Ronald Adam

AKA: Ronald Adams , Рональд Адам, Ronald George Hinings Adams
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1896-12-29

Bromyard, Herefordshire, England, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {104}

Prosecutor

1949-04-13 6.5

That Dangerous Age

The lonely wife of a workaholic husband on the magical Isle of Capri meets a charming and attractive young man. An exciting affair must end when word gets back to the husband and he becomes ill. In ho ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Eldridge Harper

1963-03-28 7.1

The Haunting

Dr. John Markway invites three distinct individuals to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate guests discover that Markway is far more interested ...
Genre :Horror

Operations Room Controller

1953-06-01 5.9

Malta Story

Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl. ...
Genre :Drama, War, History

Turner

1951-06-28 7.2

The Lavender Hill Mob

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

The Abbot

1954-08-26 6.2

The Black Knight

John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeoniland, so he creates a secret alternate identity as th ...
Genre :Action, Adventure

Talkative, balding club member

1949-08-03 6.8

Obsession

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime

Dr. White

1946-12-07 6.684

Green for Danger

In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental? ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Thriller

Sir John Farthing

1959-03-10 5.9

Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office i ...
Genre :Comedy

Group Controller

1952-03-19 6.1

Angels One Five

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming ...
Genre :Drama, War

Arthur Lytton, the Prime Minister

1950-10-30 6.7

Seven Days to Noon

When Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a warhead and threatens to detonate it in London in seven days unless the government begins nuclear disarma ...
Genre :Thriller

Mr. Appleton

1959-12-17 6.1

Please Turn Over

The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously based on the local ...
Genre :Comedy

Court President

1949-08-19 6.3

Black Magic

A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, Romance, Horror

1945-11-22 6

Pink String and Sealing Wax

Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Crime

solicitor

1950-09-04 0

Shadow of the Past

A man catches sight of a woman believed by everyone to be dead. ...
Genre :

Lt. McFee

1946-12-01 0

Morning Departure

At the end of World War II, a Royal Navy submarine on routine patrol strikes and detonates a mine. The subsequent explosion sinks the submarine, killing most of its crew. Frantic efforts are taken to ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Col. Fogarty

1950-08-21 0

My Daughter Joy

A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik. ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Fordyce

1962-02-22 4.3

Postman's Knock

Likeable country postman Harold Petts gets transferred from his village to London, where on his arrival he unwittingly foils a mail train robbery. Innocent in the ways of the big city, he is thought t ...
Genre :Comedy

Wittens

1939-03-07 7.417

Inspector Hornleigh

When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from t ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Mr. Dryden

1958-03-04 6.3

The Golden Disc

The Lucky Charm coffee shop adds a recording studio and record shop. ...
Genre :Music

Gade

1970-11-04 4.6

Song of Norway

Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars Toralv Maurstad as Grieg ...
Genre :Music, Drama

George Harvey

1975-01-01 6.2

The Man from Nowhere

The Man from Nowhere is a beautifully told Victorian gothic thriller from acclaimed director James Hill. Young orphan Alice has been invited by her rich uncle to live in his country mansion but she so ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Scammel / Dumetrius

1956-10-01 4.6

Assignment Redhead

An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an age ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Sam Vane

1949-04-25 6.2

All Over the Town

Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's partner and son offers Nat a position as editor in re ...
Genre :Comedy

Major Gregoff

1938-04-07 5.9

The Drum

Set in the India of the British Raj, the evil and untrustworthy Prince Guhl (Raymond Massey) plans to wipe out the British troops as they enjoy the hospitality of Guhl's spacious palace. It's up to th ...
Genre :Adventure, War

Macleod

1948-10-26 4.7

Bonnie Prince Charlie

Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the German House of Hanover, ruler of Great Britain. ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

Air Vice-Marshal Leigh-Mallory

1956-07-05 6.8

Reach for the Sky

The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II. ...
Genre :War, Drama

Barworth Controller

1952-11-10 6

Top Secret

A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The ...
Genre :Comedy

Police Chief

1938-03-17 8

Kate Plus Ten

Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed? ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Insp. Duggan

1953-11-01 5.5

Flannelfoot

Ace crime reporter Watling tries to discover the identity of a notorious jewel thief, but his informant is murdered. At a house party, Watling helps detective Adam expose the criminal. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Van Thaal

1951-03-07 7.5

Fortune in Diamonds

As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Ne ...
Genre :Adventure

Wood

1960-01-01 0

Shoot to Kill

A showbiz reporter gets involved with political intrigue. ...
Genre :Drama

Surtees

1939-05-01 0

The Missing People

27 well-to-do people have all vanished under similar circumstances. J.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to investigate the matter. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

Pollack - Aviation Engineer

1939-02-21 5.9

Q Planes

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while ove ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery

