Leslie Sands

AKA:

0.4228

1921-05-19

Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Biography

Crew Roles

The White Elephant

Writer

Silver Lining

Writer

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {45}

Inspector

1967-01-26 6.2

The Deadly Affair

Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination ...

Genre :Thriller, Mystery, Drama

The Narrator

1966-06-22 0

Cock, Hen and Courting Pit

A couple revisit a past love affair when they meet again ten years later. ...

Genre :TV Movie

First Gendarme

1965-08-23 7

Rapture

Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Doris' father

1972-01-01 3.2

The Ragman's Daughter

Based on the Alan Sillitoe short story. Tony, a worker at a cheese factory, is also a petty thief. He moves from robbery after robbery until he meets Doris, the daughter of the local ragman. Slowly, h ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Romance

Foreman Sam Carter

1976-05-26 6.8

The Littlest Horse Thieves

When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three children plan to steal them to keep them safe. But when ...

Genre :Family, Drama

Wilf

1961-12-15 7

Where the Difference Begins

A family gather together as their mother lies dying. Death brings conflicts into sharp focus - not least between brothers Edgar and Richard… ...

Genre :

Alfred

1968-12-23 0

Camille '68

Adaption of Alexandre Dumas's novel, set in England in a contemporary society. Camille is living in London, working as a prostitute with her friend Nanine. Her life has no happiness until she meets t ...

Genre :

Commissionaire

1979-02-17 4.5

One Fine Day

Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie, Comedy

The Blind Man

1968-08-03 0

If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them

Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice. ...

Genre :Drama

Trevor

1974-05-15 0

If You Could See What I Can See

Trevor returns to his old home town to see his estranged wife and son, but fails to see why she is afraid of him. ...

Genre :

Tom

1991-08-01 0

Gas and Candles

Black comedy play about two pensioners struggling to manage on an old-age pension and living in a high-rise block of flats. ...

Genre :Comedy, TV Movie

Sam Shipley

1982-03-24 0

I Have Been Here Before

Guests at a small hotel are disquieted by the insistence of a mysterious doctor that he has been there before. ...

Genre :

Yorky

1967-02-01 0

The Lump

The Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Clyde

1962-09-06 6.65

Life for Ruth

John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would have saved her life ...

Genre :Drama

Doctor

1979-06-29 4.9

Bloodline

A pampered heiress inherits her father's pharmaceutical empire when he dies in a suspicious accident, and soon finds herself surrounded by ruthless board members and grasping family members who will s ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller

Sir Oswald Coote

1981-03-08 6.771

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery

When two mysterious deaths mar an otherwise pleasant weekend in the English countryside, unflappable flapper Lady Eileen Brent teams up with the dashing Jimmy Thesinger to solve the dastardly deeds. T ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller, TV Movie

Inspector Crock

1970-05-01 4.4

One More Time

London nightclub buddies Salt and Pepper link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers. ...

Genre :Comedy, Thriller

Narrator

1978-01-01 0

Safety and the Supervisor

Using a case study, the film examines the causes and effects of an industrial accident, highlighting the role of the supervisor and identifying his responsibility as interpreted by the Health and Safe ...

Genre :

Superintendent Travers

1958-10-12 0

I Can Destroy the Sun

Senior officials in the British, American and Russian governments all receive the same cryptic and unsigned message - "I Can Destroy The Sun". What can it mean? ...

Genre :

Romague

1959-12-06 0

Doctor Kabil

Holidaying in Algeria, French minister Corrazzi is fighting for his life in hospital after a botched assassination attempt. Algerian doctor Dr. Kabil is reluctantly trusted to save his life but discov ...

Genre :

Sir Henry Merritt

1966-09-03 0

The Noise Stopped

Charles and Diana Jane invited Sir Henry and Maggie for dinner. Uncomfortable personal details will be disclosed that will lead Charles to re-evaluate his life. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Sergeant Harris

1961-02-01 6.5

Clue of the New Pin

TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse is discovered locked in a vault. The key to the vault is mysteriously found on the table beside ...

Genre :Crime

Det. Insp. Simons

1962-10-01 6.5

Death Trap

A young woman commits suicide. Her sister is not ready to let the death go without someone answering a few questions. Namely, was it really suicide, and where is the large amount of money her sister w ...

Genre :Crime

Mr. Barfield

1969-08-16 0

Two Feet Off the Ground

A young woman uses her parents' home as a psychological testing ground to research the concept of male sexual neurosis. ...

Genre :

Edward Gierek

1976-09-21 0

Three Days in Szczecin

A dramatization of the Polish shipyard workers' strike in 1971. ...

Genre :Documentary

Draper

1969-09-09 5

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

1961-01-07 7.724

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

Sam Purdell

1962-10-04 7.351

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

Mr. Wylie

1984-03-07 6.7

Fresh Fields

Fresh Fields is a British situation comedy written by John T. Chapman and produced by Thames Television for ITV between 7 March 1984 and 23 October 1986. A ratings success at the time, the show is wel ...

Genre :Comedy

Charles Arkwright

1969-06-18 7.7

The Main Chance

The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocate ...

Genre :Drama

1964-03-30 0

Detective

A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC programmes made before the early 1970s, many of its epi ...

Genre :Crime

1975-01-15 5

Cilla's Comedy Six

Genre :

1976-08-31 7.5

Cilla's World Of Comedy

Genre :

1964-04-06 0

Cluff

Genre :

Lord Graveney

1983-06-15 8

Blackadder

Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of the First World War. ...

Genre :Comedy

Narrator (voice)

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

Tom

1988-01-19 6

The Play on One

A series of plays specially written for television. ...

Genre :Drama

Andrei Borisov

1965-10-08 6

The Mask of Janus

In the fictional European country of Amalia, the political interests of the British, American and Communist espionage communities are explored. Eschewing the action formula of its ITV contemporaries, ...

Genre :Crime

Sam Shipley

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

Captain Abel Gasser

1966-07-06 0

King of the River

A completely lost BBC1 drama series centred on the King family, who love, live, fight and work around a harbour in the Thames estuary. ...

Genre :Drama

Mr Tripp

1973-08-15 7.1

Man About the House

Man About the House is a British sitcom created and written by Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer, and starring Paula Wilcox, Sally Thomsett, Richard O'Sullivan, Brian Murphy, and Yootha Joyce. Six seri ...

Genre :Comedy

Walter Grope

1977-05-08 5.5

Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle

Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle (often referred to simply as Murder Most English) is a seven-part British detective miniseries based on Colin Watson's Flaxborough novel series. While Mart ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

Superintendent Travers

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 :

Brack

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

Andrew Maddox

1965-10-04 7

Out of the Unknown

Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a ...