Patrick Barr
Birthday: Born in 1908-02-13 in Akola, British India
Deathday: 1985-08-29
TV Credits
Department S
Character: Gen. Crawley
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 Jason King, Joel Fabiani as Stewart Sullivan, and Rosemary Nicols as computer expert Annabelle Hurst. The trio were agents for a fictional special department of Interpol. The head of Department S was Sir Curtis Seretse....
The Avengers
Character: Stonehouse
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity....
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Peregrinus
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers....
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Mr. Arundel
Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre....
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Character: Horton
Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural....
The Main Chance
Character: Dr. John Grafton
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 relocates from London to Leeds....
Crown Court
Character: Sir Richard Jeffcoate
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984....
Days of Hope
Character: Mr. Harrington
Days of Hope is a BBC television drama serial produced in 1975. The series dealt with the lives of a working-class family from the turmoils of the First World War in 1916 to the General Strike in 1926. It was written by Jim Allen, produced by Tony Garnett and directed by Ken Loach....
The Wonderful World of Disney
Character: Lord Boyne
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, m...
The Wednesday Play
Character: David Lancaster
The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen....
The Three Hostages
Character: Sir Richard Hannay
An adaptation of the novel The Three Hostages by John Buchan....
Doctor Who
Character: Hobson
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs....
The Wednesday Play
Character: Joe
The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen....
Movie Credits
Octopussy
Character: British Ambassador
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War....
Things to Come
Character: World Transport Official (uncredited)
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel....
A Beast with Two Backs
Character: Joe
A young local girl is murdered by a mentally disturbed youth, but the villagers blame a stranger, an Italian traveling showman and his bear, rather than see the rot in their own camp....
The Case of the Frightened Lady
Character: Richard Ferraby
A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace....
The Black Windmill
Character: Gen. St. John
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself....
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Character: King Richard
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing....
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
Character: Lord Carradine
The police and British security forces call in Professor Van Helsing to help them investigate Satanic ritual which has been occurring in a large country house, and which has been attended by a government minister, an eminent scientist and secret service chief. The owner of the house is a mysterious property tycoon who is found to be behind a sinister plot involving a deadly plague. It is in fact Dracula who, sick of his interminable existence, has decided that he must end it all in the only poss...
The Godsend
Character: Dr. Collins
An English family of six takes in a pregnant woman who disappears shortly after giving birth. They raise the baby girl as their own, but over the years the strange deaths of their children make them consider whether the little girl is more than she appears....
The Vanquished
Character: Ken Wharton
Three tales of privileged youth entangled in murder: French students kill for money, an Italian student smuggles cigarettes, and an English poet exploits a grim discovery....
Black Orchid
Character: Vincent Humphries
Caught in a loveless marriage, Dr. John Winnington (Ronald Howard) can't stop himself from falling for his wife's (Mary Laura Wood) younger sister, Christine (Olga Edwardes). But when he suddenly becomes the prime suspect in his wife's tragic murder, John relies on his friend Eric (John Bentley) to clear his name. This classic murder mystery encourages viewers to evaluate all of the clues and guess the killer's identity....
House of Whipcord
Character: Justice Bailey
Somewhere in the middle of the English countryside a former judge and a group of former prison warders, including his lover, run their own prison for young women who have not been held properly to account for their crimes. Here they mete out their own form of justice and ensure that the girls never return to their old ways....
The Brain Machine
Character: Dr. Geoffrey Allen
A British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer....
The Gaunt Stranger
Character: Det. Insp. Alan Wembury
A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'....
Room in the House
Character: Jack Richards
Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons....
Time Is My Enemy
Character: John Everton
A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz....
Death of an Angel
Character: Robert Welling
The angel of the title is Jane Baxter, the wife of country physician Patrick Barr. Everybody in the small British village where she lives thinks the world of Baxter; thus, when she is murdered, the authorities are out for blood. Dr. Barr seems above suspicion, at least until he begins behaving eccentrically. As time passes, most everyone learns that Baxter wasn't quite as angelic as she seemed-and that quite a few people might have wanted her dead....
Seagulls Over Sorrento
Character: Lt. Cdr. Sinclair
A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed....
You're Only Young Twice
Character: Sir Archibald Asher
Seeking her long lost uncle, Ada Shore arrives at Skerryvore University to find him working under another name as the Gate Keeper. Ada is mistaken by the Principal as his new secretary so she jumps headlong into the role...
Midnight at Madame Tussaud's
Character: Gerry Melville
Explorer Sir Clive bets that he can spend the night alone in Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors. Meanwhile, crooks hope to exploit his ward, Carol, for her fortune....
The Show Goes On
Character: Designer
A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she's discovered by an ailing composer who's seeking the right singer for his songs....
Marigold
Character: Lt. Archie Forsyth
Marigold is a 1938 British drama film set in Scotland in the Victorian era. It was filmed in Edinburgh. It was based on a 1914 play of the same title by Lizzie Allen Harker and Francis R. Pryor....
The Blue Lagoon
Character: Mr Bruce
In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly old sailor. Together they survive solely on their resourcefulness and the bounty of their remote paradise....
To Have and to Hold
Character: Brian
A man is permanently crippled in a horseback riding accident and then learns that he will soon die. He spends his last few days taking care of his family and trying to get his wife to find another man....
The Valiant
Character: Rev. Ellis
Having placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the second World War , the two man crew of an Italian miniature submarine are captured and held prisoner whist the crew try and discover the nature of their mission!...
