Ian Hendry
Birthday: Born in 1931-01-13 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
Deathday: 1984-12-24
Ian Hendry (13 January 1931 – 24 December 1984) was an English film and television actor. He is best known for his work on several British TV series of the early 1960s such as The Avengers, and for his roles in 1970s films such as Get Carter (1971). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Hendry, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
TV Credits
The Sweeney
Character: Dave Brooker
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter....
Police Surgeon
Character: Dr Geoffrey Brent
Police Surgeon was a television series made by the Associated British Corporation and starring Ian Hendry as Dr Geoffrey Brent. Its twelve half-hour episodes were broadcast on ITV at 7pm on Saturday nights from 10 September to 3 December 1960....
Brookside
Character:
The ground-breaking soap set in a housing estate on the outskirts of Liverpool....
Bergerac
Character: Major Furneaux
Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it....
The Persuaders!
Character: Lord Croxley
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime....
The Chinese Detective
Character:
Chinese British Detective Sergeant John Ho solves cases in the East End of London. Ho fits the pattern of the maverick detective, prepared to use unorthodox methods to solve his cases, which emerged in series like Z Cars and The Sweeney....
The Saint
Character: Alessandro Destamio
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 Enigma Files
Character: Joe Mackie
The Enigma Files is a British television detective drama that ran for a single series of fifteen episodes in 1980. Detective Chief Inspector Nick Lewis is tasked with investigating unsolved crimes....
The Adventures of Don Quick
Character: Captain Don Quick
The Adventures of Don Quick is a science fiction comedy television series broadcast from October–December 1970, on ITV. Starring Ian Hendry and Ronald Lacey, six 50 minute episodes were made, shown in a 60 minute time slot. Based on the characters of Don Quixote, astronaut Captain Don Quick and Sergeant Sam Czopanser (i.e. "Sancho Panza") are members of the Intergalactic Maintenance Squad. On each planet they visit, Quick attempts to right imaginary wrongs, often upsetting the inhabitants of wh...
The New Avengers
Character: Irwin Gunner
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners:...
Van der Valk
Character: Boersma
Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972....
ITV Play of the Week
Character: Colonel Guzzman
A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television. Season 1 also incorporates the Plays from the 'H.M. Tennant Globe Theatre' series, some of which were incorporated and labelled in listings as official Play of the Week episodes and some of which were played in place of Play of the Week episodes in alternative ITV regions. All 8 plays have been incorporated into this ent...
Thriller
Character: Terry Spelling / Bob Spelling
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits....
The Avengers
Character: Dr. David Keel
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters)....
Return of the Saint
Character: Roy Gates
Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts....
Nowhere Man
Character: Car Kid
Thomas Veil is a documentary photographer who, in the course of one evening, seemingly has his whole existence erased......
The Protectors
Character: Insp. Wilson
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 Frighteners
Character: Anthony Ashworth
A horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale....
The Informer
Character: Alex Lambert
The Informer is a British crime drama series broadcast on ITV from August 1966 to December 1967. Created by John Whitney and Geoffrey Bellman, it stars Ian Hendry as former barrister Alex Lambert, disgraced and disbarred, who has to rebuild his life. He utilises his former contacts on both sides of the law to become a paid informer. Living well from the rewards paid by insurance companies, Lambert still has to hide his activities from both his wife and others behind a new persona in the guise as...
Sunday Night Theatre
Character: Leading Seaman Dembury
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty...
The Lotus Eaters
Character: Erik Shepherd
Follows the lives of British expatriates living on the island of Crete, where their secrets will soon rise to the surface....
Theatre 625
Character: Jean
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time....
Churchill's People
Character: William Davenant
Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975....
Crown Court
Character: Frank Edwards
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984....
Supernatural
Character: Zoltan Vinzenz
Supernatural is a 1977 British anthology television programme broadcast on BBC One. Each episode follows the Club of the Damned, where a prospective member is required to tell a horror story, and their application would be judged on how fright factor. Applicants who fail to tell a sufficiently frightening story are killed....
Movie Credits
Get Carter
Character: Eric
Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why....
Children of the Damned
Character: Col Tom Llewellyn
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other....
Repulsion
Character: Michael
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness....
The Hill
Character: Staff Sergeant Williams
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms....
The Passenger
Character: Martin Knight
David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he discovers the body of a stranger who looks similar to him, Locke assumes the dead man's identity. However, he soon finds out that the man was an arms dealer, leading Locke into dangerous situations. Aided by a beautiful woman, Locke attempts to avoid both the police and criminals out to get him....
Doppelgänger
Character: John Kane
A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British scientist John Kane via spaceship to explore the other planet....
Theatre of Blood
Character: Peregrine Devlin
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition....
Room at the Top
Character: Cyril
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman....
The Southern Star
Character: Karl
Comedy adventure based on a Jules Verne novel about the ups and downs of jewel thieves in the wilds of Africa circa 1900. George Segal is the appealing hero-heel and Ursula Andress is visually stunning as the lady in the proceedings. Orson Welles has a small role....
