Richard Wyler
Birthday: Born in 1923-06-20 in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
Deathday: 2010-03-05
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard Stapley (20 June 1923 – 5 March 2010), also known (beginning from 1959) by the stage name Richard Wyler, was a British actor and writer.
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Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers
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Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers is a television series broadcast in the United States by NBC during its 1956-57 season. In a period in which much of the programming on U.S. television consisted of Westerns, Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers could best be described as an "Eastern". It consisted of the adventures of a fictional regiment of the famed real-life cavalry of the British Indian Army. The leading characters were the 77th's officers: the commander, Colonel Standish and two of his lieuten...
Cavalcade of America
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Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual cour...
The Saint
Character: Allessandro Naccaro
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need....
The Main Chance
Character: Tim Cowley
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....
The Saint
Character: Roddy Morton
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need....
Return of the Saint
Character: Algemon
Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts....
Man from Interpol
Character: Interpol Agent Anthony Smith
Anthony Smith, an agent based at Britain's Interpol Division at Scotland Yard, takes on international assignments dealing with murderers, drug smugglers and slave runners....
Movie Credits
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way....
The Girl from Rio
Character: Jeff Sutton
Sumuru, the beautiful leader of the all-female kingdom of Femina, plans to use her women to take over the world....
Little Women
Character: John Brooke
Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord Mass in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the civil war, the sisters: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother - a very outspoken women for her time. The story is of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world....
King of the Khyber Rifles
Character: Lt. Ben Baird
Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat, survives an attack on his escort to his Northwest Frontier province garrison near the Khyber pass because of Ahmed, a native Afridi deserter from the Muslim fanatic rebel Karram Khan's forces. As soon as his fellow officers learn his mother was a native Muslim which got his parents disowned even by their own families, he falls prey to stubborn prejudiced discrimin...
The Strange Door
Character: Denis de Beaulieu
The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap....
High Jump
Character: Bill Ryan
After he accidentally causes the death of his partner, trapeze artist Bill Ryan leaves the circus and sinks into an alcoholic mire of self-pity. Things look up when elegant Jackie Field takes interest in Bill, but she hides a sinister motive. Ignoring Kitty, the shopgirl who adores him, Bill falls for Jackie and joins her gang of thieves, but the daring stunt she has him perform may lead to disaster....
The Ugly Ones
Character: Luke Chilson
Escaped outlaw Jose Gomez returns to his home town pursued by bounty killer Luke Chilson. The towns people protect Gomez, unaware, at first, that he is now a changed and dangerous man....
Rattler Kid
Character: Tony "Rattler Kid" Garrett/Django
A cowboy accused of robbery and murder escapes execution and becomes a notorious outlaw while searching for the real culprits....
Winchester Bill
Character: Billy Walsh/Bob/Winchester Bill
A gang of Mexican bandits make trouble for the owner of a gold mine, so he hires on a gunfighter....
Gunman Sent by God
Character: Coleman
Anthony Steffen, as a young gunman who works as a circus performer, witnesses the killing of some outlaws, carried out by their leader and is credited with the deed. Steffen suffers from a complex which blocks him in front of any violence and makes him appear cowardly, so when a young boy is kidnapped he must find a way to regain his composure....
Jungle Man-Eaters
Character: Inspector Jeffrey Bernard
Jungle Jim does battle with a would-be diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe....
The Iron Glove
Character: Prince James Stuart
Irishman Charles Wogan wields his sword in the cause of James Stuart who seeks to replace George I on the throne of England....
Connecting Rooms
Character: Dick Grayson
Explores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house in London. Based on the play The Cellist, by Marion Hart....
Dick Smart 2.007
Character: Dick Smart
Lady Lorraine Lister, a financer of expensive experiments, has discovered a way to obtain pure diamonds by the means of a radiation device. She hires five renowned scientists to participate in additional experiments regarding this new contrivance. However, it soon happens that the device is stolen, and the scientists mysteriously disappear! Agent Dick Smart is called in by the CIA to track down the scientists and recover the device. With the help of incredible gadgets and lots of bravado, he man...
The Three Musketeers
Character: Albert
Athletic adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' classic adventure about the king's musketeers and their mission to protect France....
Target Zero
Character: Sgt. David Kensemmit
International soldiers fight to ignore their differences while holding a hill during the Korean War....
The Exterminators
Character: Coplan
A French agent, who is sent to save an atomic scientist, uncovers a plot by terrorists and a secret atomic site in Turkey....
The Barbarians
Character: Lycursus
Revak is an Iberian prince from Penda, a small island where the Carthagian fleet ransacked and enslaved the surviving native men, including him. After an eventful passage aboard a galley, Revak becomes an elephant driver in Carthage city, and could become the favorite of mighty women, but has only one thirst: bloody revenge, at all cost, so the barbarian makes common cause with the attacking Romans, Carthage's historical enemy and rival for Mediterranean hegemony, scorning love......
Identity Unknown
Character: John
Two reporters, a youth and a girl, find romance during interviews with relatives and friends of passengers in an ill-fated airliner....
D-Day the Sixth of June
Character: David Archer
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman....
Charge of the Lancers
Character: Maj. Bruce Lindsey
As the Crimean War rages, British Capt. Eric Evoir and Maj. Bruce Lindsey are sent to the Crimea to protect a top-secret cannon capable of blasting through the walls of a nearby Russian fort. Lindsey, unfortunately, is captured by the Russians, who subject him to brutal interrogations. It's up to Evoir to save him. Along the way, Evoir meets a beautiful gypsy girl and begins an affair as intense as the war itself....
Scorpio
Character: Agent Killed by Zharkov in Car
Cross is an old hand at the CIA who often teams up with Frenchman Jean “Scorpio” Laurier, a gifted freelance operative. After their last mission together, the CIA orders Scorpio to eliminate Cross, leaving him no choice but to obey....
The Challenge
Character: Cliff Sonnenberg
Bulldog Drummond investigates the murder of a sea captain who died before revealing the location of his hidden gold....
Boulevard! A Hollywood Story
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Dickson Hughes and Richard Stapley, two young composers and romantic partners, are caught in the web of silent film star Gloria Swanson when she hires them to write a musical version of Sunset Boulevard, her 1950 film directed by Billy Wilder....
Frenzy
Character: Truck Driver (uncredited)
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence....