David Battley

AKA:

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1935-11-05

Clapham, London, England, UK

Biography

Was a British actor of stage and screen, mainly appearing in comedy roles.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {50}

Mr. Turkentine

1971-06-29 7.481

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

When eccentric candy man Willy Wonka promises a lifetime supply of sweets and a tour of his chocolate factory to five lucky kids, penniless Charlie Bucket seeks the golden ticket that will make him a ...

Genre :Family, Fantasy, Comedy

Ergo

1983-07-29 6

Krull

A prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Joey

1967-03-08 0

Another Day, Another Dollar

A new steward on a large passenger liner finds himself subject to "charges" levied by the senior bar steward. ...

Genre :TV Movie

Percy

1972-12-01 2.3

That's Your Funeral

Two funeral parlours fight one another for business, one of whom is more shady than the other. ...

Genre :Comedy

George

1966-03-01 5.5

Hotel Paradiso

Monsieur Feydeau has writer's block and he needs a new play, so he takes an opportunity to observe his upper class neighbors of 1900 Paris. There is Monsieur Boniface with hard domineering wife Angeli ...

Genre :Comedy

Peters

1979-12-21 7.8

The London Connection

A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of American tourists caught right in the middle. ...

Genre :Adventure, Family, TV Movie

1968-01-01 0

The Franchise Trail

Genre :TV Movie

Codlin

1975-11-07 3.3

The Old Curiosity Shop

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, History, Music

Waiter

1969-10-29 5.5

The Waiters

Hill plays a caterer who gets drunk on the job and proceeds to make a disaster of a middle class couple's dinner party. ...

Genre :Comedy

Cinema Manager

1998-09-14 4.1

Vigo

Based on the life of a classic french cineast Jean Vigo, the story follows his daily struggle with sanity, normal life and uncompromising filmmaking. Story also focuses on his relationship with his su ...

Genre :Drama

S. Stebbing

1980-02-29 5.9

S.O.S. Titanic

The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board. ...

Genre :History, Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

1996-02-05 0

The All New Adventures of Mr Blobby

He's back! Everyone's favourite big, bouncy, big blob (well how many do you know?) In his new guises, Mr Blobby is a complete hoot, hilariously bumping, bashing and bruising his way through life. ...

Genre :

Hook

1968-11-05 0

Thark

Farce in which the nouveau riche Mrs Frush buys Thark, a large country house, from Sir Hector Benbow but then complains that the house is haunted. An assortment of characters go to the house to invest ...

Genre :Comedy, Horror, TV Movie

Executioner

1966-12-28 5.9

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the lon ...

Genre :Family, Fantasy, TV Movie

Old Woman

1976-12-25 0

The Snow Queen

The Devil makes a mirror -and it shatters.This is the story of what happens to little Kay when one of the pieces finds its way through his eye and into his heart. The powers of evil are unleashed ... ...

Genre :Fantasy, Animation, TV Movie

Country Yokel

1973-10-17 3.6

Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!

Based on the hit play. A British Government Minister puts forward a bill to battle filth in the UK but that doesn't stop him having an affair with both his secretary, Miss Parkyn and Wendy, the wife o ...

Genre :Comedy

Bridegroom

1969-11-25 5.385

Crossplot

A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots, little realising that she has overheard an assassination plot and is now being hunted by some dangerous ki ...

Genre :Thriller, Action

Desk Sergeant

1972-12-31 3.818

Rentadick

Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also sought by a group of Japanese. Both Armitage and ...

Genre :Comedy

Dennis

1973-08-02 0

The Museum Attendant

Michael Abbensetts’ first play for TV is a powerful, funny and shocking exposé of the racism faced by a black museum attendant in his place of work. ...

Genre :

Removal Man

1972-01-01 0

Blinker's Spy-Spotter

Blinker, so named because he blinks whenever he has a bright idea for a new invention, is the son of an eccentric Professor who is developing a top secret Pulsar Crystal X. Blinker's inventions help h ...

Genre :Family

Yokel

1972-01-14 4

Up the Chastity Belt

A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place, but on this day Sir Gra ...

Genre :Comedy

Midgeley

1972-07-14 4.2

Up the Front

In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth. But one evening he's hypnotised by a drunken hypnot ...

Genre :Comedy

1970-03-25 0

That's Your Funeral

That's Your Funeral was a BBC sitcom from 1971. The show was about a North of England funeral director called Basil Bulstrode. It used numerous urban legends about the funeral industry in its storylin ...

Genre :Comedy

Mr. Gaunt

1991-11-14 6.8

Murder Most Horrid

A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another she is involved with mu ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Crime, 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

1980-04-11 6.9

The Gentle Touch

The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for bei ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Golf Attendant

1990-01-01 7.979

Mr. Bean

Mr Bean turns simple everyday tasks into chaotic situations and will leave you in stitches as he creates havoc wherever he goes. ...

Genre :Comedy

1990-01-04 7.571

One Foot in the Grave

One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew and his long-suffering wife, Margaret. The programmes invariably deal with Meldrew's battle ...

Genre :Comedy

Norman Ebersley

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

1975-05-12 5.6

Rutland Weekend Television

Comedy sketch series purporting to show the programming of a low key regional television service. Written by Eric Idle of 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' fame. A popular feature was the music of Neil I ...

Genre :Comedy

Podgers

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

1985-01-14 5

Relative Strangers

Genre :

Costar Pearmain

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

1983-01-20 6

The Climber

When Harry Lumsden, a humble bakery worker, adds up the results wrong of an IQ test, he mistakenly thinks he is a genius. Filled with a new sense of self worth Harry decides to set about improving all ...

Genre :Comedy

1982-01-05 5

Don't Rock The Boat

Don’t Rock The Boat follows the adventures of widower Jack Hoxton,who runs a riverside boatyard with his two grown-up sons: Les and Billy.Jack meets a young girl Dixie who puts the spring back in his ...

Genre :

Police Sergeant

1985-01-20 6.3

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

Potter

1979-10-29 6.8

Minder

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

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

Ted Pringle

1992-01-12 7.5

As Time Goes By

Two lovers are reunited after decades apart following a mutual misunderstanding. ...

Genre :Comedy

Bus Inspector

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

Darlington Porter

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

Postman

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

Norman

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

Parson

1965-10-19 5

BBC Play of the Month

Genre :Drama

Hook

1968-09-10 0

The Jazz Age

An anthology of 1920s set plays and musicals, transmissioned from 10 September to 10 December 1968 on BBC One. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Plumber

1978-03-03 6.2

Mixed Blessings

Mixed Blessings is a British sitcom produced by LWT for broadcast on the ITV network between 1978 and 1980, It was created by comedy-writer Sid Green and starred Christopher Blake and Muriel Odunton. ...

Genre :Comedy

The New Scribe

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

Edwards

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

Mr Barnes

1989-10-01 5.5

Close to Home

A situation comedy about divorcee James Shepherd, a charismatic vet, who struggles to run both a successful surgery and a home for his two teenage children. ...

Genre :Comedy

Klaus

1966-01-29 5.5

Mystery and Imagination

Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 on ITV and produced by ABC and Thames Television. ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

John

1987-12-13 6.6

The Beiderbecke Tapes

The Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part 1987 British television comedy-drama serial written by Alan Plater. The second installment in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, it stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as sch ...