Barstow

1938-05-01 0

Strange Boarders

Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery, Comedy

Lord

1972-05-24 6.379

The Ruling Class

When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks h ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Insp. Beveridge

1954-01-21 5

Johnny-on-the-Spot

An ex-convict, who was framed, struggles to clear his name. ...
Genre :Crime

Samuel Clements

1954-01-07 6.847

The Million Pound Note

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds th ...
Genre :Comedy

Sir John Fawcett

1962-01-01 5

Two Letter Alibi

Charles Hilary is in love with Kathy Forrester, a beautiful television personality, but is married to Louise, an alcoholic with as many lovers as whisky bottles. His pleas for a divorce are met with t ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Judge

1949-04-18 6

The Bad Lord Byron

Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character. ...
Genre :Drama

Sir Montague Malthus

1970-02-09 0

The Suicide Club

Prince Florizel of Bohemia discovers a secret club where desperate men gamble with their lives, and vows to bring it to an end. ...
Genre :Thriller, Horror

Capt. Dukes

1939-12-16 0

Hell's Cargo

Adventure film directed by Harold Huth. ...
Genre :Adventure

First Sea Lord

1957-05-14 6

Carry On Admiral

Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former's lack of sea knowledge causes several catastrophes, includ ...
Genre :Comedy

1957-05-31 0

Inside Information

Scotland Yard is called in when the effigy used in a Guy Fawkes Day celebration turns out to be the burned corpse of a real man. ...
Genre :Crime

Club Steward

1956-10-17 6.639

Around the World in 80 Days

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days. ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance

Psychiatrist

1956-04-09 5

Tons of Trouble

An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel." ...
Genre :Comedy

Le juge anglais

1978-10-18 6.4

Question of Love

Architect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspect his young Swedish wife Catherine and her English lover Tom Hastings. After numerous interrogations, in which ...
Genre :Thriller

Mons. Besnard

1940-03-02 0

At the Villa Rose

A gang of clever thieves kill a wealthy woman in hopes of stealing her gems. But the thieves aren't clever enough to ascertain the location of those gems, so they consult a phony spiritualist. Then th ...
Genre :Mystery

George Merrick

1943-10-18 0

Escape to Danger

During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade. ...
Genre :Thriller

Nicolides

1940-02-17 0

Meet Maxwell Archer

Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder. ...
Genre :Mystery

Bank Manager

1951-06-01 6.4

Laughter in Paradise

When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This ...
Genre :Comedy

Counsel for Defence

1949-03-02 6

The Case of Charles Peace

Charles Peace leads a double life, by day he's a respected local businessman, but by night he's a professional thief who stops at nothing, not even murder, to get what he wants. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Det Sgt Hawkins - Deaf Man

1947-05-30 7.571

Take My Life

When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime

Army Padre

1957-08-20 5.233

Sea Wife

In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator, and a black seaman. O ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Thriller, War

Mr. Nat Jeffcote

1952-11-10 5

Hindle Wakes

During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts bu ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Mr. Brook

1957-05-01 5.2

Kill Me Tomorrow

A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Radshaws' Doctor (uncredited)

1947-09-23 6.5

Fame Is the Spur

A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace. ...
Genre :Drama

Sir Henry Johnstone (uncredited)

1954-08-10 6

The Beachcomber

Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister miss ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Comedy

Parsons

1954-10-31 5.6

To Dorothy, a Son

Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash. She journies from New York to England, ...
Genre :Comedy

Adm. McCartney

1951-04-10 6.9

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels. ...
Genre :Adventure, War, History

Inspector McGregor

1957-01-13 0

Woman and the Hunter

When embittered safari guide David Kirby accepts a fateful commission to lead a hunting trip for wealthy and ruthless American Mitchell Gifford, tragedy soon intervenes and the big game hunt becomes a ...
Genre :Drama

Coroner

1951-12-18 6

Mr. Denning Drives North

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calli ...
Genre :Drama

Trout (as Ronald Adams)

1960-02-01 5.6

And the Same to You

Dickie Dreadnought is the boxing-mad nephew of pious clergyman Reverend Sydney Mullet. To mollify his disapproving uncle, Dickie embarks on an elaborate plan to keep his budding boxing career a secret ...
Genre :Comedy

German Bomber Chief

1939-11-03 6.2

The Lion Has Wings

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis. ...
Genre :Documentary, War

Major Tilling

1957-10-01 0

The Surgeon's Knife

A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1949-09-20 5.2

Diamond City

Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South". ...
Genre :Western, Adventure, Drama

Mr. Bennett

1954-05-04 6.4

Forbidden Cargo

Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Head-Master

1951-03-31 6.4

The Late Edwina Black

When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and her companion, who are lovers. Inspector Martin of ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Sir Charles Fawcett, Managing Director

1942-06-22 6.6

The Foreman Went to France

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment. ...
Genre :War, Drama

Director General of the BBC (uncredited)

1949-08-07 6.2

Helter Skelter

A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Fantasy

Commanding Officer at Falcon Field

1945-10-01 6.4

Journey Together

Two Englishmen train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin. ...
Genre :War, Drama

Caleb Horder

1947-09-09 6

The Phantom Shot

A hated country gentleman is murdered, and the inspector on the case takes the veiwer through his thoughts about the possible murderer and motives as he questions everyone concerned. ...
Genre :Mystery

Doctor at Medical

1956-02-17 6.6

Private's Progress

Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Co ...
Genre :Comedy, War

Gregory

1966-10-07 7

Who Killed the Cat?

