Robert Flemyng
- Acting
- January 3, 1912 · Liverpool, England, UK
- May 22, 1995
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Flemyng OBE, MC (3 January 1912 – 22 May 1995) was a British film and stage actor. Flemyng was born in Liverpool, the son of a doctor, and was educated at Haileybury. He began his career as a medical student before abandoning medicine to become an actor. Flemyng made his stage debut in the early 1930s, and worked steadily in both London and Broadway. His first film appearance was in 1937, but he didn't appear steadily in films until after he served in World War II. During the war he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with great distinction, reaching the rank of full colonel at the age of 33. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1941, mentioned in despatches, and was appointed OBE in 1944. He played the idealistic schoolmaster in the 1948 Roy Boulting film, The Guinea Pig, starring Richard Attenborough, and the key role of Detective Sergeant Roberts in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp. One memorable role was as a necrophiliac in the film The Horrible Dr. Hichcock in 1962. He ably played a sardonic British Secret Intelligence Service chief (his boss being George Sanders) in the 1966 film The Quiller Memorandum. The character actor worked in films and television until his death in 1995. Some of his later films include Kafka (1991) and Shadowlands (1993). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Flemyng, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- The Vacillations of Poppy Carew · Patient 2
- Shadowlands · Claude Bird
- Memento Mori · Ronald Sidebottome
- The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Theseus & the Minotaur · Aegeus
- The Storyteller: Greek Myths · Aegeus
- Kafka · The Keeper of the Files
- Paris by Night · Jack Sidmouth
- Spider's Web · Sir Rowland Delahaye
- A Cotswold Death · Sir Charles
- Fame Is the Spur · Lord Lostwithiel
- Lady Killers · Mr. Justice Havers
- Rebecca · Colonel Julyan
- Edward and Mrs Simpson · Sir Donald Somervell
- Edward & Mrs. Simpson · Sir Donald Somervell
- The Thirty Nine Steps · Magistrate
- The Medusa Touch · Judge McKinley
- Enemy at the Door · Sir James Prideaux
- The Four Feathers · The Old Colonel
- The Professionals · Sir John Terringham
- Golden Rendezvous · Capt. Bullen
- The New Avengers · Minister Quaintance
- Loyalties · Gen Canynge
- Miss Nightingale · W.E. Nightingale
- Travels with My Aunt · Crowder
- The Darwin Adventure · Prof. Henslow
- Young Winston · Dr. Buzzard
- Late Night Theatre · Rivers
- The Persuaders! · Sir George
- The Firechasers · Carlton
- Play for Today · Sir Charles
- Battle of Britain · Wing Cmdr. Willoughby
- The Body Stealers · W.C. Baldwin
- Oh! What a Lovely War · Staff Officer in Gassed Trench
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre · Major Lavender
- The Blood Beast Terror · Dr. Carl Mallinger
- Half Hour Story · Martin
- The Deadly Affair · Samuel Fennan
- The Spy with a Cold Nose · M.I.5 Director
- The Quiller Memorandum · Rushington
- BBC Play of the Month · Gen. Canynge
- Public Eye · Maj-Gen. Felcourt
- Thursday Theatre · Julian Anson
- The King's Breakfast · The Lord Chamberlain
- Zero One
- Man of the World · O'Connor
- The Horrible Dr. Hichcock · Prof. Bernard Hichcock
- Compact
- Family Solicitor · Anthony Freeman
- The Avengers · Lord Maxted
- Danger Man · Logan
- The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries · Sir Percival Glyde, Lawrence
- A Touch of Larceny · Cmdr. John Larkin
- Blind Date · Sir Brian Lewis
- Wuthering Heights · Dr. Kenneth
- Windom's Way · Col. George Hasbrook
- Suspicion · Nigel Crossley
- Let's Be Happy · Lord James MacNairn
- Funny Face · Paul Duval
- The Man Who Never Was · Lt. George Acres
- Cast a Dark Shadow · Phillip Mortimer
- Sting of Death
- The Holly and the Ivy · Major
- The Magic Box · Doctor
- Blackmailed · Dr. Giles Freeman
- The Blue Lamp · Police Sgt. Roberts
- Conspirator · Captain Hugh Ladholme
- The Guinea Pig · Nigel Lorraine
- Bond Street · Frank Moody
- Head Over Heels · Pierre