Robert Lang

AKA:
1.1467

1934-09-24

Bristol, England, UK

Biography

Robert Lang was a British an actor of stage and screen, best known for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), and the 1977-1978 BBC TV series 1990. He was married to the actress Ann Bell.

Crew Roles

One Warm Line: The Legacy of Stan Rogers
Director
One Warm Line: The Legacy of Stan Rogers
Writer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {102}

King Miraz

1989-11-19 5.4

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Young Prince Caspian of Narnia wonders and dreams about the old days of Narnia when animals talked, and there were mythical creatures and four rulers in Cair Paravel. But his uncle and aunt don’t like ...
Genre :Fantasy, Adventure, Family, TV Movie

Kurt

1969-01-01 5.5

The Dance of Death

An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice, a former actress ...
Genre :

Appleby

1973-11-08 6.226

Night Watch

A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Mr. Osborne

2005-11-25 6.549

Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont

All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

K's Uncle

1993-06-18 5.917

The Trial

Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama

Pilgrim Leader

1969-10-05 5.881

A Walk with Love and Death

During France’s Hundred Years’ War, a Parisian student seeks refuge by the sea and falls in love with an aristocrat. As they find shelter in a monastery, their romance is overshadowed by the ongoing c ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War

Jessel

1976-09-22 6.5

Rogue Male

In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back t ...
Genre :Drama, War, TV Movie

Walter Bancroft

1988-08-05 5.7

Hawks

Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Adam Crosse

1971-05-12 0

Deathday

Adam Crosse is a reporter for a local paper. A neurotic under-achiever, the last straw comes when he discovers his wife Lydia is having an affair and she coolly tells him she has no intention of eithe ...
Genre :TV Movie

Humphrey Turnbull

1968-05-01 5.318

Interlude

A young female journalist in London falls in love with a married orchestra conductor. ...
Genre :Drama

Bank Manager

1986-07-16 0

Daylight Robbery

Neglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea begins to gamble - at first for small stakes, but ultimately for the highest stake of all: revenge for the p ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Waiter

1966-07-15 6.1

The Sandwich Man

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

Plunkett

1978-02-08 0

Last Wishes

An elderly recluse dies in the process of changing her will. The change would have meant that the servants would continue to live in her house - now it seems they will be homeless. ...
Genre :

Strafe

1989-08-30 0

Beyond The Pale

Milly and her friends have been going on holiday together ever since they've known each other. This summer they return to one of their favourite haunts, a beautiful Irish country hotel. It's a place f ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Robert

1975-08-18 0

The Stick Insect

A married couple go to stay at a remote cottage. Once there, they discover there is no running water for tea. Then, a stranger appears, accompanied by his stick insect. ...
Genre :

Arthur Jones

1971-08-10 0

The Bargain Hunters

Tom and Cynthia buy a £20 painting and suddenly believe it to be valuable. ...
Genre :

Detective Superintendant Ibison

1990-04-22 7

Who Bombed Birmingham?

Docudrama film exploring the efforts of World in Action researchers Ian MacBride and Chris Mullin in proving that the "Birmingham Six" only admitted to the bombing under extreme duress, and that the f ...
Genre :Documentary, Drama, TV Movie

Major Boyle

1972-06-27 6.1

Savage Messiah

In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his unt ...
Genre :Drama

David Buckle

1980-01-01 0

Donkeys' Years

Michael Frayn's play about a college reunion. ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Albany

1983-04-03 6.5

King Lear

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

1993-01-09 0

Tracey Ullman: A Class Act

A short series of 15 minute programmes, really expanded sketches, in which Tracey Ullman and Michael Palin play various roles satirizing the British class system. ...
Genre :Comedy

Ambassador Grant

1986-02-09 4.2

Harem

A young British woman is kidnapped by an Arabian sheikh and held captive in his harem. At first she frantically tries to escape, but as they slowly get to know and appreciate each other the difference ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, TV Movie

Arion

1989-01-01 0

The Dog It Was That Died

Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair must convince Hogbin, the agent who's been tailing Purvis, of which side Purvis is really on--once h ...
Genre :

Lord Hibbott - Wedding Two

1994-03-09 6.77

Four Weddings and a Funeral

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Sharp

1978-12-14 6.7

The First Great Train Robbery

In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train. ...
Genre :Thriller, Adventure, Drama, Crime

Jack Summers

1973-08-01 6.1

The MacKintosh Man

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, som ...
Genre :Thriller

Wilkins

1983-08-18 4.8

Runners

When his young daughter disappears, her father refuses to accept that she is dead and sets out on a journey to find her. ...
Genre :Drama

Lord Augustus Lorton

1985-09-15 0

Lady Windermere's Fan

Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an a ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Protopopov

1996-03-23 6.484

Rasputin

Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation...or destroy it. Based on the true story of one of the most powerful and mysterious figures in Russi ...
Genre :History, Drama, TV Movie

C.O. Humphreys

1997-09-01 6.6

Wilde

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. After much toil, Wilde debuts 'The Importance of Being Earnest' in London, and a chat at the theatre wi ...
Genre :Drama, History

