Fulton Mackay

AKA:
3.0408

1922-08-12

Paisley, Scotland, UK

Biography

Fulton Mackay OBE was a Scottish actor and playwright, best known for his role as prison officer Mr. Mackay in the 1970s sitcom Porridge.

Crew Roles

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {68}

Ben Knox

1983-02-17 6.7

Local Hero

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Chief Superintendant Johns

1982-05-27 6.323

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

John Straker

1971-12-01 6.3

Gumshoe

A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

Cameron

1973-02-16 6.1

Nothing But the Night

When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus accident very nearly takes out three more of them alon ...
Genre :Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Victor Kingsbrook

1986-05-09 6.338

Defence of the Realm

A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there bee ...
Genre :Action, Thriller

Inspector Davidson

1985-10-18 6.375

A Sense of Freedom

The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Alastair Campbell (as Fulton MacKay)

1952-07-01 5

I'm A Stranger

When his grandfather dies, George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) returns home from India to collect his inheritance -- only to find that the will has mysteriously gone missing. As his greedy relatives try ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Mr. Mackay

1979-08-12 6.7

Porridge

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godf ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Mr. Mackay (archive footage) (uncredited)

2007-05-10 5

Hitler: The Comedy Years

A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1983-02-27 0

The South Bank Show: 'Local Hero'

A documentary about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero." ...
Genre :Documentary

Colonel Noriss

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

Restaurant Proprietor

1984-07-05 5.667

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

The Captain (UK version)

2005-04-26 0

Fraggle Rock: Live by the Rule of the Rock

Catch a Tail by the Tiger: Gobo has not received his usual postcard from his Uncle Traveling Matt. He eventually comes to realize that he must venture out into outer space to look for him – a trip tha ...
Genre :Family, Comedy, Fantasy

Mackay

1984-01-01 5.7

Night Train to Murder

When Eric's niece Kathy becomes one of the heirs to a considerable fortune, her life (and those of the other heirs) is placed in jeopardy by the actions of a mysterious inter-loper. ...
Genre :Comedy, Thriller

Villager

1959-08-11 0

Brand

Brand's a bleak and desolate play that challenges the notion of a stern and stoic faith in the will of God. The title character is a pastor who returns to his ancestral home to find the villagers on t ...
Genre :Drama

Narrator

1957-01-01 0

Enchanted Isles

A trip through the Highlands and Islands of Scotland following in the footsteps of Bonnie Prince Charlie. ...
Genre :Documentary

Dan Wishart

1952-08-01 5.8

The Brave Don't Cry

At Balloch Moss mine in Scotland, water comes through a seam bringing a torrent of mud into the mine and flooding the pit shaft, resulting in 118 men being trapped, with nine missing. The only means b ...
Genre :Drama

Cpl. Henderson

1962-12-11 6.5

A Prize of Arms

A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

(archive footage)

2022-12-16 0

Comedy Classics: Porridge

An homage to the prison comedy series Porridge, created by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. This documentary examines how Ronnie Barker’s Fletch influenced Slade Prison’s characters. There is also a l ...
Genre :Documentary

Mr. Mackay

1976-12-24 0

Porridge: The Desperate Hours

Fletcher and Godber are in trouble for brewing liquor in the lead-up to Christmas, but are caught up in a hostage situation in the Governor's office. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Mr. Mackay

1975-12-24 0

Porridge: No Way Out

Fletcher discovers that his fellow inmates are planning to escape. ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

Gryphon (voice)

1985-10-04 6.7

Dreamchild

Eighty-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honor of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice had a close friendship with the writer, and their relat ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Austin Miller

1981-06-05 5

Going Gently

Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Eric

1985-01-11 5.9

Water

The British governor of a tiny island nation in the Caribbean Commonwealth finds his idyllic existence thrown into chaos when an American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy

Dr. Quinn

1970-03-14 7.286

Doctor Who and the Silurians

Investigating mysterious power failures and a death at an underground research centre, The Doctor discovers a colony of Silurians - prehistoric, intelligent reptiles who went into hibernation before m ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure

Euston

1969-01-05 6.7

Vendetta for The Saint

Simon Templar is on holiday in Naples when a small uproar on a lunch table draws his attention. An English tourist attempts to greet an Italian businessman as an old friend, but the Italian refuses to ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime, Action

Bonar Law

1981-03-04 0

The Life and Times of David Lloyd George

The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role. The title theme, Chi Mai, was by Ennio Morricone ...
Genre :Drama, History, TV Movie

Morgan Beddoes

1987-09-06 0

A Wreath of Roses

Period drama based on a novel. While waiting for a train, a lonely woman is witness to a suicide on the tracks. A sympathetic man strikes up a friendship with her. At first reluctant, she is drawn in ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

