Nigel Patrick
Birthday: Born in 1913-05-02 in Clapham, London, England, UK
Deathday: 1981-09-21
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nigel Patrick (born Nigel Dennis Wemyss; 2 May 1913 - 21 September 1981) was an English actor and stage director born into a theatrical family. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nigel Patrick, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
Zero One
Character: Alan Garnett
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Movie Credits
Battle of Britain
Character: Group Capt. Hope
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain....
The MacKintosh Man
Character: Soames-Trevelyan
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang......
Sapphire
Character: Superintendent Robert Hazard
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry....
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Character: Stephen Cameron
Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love....
Tales from the Crypt
Character: Maj. William Rogers
Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book....
The League of Gentlemen
Character: Race
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way....
Raintree County
Character: Prof. Jerusalem Webster Stiles
In 1859, idealist John Wickliff Shawnessey, a resident of Raintree County, Indiana, is distracted from his high school sweetheart Nell Gaither by Susanna Drake, a rich New Orleans girl. This love triangle is further complicated by the American Civil War, and dark family history....
Morning Departure
Character: Lt. Manson
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?...
The Browning Version
Character: Frank Hunter
Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work....
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Character: Flt Sgt Slingsby
During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locat...
Noose
Character: Bar Gorman
Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. When a corpse turns up at black market front The Blue Moon Club, Yank reporter Carole Landis starts snooping, much to gang boss Joseph Calleia’s annoyance. And soon there’s a hit man on the way......
The Sound Barrier
Character: Tony Garthwaite
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight....
Grand National Night
Character: Gerald Coates
The story of a husband's implication in his wife's death, his stupid disposal of her body and the police enquiry which almost embroils him in a murder charge....
Count Five and Die
Character: Major Julien Howard
Dutch patriots, a U.S. officer and a British spy fool the Nazis with a fake Soho film company....
The Perfect Woman
Character: Roger Cavendish
In need of cash, Roger Cavendish and his valet take a job escorting the perfect woman for a night on the town. She is in fact the robotic creation of Professor Belman, but it turns out rather to be the Professor's niece Penelope doing a pretty good imitation of the perfect Olga who winds up with them in the bridal suite at the Hotel Splendide....
How to Murder a Rich Uncle
Character: Henry Clitterbern
A broke British nobleman targets his Canadian uncle, but other relatives get in the way....
A Prize of Gold
Character: Brian Hammell
A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans....
Trio
Character: Max Kelada (in segment Mr. Know-All)
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles....
The Pickwick Papers
Character: Mr. Jingle
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find......
The Man Inside
Character: Sam Carter
A detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there's more to the case than just theft....
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Character: Sir Edward Clarke
England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputation and cause his fall from grace....
Encore
Character: Tom Ramsay
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio....
Forbidden Cargo
Character: Insp. Michael Kenyon
Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team....
Silent Dust
Character: Simon Rawley
A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long before the dedication ceremony is to be held, the son shows up; it turns out that he wasn't killed in battle but deserted, and has become a blackmailer and a killer. He wants to get some money to "start a new life", but his blind father senses that something is wrong and sets out to find out what's going on....
The Executioner
Character: Colonel Scott
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent....
Spring in Park Lane
Character: Mr. Bacon
Life in the normally tranquil high society home of Joshua Howard is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious footman in this sparkling British romantic comedy hit. Richard acts like anything but a servant. He has aristocratic airs and graces, an expert knowledge of fine art and can play classical music and boogie-woogie on a grand piano with equal aplomb. And is that an Old Etonian tie he's wearing? Judy, is determined to discover Richard's true identity and the reason he's posing as a lowly foo...
Young Wives' Tale
Character: Rodney Pennant
A post-war housing crisis leaves a shy woman to share a house with two couples. Comic situations arise as the new roomer becomes infatuated with one of the husbands....
The Jack of Diamonds
Character: Alan Butler
Down on their luck, a couple rent out their ship to a mysterious man looking for treasure he'd hidden during the war. Complications ensue when it turns out he's not the only one looking for it....
The Great Waltz
Character: Johann Strauss Sr.
A musical based on the life and music of Johann Strauss, Jr....
The Informers
Character: Chief Insp. John Edward Johnnoe
When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth....
Goal!
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
This entertaining documentary of the World Cup Soccer tournament of 1966 follows the 15 countries competing for the sport's most coveted prize. Nigel Patrick narrates, with commentary provided by Brian Glanville. The executive producer spent $336,000 on the production and used 117 cameras to record nearly 48 hours worth of action. Four editors were employed to created the final 108-minute feature....
Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard
Character: Richard Lodden
An eccentric woman detective investigates the murders of several people who visited the same medium....
Who Goes There!
Character: Miles Cornwall
When Miles Cornwall returns suddenly to the home he shares with his father and sister in a grace-and-favour house at St. James's Palace, he's amazed to find a pretty Irish girl in his favorite armchair. Intrigued, he turns on the charm but, as she explains her situation, he finds himself unaccountably falling in love with this pretty interloper....
Johnny Nobody
Character: Father Edward John Carey
When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob threatens him. But moments after he has dared God to strike him dead, a stranger appears and does so. The man, dubbed "Johnny Nobody" by the press, claims no knowledge of Mulcahy or even of himself. He asks the help of the village priest, Father Carey, in his upcoming trial for Mulcahy's murder. While the amnesiac Johnny goes to trial, Father Carey mulls qu...
Uneasy Terms
Character: Lucien Donnelly
Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?...
The Virgin Soldiers
Character: RSM Raskin
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency....
Meet Me Tonight
Character: Toby Cartwright
Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name....
All for Mary
Character: Capt. Clive Norton
In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter. When the two come down with chicken pox they are put in the charge of fellow guest Miss Cartwright, who turns out to be Humpy's old nanny. The two Englishmen unite not only against her tyranny but against a dense Greek who is also after Mary....