George Murcell
- Recitazione
- 30 ottobre 1925 · Naples, Campania, Italy
- 3 dicembre 1998
Biografia
Arthur George Murcell (30 October 1925 – 3 December 1998) was a British character actor. Born in Italy, he made his film debut in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Battle of the River Plate (1956), Murcell went on to develop a career playing snarling villains in both film and television. These could either be stupid, brutish henchmen, as in Hell Drivers and Campbell's Kingdom (both 1957), or sophisticated rogues, such as Needle in "You Have Just Been Murdered", an episode of The Avengers. He specialised in playing foreign characters, including Germans, Russians and South Americans. A number of these roles were in ITC adventure TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Danger Man, The Baron, The Saint, The Champions (Reply Box No.666 episode, 1967) Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Persuaders! and Jason King. His film roles included Sea of Sand (1958), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), The Heroes of Telemark (1965), Kaleidoscope (1966), The Fixer (1968), A Dandy in Aspic (1968), The Assassination Bureau (1969), A Walk with Love and Death (1969), Penny Gold (1973), Special Branch (1974), Inside the Third Reich (1982, as Hermann Göring), Year of the Gun (1991), and Cutthroat Island (1995). He enjoyed a long stage career, which involved working with Tyrone Guthrie and Peter Brook, and was active in the Royal Shakespeare Company.In the 1970s, he acquired a Victorian church in North London, which he converted into an Elizabethan-style theatre in collaboration with director Adrian Brown. In 1973, he opened it as "St George's Theatre", intending that it present little-seen classical plays. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he continued to work at St George's Theatre as both an actor and a director, often with his wife, Elvi Hale.
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Filmografia
- Presented in Supercolorisation · Professor Rudolph Popkiss / Black Morgan (Voce), Professor Rudolph Popkiss (voice) (credit only)
- Die Eisprinzessin
- Corsari · Mordachai Fingers
- L'anno del terrore · Pierre Bernier
- L'isola di Pascali · Herr Gesing
- Peter the Great
- Inside the Third Reich · Herman Goering
- Smuggler · Silas Kemble
- I professionals · Yashinkov
- 1990 · Tiny
- Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Schwedischer Sommerwind · Owen
- Armchair Cinema · Maître Rabut
- The Prison · Maître Rabut
- Penny Gold · Doctor Merrick
- Si può essere più bastardi dell'ispettore Cliff?
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes · Inspector Vandeleur
- Attenti a quei due · Zorakin
- Jason King
- Cavalieri selvaggi · Mizrar
- A Sound from the Sea · George
- Manhunt · Franco
- Di pari passo con l'amore e la morte · The Captain
- The Possessed · Liputin
- Assassination Bureau · Zeppelin pilot
- Tris d'assi · Nikko, El Gaudillo
- The Year of the Sex Olympics · Grels
- Sull'orlo della paura
- Rogues' Gallery · Sir Esmond Bellasize
- Colpo su colpo
- Agente 007 - Si vive solo due volte · Russian Diplomat (uncredited)
- The Informer · Willie Cluff
- La truffa che piaceva a Scotland Yard · Johnny
- Gli eroi di Telemark · Sturmfuhrer
- Thirty-Minute Theatre · Second Man
- Gideon's Way · Kautsky
- Theatre 625 · Delamarche, Wensley Grafton
- La caduta dell'impero romano · Victorinus
- I figli del capitano Grant · Ayerton's Assistant
- Il Santo · Vogler, Abdul Graner
- The Cherry Orchard · Yermolai Alexeyevich Lopahin
- The Pursuers · Freddy
- Supercar
- Agente speciale · Needle
- Crossroads to Crime · Diamond
- Sunday-Night Play · Gannerac
- Gioco pericoloso · Bruno
- There Was a Crooked Man · Receptionist at 'The McKillup Arms'
- La tortura del silenzio · Jones
- Don't Panic Chaps · Meister
- No Hiding Place
- Mare di sabbia · Cpl. Simms
- Sea Fury · Loudon
- Il sangue del vampiro · First Guard
- La dinastia del petrolio · Max, a worker
- I piloti dell'inferno · Tub
- La battaglia di Rio della Plata · Chief Officer, Newton Beach
- The Adventures of Sir Lancelot · Jaggyd
- Armchair Theatre · Beno
- The Merry Christmas · Mr. Fezziwig
- Robin Hood · Sheriff's Guard
- Sunday Night Theatre · M. Lafarge