Glyn Houston

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1925-10-23

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {97}

Mike

1963-01-01 5.7

Panic

In this crime melodrama, a Swiss woman finds herself unwittingly involved in a plot to steal from her employer, a London diamond merchant. Her boyfriend is behind the scheme. First he sends two accomp ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Carnival Barker (uncredited)

1960-04-01 5.803

Circus of Horrors

A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, ...
Genre :Horror, Crime

Detective Sergeant in 'Q' car

1956-06-01 7

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

Bailey

1954-06-21 5.467

The Sleeping Tiger

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him. ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller

Sgt. Parker

1961-03-01 0

The Wind of Change

Taking its title from Harold Macmillan's widely-reported Cape Town speech about the process of decolonisation in Africa, The Wind of Change showed the other side of the coin: the impact of colonial im ...
Genre :Drama

Charlie Williamson

1954-02-01 5.9

River Beat

British diamond smugglers use the radiowoman (Phyllis Kirk) from a freighter docked on the Thames to unwittingly "mule" their swag, hidden in cigarettes, past customs, not knowing that she has befrie ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Smoking Machinist

1960-08-31 6.1

There Was a Crooked Man

When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught and jailed. When he is released he goes straight and then notices a leading citizen in his town is c ...
Genre :Comedy

Stoker (uncredited)

1958-07-03 7.7

A Night to Remember

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles L ...
Genre :Drama, Action, History

Detective Inspector Barnes

1965-01-21 5.5

One Way Pendulum

A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to sing in the attic. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sidney Stewart

1976-11-20 1

Beasts: The Dummy

A washed-up actor has a nervous breakdown and believes that he really is the movie monster that he has been hired to play. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries. ...
Genre :Horror, TV Movie, Drama, Mystery

Ticket Collector

1981-04-29 4.5

If You Go Down in the Woods Today

A Boy Scout troupe led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland. However, the woods are actually teeming with strange characters, some of whom turn out ...
Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Pit Manager

1961-04-20 0

The Green Helmet

After suffering a near fatal accident in his last race over the hill, top British race car driver Greg Rafferty, is about to call it quits when he gets a telegram from racing car tire manufacture Jose ...
Genre :Drama

Detective at Police Station (uncredited)

1959-03-01 7.157

Tiger Bay

In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting the ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime

Barrow Boy (Uncredited)

1950-01-19 6.585

The Blue Lamp

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller, Action

1993-04-23 5.7

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

An opium-addicted choirmaster develops an obsession for a beautiful young girl and will not stop short of murder in order to have her. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Inspector Sparrow

1962-09-01 0

Solo for Sparrow

A group of crooks accidentally kill an elderly shop assistant while stealing the keys to the jewellery shop where she works. When his superiors think that the case is better handed over to Scotland Ya ...
Genre :Crime

Railway shunter (uncredited)

1951-11-13 5.3

High Treason

Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring. ...
Genre :Action, Thriller, Crime

Frank Moore

1961-01-19 6.567

Payroll

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with t ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Inspector Harris

1962-03-02 5.5

Emergency

When a little girl is knocked down it is discovered that there are only three donors of the right blood type to help with a life-saving operation. One is a murderer awaiting execution, one an atomic s ...
Genre :Drama

Dai Thomas

1952-01-01 7.7

Girdle of Gold

The adulterous Mrs Griffiths' corset has, unbeknown to her, a fortune stashed in it by her drunken, money-loving husband. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Collins

1971-01-02 0

Granny Gets the Point

A short information film produced to get Britain ready for decimalisation. ...
Genre :Drama

Police Officer in Court (uncredited)

1957-10-31 7.1

The Birthday Present

Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife's birthday through Customs. He is arrested and, due to a bungled defence by hi ...
Genre :Drama

Box office clerk

1958-12-02 6.7

Nowhere to Go

A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot. ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller

1966-11-02 0

Where the Buffalo Roam

Poor Willy’s mind has been warped by too many Westerns. He sees gunfighters on every corner, even though he’s in 1960s Swansea. Some think Billy’s simple. His Auntie just thinks he’s creative. But he’ ...
Genre :TV Movie, Western, Drama

Marriott

1965-08-09 5.4

The Brigand of Kandahar

1880. British India. Robert Case, a half-caste lieutenant, is unjustly discharged from the British Army. He joins the rebel Bengali tribesmen offensive against the colonial enemy. They capture a forei ...
Genre :Adventure, War, History

Det. Insp. Isaacs

1971-10-12 0

Man Charged

A procedural routine murder investigation written by a former Detective Inspector ...
Genre :

Cesar Rodriguez

1977-06-10 4.8

Are You Being Served? The Movie

In this feature film version of the popular BBC sitcom, the staff of Grace Brothers go on holiday to Costa Plonka, where they find themselves in the middle of a revolution. ...
Genre :Comedy

Police Sergeant Draycott

1965-10-01 6.1

Invasion

Routine tests on a traffic accident victim lead to shocking discoveries when the man's blood is found to be unidentifiable and x-rays reveal a disc embedded in his brain. His fabulous tale of being an ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Drama

1968-09-01 0

Headline Hunters

Children decide to keep the local newspaper running while their father is ill. ...
Genre :Family

Professor Watson

1976-10-23 7.5

Doctor Who: The Hand of Fear

When the TARDIS lands in a quarry on Earth, Sarah unearths what appears to be a fossilised hand, buried in one-hundred-fifty-million-year-old strata. Analysis shows the hand to be silicon-based and in ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure

Aneurin Morgan

1991-01-01 6

Old Scores

Former Welsh rugby hero Bleddyn Morgan has his life in New Zealand interrupted by a deathbed confession that leads to a replay of a controversial 1966 All Blacks/Wales rugby match - with the original ...
Genre :Comedy

Peters

1980-07-03 5.9

The Sea Wolves

A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portugues ...
Genre :War, Action, Thriller

Berry

1964-12-01 0

The Secret of Blood Island

Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effecte ...
Genre :Drama, War, Action

Ted

1950-10-10 6.3

Trio

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles. ...
Genre :Drama

Bus Driver

1956-01-31 7

Lost

U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the coupl ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Charley Boy

1955-03-17 5.6

Passage Home

Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstiti ...
Genre :Drama

Hugh Davies

1961-06-19 5.5

Flame in the Streets

Flame in the Streets is a 1961 British drama film directed by Roy Ward Baker. Racial tensions manifest themselves at home, work and on the streets during Bonfire Night in the burgeoning West Indian co ...
Genre :Drama

Bernard Ingham

1991-09-11 6.5

Thatcher: The Final Days

The re-creation of events leading up to Margaret Thatcher's defeat as party leader and Britain's Prime Minister. ...
Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Phillips

1953-02-24 6.868

The Cruel Sea

At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

Sailor (uncredited)

1950-07-26 6.4

Waterfront

When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years ...
Genre :Drama

Harry 'Hurricane'

1957-11-22 6.849

The One That Got Away

Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War. ...
Genre :War, Drama

Able Seaman - 'Prince of Wales' (uncredited)

1960-02-11 6.784

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

Bob

1953-04-29 6.2

Turn the Key Softly

A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Corporal Welsh

1963-12-01 7.4

A Stitch in Time

An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal ammount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled si ...
Genre :Comedy

Ned Rutter

1953-01-01 6

The Great Game

The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job. ...
Genre :

Old Jack

1989-02-21 6

Heartland

This "Play on One" story depicts Jack and his farming family in West Wales. They have built up their dairy herd with vast loans and are then told they must cut back on milk production and slaughter so ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Colonel Ronald Sutherland

1969-11-19 0

There Is Also Tomorrow

The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Colonel Ben Wolsey

1984-01-20 4.7

Doctor Who: The Awakening

The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough arrive in Little Hodcombe, where the townspeople's re-enactments of English Civil War battles are causing a dormant entity, the Malus, to re-awaken. ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure

George

1952-04-01 6.3

Wide Boy

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

Bates

1957-01-01 0

The Case of The Smiling Widow

From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger. ...
Genre :Crime

Knox

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

2nd Porter

1960-02-25 6.5

The Battle of the Sexes

Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she meets Robert MacPherson, a businessman who asks for her ...
Genre :Comedy

Arresting Policeman (uncredited)

1956-03-20 5.1

Who Done It?

This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British sc ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Passerby (uncredited)

1952-03-05 6.4

I Believe in You

A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges. ...
Genre :Drama

1989-12-12 0

Conspiracy

A British politician visits a brothel days before election day. While there, a woman commits suicide. He is covered in her blood. Although he is not responsible for her death, he knows being caught in ...
Genre :Action, Thriller, Crime

2006-07-24 0

Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who

A special 50-minute documentary that looks at the making of The Hand of Fear, and also examines the special relationship between the Doctor and his companion, Sarah Jane Smith. ...
Genre :Documentary

Fred (uncredited)

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

Gym Instructor (uncredited)

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

1966-01-05 5

Softly, Softly

Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based ...
Genre :Drama

Colonel Ben Wolsey

1963-11-23 7.884

Doctor Who

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 ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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

1979-09-30 6.8

Shoestring

Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 Decem ...
Genre :Drama

Sgt. Carmichael

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

1980-01-07 7

Keep It in the Family

Keep It in the Family is a British sitcom that aired for five series between 1980 and 1983. It is about a likable and mischievous cartoonist, Dudley Rush. Also featured were Dudley's wife, Muriel and ...
Genre :Comedy, Talk

Harry

1979-10-29 6.8

Minder

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

George Craven

1987-01-06 7.835

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

Robert Ager

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

Woody

1955-07-09 5.3

Dixon of Dock Green

Dixon of Dock Green was a BBC television series following the activities of police officers at a fictional Metropolitan Police station in the East End of London from 1955 to 1976. Some episodes were l ...
Genre :Drama

Gerald Marlowe

1970-02-09 6

Doomwatch

Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific gover ...
Genre :Drama

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

Sidney Stewart

1976-10-16 7

Beasts

Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United Kingdom and broadcast in 1976. ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

1964-09-30 4.5

The Wednesday Play

An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. ...
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

Jack Norton

1968-07-05 10

The Expert

The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially ...
Genre :Drama

1967-06-29 5

Sanctuary

Genre :

1962-04-30 5.5

Suspense

Anthology series telling suspenseful tales. ...
Genre :

1972-09-25 0

The Long Chase

Tom Corby and his son John are bird watching, by the cliffs, when he spots a number of strangers. John goes to help a girl cut off from land. When he returns his dad has vanished. ...
Genre :

Peter Ridgway

1956-02-22 7.3

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural. ...
Genre :Drama

1960-06-13 0

Deadline Midnight

Genre :

1978-09-24 5

A Horseman Riding By

Having been invalided out of the Boer War, Paul Craddock buys Shallowford, a manor house and estate in Devon, with money from his late father's scrap-yard business. He soon becomes a much-respected "S ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

1961-11-02 0

Stryker of the Yard

Genre :Crime, Drama

1962-07-21 0

Outbreak of Murder

Genre :

1971-04-26 5

Brett

Brett, a journalist with a taste for the high life and a penchant for trouble. a powerful and ambitious man who would become a tycoon, but with his shady past catching up with him, brings him conflict ...
Genre :

Professor Watson

1963-11-23 7.884

Doctor Who

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 ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Henry Curtis

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

Bunter

1972-04-05 6.2

Lord Peter Wimsey: Clouds of Witness

Death hits close to home when Lord Peter’s future brother-in-law is murdered. Complicating matters is the man who stands accused: Gerald Wimsey, Lord Peter’s brother. ...
Genre :Mystery

1960-09-25 0

Sunday-Night Play

BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series. ...
Genre :

Bunter

1975-04-13 6.7

Nine Tailors

Stranded in a sleepy village after a car accident, Lord Peter quickly stumbles upon a decades-old case of stolen emeralds, unidentifiable corpses, and coded messages. ...
Genre :

Bunter

1972-04-05 0

Lord Peter Wimsey

Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. A dilettante who solves mysteries for his own amusement, Wimsey is a ...
Genre :

Chief Superintendent Matthews

1966-01-01 0

The Spies

A spin-off/rebranding of the previous 1965 series The Mask of Janus, The Spies is a more conventional espionage thriller than its predecessor, being explicitly concerned with the actual operations of ...
Genre :Crime

John Geronwy Jones

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

Mostyn Price

1977-09-09 6.3

Target

A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

C.S. Bert Sinclair

1980-01-11 0

Breakaway

Detective Inspector Sam Harvey investigates intricate murder cases while contemplating retirement to pursue his passion for writing children's books. ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Ronald Judge

1993-04-06 0

The Sherman Plays

"The Sherman Plays" is a series of television adaptations of plays originally staged at the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff. The series, produced by HTV, ran from 1993 to 1997. It featured a variety of dra ...
Genre :

Police Sgt. Collins

1977-01-11 6.6

Robin's Nest

Robin's Nest is a British sitcom, a spin-off from Man About the House, focusing on Richard O'Sullivan as Robin Tripp. It aired for six series from 11 January 1977 to 31 March 1981, and co-starred Tess ...
Genre :Comedy

Albert Griggs

1990-02-14 0

Troublemakers

Young Toby Jenks and his pals—fathers absent and mums distant—spend their time in the streets and in derelict buildings, when one day, they spot strange goings-on in a warehouse... ...
Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Family, Drama

Clifford

1988-01-04 5.7

After Henry

After Henry is a British sitcom written by Simon Brett, and starring Prunella Scales and Joan Sanderson. Originating as a radio programme on BBC Radio 4 from 1985 to 1989, it was adapted for televisio ...
Genre :Comedy