Sydney Tafler

AKA: Сидни Тэфлер
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1916-07-31

Hackney, London, England, UK

Biography

Sydney Tafler (31 July 1916 - 8 November 1979) was an English actor.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {104}

Stone

1956-06-01 6.8

The Long Arm

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Thriller

Liparus Captain

1977-07-07 6.8

The Spy Who Loved Me

Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappeari ...
Genre :Adventure, Action, Thriller

Syd Burnett

1952-02-05 6.344

Secret People

This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Strip Club Manager

1961-04-04 6.2

Carry On Regardless

After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a ...
Genre :Comedy

Clayton

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

Arthur Bradshaw

1966-06-08 0

Way Off Beat

Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Morry Hyams

1947-11-28 6.581

It Always Rains on Sunday

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Harrison Liston

1967-11-01 5.6

Berserk!

A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Alf Cressett

1955-12-01 4.667

Dial 999

A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for the murder. The wife and her brother hide him a ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery

Potter

1958-02-18 6

Carve Her Name with Pride

London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a F ...
Genre :Drama, War

Policeman

1955-11-16 5.871

The Cockleshell Heroes

During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them. ...
Genre :War

Max Lennar

1953-10-12 5.704

The Saint's Return

A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Thriller

Harry Flint

1957-01-01 5.2

The Counterfeit Plan

An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who knew nothing of his past, to counterfeit 5-pound n ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

Panel Participant

1966-02-22 3.5

Promise Her Anything

A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is her employer doesn't know about her son and he doesn ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Rorke

1955-04-15 5.4

The Glass Cage

A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning! ...
Genre :Crime

Benny

1952-04-01 6.3

Wide Boy

Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal in London. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Sid Biggs

1960-03-25 6.4

Bottoms Up!

An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie's son as a Middle ...
Genre :Comedy

Larry Gordon

1951-09-01 5.6

Mystery Junction

In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove him innocent. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Ricky Martin

1952-01-01 0

Blind Man's Bluff

Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results in nothing but irritation for his elders. But when a ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Ted Green

1960-07-05 6.2

Light Up the Sky!

Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II. ...
Genre :Comedy, War, Romance

Wade

1953-12-01 5.8

Operation Diplomat

A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances. ...
Genre :Drama

Jimmy Smart

1950-07-01 6.6

Once a Sinner

Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, ...
Genre :Drama

Robert Desoutter

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

Victor Skinner

1954-02-01 6

The Floating Dutchman

Two men working on the docks close to London's Tower Bridge find the body of an unidentified man floating in the Thames. The police later identify the body to be that of a diamond courier from Holland ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Night Club Receptionist

1948-11-05 7

London Belongs to Me

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of ...
Genre :Drama

Madam Rita

1955-08-15 6.6

A Kid for Two Farthings

Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a u ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Bernie Shelton

1958-10-01 6

The Bank Raiders

A third rate con man lands himself the job of a get-away driver for a bank heist that has complications. ...
Genre :Crime

Pullar

1951-07-09 5.3

Hotel Sahara

World War II farce about the hotel of the title ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, War

First Fish Porter

1966-07-15 6.1

The Sandwich Man

A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Leon

1951-05-07 6

The Galloping Major

A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper. ...
Genre :Comedy

Dr. Higgins

1956-07-01 2.456

Fire Maidens of Outer Space

An astronaut and crew land on Jupiter's 13th moon and find a monster and women from Atlantis. ...
Genre :Science Fiction

Lionel Spanager

1960-08-09 7.1

Make Mine Mink

In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds ...
Genre :Comedy

Frank

1966-03-29 6.5

Alfie

A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Marcon

1951-05-01 4.9

Scarlet Thread

Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run. ...
Genre :Drama

1970-03-04 0

The Cellar and the Almond Tree

The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed to obtain from her the keys to her wine-cellar, wh ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Antonio Riccardi

1951-04-01 5.5

Assassin for Hire

Antonio Riccardi, a rare stamp dealer who is secretly a hired killer, pays for the violin lessons of his gifted brother Giuseppe. To meet the expenses of Giuseppe's concert debut he accepts a further ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Nat Goldberg

1968-12-09 6.4

The Birthday Party

Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to s ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Thriller

