John Neville
Birthday: Born in 1925-05-02 in Willesden, London, England, UK
Deathday: 2011-11-19
John Neville, OBE, CM was an English theatre and film actor who moved to Canada with his family in 1972. He enjoyed a resurgence of international attention as a result of his starring role in Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen". He was appointed to the Order of Canada, that nation's highest civilian honor, in 2006. According to publicists at Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Neville died "peacefully surrounded by family" on 19 November 2011, aged 86. Neville suffered with Alzheimer's disease in his latter years. He is survived by his wife, Caroline (née Hopper), and their six children. Above description from the Wikipedia article John Neville (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Star Trek: The Next Generation
Character: Holodeck Isaac Newton
Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds....
The Protectors
Character: Charlie
The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in contemporary times. It was also the only Gerry Anderson produced television series that was not of the fantasy or science fiction genres. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. Despite not featuring marionettes or any real science fiction element...
The X-Files
Character: Well-Manicured Man
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases....
Grand
Character: Desmond
In the piano-making town of Grand, Pennsylvania, Janice Pasetti keeps house for factory owner Harris Weldon, his newlywed niece and her husband, while raising her teenage daughter....
Class of '96
Character: Professor Hilton
Class of '96 is an American drama series that aired on Fox from January to May 1993. The series was created by John Romano and filmed mostly at the University of Toronto....
Shirley's World
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The Eleventh Hour
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FX: The Series
Character: Oscar Hammond
Rollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making criminals see what they want to see. But what is real and what is illusion?...
Emily of New Moon
Character: Uncle Malcolm
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Dr. Thorndyke
Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre....
Stark
Character: De Quincy
Stark is a 1993 British-Australian television miniseries, based on the bestselling novel Stark by comedian Ben Elton. The three-episode series, directed by Nadia Tass, was an international co-production between the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation....
The First Churchills
Character: John Churchill
The lives of the Duke of Marlborough and his wife Sarah, from their meeting in 1673 to the duke's death in 1722....
Shadows of Fear
Character: Pickering
Anthology series in which characters find themselves in weird and scary situations. Not evoked by the supernatural but by other people....
The Company of Five
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Performance
Character: Sir David Browning
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances....
Viper
Character: Leonard Price
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Rolie Polie Olie
Character: Klanky Klaus (voice)
Rolie Polie Olie was a children's television series produced by Nelvana, distributed by Disney, and created by William Joyce, Maggie Swanson, and Anne Wood. The show centers on a little roly pollie who is composed of several spheres and other three-dimensional geometric shapes. The show was one of the earliest series that was fully animated in CGI, and the first CGI animated preschool series.Rolie Polie Olie now airs in reruns on Disney Junior. Rolie Polie Olie won a Gemini Award in Canada for ...
Silver Surfer
Character: Eternity (voice)
The adventures of the cosmic wanderer as he seeks his lost home after rebelling from his master....
The Education of Max Bickford
Character: Arthur Jameson
The Education of Max Bickford is a television drama that aired from 2001 to 2002 on CBS. It starred Richard Dreyfuss as the title character, a college professor of American Studies at Chadwick College, an all-women's school in New Jersey. Also starring was child actor Eric Ian Goldberg, who portrayed the young Lester Bickford, Max's son. Max's colleagues included Marcia Gay Harden as Andrea Haskell, his former student who had recently joined the faculty, and Helen Shaver as his best friend Erica...
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The Fifth Element
Character: General Staedert
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity....
The X-Files
Character: The Well-Manicured Man
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth....
The Road to Wellville
Character: Endymion Hart-Jones
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes....
Billy Budd
Character: Julian Ratcliffe, 2nd Lieutenant
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried....
Baby's Day Out
Character: Mr. Andrews
Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink's parents—especially the three enterprising kidnappers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. Successfully kidnapping Baby Bink, they have a harder time keeping hold of the rascal, who not only keeps one step ahead of them, but seems to be more than...
High School High
Character: Thaddeus Clark
Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher....