Captain Henry

1976-04-12 6

Shout at the Devil

During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet ju ...
Genre :Adventure, War

Nathan Anderson

2000-08-15 4.167

Trust

When her husband is accused of murder, solicitor Anne Travers defends him -- but as the evidence mounts, she begins to question their "perfect" life. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Police Chief

1993-11-09 3.875

Genghis Cohn

In the midst of World War II, Nazi officer Otto Schatz declares the execution of Jewish music-hall comedian Genghis Cohn. Many years later, Otto is comfortably retired into the life of a highly respec ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Bill

1964-09-27 0

The Cherry on the Top

A comic play set against the background of the Air Force. ...
Genre :TV Movie

Chorus

1986-09-19 0

Theban Plays: Antigone

In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of death. But Antigone is determined that her brother' ...
Genre :Drama

Psychiatrist (segment 1 "Method for Murder")

1971-02-22 6.349

The House That Dripped Blood

A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house. ...
Genre :Horror, Mystery

Wilf

1967-07-01 0

Compensation Alice

Alice is determined to buy a flash new hat despite her husband not giving her the money. ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Edward Morris

1973-06-11 0

Edward G: Like the Filmstar

Edward G is nothing like a film star; his life has been ordinary - until now. But he's just had a shattering experience. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

The Man

1974-03-18 8.667

I'm the Girl He Wants to Kill

Returning home to her flat, Ann Rogers passes a stranger leaving the building. A few moments later she discovers her neighbor lying dead in the hallway, the latest victim of a serial killer. Ann could ...
Genre :Thriller, TV Movie

Government Minister

1996-09-13 6.7

Some Mother's Son

Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of w ...
Genre :Drama, History

Jerry Pinch

1999-01-01 6

Nancherrow

The basic story involves Loveday's struggle to keep the estate Nancherrow in the family after the death of her father. ...
Genre :Drama

Roderigo

1965-12-15 6.241

Othello

General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful. ...
Genre :Drama

Yefim

1963-11-20 4

Uncle Vanya

Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival. ...
Genre :Drama

(archive footage)

1965-01-01 0

Olivier Talks About Othello

Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello." ...
Genre :Documentary

Beck

1973-02-21 6

And No One Could Save Her

The life of young newlywed, Fern O'Neil, is turned upside-down when her husband is called home to visit his dying father in Ireland. When she fails to receive a phone call from her husband, she contac ...
Genre :Mystery, TV Movie, Thriller

Pennington

1978-04-13 6.8

The Medusa Touch

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abili ...
Genre :Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery

Football Supporter

1963-10-08 6.9

West 11

In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a turn for the worse when he encounters Richard Dyce, ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Peter

1969-01-01 4.5

Twenty-Nine

Graham Baird wakes up in strange clothes in a strange apartment, both he and his wife want to know where he had been the previous night. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Gus

1962-01-05 0

The Secret Thread

A writer, Arnold Reed, goes back to his former boyhood home in the East End, and there, finding it about to be torn down, he revisits his attic room, and stumbles on evidence of the operations of deal ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Whiting, Columnist

1965-07-15 5.2

Catch Us If You Can

Dinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for meat, she meets Steve, a stuntman. Dinah and Steve hit ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Detective Sergeant Wells

1984-12-17 6

The Sweet Scent of Death

An overworked American ambassador working in the UK attempts to spend more time with his wife by visiting a countryside mansion, but soon the trip turns into a nightmare with his wife haunted by a sta ...
Genre :Drama, Horror

Inspector Hammond

1980-11-03 0

Braces High

A parcel left on a bus causes concern when the bomb squad are called. Instead it contains a pair of trousers with braces and £370 in one pound notes. Scotland Yard decide to bring Inspector Hammond ou ...
Genre :

Mark's Father

2001-06-22 5.5

Room to Rent

Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has li ...
Genre :Comedy

Wallace Jones: Chief Show Business Editor

1977-06-05 0

An Hour in the Life...

1971: A woman at the centre of an international diplomatic scandal walks into the offices of an ailing Fleet Street newspaper to share her story. ...
Genre :

Narrator

1970-05-26 0

Son of Iron Horse

For years the world's railways have steadily declined. Now trains are facing their biggest revolution since the discovery of steam and the age of the Iron Horse. ...
Genre :Documentary

Woody Pope

1997-03-23 7.5

Midsomer Murders

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

1984-10-16 6.7

The Bill

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Arthur

1979-03-24 6.708

Tales of the Unexpected

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plet ...
Genre :Drama

Colonel Barber

1992-04-10 7.1

Heartbeat

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Comedy

Chief Superintendent Dewar

1987-01-06 7.8

Inspector Morse

Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

The Commodore

1973-01-04 7.1

Last of the Summer Wine

Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their ...
Genre :Comedy

Captain Rex Parkin

1975-12-17 6.9

Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

1967-07-08 7

Callan

Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later Thames Television, it was aired on the ITV network over ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

1967-03-28 6.8

Ironside

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

1977-02-25 8

Raffles

Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and written by Philip Mackie. The episodes were largely ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Felix Kane

1976-10-22 7

The New Avengers

The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and B ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

Bernard Sutton

1971-09-20 7.4

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Con ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

Sir Pierce of Exton

1960-04-28 4.7

An Age of Kings

A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays — Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V, 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, and Richard III — chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over th ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Swithin

2002-04-07 7.905

The Forsyte Saga

Epic series spanning three generations of the upwardly mobile Forsyte family at the turn of the 20th century. ...
Genre :Drama

1974-11-03 5

Notorious Woman

The incredible life of novelist George Sand is explored with a particular focus on her romance with the famed musician Frédéric Chopin. ...
Genre :Drama

1988-09-23 5

A Gentleman's Club

Genre :

Det. Sergeant Wells

1984-09-05 6.4

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense ser ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

1992-02-16 6

The Old Boy Network

Two very different former MI6 spies partner up and open a private spy agency together. ...
Genre :Comedy

1997-11-24 0

The Jasper Carrott Trial

Jasper Carrott defends his record as a comedian in front of an audience jury in this highlights series ...
Genre :Comedy

Harold Harlan

1982-04-06 5

The Brack Report

After an earthquake causes some damage to a nuclear power station, one of the chief nuclear physicists, Paul Brack, starts to investigate the safety procedures and policies of the station. He is disma ...
Genre :Drama

The Man

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

Brigadier Charles Ferguson

1989-10-04 0

Confessional

A secretive terrorist commits crimes to disrupt the peace process between the Irish and the Brits. Both sides want him dead. When he decides to assassinate the Pope and blame it on the U.K., only a mu ...
Genre :Action & Adventure

The Suspect

1968-09-21 7

Adam-12

Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patrolled the streets of Los Angeles in their patrol unit ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

John Barnabas

1989-01-22 5.6

Campion

Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama, Comedy

Major Darwin

1983-04-13 6

Shackleton

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 ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

Lord Curzon

1998-02-12 3

Mosley

Sir Oswald Mosley was a man who should have ranked with the heroes of the century... Instead his personal life and public career ended in disgrace and Mosley is now remembered as the leader of a dicta ...
Genre :Drama

Mr. Platter

1993-11-14 6.5

The Return of the Borrowers

The Borrowers leave their new home and find a model village just the right size for them. They find George but the village's owner also finds out about the Borrowers. ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy

King Miraz

1988-11-13 7.4

The Chronicles of Narnia

Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy are evacuated from London at the beginning of the Second World War, little dreaming of the magical adventures that lie ahead. ...
Genre :Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure

1999-04-04 8

Nancherrow

When Colonel Carey-Lewis dies, his irrepressible daughter, Loveday, inherits Nancherrow and fights to keep it alive so that her son Nat will eventually take over from her. ...
Genre :Drama, Soap

Herbert Skardon

1977-09-18 6

1990

The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the popu ...
Genre :Drama

Pastor

1985-09-15 0

Theatre Night

A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays. ...
Genre :Drama

Edward Morris

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

Pete

1985-09-15 0

Theatre Night

A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays. ...
Genre :Drama

Captain Broadbent

1991-04-07 7.8

The Darling Buds of May

An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa Larkin, a man of a kind and mischievous nature with a pen ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Mr. Platter

1992-11-08 6.4

The Borrowers

The Borrowers are small, 15cm high humans who live in the English hinterland. They live out their lives in mouse-hole sized nooks in human homes, and survive by 'borrowing' all they need from the hous ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Action & Adventure

Sheriff

1960-04-28 4.7

An Age of Kings

A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays — Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V, 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, and Richard III — chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over th ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Lord Hastings

1960-04-28 4.7

An Age of Kings

A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays — Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V, 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, and Richard III — chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over th ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Montjoy

1960-04-28 4.7

An Age of Kings

A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays — Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V, 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, and Richard III — chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over th ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Cardinal of Winchester

1960-04-28 4.7

An Age of Kings

A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays — Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V, 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, and Richard III — chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over th ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Russell Blackborough

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

Attorney General

1981-02-16 0

West End Tales

A look at Soho life through the eyes of likeable rogue Fiddler and his two cronies, Bishop and Checkie. ...
Genre :

Professor Chun

1992-05-12 4

Anglo Saxon Attitudes

Aging historian Gerald Middleton is taciturn and methodical, a creature of habit who prefers his daily routine undisturbed. Separated from his wife and disapproving of his youngest son’s job, Middleto ...
Genre :Drama

K's Uncle

1985-01-06 6.8

Screen Two

Series of single made-for-television dramas. ...
Genre :Drama

Mr Osborne

1987-09-06 0

Vanity Fair

In early 19th century England, ambitious and ruthless orphan Rebecca Sharp advances from the position of governess to the heights of British society. ...
Genre :Drama

Lord Thickthorn

1986-05-21 8

A Very Peculiar Practice

A young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to cope with an eccentric set of colleagues. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Hugh Goodrest

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

Narrator (voice)

1973-08-04 0

European Heritage

A 1973 BBC series featuring seven films about there aspects of their past made by seven European countries. Out of all seven episodes produced for the series six of them are believed now to be lost wi ...
Genre :