Nicholas Clay
Birthday: Born in 1946-09-18 in London, England, United Kingdom
Deathday: 2000-05-25
Nicholas Anthony Phillip Clay (18 September 1946 – 25 May 2000) was an English actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nicholas Clay, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
TV Credits
Bugs
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Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who faced a variety of threats based around computers and other modern technology. It was originally broadcast on Saturday evenings on BBC One, and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Carnival Films....
Taggart
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Taggart is a Scottish detective television programme.The series revolves around a group of detectives initially in the Maryhill CID of Strathclyde Police, though various storylines have happened in other parts of the Greater Glasgow area, and as of the most recent series the team have operated out of the fictional John Street police station across the street from the City Chambers....
Virtual Murder
Character: Dr. John Cornelius
John Cornelius (called JC) is a university don who also works for his city police force as a consultant psychologist. Samantha Valentine is his offbeat personal assistant and lover, while Inspector Cadogan is their police contact and Professor Owen Griffiths is Cornelius's head of department....
Psychos
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Focuses on a manic-depressive psychiatrist, Dr. Daniel Nash, and the mental hospital in Glasgow where he works....
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
Character: Mike Preston
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials. The series was a co-production by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television, and is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, all the episodes had American ac...
Life of Shakespeare
Character: The Earl of Southampton
Biography of William Shakespeare....
ABC Afterschool Special
Character: Various Roles
Dramatically presented situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers. Several episodes were either in animated form or presented as documentaries. Topics included illiteracy, substance abuse and teenage pregnancy....
The Agatha Christie Hour
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This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented....
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Character: Prince Alexis Mdivani
The true story of Barbara Hutton, who had inherited $40 million by the age of 6. This insight explores the effects that money can have on one's life, loves, and careers....
Laurence Olivier Presents
Character: Rocco
Laurence Olivier Presents is a British television series made by Granada Television which ran from 1976 to 1978. The plays, with the exception of Hindle Wakes, all starred Laurence Olivier. Some of the plays were based on productions staged at the National Theatre during the period when Olivier was Artistic Director. In addition to distinguished English actors, the casts assembled for these productions included several Hollywood stars, such as Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Joanne Woodward and Ma...
The Last Days of Pompeii
Character: Glaucus
This seven-hour British-Italian adaptation of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1834 epic, set against the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. and previously filmed in 1935, and in 1960 was a vehicle for muscleman Steve Reeves, was trashed by the critics as the campiest of sword and sandal sagas to emerge in years. This despite its reported $19-million price tag, the nobility of its cast that includes Laurence Olivier, Siobhan McKenna and Anthony Quayle, and its rather unspectacular special effects. The ...
The Odyssey
Character: Menelaus
In this adaptation of Homer's timeless epic, Armand Assante stars as Odysseus, the warrior King of the mythical island of Ithaca, who must endure a decade long quest to reach home after the Trojan war, overcoming savage monsters, powerful forces of nature, and seductive nymphs, and he must outsmart them all, with all the guile and intellect he can muster....
Merlin
Character: Lord Leo
A retelling of the legend of King Arthur from the perspective of the wizard Merlin. Sam Neill stars in the title role in a story that covers not only the rise and fall of Camelot but also the phase in the legendary history of Britain that precedes it....
Highlander: The Series
Character: Loxley
Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against other immortals and tries to save people from harm....
Sherlock Holmes
Character: Dr Percy Trevelyan
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson....
Kavanagh Q.C.
Character: Mr. Justice Fulgright
James Kavanagh QC is one of the top flight barristers in Britain. Each episode has him handling challenging cases and defendants which put his skills to the test regularly....
Movie Credits
Terror of Frankenstein
Character: Henry Clerval
Victor Frankenstein's search for the secret of life leads to the creation of a monster that consumes his life and family....
Evil Under the Sun
Character: Patrick Redfern
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star....
The Search for Alexander the Great
Character: Alexander
Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale through their eyes....
Excalibur
Character: Lancelot
A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his Knights of the Round Table for the Holy Grail, and ultimately his death....
The Making of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under the Sun'
Character: Self / Patrick Redfern
Director Guy Hamilton and several of the stars of Agatha Christie's "Evil Under The Sun" walk you through the making of the film....
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character: Jack Stapleton
Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people....
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Character: Oliver Mellors
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs....
The Unknown Soldier
Character: Richards
The soldier in the spinal carriage can neither move nor speak. Who is he? His fellow wounded and officers are intent on finding out....
Sleeping Beauty
Character: Prince
Feature-length, live-action musical version of the classic fairy tale by Charles Perrault....
William: The Life, Works and Times of William Shakespeare
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Special introducing William Shakespeare to young people through sketches, readings and music....
The Road Builder
Character: Billy Jarvis
The dreary existence of middle-aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis, but there is more to Billy than meets the eye....
Lovespell
Character: Tristan
Romantic tragedy, the story of Tristan and Isolde....
The Corsican Brothers
Character: Giordano Martelli
In the 18th century were born two siamese brothers on Corsica who paradoxically carry different feelings of hate and reconciliation in their blood....
Zulu Dawn
Character: Lt. Raw
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership....
Jean
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A charming woman and a mysterious young man have a shared past, but what’s the secret?...
The Darwin Adventure
Character: Charles Darwin
The story of Charles Darwin's journey on The Beagle....
Child's Play
Character: Mike Preston
A family awakens to find themselves trapped in their own home, all windows and doors sealed by impenetrable walls. They desperately try to escape but everything fails. Then the wife notices a bizarre pattern....
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Character: Alan Campbell
In Victorian England, handsome Dorian Gray makes a Faustian deal that his portrait painted by Basil Hallward (Jeremy Brett) will age while he remains young. But his vain bargain eventually leads to murder and destroys Gray's life. This 1976 installment of the BBC's long-running "Play of the Month" television series co-stars Gwen Ffrangcon Davies, Judi Bowker and John Gielgud as Lord Henry Wotton....
In This House of Brede
Character: David
Philippa Talbot is a talented London businesswoman who has decided to give up her position and power to become a nun. The man who loves her is in shock over her departure from his life. When Philippa arrives at Brede, a cloistered Benedictine monastery, the abbess who was responsible for convincing her to enter this vocation suddenly dies. Her successor is Catherine, a sensitive leader who's the first to tell the newcomer to the community that all nuns are to love without a preference for one ov...
Lionheart
Character: Charles De Montfort
A young knight sets out to join King Richards crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves to the Muslims. It is Robert Narra's sworn duty to protect the children and lead them to safety....
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Character: Rocco
One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage are in ruins....
The Damned
Character: Richard (as Nicolas Clay)
An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children....
The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian
Character: L'empereur
Sebastian, Chief Archer in the Roman Army, converts to Christianity. A favorite of Emperor Augustus, Sebastian's devotion to Christ eventually drives him to reject the Emperor's love, causing the Emperor to angrily order Sebastian to be shot with arrows by his fellow archers. The film retells this mystery play with a definite 'art-house' approach: an almost poetical use of language, singing, dancing, some homoerotic themes, and some special effects....