A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her. ...
Genre :Mystery

Adams

1956-04-03 7

The Man Who Never Was

The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing ...
Genre :Thriller, War, Drama, History

Chemist (uncredited)

1957-12-03 6.63

The Naked Truth

Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he ...
Genre :Comedy

J. B. Wykeham

1961-01-01 6.1

Offbeat

When Scotland Yard finds themselves up against a brick wall in tracking down a vicious gang of thieves and bank robbers, they call in Layton, a loner from MI5 to work his way into the gang and help br ...
Genre :Crime

Talavera

1949-10-12 5.7

Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama, History

Sir William Hanson QC

1952-10-16 5.5

Circumstantial Evidence

Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly reappears, he attempts to blackmail the couple with a th ...
Genre :Crime

Minister at Graveside

1964-11-29 6.3

The Tomb of Ligeia

Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit ...
Genre :Horror

Prime Minister

1971-04-08 6

Zeppelin

The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Although his allegiance is to Britain, his mother was from an aristocratic Bavarian family, and ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, War

Mr. Riggs

1949-09-08 6

Under Capricorn

A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that binds them, struggle to rebuild their lives when a young newcomer stirs long-buried passions and secrets ...
Genre :Drama, History

Judge

1961-06-28 6

Three on a Spree

A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think! ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. King

1960-01-01 7

Snowball

A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. The story gets out of control and the conductor, a war veteran with memory problems, is harassed until ...
Genre :Drama

1954-03-15 0

Front Page Story

A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane crash, the one which his wife took.... ...
Genre :Drama

1962-02-01 0

The Golden Rabbit

A bashful bank clerk who fancies himself a scientist discovers a method to make gold, which arouses the greed of unscrupulous businessmen, forcing him to overcome his nerves and rescue his girlfriend ...
Genre :Comedy

Old Man

1978-09-25 0

Something's Wrong

The businessman's private medical check-up is usually considered one of the perks of the job, but Trevor finds that all is not quite what it seems when his examination turns out to be more personal th ...
Genre :

Mr. Chichele Plowden

1976-09-17 0

The Portland Millions

Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland. ...
Genre :Drama

Judge

1949-12-01 6.5

Boys in Brown

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 a ...
Genre :Crime

Specialist

1951-06-01 5.7

Hell Is Sold Out

A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname. ...
Genre :Drama

1975-05-28 5

Children of Rage

The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been going on for their entire lifetimes, killing their ...
Genre :History, War, Drama

1961-01-07 7.741

The Avengers

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assista ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

1956-02-20 4.4

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 an ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

Cardinal Campeggio

1970-01-01 8.1

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Series of television plays written by six different authors. Each play is a lavish dramatization of the trials and tribulations surrounding Henry and his wives. Keith Michell ties the episodes togethe ...
Genre :Drama

1966-01-29 5.5

Mystery and Imagination

Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 by the ITV network and produced by ABC and Tham ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

1961-11-02 0

Stryker of the Yard

Genre :Crime, Drama

1964-09-12 0

The Massingham Affair

Genre :

Sir Charles Braithwaite

1969-06-18 7.7

The Main Chance

The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocate ...
Genre :Drama

Sir William

1971-10-08 6

Justice

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 barr ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Baker

1965-03-18 6.8

Gideon's Way

Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. ...
Genre :Drama

Sir Robert Copthorne

1965-03-18 6.8

Gideon's Way

Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Chichele Plowden

1976-09-03 0

Victorian Scandals

Featuring dramatised versions of true stories that shocked mainstream Victorian society. ...
Genre :

George Norville

1964-04-24 8

Story Parade

Story Parade specialized in adaptations of modern novels. It was broadcast on June 5, 1964 and repeated on August 28, 1964. The teleplay was by Terry Nation (who invented "Blake's 7" and the Daleks i ...
Genre :

Magistrate

1968-08-15 7

Nearest and Dearest

Nearest and Dearest is a British television sitcom that ran from 1968 to 1973. A total of 46 episodes were made, 18 in monochrome and 28 in colour. The series, produced by Granada Television for ITV, ...
Genre :Comedy

Sir Godfrey McKellar

1964-05-03 7.2

Theatre 625

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 ...
Genre :Drama