Michael Medwin

AKA: Michael Hugh Medwin

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1923-07-18

London, England, UK

Biography

Michael Hugh Medwin, OBE (18 July 1923 – 26 February 2020) was an English actor and film producer.

Crew Roles

Charlie Bubbles

Producer

My Sister and I

Writer

Gumshoe

Producer

Spring and Port Wine

Producer

Children of Chance

Writer

O Lucky Man!

Producer

Law and Disorder

Executive Producer

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Producer

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {91}

John Felix

1967-01-05 6.098

A Countess from Hong Kong

A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Ramsey

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

Duke of Nonesuch

1947-11-14 6.3

An Ideal Husband

A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Nephew Fred

1970-11-05 6.884

Scrooge

A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney. ...

Genre :Fantasy, Drama, Family

Smart

1955-03-29 6.1

Above Us the Waves

In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack by conventional means, so a plan is hatched f ...

Genre :War

Officer Lamb

1958-06-10 6.2

The Wind Cannot Read

A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy and is not accepted by his countrymen. ...

Genre :Romance, Drama, War

Sub-lieutenant Trail

1955-07-12 5.3

Doctor at Sea

The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurs ...

Genre :Comedy

Cabby

1949-02-28 6.9

Forbidden

Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronal ...

Genre :Thriller, Drama

Derek

1964-03-18 6.8

Night Must Fall

A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with unpleasant results for all. ...

Genre :Thriller, Horror

Hovaisky

1949-03-16 6.5

The Queen of Spades

An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then ...

Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Horror

1963-11-06 4

Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance

At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a number of murders, among which the man who was conducting a cargo of serum to a village infected with disea ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama

Lt. Vernon

1958-02-01 5.4

The Steel Bayonet

Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post, reporting on enemy movements before the imminent ...

Genre :Drama, War

Pvt. Docker

1956-09-18 6.563

A Hill in Korea

Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers find that Chinese troop movements have c ...

Genre :War, Drama, History

Dick Stevens

1950-09-04 0

Shadow of the Past

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

Genre :

Ian Faulkner

1974-07-08 0

View from the Loft

Young Linda Channing visits her fiancé Ian Faulkner at an old aristocratic residence near London. Here he witnesses several mysterious murders. There are no clues to these murders - only bloody corps ...

Genre :Horror, Drama, Mystery, Crime

Martin Teckman

1954-10-27 6

The Teckman Mystery

A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a series of murders. ...

Genre :Mystery

Johnnie Fletcher

1947-07-01 4.5

Black Memory

Cockney Danny Cruff is the son of a man wrongly accused of murder. Danny decides to solve the mystery himself by hobnobbing with London's underworld. To do this, he poses as a juvenile delinquent. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Emile Garat

1948-01-06 0

Look Before You Love

Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff. ...

Genre :Comedy

Ronnie Martin

1950-04-30 5

Someone at the Door

A man and his sister live in a country home, not knowing that there is stolen loot hidden there. A gang of criminals attempts to get them to move so they can get the loot for themselves. ...

Genre :Mystery

Johnny

1950-08-01 5.2

The Lady Craved Excitement

A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks. ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Dick Pentwick

1952-10-01 5.2

Love's a Luxury

A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their efforts turn into comic disaster as a variety of wives, girlfriends and scoutmasters arrive uninvited. ...

Genre :Comedy

Cpl. Springer

1958-01-01 6.4

I Only Arsked

A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Their frustrations and disappointme ...

Genre :Comedy

Bob Carter

1954-03-15 7.3

Bang! You're Dead

Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays 'highwayman' on the road and holds up a cyclist; the gun goe ...

Genre :Drama

Tommy

1965-03-08 5.3

Twenty-Four Hours to Kill

When a jet airliner with engine trouble lands in Beirut for a twenty-four hour stopover, purser 'Jonesey' fears his life is in danger from a gold-smuggling gang whom he double-crossed on a previous tr ...

Genre :Thriller, Drama

Ginger

1964-12-20 5.5

Rattle of a Simple Man

Percy Winthram is a naive young man who still lives at home with his mum. In London for the Cup Final with his friends, he finds himself in a Soho strip club, where he meets blonde hostess Cyrenne. Ac ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Ginger Edwards

1953-10-18 7.2

The Intruder

When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact for ...

