taking an evening class in art appreciation. Her husband, David, on the other hand, works for a mail-order firm and is trying hard to keep up with Holly by taking an extramural degree in his spare time. Their lives are about to be irrevocably upended.

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#12Doctor Who: Inferno

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Patterson

8.6 / 10
Sci-FiTV Movie

UNIT is providing security cover at an experimental drilling project at Eastchester, designed to penetrate the Earth's crust and release a previously untapped source of energy. Soon, however, the drill head starts to leak an oily green liquid that transforms those who touch it into vicious primeval creatures with a craving for heat. The Doctor is accidentally transported "sideways in time" by the partially repaired TARDIS control console into a parallel universe where the drilling project is at a more advanced stage. Thwarted by his friends' ruthless alter egos, he works to save both universes.

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#13The Battle of Billy's Pond

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Mr. Bateson

7.5 / 10
Family

A huge chemical company pays illegal dumpers for disposal of chemical waste dangerous to the environment.

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#14Dutchman

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Subway rider

4.8 / 10
Drama

A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for trouble, sizes him up. Sexual tension, racial bigotry and righteous fury collide in a razor's edge confrontation between this unlikely pair.

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#15The Bells of Astercote

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as Frank Turner

8.0 / 10
FantasyTV Movie

An adaptation of the novel by Penelope Lively. The plot revolves around the ghosts of plague victims in a sleepy wood.

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#16The Ruins of the Interior

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m as Stephen

6.5 / 10
WarDrama

During World War II, during a misty morning, near a fishermen's village, four children come across two RAF pilots ejected from a plane that crashed in the sea.

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