The McKenzie Break
Character: Major Perry
A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland....
Tales from the Crypt
Character: Carl Maitland
When a tourist group become lost within ancient catacombs, they meet the sinister Crypt Keeper, who tells them each their fate. The enigmatic figure's macabre stories involve a wife dabbling in murder, a retired sanitation worker targeted by his suspicious neighbors, and an adulterer who may face a fitting demise if the yarns come true....
The Bitch
Character: Thrush Feather
The owner of a trendy disco starts having problems with the men in her life and the Mafia, which is trying to move in on her place....
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter
Character: Kerro
When several young girls are found dead, left hideously aged and void of blood, Dr. Marcus suspects vampirism. He enlists the help of the Vampire Hunter. Mysterious and powerful, Kronos has dedicated his life to destroying the evil pestilence. Once a victim of its diabolical depravity, he knows the vampire's strengths and weaknesses as well as the extreme dangers attached to confronting the potent forces of darkness....
Afternoon of a Nymph
Character: David Simpson
An agent invites his young starlet to a party, to meet all the right people. A chance to move on from the commercials she has been doing, to bigger roles and maybe stardom. However while she is there, she realizes there is a price to pay......
Girl in the Headlines
Character: Inspector Birkett
Called in to investigate the murder of a model, Chief Inspector Birkett and Sergeant Saunders soon discover that the victim had been leading somewhat of an immoral life....
The Internecine Project
Character: Alex Hellman
Offered a job as a presidential adviser, a professor is forced to dispose of those who knew him when he was a spy....
Sink the Bismarck!
Character: Meteorological Officer on 'King George V' (uncredited)
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying...
This Is My Street
Character: Harry King
A bored housewife has an affair with her mother's lodger....
Live Now - Pay Later
Character: Albert
Albert, a cheeky, womanising, door-to door salesman, with a never-take-no-for-an-answer attitude, lives his life for the moment, and with no thought of his future, or the consequences of his actions on the people he encounters....
The Beauty Jungle
Character: Don Mackenzie
A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests....
All Coppers Are...
Character: Sonny Wade
A young policeman and a small-time crook are both involved with the same girl....
The Jerusalem File
Character: Mayers
An American student starts working with his Arab colleague while putting all politics aside. However, is his colleague just a regular Joe? Set around the time of Arab-Israeli Six Day War....
In the Nick
Character: Ted Ross
A gang of small-time criminals are sent to an experimental prison where inmates are to be reformed, not punished....
Intimate Games
Character: Uncle Rodney
A university professor opens a sexual Pandora's box when he hands his class an assignment to explore their deepest carnal fantasies and desires. As the students begin to plumb their secret passions, they find themselves propelled into an erotic world where theory soon yields to practice....
Alice Through the Looking Box
Character: Dr. Geoffrey Brent
A Christmas TV special in which Alice does not go through a looking glass, but through a TV set....
McVicar
Character: Hitchens
John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the true story of his life, his criminal exploits and his eventual rehabilitation....
Assassin
Character: The Assassin
When the British government orders the assassination of an Air Ministry official suspected of leaking top secret intel, their top assassin assigned to the job discovers there may be more to the hit than meets the eye....
Los traidores de San Ángel
Character: Thomas Nick
Henchmen of the dictator from a South American country blackmail Nick Thomas into being a government spy. The former smuggler is to pose as a priest and enter a monastery thought to be sympathetic with rebel guerrillas. The release of the film coincided with real-life events, as Catholic priests continued to be the victims of government persecution throughout Latin America....
Damien - Omen II
Character: Michael Morgan (uncredited)
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world....
Vendetta for The Saint
Character: Alessandro Destamio
Simon Templar is on holiday in Naples when a small uproar on a lunch table draws his attention. An English tourist attempts to greet an Italian businessman as an old friend, but the Italian refuses to acknowledge the greeting and claims never to have met him....
The Sandwich Man
Character: Policeman Motor Cycle
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters....
Cry WoIf
Character: Hobson
A highly imaginative boy involves his friends in a series of false alarms, with the result that nobody will come to his aid when he is involved in a dangerous situation....
A Splinter of Ice
Character: Tony
Fay Weldon's play about adultery, middle age, and ambition....
Simon and Laura
Character: Bit Part (uncredited)
A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show....
The Secret Place
Character: Man Inside (uncredited)
A beautiful redhead becomes involved with a group of small-time hoodlums who plan and perform a daring diamond robbery....
Casino Royale
Character: (uncredited)
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle....
A Killer with Two Faces
Character: Terry Spelling / Bob Spelling
A crazed killer escapes from an asylum and assumes the identity of his twin brother, a famous and respected architect....
Crest of a Wave
Character: Nifty
Recently made redundant, Jim takes his wife Bridget to meet his old scouting pal Nifty. As well as campfire memories to swop, there just might be the possibility of a job....
Up in the World
Character: Commando Sergeant (uncredited)
Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can't remember Norman's heroic stand...