Terence Morgan
Birthday: Born in 1921-12-09 in Lewisham, London, England, UK
Deathday: 2005-08-25
Terence Morgan was born on December 8, 1921 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Hamlet (1948), Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) and The Steel Key (1953). He was married to Georgina Jumel. He died on August 25, 2005 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK.
TV Credits
The Persuaders!
Character: Carl Foster
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime....
Sir Francis Drake
Character: Hugh Graveney
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza....
Out of the Unknown
Character: Bert Foster
Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a science fiction short story; some were created for the series, but most were adaptations of already published stories. The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was abandoned in the final year in favour of horror and fantasy. A number of episodes were wiped during the ...
Sir Francis Drake
Character: Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza....
Movie Credits
Svengali
Character: Billy Bagot
A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer....
Tread Softly Stranger
Character: Dave Mansell
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy....
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
Character: Adam Beauchamp
Those who have interfered with the Tomb of Ra-Antef are in terrible danger. Against expert advice, American showman and financial backer of the expedition, Alexander King, plans a world tour exhibiting this magnificent discovery from the ancient world but on the opening night the sarcophagus is void of its contents. The mummy has escaped to fulfill the dreadful prophesy and exact a violent and bloody revenge on all those who defiled his final resting place....
Mandy
Character: Harry Garland
London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf....
The Shakedown
Character: Augie Cortona
Augie comes out of prison and finds his old vice racket has been taken over by the sinister Gollar, so he dreams up a new scam....
The Persuaders!
Character: Carl Foster
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investigate crimes along the French Riviera....
The Penthouse
Character: Bruce Victor
A married man and his young mistress suffer sadistic torture when Tom, Dick and Harry invade their penthouse....
Shadow of the Past
Character: John Harding
A man catches sight of a woman believed by everyone to be dead....
They Can't Hang Me
Character: Inspector Ralph Brown
A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring....
Turn the Key Softly
Character: David
A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail....
Street Corner
Character: Ray
A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines....
The Lifetaker
Character: James
Lonely housewife takes a young lover to ease the boredom and make her overbearing husband jealous. With unexpected and violent results....
The Last Appointment!
Character: Carl Foster
Two jet-setting playboys, Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde, investigate crimes. Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie....
Always a Bride
Character: Terence Winch
Set against the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera, this comedy follows the misadventures of a father and daughter con artist team (Ronald Squire and Peggy Cummins) who pose as a married couple and swindle wealthy clients at the region's swankiest resorts. But their scams take on a whole new dimension when daughter Clare falls for a British government bureaucrat (Terence Morgan) who may have a secret or two of his own. [Netflix]...
Piccadilly Third Stop
Character: Dominic Colpoys-Owen
A playboy tries to recruit a gang, who include an American who needs cash to satisfy his wife's expensive tastes, and an old time expert cracksman, to rob a foreign embassy's safe, but trouble starts when the plan begins to go wrong....
The Big Hit of Surcouf
Character: Lord Blackwood
The continuation of the adventures of Captain Robert Surcouf and his crew....
Forbidden Cargo
Character: Roger Compton
Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team....
It Started in Paradise
Character: Edouard
A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down....
The Sea Pirate
Character: Lord Blackwood
A young naval officer becomes a corsair to make enough money to marry a pretty girl, and fights injustice and snobbery to reach home safely....
The Scamp
Character: Mike Dawson
Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents....
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
Character: 2nd Lt. Gerard
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels....
It's a Wonderful World
Character: Ray Thompson
Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the tune hits the top of the charts, they find themselves having to produce the "real" composer....
Dance Little Lady
Character: Mark Gordon
When a ballerina's career is ended after she's injured in a traffic accident, her husband decides to try and turn their young daughter into a ballet star. Drama....
Hamlet
Character: Laertes
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists....
The March Hare
Character: Sir Charles Hare
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell his Irish estate. His aunt, however, has some surprises in store for him....
The Steel Key
Character: Johnny O'Flynn
An adventurer investigates the theft of a formula for hardened steel, assisted by his girlfriend....
Loves of Three Queens
Character: Golo (segment: Il Cavalieri dell'illusione)
At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, remembering the troubles caused by Paris in a similar situation....
Encore
Character: Syd Cotman
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....
The Fate of Two Queens
Character:
Anthology film in which Hedy Lamarr plays 2 queens during 2 different time periods. Ulmer directed the Genoveffa di Brabante part whereas Allégret was responsible for the empress Josephine section after he left due to artistic differences with Lamarr....
Hide and Seek
Character: Ted Lawson
A young boy runs away from an approved school to meet up with his father in the hope that he can persuade his dad to allow him to travel to Canada with him. He also meets up with two local children and discovers that his father is instead planning a bank heist....