John Cater

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1932-01-17

Hendon, London, England, UK

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {100}

Bert

1980-05-03 5.5

Rising Damp

Stingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers John, an art student, and Philip, an African medical student, making both pay for a room they must share. However Rigsby's favorite lodger, Miss Jone ...

Genre :Comedy

Maurice

2006-04-07 5.648

Alien Autopsy

Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947. ...

Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction

Arnold Pepperell

1989-12-24 6.884

The Woman in Black

When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the wom ...

Genre :Horror, Mystery, TV Movie, History

Superintendent Waverley

1971-05-18 6.935

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies. ...

Genre :Horror, Comedy

Joe Astler

1989-04-26 0

Shalom Salaam

Two disparate families become intertwined when a Jewish man and a Muslim woman fall in love while attending college. ...

Genre :

Professor Hieronymous Grost

1974-04-07 6.107

Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter

When several young girls are found dead, left hideously aged and void of blood, Dr. Marcus suspects vampirism. He enlists the help of the Vampire Hunter. Mysterious and powerful, Kronos has dedicated ...

Genre :Adventure, Horror

Grave robber

2008-05-01 0

Legend of Hammer: Vampires

A journey through all Hammer Horror vampire films. From "Horror Of Dracula" to "Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires". ...

Genre :Documentary

Restorer (Robertson)

1991-10-20 6.6

A Question of Attribution

Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Courtauld Institute, and presents his interrogator wi ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Meadows

1970-05-01 5.529

Loot

Two bank robbers, Dennis and Hal, are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they stash the cash in Hal's recentl ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Bert

2005-09-15 2

Room 36

Room 36 is a low-budget British thriller shot in black-and-white from director Jim Groom. Hit man Conner is supposed to meet MP Helen Woods in a hotel room to exchange money for microfilm. Things get ...

Genre :Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Pollux

1975-03-31 7.8

Further Up Pompeii

A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusing on the life of a house slave (played by Frankie Howerd). A sort of prequel to the 1971 movie "Up ...

Genre :Comedy

Efim

1996-03-23 6.5

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

Superintendent Waverly

1972-07-01 6.27

Dr. Phibes Rises Again

The eminent Dr. Phibes awakens from a decade of suspended animation and heads to Egypt with the corpse of his dead wife, which he intends to resurrect by murdering people in strange and heinous ways. ...

Genre :Comedy, Horror

Richard Grosvenor

1978-01-01 0

News from Nowhere

In 1880, William Morris travels with his family and friends, as they navigate the Thames en-route to Oxford. Their journey is punctuated by champagne breakfasts, musings on matters aesthetic and socia ...

Genre :Drama

Blackall

1968-10-30 5

Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher

A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem. ...

Genre :Comedy

George

1976-01-17 0

Mirror, Mirror

A TV production crew member becomes distracted while polishing a mirror. He turns his attention to the watching TV cameras, which now appear to have personalities of their own. ...

Genre :

1974-09-16 0

South Riding

An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel ...

Genre :

Thomas

1980-12-01 7.367

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marry ...

Genre :TV Movie, Family, Drama

Bernie

1995-05-20 2.5

Savage Hearts

When a beautiful mob hitwoman learns she only has six months to live, she decides to rob her employers, and go out in style, but the syndicate's head man won't rest until he gets his two million dolla ...

Genre :Thriller

Murchison

1975-04-11 8

If It's a Man – Hang Up!

A young model is terrorized by a peeping tom and obscene phone calls. ...

Genre :Thriller, Crime, Horror, TV Movie

Doctor

1979-05-28 5.5

The House on Garibaldi Street

When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him. ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

Rockhill

1987-04-05 7.7

Still Crazy Like a Fox

Jack Warden is back as quirky detective Harry Fox, who becomes a suspect in a murder case while on holiday in England. ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

Dr. Trump

1990-12-30 0

Life After Life

A 70 year old man gets shunned into a retirement home. ...

Genre :TV Movie, Comedy, Drama

1st Gentleman

1979-02-25 6.5

Henry VIII

Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend ...

Genre :History, Drama, TV Movie

Psychiatrist

1975-12-17 6.6

The Naked Civil Servant

Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2. ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy, TV Movie

John Cater

2003-11-04 0

Drácula en la Hammer

Genre :Documentary

Norman

1973-06-25 0

The Stretch

Everyone always looked after Maureen. But her husband comes home after two years in prison and finds she has grown up and he's not ready for the change. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Professor Krimpton

1966-07-16 7.4

Doctor Who: The War Machines

The TARDIS arrives in London in 1966 and the First Doctor and Dodo visit the Post Office Tower. There they meet Professor Brett, whose revolutionary new computer WOTAN (Will Operating Thought ANalogue ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure

Siddie's Husband

1966-03-29 6.5

Alfie

A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Man in Crowd (uncredited)

1972-05-25 7.1

Frenzy

London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller, Horror

The Professor

1975-10-01 0

The Secret Agent

A bomb-throwing incident in 1905 sets off a train of events which ends in a murder and a suicide. ...

Genre :Thriller

Grumpy Joe

2007-05-10 0

Dangerous Liaisons

When detectives investigate a seemingly natural death of an old man, they discover a disturbing tape in his possession which alongside old family memories also features the murder of a woman. After tr ...

Genre :Mystery, TV Movie

1973-03-25 7

Seven of One

Seven of One was a British comedy series that aired on BBC2 in 1973. Starring Ronnie Barker, 7 of One is a series of seven separate comedies that would serve as possible pilots for sitcoms. Originally ...

Genre :Comedy

Murchison

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

Jack Pearce

1997-03-23 7.485

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

Charles Banjou

1969-09-09 4.577

Department S

Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969–1970. It starred Peter Wyngarde as author Jaso ...

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

Clam

1990-04-22 8.1

Jeeves and Wooster

Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooste ...

Genre :Comedy

1984-10-16 6.686

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

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

Olliphant

1961-01-07 7.7

The Avengers

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assista ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Tommy

1979-10-29 6.8

Minder

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

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Action & Adventure, Crime

The Dean

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

1962-06-30 4.3

Out of This World

Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC Television and broadcast in 1962. A spin-off from the popular anthology series Armchair Theatre, each episode was ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Alec Slemen

1975-01-02 7.84

The Sweeney

Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter. ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama, Crime

1976-09-20 7.8

I, Claudius

Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius. ...

Genre :Drama, War & Politics

1990-01-04 7.566

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

1972-06-05 5.5

Alcock and Gander

Alcock and Gander is a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1972. Starring Beryl Reid and Richard O'Sullivan, it lasted for one series. It was written by Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, who later wro ...

Genre :Comedy

Sam

1986-01-10 7.343

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

2008-07-08 5.6

Bonekickers

Bonekickers was a BBC drama about a team of archaeologists, set at the fictional Wessex University. It made its début on 8 July 2008 and ran for one series. It was written by Life on Mars and Ashes t ...

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

Norman

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

2000-08-06 2

Down to Earth

Down to Earth was a BBC One television series first broadcast in 2000 about a couple who start a new life on a Devon farm. The early episodes of the series were based on a series of books written by F ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

1992-02-09 7

Maigret

Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the Sûreté in this 1992 revival of the 1960s BBC drama series. Maigret is an intuitutive detective, who invest ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

1989-04-26 0

Shalom Salaam

Genre :

1980-05-30 0

The Other 'Arf

The Other 'Arf is a British television ITV sitcom series broadcast from 1980 to 1984. It stars John Standing as upper class Conservative politician Charles Latimer, MP, who begins a relationship with ...

Genre :Comedy

1983-06-03 0

Jack Of Diamonds

Genre :

1962-09-12 0

Dial RIX

Genre :

1992-11-19 6

Sitting Pretty

Sitting Pretty is a 1992 BBC television sitcom written by John Sullivan. The series starred Diane Bull, David Ashford and John Cater and was directed by Susan Belbin and Angela De Chastelai Smith. Th ...

Genre :

1982-12-28 0

Anyone for Denis?

Anyone for Denis? is a British video-taped television version of the stage play of the same name broadcast by the ITV network on 28 December 1982. The original play, first performed at the Whitehall T ...

Genre :Comedy

1975-09-22 4.7

Madame Bovary

Francesca Annis and Tom Conti star in this acclaimed UK miniseries adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's classic tale of one woman's attempts to mold her own unfulfilling life in the shape of her favorite ...

Genre :Drama

Perry

1986-11-08 5.5

Unnatural Causes

Series of seven psychological dramas concerning death by unnatural causes. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Fred Doublett

1968-03-28 5

Virgin of the Secret Service

Set in the 1900s, when the British Secret Service was a new, unofficial arm of military activity, the series features Captain Robert Virgin - an officer and a gentleman who fights as a man of honour. ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Dirk

1970-09-13 5

The Black Tulip

The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, has set a prize of ƒ100,000 to the person who can grow a black tulip, sparking competition between the country's best gardeners to win the money, honour and fame. Onl ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Solicitor

1999-06-01 7.539

Bad Girls

Bad Girls is a British television drama series that was broadcast on ITV from 1 June 1999 to 20 December 2006 and starred Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones, Debra Stephenson, Linda Henry, Jack Ellis and ma ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Bernard

1986-09-06 6.1

Casualty

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives. ...

Genre :Drama, Soap

Mr Tavener

1991-09-03 7.184

2Point4 Children

They're just your average family. Stressed mum Bill, daft dad Ben, and two troublesome teens. Plus just a few crazy ideas, escapades and mishaps. The classic 90s sitcom. ...

Genre :Comedy

Narcissus

1976-09-20 7.8

I, Claudius

Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Ezra

1968-01-01 10

Rogues' Gallery

Rogues' Gallery was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1968 and 1969. It was set around London's Newgate Prison in the 18th century. ...

Genre :Drama

George

2001-05-09 7

The Residents

Satirical drama about the residents of a suburban English street, including a racist bully, a single mum who works on a phone-sex line, a gay couple, a pair of spaced-out students, a cross-dressing te ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Attendant

1990-05-01 7

The Upper Hand

The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and Columbia Pictures Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. The programme was adapted from the Am ...

Genre :Comedy

Skebbins

1981-10-18 6.7

Bergerac

Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes cau ...

Genre :Drama

Monsignor Flynn

1989-09-19 5.8

The Paradise Club

The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank & Danny Kane. Two series were produced and were broadcast between 1989 and 1990. The show focuses upon ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Alfred Goddard

1983-04-08 6.9

Dalgliesh

Centred on the cases of P. D. James' gentleman detective Adam Dalgliesh. In addition to his career as a policeman, Dalgliesh is also a published poet and an intensely private man. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Captain Rider

1996-02-21 7.51

Silent Witness

A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Captain Rider (uncredited)

1996-02-21 7.51

Silent Witness

A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Longin

1970-10-04 3.667

The Roads to Freedom

Taboo-busting adaptation for television of Jean-Paul Sartre's trilogy. ...

Genre :Drama

Old Man

1985-01-06 6.8

Screen Two

Series of single made-for-television dramas. ...

Genre :Drama

Professor Krimpton

1963-11-23 7.9

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

Shady Gray

1985-04-19 6.3

Home to Roost

Home to Roost is a British television sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television in the 1980s. Written by Eric Chappell, it starred John Thaw as Henry Willows and Reece Dinsdale as his 18-year-old son Ma ...

Genre :Comedy

Dalrymple

1956-07-08 5.8

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later b ...

Genre :

Castor Oilus

1969-09-17 7.2

Up Pompeii!

Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd. The first series was written by Talbot Rothwell, a scriptwriter for the Carry On films, and ...

Genre :Comedy

Dinsdale

1971-04-09 7

Budgie

Genre :

Man Receptionist

1960-09-11 7.2

Danger Man

Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart creat ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Malcolm

2004-01-13 4

Doctors and Nurses

Focuses on the fraught relationship between two orthopaedic surgeons at a hospital on the Isle of Wight. ...

Genre :Comedy

1975-12-31 6

A Touch of the Casanovas

A pilot for a Frankie Howerd sitcom that was eventually never made. A Touch of the Casanovas follows the same formula as Howerd's other sitcoms. ...

Genre :Drama

Augustus Colpoys

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

Douglas Rooker

1965-05-13 0

Londoners

London itself takes the starring role in this series of plays from the BBC – a role which varies between hero and villain, enchantress and harpy. The series features extensive location filming, rangin ...

Genre :Drama

Cllr. Samuel Winstanley

1990-04-20 6

The Chief

The Chief is a British crime drama transmitted on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995. Produced by Anglia Television, it centred on the politics at the top of a typical English police force in its ...

Genre :Drama

1964-07-31 6

A World Of His Own

"A World of His Own" is the title of a British comedy television series starring Roy Kinnear and Anne Cunningham, which aired on the BBC in 1964 and 1965. It was created as a vehicle for Kinnear, who ...

Genre :

Harold Cresset

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

Mr Poulter

1978-12-31 5.5

The Mill on the Floss

The Mill on the Floss is a British television drama adaptation of George Eliot's 1860 novel of the same name about the lives of rural 19th century siblings Maggie and Tom Tulliver. ...

Genre :Drama

Snell

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

Monk

1964-05-03 7.2

Theatre 625

Genre :Drama

Ailred

1964-05-03 7.2

Theatre 625

Genre :Drama

Uncle Titus Dudgeon

1985-09-15 0

Theatre Night

A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays. ...

Genre :Drama

Ernest

1972-06-05 5.5

Alcock and Gander

Genre :Comedy

Albert the Atheist

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 :

Anthony Snaith

1974-09-16 0

South Riding

Headmistress Sarah Burton, a left-wing feminist, is disgusted by the social injustices faced by her pupils. In spite of her beliefs, she reluctantly finds herself falling in love with a Tory landowner ...

Genre :Drama

Warren Hastings

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

Self (archive footage)

1994-08-12 6.5

The World of Hammer

The World of Hammer is a thirteen-part British documentary series created and written by Robert and Ashley Sidaway for Channel 4. Initially broadcast from 12 August to 4 November 1994, the series is n ...

Genre :Documentary