Harvard Man
Character: Dr. Reese
College has always been a time for experimentation, sexual, cultural and otherwise. "Harvard Man" plays out against a background of love, sex, basketball, crime and experimentation. Action and philosophy in young people's quest to discover their true identity....
Little Women
Character: Mr. Laurence
With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, male friends start to become a part of the household....
Spider
Character: Terrence
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood....
Urban Legend
Character: Dean Adams
A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends....
Dangerous Minds
Character: Waiter
Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first day, she decides she must throw decorum to the wind. When Johnson returns to the classroom, she does so armed with a no-nonsense attitude informed by her military training and a fearless determination to better the lives of her students -- no matter what the cost....
The Statement
Character: Old Man
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south which became known as Vichy France. In reality the Vichy government was a puppet regime controlled by the Germans. Part of the agreement was that the Vichy Government would assist with the 'cleansing' of Jews from France. The Vichy government formed a ...
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Character: Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits....
A Study in Terror
Character: Sherlock Holmes
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who a...
Separate Lies
Character: Lord Rawston
Following a traffic accident, things take a turn when the victim's identity is revealed....
Between Strangers
Character: Orson Stewart
Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures....
Sunshine
Character: Gustave Sors
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century....
Goodbye Lover
Character: Bradley
Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly....
Sabotage
Character: Professor Follenfant
Former special services agent plays an intricate game of chess involving several federal agencies. Queen takes pawn....
Mr. Topaze
Character: Roger
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac, a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy, a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success...
Time of the Wolf
Character: Preacher
A boy is orphaned and his only surviving relatives, an ageing aunt and uncle, somewhat reluctantly, take him in. The aunt, still traumatised by the death by drowning, years earlier, of her own two sons, has little idea how to handle the boy. As if, losing his parents and not really feeling welcome in his new home, were not enough, the boy is bullied at school. He seeks sanctuary from all of his troubles in the open air, in the company of wolves and particularly in the presence of a young wolf wh...
Hollywood North
Character: Henry Neville
The making of a serious, Canadian arthouse film descends into Hollywood farce when its producer is forced to compromise his vision to accommodate his drug-addled star, his leading lady and his venal backers....
Moving Malcolm
Character: Malcolm Woodward
Depressed after being dumped by his actress fiance', a man tries to win her back by agreeing to help her elderly British father move while she films a low-budget movie overseas....
Johnny 2.0
Character: Mr. Bosch
Awakening from a 15-year coma, scientist Johnny Dalton discovers that his life has been illusory and that he is merely a clone of the real Dr. Dalton. With the help of rebel leader Nikki Holland, Dalton sets out to find his maker in a futuristic society fraught with danger and secrecy....
Sea and Stars
Character: Narrator (voice)
Life of an ordinary fisherman changes when a young mai-mai fish sees him and falls in love!... Set to original music by composer Gavin Bryars, the film tells a romantic story of the transforming power of love - even without a happy ending....
Oscar Wilde
Character: Lord Alfred Douglas
England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation....
Unearthly Stranger
Character: Dr. Mark Davidson
A series of scientists working on a new techology to facilitate man's conquest of space are killed in mysterious circumstances. Suspicion falls on the wife of another scientist on the project, who may not be what she seems....
The Duke
Character: The Duke
When his nephew tries to wrest control of his estate from him, the Duke of Dingwall removes the boy from his will and leaves everything to his dog....
Custody of the Heart
Character: Judge H. Chadwick
Claire's number one priority is her family. When her husband Dennis loses his stockbroker job, the couple's traditional family roles switch. As Dennis takes on his new stay-at-home role, Claire's furniture design business takes off. Just as she's beginning to master the art of balancing her home and work life, Dennis serves her with divorce papers and charges her with being an unfit mother. Claire discovers that in a modern courtroom there are still traditional biases unsympathetic to the idea o...
Swann
Character: Cruzzi
Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure poet who was brutally murdered in a small town in rural Ontario....
Message for Posterity
Character: Sir David Browning
A version of Dennis Potter's play for television, remade shortly before his death as the original 1960s version had been wiped....
