Ralph Truman

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1900-05-07

London, England, UK

Biography

Ralph Truman (7 May 1900 – 15 October 1977) was a British actor.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {62}

Colonel Blenkinsop

1956-06-01 6.929

The Long Arm

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Thriller

Buchanan

1956-05-16 7.445

The Man Who Knew Too Much

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped. ...
Genre :Thriller, Mystery

Monks

1948-06-28 7.6

Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure, Crime, Comedy

George Merry

1950-07-19 6.6

Treasure Island

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint ...
Genre :Adventure, Family

Tigellinus

1951-11-08 7.095

Quo Vadis

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero. ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Mountjoy - The French Herald

1944-11-24 6.655

Henry V

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France. ...
Genre :History, Drama, War

Rodzianko

1971-11-29 6.9

Nicholas and Alexandra

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family. ...
Genre :Drama, War, History

King Ferdinand

1961-10-24 6.833

El Cid

Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors f ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History, Romance, War

Kussella

1939-06-30 5.625

The Saint in London

Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds. He is aided reluctantly by Scotland Yard inspector ...
Genre :Mystery, Drama

Maj. Sandor Balinkay

1946-07-22 6.5

Beware of Pity

A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Chief Inspector Elliot

1933-03-02 5.6

The Shadow

A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one. ...
Genre :Mystery

Richard Drexel

1934-05-31 0

The Perfect Flaw

A clerk is planning to murder a stockbroker but is foiled in the attempt. ...
Genre :

Comber

1948-09-27 7.7

Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill

A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole. ...
Genre :Drama

Merryvale

1947-09-01 4

The Adventures of Dusty Bates

Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore. ...
Genre :Action

Charles

1936-05-28 5

The Marriage of Corbal

The film hinges on the love triangle between a young aristocratic lady on the run (Cleonie, played by Hazel Terry), the murderous Varennes, Citizen-Deputy of the Revolution who saves her by disguising ...
Genre :Romance

Sir Robert Wyvern

1958-06-01 5.3

The Spaniard's Curse

A convicted murderer uses an ancient curse to take his revenge on those responsible for sending him to prison. ...
Genre :Thriller, Horror

Scowler

1950-05-01 6.5

The Reluctant Widow

A young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer novel. ...
Genre :Drama

John Dowling

1956-05-22 4.9

Wicked as They Come

A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder. ...
Genre :Drama

Inspector Waterson

1949-10-11 5.706

The Interrupted Journey

When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a ...
Genre :Thriller

Red

1935-11-08 0

Captain Bill

A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sam Cohen

1935-12-13 6.5

Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk

Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it. ...
Genre :Drama

Saunders

1935-06-01 5.5

The Silent Passenger

A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer? ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Giordano

1938-09-14 5.9

The Challenge

Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865. ...
Genre :Romance, Adventure, History

Nursing Home Doctor

1938-08-01 6.5

South Riding

Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ign ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Duc de Castro

1952-12-05 7.098

The Golden Coach

A viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 18th-century Peru. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Aide to Tiberius (uncredited)

1959-11-18 7.9

Ben-Hur

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into s ...
Genre :History, Drama, Adventure

Orderly

1938-09-30 0

Life of St. Paul

The Life of St. Paul, including reenactment of the Book of Acts, and St. Paul's Epistles. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, History

Lawrence Fuller

1936-08-10 4.8

The Crimson Circle

Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers ...
Genre :Drama

Sir Nathan Israel

1939-01-30 5

The Outsider

A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process. ...
Genre :Drama

Vice Adm Willie Banks

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

Diner

1939-04-08 5.5

Black Eyes

Ivan Petrov has one weakness in his life, and one love: his little black-eyed daughter, Tania. In fact, his entire career is devoted to her future happiness, though Tania remains ignorant as to his vo ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Prison Guard

1937-04-22 6

Secret Lives

A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country. ...
Genre :Drama

Inspector White

1935-04-30 0

The Case of Gabriel Perry

An unstable Victorian doctor murders a woman. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Sir Ralph Sidley

1954-11-16 6.5

Beau Brummell

Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress. Although he initially alienates the Prince of Wales with insulting comments about the prince's un ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Inspector Bridger

1956-04-09 5

Tons of Trouble

An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel." ...
Genre :Comedy

Clarendon

1953-08-05 5.48

The Master of Ballantrae

Scottish highlander Jamie Durie falls into a life of piracy after joining the failed rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie against the British crown. ...
Genre :Adventure

Bishop

1943-11-29 4.5

The Butler's Dilemma

Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant named Chapman at his fiancée's house... ...
Genre :Comedy

Admiral Bensen

1960-09-15 5.4

Under Ten Flags

"Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and her Captain Bernhard Rogge. Atlantis, camouflaged a ...
Genre :History, War

Blacksmith

1931-10-09 0

The Bells

Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. The victim's ...
Genre :Crime, Horror, Drama

George Memsford

1957-04-22 0

The Good Companions

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth. ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Romance

Vice Admiral

1957-04-02 7.2

Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst

While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Liet ...
Genre :War

Major Cross

1956-04-09 6

The Black Tent

During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed him to be ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, Action

CID Man

1932-03-31 0

Partners Please

An aristocrat becomes a gigolo. ...
Genre :Comedy

Wainwright

1955-03-22 6.844

The Night My Number Came Up

British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Fantasy

Police Commissionaire

1946-05-20 5.7

Lisbon Story

A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist. ...
Genre :Music, Thriller

Gov. Hotham

1949-01-26 5.625

Eureka Stockade

In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive government. ...
Genre :Drama, History, Western

Colonel

1960-12-15 6.67

Exodus

Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He fa ...
Genre :Drama, War

Admiral

1972-11-22 5.571

Lady Caroline Lamb

Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron. ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Robertson

1945-04-08 4.6

Read All About It

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease ac ...
Genre :Drama

Sir Matthew Sprott

1959-04-28 4

Web of Evidence

A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder. ...
Genre :Mystery

Narrator (voice)

1946-07-25 0

Papworth Village Settlement

Following the recuperation and treatment of patient Frank Thompson, 'Papworth Village Settlement' is an account of the varied medical and social services available to sufferers of tuberculosis at Papw ...
Genre :Documentary

Captain

1949-10-12 5.7

Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama, History

Lord Mandeville

1946-10-16 7

The Laughing Lady

A musical set during the French Revolution. ...
Genre :Music

Horace Chandler

1942-09-07 5

Sabotage at Sea

The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1947-12-03 6

Mrs. Fitzherbert

The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Auctioneer

1937-11-26 5.5

Dinner at the Ritz

The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him. ...
Genre :Mystery, Romance, Crime

Prison Interrogator

1947-05-19 5.7

The Man Within

A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers. ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime, Drama

Sir Richard

1955-04-19 7.045

The Ship That Died of Shame

After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Archduke Paul

1937-09-08 0

Change for a Sovereign

A king goes on strike and takes a holiday. A double is found to impersonate him who brings disgrace to the throne. ...
Genre :Comedy

Reginald Crowther

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

Foreign Secretary

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

Earl of Surrey

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