Mr. Jones

1965-01-01 7

Runaway Railway

A group of young railway enthusiasts attempt to stop the closure of the local railway by trying to raise money to buy it and the steam engine "Matilda." They get help from a pair of men claiming to be ...
Genre :Family, Adventure, Crime

Johnny

1953-01-01 6

There Was a Young Lady

A super-efficient secretary circumvents the schemes of smash-and grab gangsters. ...
Genre :Comedy

Butch

1955-08-25 7

The Woman for Joe

A carnival boss and a little person from the sideshow compete for the same woman. ...
Genre :Drama

1953-06-01 7.5

Johnny on the Run

A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after encountering trouble through his innocent implication in ...
Genre :Family, Adventure

1971-01-02 6

Danger Point

Three irresponsible teenagers borrow a yacht belonging to the local Sea Scouts and run out of fuel. They hoist the sail in an endeavour to stop the boat drifting on to the notoriously dangerous Bradda ...
Genre :Family

Tom, Chief Petty Officer

1964-09-02 6.5

The 7th Dawn

Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, War

Cpl. Robb

1954-06-01 7.1

The Sea Shall Not Have Them

During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up moral ...
Genre :Drama, War

RAF Officer (uncredited)

1941-09-06 6.6

Cottage to Let

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight. ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery, Comedy

Maysin

1948-07-06 3.833

Uneasy Terms

Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible? ...
Genre :Thriller

Fred Cowan

1949-10-26 6.9

Passport to Pimlico

When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The ...
Genre :Comedy

Freeman, the Dealer

1948-06-01 5.8

The Monkey's Paw

A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow. ...
Genre :Thriller

Mr Hunter

1957-07-01 5

Booby Trap

An absent minded professor invents a pen that will explode on the sound of bells, then leaves it in a taxi ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Brett

1952-05-19 6.5

Emergency Call

A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors. ...
Genre :Thriller

Mr. Crowley

1973-12-06 0

Baby Blues

Lavinia has been yearning and trying for ten years to conceive, and finally gives birth to a live baby. However, she finds that things are not as she dreamed and envisaged, and she suffers from depres ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Harry Perlman

1977-11-08 0

Oy Vay Maria

Jewish boy loves Catholic girl - will love triumph over family objections? ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, TV Movie

Henry - First Workman, 'Prince of Wales'

1960-02-11 6.8

Sink the Bismarck!

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most ...
Genre :War, Drama

Dr. Hearne

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

Joe

1959-06-01 0

The Crowning Touch

Several stories linked by a hat. ...
Genre :Comedy

Joseph Spink

1952-07-01 8

Time, Gentlemen, Please!

Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The "almost" is because of Dan Dance (Eddie Byrne), an ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Rockbottom

1960-11-01 5.6

No Kidding

A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoy ...
Genre :Comedy

Stationmaster

1961-04-10 5.4

A Weekend with Lulu

Fred, Tim and Deirdre plan a fun weekend break on the coast. What they didn't make allowances for was the company of Deirdre's mother who insists on coming along as her daughter's chaperone. ...
Genre :Comedy

Col. Gutierrez (as Sidney Tafler)

1970-03-25 4.227

The Adventurers

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

Curtis

1957-04-02 6.4

Interpol

Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him fro ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Boldesca

1952-10-01 5.9

Venetian Bird

Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest t ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery

Manager

1950-06-08 5.5

Dance Hall

Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is main ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Alex Fraser

1954-10-01 5.4

The Crowded Day

One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store. ...
Genre :Drama

Stranger

1948-11-22 7

No Room at the Inn

A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman. ...
Genre :Drama

Camino

1956-04-10 4.75

Guilty?

Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name. ...
Genre :Drama

1st Wiseacre

1953-07-13 7.1

The Square Ring

Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers. ...
Genre :Drama

Solicitor

1959-03-08 7.409

Too Many Crooks

Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So t ...
Genre :Comedy

Sam Meadows

1975-10-02 6

Nightmare for a Nightingale

An opera singer finds out her late husband isn't actually dead when he shows up at her apartment. In the heat of the moment, she kills him but his body mysteriously disappears. ...
Genre :TV Movie, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Alfredo

1961-02-01 6

Five Golden Hours

A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes. ...
Genre :Comedy

Kugelmann

1980-01-12 0

Pews

Liftchick has a problem. As beadle to the synagogue he is responsible for getting ten men together to say Kaddish, but it is holiday-time and the town is empty. ...
Genre :

Speedboat Owner

1960-12-13 5.7

The Bulldog Breed

Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, he attempts suicide, but can't even do that. He is ...
Genre :Comedy

Pendlebury

1959-01-01 6.1

Follow a Star

Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

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

Sam Meadows

1973-04-14 6.6

Thriller

Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, e ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

1962-01-02 7

Z-Cars

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in J ...
Genre :Drama

Gabriel Lyon

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

Manny Bellow

1975-01-02 7.8

The Sweeney

Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Crime

1971-07-15 0

Alexander the Greatest

Alexander the Greatest was a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1971 to 1972. Starring Gary Warren, it was written by Bernard Kops and made for the ITV network by ATV. ...
Genre :

1972-10-11 5.4

Crown Court

Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in ...
Genre :Drama

Manny

1975-04-16 7.9

Survivors

Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who h ...
Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

1973-02-15 7.6

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em

Meet Frank Spencer, an eager young man trying to find his way in the world. He's enthusiastic, well-meaning... and disaster-prone. ...
Genre :Comedy

Solly King

1980-04-15 5.5

The Enigma Files

The Enigma Files is a British television detective drama that ran for a single series of fifteen episodes in 1980. Detective Chief Inspector Nick Lewis is tasked with investigating unsolved crimes. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Hoofd-commissaris Halsbeek

1972-09-13 5.8

Van der Valk

Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Ba ...
Genre :Drama

1959-09-16 3.7

No Hiding Place

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Mr. Leo Crowley

1970-10-15 6.3

Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original tel ...
Genre :Drama

1967-09-27 7

Man in a Suitcase

Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches for answers. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

1965-09-08 6

A Slight Case Of...

Roy Kinnear plays a seedy and incompetent private detective named H A Wormsley. ...
Genre :Comedy

1960-11-24 7.6

Citizen James

Citizen James is a BBC sitcom that ran for three series between 24 November 1960 and 23 November 1962. The show featured comedian and actor Sid James and Sydney Tafler with Bill Kerr and Liz Fraser ap ...
Genre :Comedy

1973-12-08 5

Vienna 1900

Genre :

1970-12-04 0

Waugh on Crime

Genre :

1959-10-02 7.1

The Third Man

Genre :Drama

1976-09-03 0

Victorian Scandals

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

Wyvern

1972-09-29 5.5

The Adventurer

The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the UK on 29 September 1972. The show starred Gene Barry ...
Genre :Action & Adventure

The Agent

1979-07-28 0

The Cannon & Ball Show

A comedy variety show featuring the double act of Tommy Cannon and Bobby Ball. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sidney Foskett

1958-09-19 7

The Larkins

'The Larkins' is a British television sitcom which was produced by Associated Television and aired on ITV. It aired for four series between 1958 to 1960. An additional two series aired from 1963 to 19 ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Kugelmann

1974-03-13 7

Playhouse

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC. ...
Genre :Drama

Prime Minister

1965-10-19 5

BBC Play of the Month

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 stag ...
Genre :Drama

1964-07-31 6

A World Of His Own

"A World of His Own" is the title of a British comedy television series starring Roy Kinnear and Anne Cunningham, which aired on the BBC in 1964 and 1965. It was created as a vehicle for Kinnear, who ...
Genre :

Mr. Spalding

1967-06-27 0

Sam and Janet

Sam and Janet Marshall, a long-married couple with two children, find and welcome frequent obstacles to a peaceful and argument-free life they so claim to want. ...
Genre :Comedy

Jas. Waterbury

1965-05-30 5.5

The World of Wooster

Based on P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories, The World of Wooster, broadcast on BBC One from 1965 to 1967, followed the farcical adventures of young upper-class twit Bertie Wooster and his invaluable man ...
Genre :Comedy

Finkelstein

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

Ilya Shamrayev

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

Haskelot

1974-12-30 1

Churchill's People

Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produc ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Lew Hemming

1959-09-16 3.7

No Hiding Place

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the ...
Genre :Crime, Drama