Guns in the Heather
Character: Lord Boyne
An American foreign exchange student in Ireland, Rich Evans (Kurt Russell), gets caught up in espionage when a dying man gives him a message to pass to his older brother, who is an American intelligence agent unbeknownst to Rich. Rich and his friend are then kidnapped by an Eastern Bloc agent pretending to be from the American Embassy in the hopes that they will lead him to a scientist who is attempting to defect to the West. Originally aired in 3 parts on 'Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color...
Ring of Spies
Character: Captain Warner
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them....
Duel in the Jungle
Character: Supt. Roberts
An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast. The broker was insured for $1 million so the insurers are suspicious....
On the Run
Character: Brent
An ex-con escapes from jail to clear himself about a robbery charge...
Urge to Kill
Character: Superintendent Allen
A psychopathic killer murders three girls before police catch him....
The Dam Busters
Character: Captain Joseph (Mutt) Summers, C.B.E.
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'....
The Flesh and Blood Show
Character: Major Bell / Sir Arnold Gates
Actors rehearsing a show at a mysterious seaside theater are being killed off by an unknown maniac....
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Character: Lord Hastings
Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It's clearly a trap, but nothing will keep the good Pimpernel from carrying out his mission....
Gilbert Harding Speaking of Murder
Character: Richard
lation of 3 stories, "The Missing Passenger", "Falstaff's Fur Coat" and "Thirty Days To Die". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers' UK series "Calling Scotland Yard" and later shown in the US on NBC's "Adventure Theatre" in 1956, hosted by Paul Douglas....
A Ghost for Sale
Character: Man
A manor caretaker relates the tale of a mad squire, and vanishes....
At the Stroke of Nine
Character: Frank
A prominent journalist is kidnapped by a lunatic who threatens to kill her unless she writes flattering articles about him....
Meet My Sister
Character: Bob Seymour
'Poor lord tells future father-in-law that his ex-fiancée is his sister.' (British Film Catalogue)...
Escape by Night
Character: Inspector Frampton
An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story....
Contraband
Character: Undetermined Role (uncredited)
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema....
Murder at the Grange
Character:
A former police detective turned private investigator is approached by two elderly sisters, who say that someone is terrorising them, but it turns out that the man they believe is responsible is long since dead....
The Lavender Hill Mob
Character: Divisional Detective Inspector
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....
Let's Be Famous
Character: John Blake
An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show....
The First Great Train Robbery
Character: Burke
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train....
A Voyage Round My Father
Character: Doctor
A successful lawyer struck with blindness in middle age continues his battles in the courtroom with the assistance of his family. As his son deals with bitter memories of their relationship, he also seeks his father's respect and love and in the process learns to love in return....
In Two Minds
Character: Nurse
Kate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and self-control – telling of the “bad Kate” who commits immoral acts. Could the hypocrisy, selfishness and weakness of those around her have led to this state of mind or can Kate simply be diagnosed and dismissed as a schizophrenic?...
Sailor of the King
Character: Captain Tom Ashley, HMS Amesbury
A British naval officer has a brief affair with a woman in England and never knows that she bears him a son. 20 years later the boy is on a ship under his command when he is tracking a German Raider. When the boy is captured after his ship is sunk, he finds a way to slow the German's progress while a lethal hunt for him goes on....
Theban Plays: Antigone
Character: Chorus
In a final battle for the control of Thebes, Oedipus's two sons kill each other. Creon issues an order that no one is to bury Polynices upon pain of death. But Antigone is determined that her brother's body will have the proper rites of burial....
The Intruder
Character: Inspector Williams
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime....
The Vortex
Character: David Lancaster
In The Vortex, Coward explores the darker side of the cocktail party set. Emotional blackmail, drug abuse and shattered relationships are minutely observed in this disturbing, early piece from a playwright whose sharp eye was usually more turned towards the light....
Cash
Character: Shop Assistant
A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed cash that a young electrician has in his tool box....
Saint Joan
Character: Captain La Hire
Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch....
It's Never Too Late
Character: Charles Hammond
To Laura Hammond's large family, she is simply the mother who makes all their lives run more smoothly. But although they don’t know it, she is a very successful novelist and when her screenplay comes to the attention of a Hollywood producer, Laura is suddenly plunged into the big time....
Lady of Vengeance
Character: Inspector Madden
When publisher William Marshall learns his young ward Melissa Collins has committed suicide, he sets in motion a plan to murder the man who drove Melissa to kill herself. Mistakenly believing that singer Larry Shaw is his intended target, Marshall unwittingly seeks help from the man who actually broke Melissa's heart....
Billy Liar
Character: Inspector MacDonald
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind....
The Longest Day
Character: Group Capt. J.N. Stagg (uncredited)
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 Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"...
Golden Arrow
Character: Hedy's Husband
On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see....
Home Before Midnight
Character: The Judge
A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him....
Man on the Run
Character: Detective at Cabby's Restaurant
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals....
Black 13
Character: Robert
The son of a college professor who turns to a life of crime after killing a pedestrian in an automobile accident....
Doctor Who: The Moonbase
Character: Hobson
The TARDIS arrives in 2070 on the Moon, where a weather control station under the command of a man named Hobson is in the grip of a plague epidemic — in reality the result of an alien poison planted by the Cybermen. Jamie is knocked unconscious and lapses into a delirium, leaving the Second Doctor, Ben, and Polly to fight off a massive Cyberman attack....
Adam and Evelyne
Character: Bert, Adam's Friend (uncredited)
A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl....