Max Adrian
Birthday: Born in 1902-11-01 in
Deathday: 1973-01-19
TV Credits
Up Pompeii!
Character: Sen. Ludicrus Sextus
Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd. The first series was written by Talbot Rothwell, a scriptwriter for the Carry On films, and the second series by Rothwell and Sid Colin. Two later specials were transmitted in 1975 and 1991....
Perry Mason
Character: Ralph Jennings
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent....
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Sir Andrew Aguecheck
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, ...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Robert Stone
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries....
One Step Beyond
Character: Marquis Jacques De La Roget
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961....
Play for Today
Character:
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration....
Robert Montgomery Presents
Character:
Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on....
Oliver Twist
Character: Fagin
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The Third Man
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Victoria Regina
Character: Benjamin Disraeli
Patricia Routledge gives a career-best performance as Queen Victoria in this 1964 series of plays based on the celebrated collection of dramas by playwright Laurence Housman. Self-willed, obstinate, imperious and passionate... a now-familiar description of one of history's longest-serving female monarchs – but Housman's satirical tribute marked a decisive break with the tradition of the uncritical historical portrait. A Broadway hit deemed too disrespectful for public performance in Britain un...
DuPont Show of the Month
Character: Sir Matthew Sprott
DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on ...
DuPont Show of the Month
Character: Marquis St. Evremonde
DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on ...
Movie Credits
The Boy Friend
Character: Max
The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza....
The Devils
Character: Ibert
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by the sexually repressed Sister Jeanne....
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Character: Dr. Blake (segment 5 "Vampire")
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand....
Pool of London
Character: Charlie Vernon - acrobat / George
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London....
The Deadly Affair
Character: Morton - Adviser
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant ...
The Music Lovers
Character: Nicholas Rubinstein
Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately, he chooses wacky nymphomaniac Nina, whom he is unable to satisfy....
Luther
Character: Cajetan
An epic drama of the 16th Century Catholic monk Martin Luther who started the Reformation....
The Terrornauts
Character: Dr. Henry Shore
A group of scientists are kidnapped and taken to an outer space outpost in order to save Earth from destruction....
Song of Summer
Character: Frederick Delius
The last five years of Frederick Delius's life through the eyes of a young composer and aide, Eric Fenby....
Kipps
Character: Chester Coote
A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama....
Charley Junior's Schooldays
Character: (uncredited) (voice)
A soon-to-be born baby learns about the kinds of schools he will attending in the years following his birth....
Robinson Charley
Character: (voice)
No man is an island, but Charley represents his nation in this economical cartoon tale of Britain’s economics....
Twelfth Night
Character: Sir Andrew Aguecheek
Twins Viola and Sebastian are separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself as a man and enters the service of Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds she likes the new messenger. When Sebastian reappears, with Viola now his exact double, merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio....
Her Favourite Husband
Character: Catoni
While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy....
The Young Mr. Pitt
Character: Richard Sheridan
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24....
Midsummer Nightmare
Character: Narrator
Puck is introduced to the twentieth century and is as amused by the contemporary obsession with television as he was by the lovers' antics....
Henry V
Character: Louis, the Dauphin
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415....
Alma Mater
Character: Nathan W. Potts
Jimmy Nicholson returns from working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school. He went to the same public school himself and is disturbed to find that things have changed and the traditions by which he has always lived and been guided now seem to be obsolete....
Uncle Vanya
Character: Prof. Alexander Serebryakov
Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival....
The Pickwick Papers
Character: Aide
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find......
Penn of Pennsylvania
Character: Elton
Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by...
Doctor Who: The Myth Makers
Character: King Priam
When the TARDIS arrives on the plains of Asia Minor not far from the besieged city of Troy, the Doctor is hailed by Achilles as the mighty god Zeus and taken to the Greek camp. He meets Agamemnon and Odysseus. Forced to admit he is a mere mortal — albeit a traveller in space and time — he is given two days to devise a scheme to capture Troy. Steven and Vicki, meanwhile, have been taken prisoner by the Trojans. Vicki, believed to possess supernatural powers, is given two days to banish the Greek...
Talk About Jacqueline
Character: Lionel
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