Cy Grant
Birthday: Born in 1919-11-08 in Beterverwagting, British Guiana
Deathday: 2010-02-13
Cy Grant was born on November 8, 1919 in Beterverwagting, British Guiana [now Guyana]. He is known for At the Earth's Core (1976), Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) and Calypso (1958). He was married to Dorith. He died on February 13, 2010 in London, England.
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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Character: Lieutenant Green (voice)
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often referred to as Captain Scarlet, is a 1960s British science-fiction television series produced by the Century 21 Productions company of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, John Read and Reg Hill. First broadcast on ATV Midlands from September 1967 to May 1968, it has since been transmitted in more than 40 other countries, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Characters are presented as marionette puppets alongside scale model sets and spec...
Blake's 7
Character: Hal Mellanby
A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship....
The Persuaders!
Character: Richard Congoto
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime....
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At the Earth's Core
Character: Ra
A huge burrowing machine tunnels out of control at ferocious speed, cutting clean through to the center of the earth, to the twilight world of pellucidar. Once there, Dr. Perry and David Innes are threatened by half human creatures, lizard-like birds, and man-eating plants....
Sea Wife
Character: Number Four
In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator, and a black seaman. Only the seaman knows the woman is a nun. The men reveal their true selves under the hardships of survival. Told in a too-long flashback frame....
Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars
Character: Lieutenant Green (voice) (archive footage)
A compilation of four episodes from the Supermarionation series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. Captain Scarlet and the members of Spectrum battle the Mysterons from Mars who are trying to establish a base on the moon....
Safari
Character: Chief Massai
Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda....
Shaft in Africa
Character: Emir Ramila
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring....
Calypso
Character: Peter
CALYPSO (1958) was entirely shot on location in the Antilles archipelago with mostly non-professional actors and was released in colour and Cinemascope. It was a kind of follow-up to the previous Italian exotic documentary films from the 1950s and especially to L´ULTIMO PARADISO....
A Man from the Sun
Character: Alvin Jarvis
A mixed party of West Indian settlers arrives in London, where they encounter prejudice from the white population and integrate themselves into the existing West Indian community....
The Encyclopaedist
Character: Joshua Hughes
A young salesman from Trinidad tries to sell a complete set of encyclopedia to Sally Louth, a housewife living on the Chelsea-Fulham border in London....
Captain Scarlet vs. The Mysterons
Character: Lieutenant Green (voice) (archive footage)
A compilation of four episodes from the Supermarionation series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, with a new opening sequence, new special effects, and an alternate ending. War erupts between Earth and Mars after a manned mission to Mars results in an attack on the city of the Mysterons....