Dinner at Fred's
Character: Uncle Henrick
A young businessman with a skill for magic tricks breaks down en route to his fiancee's parents' house on Christmas and ends up spending the holiday with a very different kind of family....
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Character: Dr. Cecil Chambers
This made-for-TV film version uses the title and general premise of Jules Verne's novel, but had its heroes carry out the journey in an earth-penetrating machine. A television series was supposed to follow, but was never produced. Cast includes John Neville, F. Murray Abraham and Kim Miyori....
Trudeau
Character: British High Commissioner
This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing Prime Ministers in Canadian history. The film explores the many facets of his character and his vision for his country which has both inspired and frustrated Canadians....
The Song Spinner
Character: Frilo, The Magnificent
In an isolated, snow-covered country known as the Water Land, the town of Shandrilan remains the quietest place in the world because its "Hush Law" prohibits noise of any kind, including music. Enter the exiled gypsy Zantalalia (Patti LuPone), who returns determined to pass her singing secrets on to ten-year-old Aurora (Meredith Henderson), an action that will get the girl in trouble with Captain Nizzle of the dreaded Noise Police. John Neville completes the cast of this colorful family fantasy....
Paradise Restored
Character: John Milton
A fictionalised biography of the latter years of the poet, John Milton. Now an old man, blind and out of favour, Milton seeks to leave a plague-ravaged London and set-up home in the countryside....
Shaggy Dog
Character: Wilkie
A no-nonsense businessman, Mr. Wilkie, is interviewed for a position with a top-of-the-line hotel chain corporation. During the interview, Wilkie attempts to complete a shaggy-dog story. His frustrations lead to a total breakdown. He suddenly snaps and pulls a gun on the interviewers....
H.C. Andersens sagor
Character:
It's evening and mother Alice read bedtime stories for her three children....
George's Room
Character: The Man
A man is interviewed by a young widow as a potential lodger, and learns some disturbing facts about the woman's relationship with her dead husband....
The Adventures of Gerard
Character: Duke of Wellington
Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it....
Water Damage
Character: Jock Beale
One year after the drowning death of his young son, Paul Preedy (Daniel Baldwin) receives an invitation to a reunion at his prep school. Paul decides to go, taking his remaining son with him. When they arrive, they find that only two other people had been invited and a new nightmare is about to begin....
Crime and Punishment
Character: Marmeladov, Sonia's alcoholic father
A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed....
Control Factor
Character: Director
An average everyman discovers he's the unwitting target of an ultra secret domestic black-op centering on mind control....
Regeneration
Character: Dr. Yealland
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land....
Johann's Gift to Christmas
Character: Viktor (voice)
A mouse from the streets and a church mouse try to help a priest and an organist save Christmas by composing a Christmas carol....
The Stork Derby
Character: Mr. Cummingham
The woman who birthed the most children in the City of Toronto within a certain time period would inherit a fortune in the midst of the Great Depression...
Dieppe
Character: Gen. Sir Alan Brooke
A dramatization of the failed World War II raid which became the most serious defeat of Canadian forces in the war....
The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
Character: Self - 'Baron Munchausen'
This is an all new feature length documentary, with interviews from almost everyone involved with the production of the film. Gilliam never shies away from the truth, even when it comes to himself, and so this documentary is self-effacing and refreshingly frank. The documentary details not only the battles Gilliam had with Columbia in getting the film finished and released, but also the imagination and innovation that went into the production....
Gahan Wilson's The Kid
Character: Banquo
The stellar drawing style of illustrator Grahan Wilson – world renowned cartoonist for the New Yorker – comes to life in this off-beat story about growing up. Based in the comic strip “Nuts”, Gahan Wilson’s The Kid is an edgy, irreverent and primetime exploration of childhood. From know-it-all parents to annoying teachers and peer pressuring friends, this animated Showtime special offers a flashback to those times when being a kid was a real drag. As the star of the show says: “They ought to pas...
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Character: Self
Tony Palmer's award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton....