John Blythe

AKA:
0.2276

1921-10-31

London, England, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {50}

Ernie

1947-06-23 5.667

Dear Murderer

When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime. ...
Genre :Thriller

John Dougall

1944-01-01 5.587

Bon Voyage

After escaping a Nazi POW camp, a young Scottish RAF gunner recounts his perilous journey through occupied France with the help of the Resistance. During his debriefing in London, French intelligence ...
Genre :War, Drama

Robby

1948-03-01 4.8

River Patrol

The Thames river police try to track down smugglers. ...
Genre :Thriller

Maxie Brown

1952-03-01 6.2

The Frightened Man

Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Peter Nightingale

1954-06-01 6.5

The Gay Dog

Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against. ...
Genre :Comedy

Tony Gowan

1948-12-02 6.5

Here Come the Huggetts

The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Gowan

1949-03-21 6.6

The Huggetts Abroad

Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truc ...
Genre :Comedy

Holt

1950-12-08 5.6

Lilli Marlene

Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the wa ...
Genre :Drama

Slim

1962-04-02 4.6

Gaolbreak

An honest news agent realizes that his 2 sons are corrupt. When one criminal son is in jail, the other breaks him out to help with a job. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Pvt. Philip Green

1953-11-28 6.5

It's a Grand Life

Classic British comedy following an accident-prone army Private, played by music hall legend Frank Randle in his final screen role, as he attempts to rescue a Corporal (played by icon Diana Dors) from ...
Genre :Comedy

Steve

1947-08-05 6.636

Holiday Camp

The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home. ...
Genre :Comedy

Francis Dureneck

1976-07-28 3.438

Keep It Up Downstairs

The year is 1904; the setting is Cockshute Towers, one of England's stateliest homes. When the household is threatened with bankruptcy, both the masters and the servants are prepared to co-operate in ...
Genre :Comedy

1949-01-01 0

It’s a Wonderful Day

A dance band takes a holiday in Devon, and discovers some talent amongst the locals. ...
Genre :Music

Fred Trewin

1956-02-01 7

Doublecross

A Cornish fisherman becomes involved with Iron Curtain spies. ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama

1961-07-20 5.5

The Devil's Daffodil

A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daff ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

Carrington-Phelps

1954-01-01 5.2

Meet Mr. Malcolm

Celebrated crime writer Colin Knowles finds himself at the centre of a baffling real-life mystery when his estranged wife Louie asks for his help. Her new boss has gone missing at his grand country ho ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Duke

1951-04-01 0

Worm's Eye View

Incidents in the lives of a group of R.A.F. men living in billets. ...
Genre :Comedy

Reg Gibbons

1944-05-28 7.2

This Happy Breed

A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second. ...
Genre :Drama

Bert Smith

1947-05-01 0

Sinfonia fatale

An American composer moves to Italy and falls for a local country girl right before the start of World War II. ...
Genre :

Dave Leary

1953-12-01 6.4

3 Steps to the Gallows

A U.S. sailor docks in London and in three days tries to save his brother from the gallows. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Security guard

1965-01-06 0

A Tap on the Shoulder

Ken's Loach's first production for The Wednesday Play is a story of a group of criminals planning a robbery, with the unwitting aid of a wealthy, well-connected society acquaintance. But who is the gr ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, TV Movie

Conductor

1955-03-15 7.7

As Long as They're Happy

The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home a ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

Jimmy the Gent

1965-04-07 5

Three Clear Sundays

Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, TV Movie

Izzy Cohen

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

Bossy Phillips

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

Art Moody

1948-04-28 6.1

Good-Time Girl

Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Father Elgin

1976-10-31 3.9

The Ups and Downs of a Handyman

A young handyman and his wife move to a small village and set up business. There, the handyman encounters numerous strange characters, including a local constable more inept than a squad car full of K ...
Genre :Comedy

Gowan

1949-02-01 6.6

Vote for Huggett

A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center. ...
Genre :Comedy

Frankie Martin

1949-05-23 4.5

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Kamiwashi

1981-02-17 0

The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner

On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across the Pacific, to crash into American ships. Thirty-fi ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Music, TV Movie

Johnnie

1948-12-01 5.9

Portrait from Life

A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia. ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Romance

Dale

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

Tipstall

1976-04-12 6.9

Love Among the Ruins

An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones is assigned to r ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, TV Movie, Comedy

Haystack Club Barman (uncredited)

1960-07-12 5.2

Doctor in Love

Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior ...
Genre :Comedy

2nd Waiter (uncredited)

1948-01-20 6

Easy Money

A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Comedy

Barton

1976-04-16 0

Practical Experience

'I'm unusual. I really want to be an architect. Always have done. Always wanted to build fine buildings and fine cities where people can work and eat and sleep and be happy. But the rules of the game ...
Genre :

Chauffeur (uncredited)

1962-12-11 7.7

On the Beat

Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of ch ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Frankie

1956-01-01 0

They Never Learn

WPC Marie Watson goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of counterfeiters. ...
Genre :Crime

1956-07-06 7.3

Hancock's Half Hour

Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hanc ...
Genre :Comedy

Frank Tyler

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

Joe Brundit

1980-11-14 0

The Good Companions

The Good Companions is a nine-part British television miniseries based on J. B. Priestley's 1929 novel of the same name. Produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV, the series stars John Stratton, Jerem ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Rose

1985-01-11 6.4

Dempsey and Makepeace

Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Car Dealer

1972-09-14 6.4

Sykes

Classic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to tackle the trials and tribulations of suburban life. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Harbottle

1972-09-14 6.4

Sykes

Classic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to tackle the trials and tribulations of suburban life. ...
Genre :Comedy

Greenway

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

Barton

1974-03-13 7

Playhouse

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

Wyke

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

Ted Shatto

1975-05-24 0

Looking for Clancy

Frank Clancy goes from penniless working-class idealist in the 1930s to superstar journalist and editor in the London of the swinging '60s — but at what cost to his integrity? ...
Genre :Drama

Joe

1967-02-24 0

The World of Wodehouse

The World of Wodehouse was a comedy television series, based on the Blandings Castle and Ukridge comedy stories by P. G. Wodehouse. The series, which followed The World of Wooster, was shown on BBC T ...
Genre :Comedy

Constable Vage

1975-10-05 6.8

Poldark

Poldark is a television drama based on Winston Graham's novels of the same title. It was first transmitted on BBC Two across two seasons between 1975 and 1977. The adaptation covered all seven novels ...
Genre :Drama