John Gregson

AKA: Harold Thomas Gregson

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1919-03-15

Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {55}

Cpt Williams

1958-11-04 6.5

Sea of Sand

A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North African campaign. Sea of Sand was distributed in th ...

Genre :Drama, War

Squire Gordon Chesterford

1953-03-04 7

The Titfield Thunderbolt

When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attr ...

Genre :Comedy

British Padre

1962-09-25 7.602

The Longest Day

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's A ...

Genre :War, Action, Drama

Farrow

1951-06-28 7.189

The Lavender Hill Mob

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country. ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Dr. Cordell

1971-09-18 6

Fright

Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Soon after the Lloyds leave, a series of frightening occurrences in the gloomy old house have ...

Genre :Horror, Thriller

Lieutenant Alec Duffy

1955-03-29 6.117

Above Us the Waves

In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack by conventional means, so a plan is hatched f ...

Genre :War

Pilot Officer T.B. 'Septic' Baird

1952-03-19 6.1

Angels One Five

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming ...

Genre :Drama, War

Colonel Sandauer

1967-01-29 6.8

The Night of the Generals

A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adol ...

Genre :Thriller, Mystery, War, Crime

Alan McKim

1953-05-28 6.63

Genevieve

Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home. ...

Genre :Comedy

Edgar Curtain ("You Killed Elizabeth" segment)

1955-03-15 5.904

Three Cases of Murder

Three stories of murder and the supernatural: A museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. When two lifelong friends fall in love with the same woman and she is kill ...

Genre :Mystery, Horror

Sammy MacCodrun

1949-06-16 6.8

Whisky Galore!

Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Out ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Captain Bell - H.M.S. Exeter

1956-10-30 6.3

The Battle of the River Plate

In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many Ger ...

Genre :Drama, History, War

Butler

1961-09-10 0

The Omega Mystery

Butler and Robinson have to track down a saboteur at an atomic research station before it is too late. ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Det. Insp. Sayers

1961-09-01 6.4

The Frightened City

A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Captain John 'Jack' Bennett

1959-10-14 6.9

SOS Pacific

A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner, a slimey limey witness against him, a physicis ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Renzo Uccello

1952-10-01 5.9

Venetian Bird

Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest t ...

Genre :Thriller, Mystery

Richard Hammond

1960-11-22 6.2

Faces in the Dark

A businessman loses his sight in an explosion on the day his wife planned to leave him for another man. ...

Genre :Thriller, Mystery

Inspector Parnell

1963-06-23 5.7

Tomorrow at Ten

A British policeman (John Gregson) tries to find a rich man's (Alec Clunes) son before a kidnapper's (Robert Shaw) time bomb blows. ...

Genre :Thriller

Dr. Michael Hale

1954-02-02 6.4

The Weak and the Wicked

Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in ...

Genre :Drama

Mijnheer Brinker

1969-12-14 6.5

Hans Brinker

Based on the beloved children’s story, Hans Binker, a Dutch boy (Robin Askwith) and his sister need the prize from an ice-skating race to help their ailing father. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Chayley Broadbent

1955-08-09 6.6

Value for Money

A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her. ...

Genre :Comedy

Tony Rapallo

1954-10-31 5.6

To Dorothy, a Son

Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash. She journies from New York to England, ...

Genre :Comedy

James Ignatius Rooney

1958-03-24 5.5

Rooney

The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Mike McNeil

1956-06-04 6

Jacqueline

Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from his job, he finds solace in the bottle. All seems ...

Genre :Drama

Renato

1961-06-22 3.25

The Treasure of Monte Cristo

A dashing ex-officer in His Majesty’s army, Captain Adam Corbett (Calhoun) becomes embroiled in intrigue when he agrees to escort Colonel Wilfred Jackson (Ian Hunter) and his daughter Pauline (Patrici ...

Genre :Adventure

Michael Morgan

1957-07-09 5.3

Miracle in Soho

In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, with little hope of finding happiness. Then he meets Julia Gozzi, a barmaid, and "The Miracle" happens. ...

Genre :Drama

Coast Guardsman

1950-06-21 5.8

Cairo Road

In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs operating along the notorious Cairo Road. ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

Leslie Randall

1954-10-01 5.4

The Crowded Day

One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store. ...

Genre :Drama

Cpl. Bill Morris

1954-03-29 6

Conflict of Wings

In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice ...

Genre :Comedy

Callendar

1962-08-31 6.4

Live Now - Pay Later

Albert, a cheeky, womanising, door-to door salesman, with a never-take-no-for-an-answer attitude, lives his life for the moment, and with no thought of his future, or the consequences of his actions o ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Captain Albert Ebbs

1959-01-06 5.8

The Captain's Table

A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for th ...

Genre :Comedy

Recruit in Jungle (uncredited)

1949-09-20 6.7

The Hasty Heart

In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring ...

Genre :Drama, War

John Cameron

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

Det-Insp Conway

1968-07-22 0

Countercrime

Murder is involved when an intruder is found in a large department store just after it closes. ...

Genre :Drama

Dr. Maclean

1953-05-31 0

The Passionate Pilgrim

Tells the story of a group of nurses working with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. “The story is based on the diary of Miss Sarah Anne Terror who was one of the thirty-eight women to accom ...

Genre :Drama

Father Timothy

1961-02-06 7.2

Hand in Hand

Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never". Unfortunately, the soci ...

Genre :Drama, Family

P.O. T. Crean R.N.

1948-11-29 7.2

Scott of the Antarctic

The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a riv ...

Genre :Adventure, Drama, History

Redruth

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

David Paterson

1952-12-03 6.4

The Holly and the Ivy

An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering. ...

Genre :Drama

Malcolm Murray-Bruce

1949-01-18 6.2

Train of Events

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it. ...

Genre :Drama

Tony Hudson

1957-02-01 7

True as a Turtle

Tony Hudson offers his young wife Jane a cruise on a yacht as a honeymoon trip. Although Jane suffers from chronic seasickness, she accepts and one day they go on board the Turtle, a fine yacht owned ...

Genre :Comedy

Narrator (voice)

1974-01-02 0

Tomorrow's Merseysiders

Life in Merseyside, showing the role of the region's two newspapers, the Liverpool Daily Post and the Echo. The story of the production of the newspapers is interwoven into the lives of the Merseyside ...

Genre :Documentary

Narrator

1974-09-01 0

The Sport of Kings

Documentary looking at the history of horse racing in Britain. ...

Genre :Documentary

1948-10-04 6.4

Saraband for Dead Lovers

Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, ...

Genre :Romance, History, Drama

Smith

1961-06-18 0

A Call on Kuprin: Part 1

Russia's Space Race success is mainly due to a brilliant rocket scientist, Kuprin. But a journalist and a politician in London remember him as a fervent Anglophile who had to leave Britain under dures ...

Genre :

Smith

1961-06-25 0

A Call on Kuprin: Part 2

Smith and Laye-Parker meet Kuprin and find he is less anxious to leave Russia than they supposed. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Himself

1957-12-16 0

Hancock's Half Hour: Volume 1

Thirty-five years after his premature death in 1968 Tony Hancock was voted Britain's best-ever comedy performer. Here's a chance to see what made him so special - the surviving episodes from Series 2 ...

Genre :

Commander George Gideon

1965-03-18 6.8

Gideon's Way

Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. ...

Genre :Drama

Colonel Roberts

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

1972-04-07 5

Shirley's World

Shirley's World is a television series aired first by American Broadcasting Company during the U.S. 1971-72 television season. The sitcom was co-produced by the British ITC Entertainment and American ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

1967-09-27 7

Man in a Suitcase

Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches for answers. ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Drama

John Smith

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 :

1956-07-06 7.3

Hancock's Half Hour

Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hanc ...

Genre :Comedy

Bill Kirby

1976-05-19 8

Dangerous Knowledge

A gritty six-part mystery thriller serial from 1976, starring John Gregson as Bill Kirby. Bill is an insurance salesman travelling back to the UK from France. Accompanied by Laura Marshall (Prunella R ...

Genre :Mystery

Comm. Malcolm Stevenson

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. ...