Bruce Seton
Birthday: Born in 1909-05-29 in Simla, Punjab, India
Deathday: 1969-09-27
TV Credits
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Will Scatlock (uncredited)
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers....
The Adventures of William Tell
Character: Colonel Bullinger
The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment....
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Character: Capt. Hartnett (uncredited)
Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural....
The Invisible Man
Character: Kemp
British scientist Peter Brady, while working on an invisibility formula, suffers a tragic accident which turns himself invisible. Unfortunately, there is no antidote, so, while working on a method to regain his visibility, he undertakes missions for his government stopping bad guys....
Fabian of the Yard
Character: Det. Supt. Robert Fabian
Fabian of the Yard is a British police procedural television series based on the real-life memoirs of Scotland Yard detective Robert Fabian, produced by the BBC and broadcast between November 1954 and February 1956. It is considered the earliest plice procedural made for British TV, sharing many points of commonality with the U.S. series Dragnet. There were 36 episodes in total, of 30 minutes each. The first thirty were broadcast consecutively on Saturday evenings between 13 November 1954 and 2...
Ivanhoe
Character: King Richard The Lionheart
Ivanhoe is a British television series first shown on ITV in 1958-59. The show features Roger Moore in his first starring role, as Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, in a series of adventures aimed at a children's audience. The characters were drawn loosely from Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel....
Ivanhoe
Character: Earl of Ashington
Ivanhoe is a British television series first shown on ITV in 1958-59. The show features Roger Moore in his first starring role, as Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, in a series of adventures aimed at a children's audience. The characters were drawn loosely from Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel....
The Wonderful World of Disney
Character:
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series premiered on ABC, Wednesday night, October 27, 1954. The show, which was hosted by Walt Disney until his death and then from 1996 to 2002 by then-CEO Michael Eisner (with one-off hosts or no hosts during other periods) has since aired continually as either a weekly program or an irregular series of specials on several networks and streaming services, m...
Movie Credits
The Green Cockatoo
Character: Madison, tall henchman
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking....
Gorgo
Character: Prof. Flaherty
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up....
Café Colette
Character: Roger Manning
A diplomat falls in love with an exiled Russian princess....
Love from a Stranger
Character: Ronald Bruce
Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basil Rathbone, Harding finds herself married before she is fully able to grasp the situation. Slowly but surely, Rathbone's loving veneer crumbles; when he casually asks Harding to sign a document turning her entire fortune over to him, she deduces that her days are numbered....
Hidden Homicide
Character: Bill Dodd
A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing....
Whisky Galore!
Character: Sergeant Odd
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year....
The Cruel Sea
Character: Tallow
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer...
Just Joe
Character: Charlie
A shy detergent factory employee unexpectedly finds his feet....
The Blue Lamp
Character: PC 'Jock' Campbell
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s....
Eight O'Clock Walk
Character: Detective Chief Inspector
Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl....
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Character: Mark
It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most it will be the last time they are seen alive. Using a specially designed barber's chair, Sweeney Todd despatches his victims to the cellar below, where he robs them of their new found fortunes and chops their remains into small pieces. Meanwhile, Mr...
Delayed Action
Character: Sellars
Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they convince the author to confess to their crimes and then kill himself. Yes, you're way ahead of us: Ayres has a change of heart and decides that he loves life. Delayed Action was produced by Robert Baker and Monty Berman, the men behind the popular 1960s TV adventure series The Saint....
Greyfriars Bobby
Character: Prosecutor
In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the Greyfriars kirkyard, despite a caretaker with a "no dogs" rule. And when Bobby is taken up for being unlicensed, it's up to the children of Edinburgh and the Lord Provost to decide what's to be done....
Bond Street
Character: Sergeant
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng....
The Curse of the Wraydons
Character: Jack Wraydon
Tod Slaughter goes about the countryside strangling everybody. His evil scheme is to destroy the family who wronged him. He has a secret lab complete with a torture chamber, featured in the films climax. Probably the most maniacal portrayal Tod ever gave....
Breakaway
Character: Webb
When Johnny Matlock whisks away a cold war secret from under the noses of Berlin's top secret agents, his every move is followed when he returns to England. His girlfriend Paula is kidnapped but her handbag is discovered at the scene of the crime by the aristocratic private eye, Duke Martin. Inside it he discovers the secret formula that the agents are searching for and tracks down her sister Paula. As Johnny grows frantic for the safe return of his girlfriend, Duke Martin plays a deadly game of...
Look Before You Love
Character: Johns
Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff....
Dead Man's Evidence
Character: Col. James Somerset
When a British secret agent's body washes up on the coast of Ireland, evidence implies that he was a traitor providing information to the Russians....