1983-11-01 0

Ill Fares the Land

The story of the last two years the inhabitants of the islands of St Kilda (far off the west coast of Scotland) spent there, before being evacuated at their own request. This film, originally shown at ...
Genre :Drama

Thomas

1971-05-13 0

Orkney

Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Andrew Flett

1953-04-01 6

Laxdale Hall

A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their road by withholding their taxes, and spend a few day ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Hitler

1984-01-20 4

To Catch a King

Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chanteuse who has stumbled across a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, living at the tim ...
Genre :Thriller, TV Movie

Dr. Leafer

1973-06-04 0

Three's One

Are Maggie and Tony using each other as a means of communicating with Dr Leafer? Or are they using Dr Leafer as a means of communicating with each other? ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Alec Webster

1976-02-24 7

Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

Trilogy of one-act plays based on short stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. ‘Clay’ is the story of a men who neglects his wife in favour of his land. ‘Smeddum’ is the story of a matriarch’s attempt to co ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Hughie

1976-03-09 0

Willie Rough

In the dark days of 1914 Willie Rough set out to find work in Greenock. He becomes a shipbuilding shop steward and soon finds himself involved in a bitter political and industrial conflict. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Narrator

1974-01-01 0

Shapes In The Water

Highland boat-building, showing intermediate processes of clinker- and carvel built boats, as well as those involved in ferroconcrete and steel construction of boats. Footage of ferries, fishing boats ...
Genre :Documentary

1980-07-28 0

The Clearances

A look at the causes, execution and legacy of the Highland Clearances in Scotland. ...
Genre :Documentary, History

David Roberts

1965-09-06 0

Strife

A personal dispute between a union leader and a management leader causes chaos for workers at a troublesome tin mining company. ...
Genre :

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

1968-07-31 7.4

Dad's Army

Introducing the Walmington-On-Sea home guard. During WW2, in a fictional British seaside town, a ragtag group of Home Guard local defense volunteers prepare for an imminent German invasion. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Mackay

1978-02-24 7.7

Going Straight

Going Straight is a BBC sitcom which was a direct spin-off from Porridge, starring Ronnie Barker as Norman Stanley Fletcher, newly released from the fictional Slade Prison where the earlier series had ...
Genre :Comedy

Mr. Mackay

1974-09-05 8.1

Porridge

Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La ...
Genre :Comedy

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

Edward

1979-03-24 6.711

Tales of the Unexpected

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plet ...
Genre :Drama

Professor Chadwick

1961-01-07 7.725

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

1983-01-10 7.364

Fraggle Rock

The Fraggles are a fun-loving community of creatures who live in a subterranean fantasy land where they love to play, sing and dance their cares away, sharing their world with the tiny Doozers and the ...
Genre :Kids, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comedy

John Everett

1962-10-04 7.312

The Saint

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Luciano

1986-01-10 7.35

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

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

1962-08-16 6

Dr. Finlay's Casebook

Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country Doctor’, the storylines centred on a general medical practice i ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1969-09-17 4.3

Special Branch

Special Branch is a British television. A police drama series, the action was centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan Police. ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Leafer

1970-10-15 6.333

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

Judge

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

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 :

Austin Miller

1974-03-13 7

Playhouse

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

1972-11-21 5.7

The Edwardians

It was a time when England was a nation on the cusp of change, an evolving landscape tht lay between Victorian England and the First World War. 'The Edwardians' explores the lives of and events in the ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Quinn

1963-11-23 7.869

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

Self

1979-06-09 7.5

The Paul Daniels Magic Show

A British magic show and variety show that aired on BBC1 from 9 June 1979 to 18 June 1994. Daniels' assistant throughout the series was Debbie McGee, whom he married in 1988. At its peak in the 1980s, ...
Genre :Family

Judge Seaton

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

James Euston

1962-10-04 7.312

The Saint

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Keir Hardie

1974-04-03 5

Shoulder to Shoulder

The lives of the Pankhurst women and their role in the Suffragette Movement. ...
Genre :Drama

Glover

1961-01-07 7.725

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

Master

1961-01-07 7.725

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

Hamish James Ordway

1985-04-15 5

Mann's Best Friends

When Henry Mann inherits The Laurels he also inherits its assorted resident oddballs, who include ill-tempered alcoholic Duncan, blonde temptress Dolly Delights and several Chinese waiters. Then comes ...
Genre :Comedy

Eck

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

Engstrand

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

M. Baisemeaux

1968-07-28 0

The Man in the Iron Mask

A completely lost BBC1 miniseries adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' 19th century historical adventure novel of the same name. Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have ...
Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

Dr. Swinburne

1963-10-09 8

Festival

An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels. ...
Genre :Drama