Genre :Crime, War

Smedley

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

Ginger

1959-01-30 6.362

Carry On Nurse

In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. The formidable Matron's debut gives everyone a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt stan ...

Genre :Comedy

Sid

1959-08-06 0

The Heart of a Man

Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a hundred pounds in a week by honest means. Frankie tries his hand as a boxer, a bouncer and a commission ...

Genre :

Jerry Winterton

1952-03-12 7.2

Curtain Up

In a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. T ...

Genre :Comedy

Max Catlin

1963-08-01 5

It's All Happening

Tommy Steele stars as a talent-spotter at a recording company who determines to organize a concert featuring all the most up-to-date singers and bands, in order that the orphanage where he was brought ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

Rocky

1947-12-22 5.2

Nightbeat

After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman. ...

Genre :Drama

Len, Herbie's bar pal

1949-04-21 5.2

For Them That Trespass

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Car Mechanic (uncredited)

1957-01-01 6.2

The Girl in the Picture

A crime reporter investigating a murder discovers the case hinges on a mysterious woman he had photographed earlier. ...

Genre :Crime, Mystery

Milroy

1983-11-11 4.9

The Jigsaw Man

Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents ...

Genre :Thriller

Alf Higgins

1956-05-01 7

Charley Moon

A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with Harold Armytage, a peacetime actor of the old schoo ...

Genre :Music

Monty, Marquis of Maidenhead

1949-09-29 7

Trottie True

Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upw ...

Genre :Music, Drama, Comedy

2005-10-06 0

Invasion

A soldier lands on an island and storms it. Only finding it defended by sheep and one old shepherd he claims it on behalf of his king and country. The shepherd though, doesn't seem that bothered and i ...

Genre :Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Mr. Wells

1990-12-07 7

The Fool

A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly ver ...

Genre :Drama

Dr. Charles Bingham

1957-03-26 5.646

Doctor at Large

Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) finds himself going from post to post, filli ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Waiter

1984-07-05 6.1

Sleepwalker

Saxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with a vicious sting in the tale. ...

Genre :Horror

Hymie Campbell

1965-04-25 6

I've Gotta Horse

A fast-moving comedy with Billy Fury, who plays himself in the film. The story reveals his great love of animals, and it features his own racehorse, Anselmo. Also featured are several of Billy's own d ...

Genre :Comedy, Music

1948-12-31 0

William Comes to Town

William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys. ...

Genre :Comedy

Sarah's father

1994-07-08 5.3

Staggered

Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to Lon ...

Genre :Comedy

Dr. Toby Andrews

1953-07-01 4.7

Spaceways

The test launch for the first inter-planetary research station goes wrong when the satellite station is inadvertently set up instead of returning to earth. Two people attached to the secret project ar ...

Genre :Science Fiction

The Professor

1988-09-01 4.3

Just Ask for Diamond

Thirteen-year-old Nick and his slightly dense older brother Herbert run the Diamond Private Detective Agency above Camden Town Tube Station in north-central London. When a master criminal called The F ...

Genre :Family, Comedy, Crime

Chick

1953-03-17 5.8

Street Corner

A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines. ...

Genre :Thriller, Drama, Crime

Red King

1998-12-26 5.1

Alice Through the Looking Glass

A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland' story. This time Alice is played by the mother, who fal ...

Genre :Family, Fantasy, TV Movie

Bayldon

1989-08-20 6

The Endless Game

A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events from his own past to determine who killed them and w ...

Genre :Thriller, TV Movie, Drama, Mystery

Alf "Sparrow" Thompson

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

Doctor at Shrublands

1983-10-07 6.049

Never Say Never Again

James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond has an ally in Largo's gi ...

Genre :Adventure, Action, Thriller

Sewer Man

1966-07-01 6.1

The Sandwich Man

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

Genre :Comedy

Self - Interviewee

2004-06-12 0

Cast & Crew: If....

Episode of the BBC Scotland television series focusing on Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film "If...", featuring interviews with star Malcolm McDowell, cinematographer Miroslav Ondříček, assistant editor Ian ...

Genre :Documentary

Langley

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

English Producer

1986-04-15 0

Paradise Hotel

A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a livi ...

Genre :Drama

Steward

1950-10-10 6.3

Trio

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

Genre :Drama

George Ackroyd

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

Radio Operator

1946-08-24 6.2

Piccadilly Incident

A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son. ...

Genre :War, Drama

Timothy Blake

1953-06-01 5

The Oracle

An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar. ...

Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

Registrar

1999-11-19 6.5

Fanny & Elvis

Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband leaves her. To get over the financial crisis this creates she takes in car-dealer Dave. He's homeless ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy

Edward Courtney

1947-04-11 4.9

The Courtneys of Curzon Street

On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film then follows their family through four generations, wi ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Leslie Scott

1951-02-06 6.4

The Long Dark Hall

A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Ernest

1952-11-12 7.5

Miss Robin Hood

In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition from an elderly fan. She suggests that they conspire ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Speechmaker

2008-09-05 6.989

The Duchess

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. ...

Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Cooper

1958-03-30 5.2

The Duke Wore Jeans

A Cockney lad pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

1955-10-21 5.5

A Man on the Beach

This weird short manages to pack in fraud, murder, alcoholism and transvestitism, with two somewhat obvious plot twists but a acertain amount of interest in the characterisation and mise-en-scene. You ...

Genre :

Ronnie Bassett

1962-03-31 6.3

Crooks Anonymous

A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of good ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Father To Be (Uncredited)

1953-05-28 6.6

Genevieve

Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home. ...

Genre :Comedy

Yellow

1948-11-24 5.1

Another Shore

A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Man Giving BBC Boxing Talk

1949-01-07 6.2

Helter Skelter

A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance, Fantasy

Ginger

1956-12-25 5.3

Checkpoint

Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, when opening a safe containing the plans, he trigger ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Pvt. Watney

1962-09-25 7.584

The Longest Day

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's A ...

Genre :War, Action, Drama

Spiv

1947-12-17 7

Just William's Luck

Comic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals. ...

Genre :Comedy

Harris

1948-10-13 7

Woman Hater

A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Theatre Surgeon

1982-05-27 6.4

Britannia Hospital

Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebrat ...

Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction

Army Captain/Power Station Technician/Duke of Belminster

1973-03-25 6.9

O Lucky Man!

An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism. ...

Genre :Comedy, Music, Fantasy

Sgt. Harry Stuart

1951-03-30 5.4

Four in a Jeep

Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna. ...

Genre :Drama

Kitty's Doctor

1948-01-22 6.1

Anna Karenina

Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vr ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Man In Cab

1974-10-09 4.9

Law and Disorder

In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous. No hoodlum goes safe. ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

1957-06-19 5

The Army Game

The Army Game is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1957 to 1961. Made in black-and-white, it is about National Service conscription to the post-war British Army. It was created by Sid Colin. Man ...

Genre :Comedy

Bill Fredericks

1986-01-10 7.3

Lovejoy

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers f ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Mystery

1958-10-06 5.8

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots f ...

Genre :Drama

John Langley

1988-10-18 6

Colin's Sandwich

Colin's Sandwich is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC2 in 1988 and 1990 which stars Mel Smith as Colin Watkins, a British Rail clerk who aspired to be a horror writer. The show was written by Paul Smi ...

Genre :Comedy

1986-09-05 5

Call Me Mister

Genre :

Barry

1979-10-29 6.8

Minder

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

Cecil Smarm

1985-01-20 6.5

Super Gran

Adapted from Forrest Wilson's books, the children's programme revolves around a grandmother with super powers and her arch nemesis, The Scunner Campbell. ...

Genre :Comedy, Family, Crime

Guy Northcott

1978-09-10 7

Return of the Saint

Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts. ...

Genre :Action & Adventure

Don Satchley

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

Dr. Patrick Whitfield

2001-04-22 8.4

Murder in Mind

Murder in Mind is a British television thriller drama anthology series of self-contained stories with a murderous theme seen from the perspective of the murderer. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Dr Chingford

2005-04-19 5.3

Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky

A story of unrequited love set in 1930s London, against the backdrop of grimy streets and public houses. ...

Genre :Drama

Carruthers

1992-04-10 7

Heartbeat

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