Freedom to Die
Character: Felix
Paul Maxwell plays Craig Owen, an incarcerated criminal whose cellmate holds the secret to the valuable contents within a safe deposit box. When the cellmate dies, Owen breaks out of jail in search of the stash. Unable to open the box, the fugitive abducts Linda (Felicity Young), the dead man's daughter. Tension mounts as the girl plays for time to prevent her own demise....
Portrait of Clare
Character: Lord Steven Wolverbury
The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young....
Operation Cupid
Character:
A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number....
The League of Gentlemen
Character: Patrolman (uncredited)
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way....
West of Suez
Character: Major Osborne
In this suspense movie, a Yankee mercenary is hired to blow up an Arab dignitary....
The Heart of a Man
Character: River Police Inspector
Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a hundred pounds in a week by honest means. Frankie tries his hand as a boxer, a bouncer and a commissionaire, and finally finds success as a singer. He also falls for the charms of night club chanteuse Julie, and this leads to further success when he wins a recording contract....
The End of the Road
Character: Donald Carson
Itinerant Scot performers: One daughter of a veteran trouper weds a ne'er do well and dies in childbirth.Her spendthrift man goes but later returns to bleed the old man out of remaining savings.Another daughter makes good as a singer....
The 9th Wonder of the World: The Making of 'Gorgo'
Character: Prof. Flaherty (archive footage)
Retrospective documentary on the making of Gorgo (1961)....
Undercover Girl
Character: Ted Austin
Nightclub employee Joan Foster (Kay Callard) assists the brother of a murdered reporter to expose a drug ring....
Ambush in Leopard Street
Character: Nimmo
A retired thief reforms a gang for one final heist, everything seems to be going smoothly until complications start to arise...
The Crooked Sky
Character: Mac
An American detective unmasks a gambler as the head of a banknote counterfeiting gang....
Return to Yesterday
Character: Journalist (uncredited)
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England....
Old Mother Riley Joins Up
Character: Lt. Travers
Mother Riley plays a nurse who was forced to volunteer for the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Mayhem ensues until she is able to prevent German spies from acquiring important documents....
Scott of the Antarctic
Character: Lt. H. Pennell R.N.
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him...
There's Always a Thursday
Character: James Pelly
A meek, lowly employee at a London brokerage firm sees his life change when he's suspected of being a notorious womanizer....
Take Me To Paris
Character: Gerald Vane
Mr. Armstrong’s racing stable is preparing to send one of its top horses to run in Paris's Maisons Lafitte, when the thoroughbred is unexpectedly injured. Its replacement is Dunderhead, lesser fancied, but favourite of jockey and stable lad, Albert. Meanwhile, two crooked stable hands plan to use the cross channel trip to smuggle forged banknotes....
Blackmailed
Character: Supt. Crowe
A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young artist, a victim of blackmail as well. (BFI Website)...
Emergency Call
Character: Sgt. Bellamy
A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors....
Life in Danger
Character: Landlord
Panic and fear overtake a small British farming community after a homicidal child-killer escapes from a local mental hospital....
The Frightened City
Character: Assistant Commissioner
A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him....
John Paul Jones
Character: 1st Villager
The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia....
Make Mine a Million
Character: Supt. James
Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem is, he's absolutely broke. He calls upon his friend Arthur Ashton, who arranges to sneak a plug for Sid's suds into a live TV spectacular. The public goes bananas for the product but to maintain sales Sid and Arthur must arrange for ever more outrageous plugs on TV shows. The Ascots races, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo - no show is safe....
Paul Temple's Triumph
Character: Bill Bryant
A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a prominent scientist--has been kidnapped. They find themselves up against a sinister crime organization headed by a mysterious figure known only as "Z"....
Mogambo
Character: Wilson (uncredited)
On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda....
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Character: Beadle
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen....
The 39 Steps
Character: Policeman on Train (uncredited)
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets....
Strictly Confidential
Character: Inspector Shearing
Two con-men just released from prison get straight back to their old tricks....
High Treason
Character: (uncredited)
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring....
Flame in the Heather
Character: Murray
An English spy goes to Jacobite Scotland and falls for the daughter of the family he is staying with. She laments his nationality yet he eventually rescues her from death and they ride off together as lovers. The first Scottish sound film....
Man of the Moment
Character: Fabian of the Yard (uncredited)
Norman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference, befriends the queen of a remote island, and winds up a knight. Norman leaves rooms in shambles, tailors in shreds, and diplomats in bandages. Chased by gunmen and assassins of foreign powers, Norman finds himself running through active TV studio sets and interrupts various programs and performances in progress...
Carry On Constable
Character: (uncredited)
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse, they manage to totally wreck operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get away, even before they arrive at the station. They all have to prove themselves or else they'll be out of a job and Sgt. Wilkins will be transferred....
Doctor in the House
Character: Police Driver (uncredited)
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose....