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Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland CBE
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
 (born 29 February 1928), known as Joss Ackland, is an English
England

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 actor
Actor

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 who has appeared in more than 130 films in his career. He has appeared extensively on television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
, notably as C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist....
 in Shadowlands
Shadowlands

Shadowlands is a 1985 in television television film, written by William Nicholson , directed by Norman Stone and produced by David M. Thompson for BBC Wales....
 (1985).

and was born in North Kensington
Kensington

Kensington is a district of West London, England within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, located west of Charing Cross. An affluent and densely-populated area, its commercial heart is Kensington High Street and it contains the well-known museum district of South Kensington....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, the son of Ruth Izod and Sydney Norman Ackland. He was trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama
Central School of Speech and Drama

The Central School of Speech and Drama was founded in 1906 by Elsie Fogerty to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students....
. Ackland and his wife, the former Rosemary Kirkcaldy, were married on 18 August 1951 when Ackland was 23 and she 22.






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Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland CBE
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
 (born 29 February 1928), known as Joss Ackland, is an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 who has appeared in more than 130 films in his career. He has appeared extensively on television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
, notably as C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist....
 in Shadowlands
Shadowlands

Shadowlands is a 1985 in television television film, written by William Nicholson , directed by Norman Stone and produced by David M. Thompson for BBC Wales....
 (1985).

Biography


Early life

Ackland was born in North Kensington
Kensington

Kensington is a district of West London, England within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, located west of Charing Cross. An affluent and densely-populated area, its commercial heart is Kensington High Street and it contains the well-known museum district of South Kensington....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, the son of Ruth Izod and Sydney Norman Ackland. He was trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama
Central School of Speech and Drama

The Central School of Speech and Drama was founded in 1906 by Elsie Fogerty to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students....
. Ackland and his wife, the former Rosemary Kirkcaldy, were married on 18 August 1951 when Ackland was 23 and she 22. She was an actress and Ackland wooed her when they appeared onstage together in Pitlochry
Pitlochry

Pitlochry , is a burgh in the council area of Perth and Kinross, Scotland, lying on the River Tummel. It has an estimated population of 3,300....
. The couple struggled initially as Ackland's acting career was in its infancy. They moved to Africa where Ackland had decided to try his luck managing a tea plantation
Plantation

A plantation is usually a large farm or Estate , especially in a tropical or semitropical country, like Brazil or Nicaragua on which cotton, tobacco, lice coffee, sugar cane and the like are cultivated, usually by resident laborers....
 in Kenya
Kenya

The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border....
, and moving to Cape Town
Cape Town

Cape Town is the second most populous city in South Africa, forming part of the metropolitan municipality of the City of Cape Town. It is the provincial Capital of the Western Cape, as well as the legislature capital of South Africa, where the Parliament of South Africa and many government offices are located....
 after six months when they decided it was too dangerous. Though they both obtained steady acting jobs in South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
, after two years, they returned to England in 1957.

Career

Ackland joined the Old Vic
Old Vic

The Old Vic is a theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road, London. It became a Grade II* listed building in 1951....
, appearing alongside such luminaries as Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith

Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, Order of the British Empire , better known as Maggie Smith, is a pre-eminent English film, Stage , and television actor who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 56 years....
, Judi Dench
Judi Dench

Dame Judith Olivia Dench, Order of the Companions of Honour, Order of the British Empire, Royal Society of Arts is an England actress. She has won nine BAFTAs, seven Laurence Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards's and a Tony Award....
 and Tom Courtenay
Tom Courtenay

Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of critically-acclaimed films including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner , Billy Liar and Doctor Zhivago ....
. Ackland's career advanced with parts in The Sicilian
The Sicilian

The Sicilian is a novel by Italian-American author Mario Puzo. Published in 1984 by Random House , it is based on Puzo's most famous work, The Godfather ....
, Lethal Weapon 2
Lethal Weapon 2

Lethal Weapon 2 is a 1989 in film action film directed by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Derrick O'Connor and Joss Ackland....
, The Hunt For Red October and White Mischief
White Mischief

White Mischief is a 1987 in film film dramatising the events of the Happy Valley set murder case in Kenya in 1941, when Jock Delves Broughton was tried for the murder of Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll....
. He has since kept busy with work and features in Passion of Mind
Passion of Mind

Passion of Mind is a 2000 in film psychological drama film starring Demi Moore. It was the first English-language film from Belgium director Alain Berliner, best known for the arthouse success Ma Vie en Rose....
 with Demi Moore
Demi Moore

Demetria Gene "Demi" Moore Kutcher is an American actress. She became well-known after a string of 1980s teen-oriented movies, and was one of the best known actresses of 1990s Hollywood....
 and the 2-part TV miniseries Hogfather based on Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett, Officer of the Order of the British Empire is an England novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre....
's Discworld
Discworld

Discworld is a comedy fantasy book series by the British author Terry Pratchett, set on Discworld , a Flat Earth balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the back of a giant turtle, Discworld #Great A'Tuin, the star turtle....
 novel of the same name
Hogfather

Hogfather is the 20th Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett.Anthropomorphic personifications #The Hogfather is also a character in the book, representing something akin to Father Christmas....
.

His stage roles included creating the role of Juan Perón
Juan Perón

Juan Domingo Per?n was an Argentina general and politician, elected three times as President of Argentina, after serving in several government positions, including the Secretary of Labor and the Vice Presidency....
 in Tim Rice
Tim Rice

Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice is an English Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning lyricist, author, radio personality and television gameshow panellist....
 and Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an England composer of musical theatre, the elder son of William Lloyd Webber and also the brother of the renowned cellist Julian Lloyd Webber....
's musical Evita opposite Elaine Paige
Elaine Paige

Elaine Paige Order of British Empire is an English people singer and actor best known for her work in musical theatre. Raised in Barnet, North London, Paige attended the Aida Foster stage school and made her first professional appearance on stage in 1964....
.

Ackland appears in the Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys

Pet Shop Boys are an English people electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main Singing, Keyboard instruments and occasionally guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards and occasionally on vocals....
' 1987 film It Couldn't Happen Here
It Couldn't Happen Here

It Couldn't Happen Here is a Pet Shop Boys film released in 1988 in film. It was originally conceived as an hour-long video based around their album Actually , but it turned into a surreal full-scale feature film directed by Jack Bond and co-starring Barbara Windsor, Joss Ackland, Neil Dickson and Gareth Hunt....
, and in the video for their version of the song Always on My Mind
Always on My Mind

"Always on My Mind" is a song originally recorded by Brenda Lee.Allmusic list over 300 recorded releases of the song in versions by dozens of performers....
, which was taken from the film. Several years later, he claimed in an interview with the Radio Times
Radio Times

Radio Times is the BBC's weekly television and radio programme listings magazine. It also provides on-line listings....
 that he appeared with the band purely because his grandchildren liked their music.

Ackland, in an 2001 interview with the BBC, admitting to being forced to make "awful films" due to being a workaholic
Workaholic

A workaholic, colloquially, is a person who is Addiction to work .The phrase does not always imply that the person actually enjoys their work, but rather simply feels compelled to do it....
, mentioning by name Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is a 1991 in film United States comedy film science fiction film, the sequel to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure....
 and the Pet Shop Boys music video
Music video

A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
, while lambasting former co-star Demi Moore
Demi Moore

Demetria Gene "Demi" Moore Kutcher is an American actress. She became well-known after a string of 1980s teen-oriented movies, and was one of the best known actresses of 1990s Hollywood....
 as "not very bright or talented".

In 2007 Ackland narrated and provided the voice for the Robert Garofalo biography /film and documentary on notorious Occultist Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley , , was a United Kingdom occultist, writer, mountaineering, poet, and yogi. He was an influential member of several occult organizations, including the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the A?A?, and Ordo Templi Orientis , and is best known today for his Works of Aleister Crowley, especi...
, titled In Search of The Great Beast 666 that was released on DVD.

Personal life

Ackland and his wife were married for 51 years. They had seven children and, as of May 2006, 32 grandchildren. Despite his filming taking him to far-flung locations, Ackland said they never spent a night apart. In 1963, their house in Barnes caught fire. Rosemary Ackland managed to save their five children but broke her back when jumping from the bedroom window to safety. She was told she would lose the baby she was carrying and would never walk again. She managed to confound the doctors, and both gave birth and returned to walking, after 2 years in Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

Their eldest son, Paul, died of a heroin overdose in 1982, aged 29. In 2000, Rosemary Ackland learned she had motor neurone disease
Motor neurone disease

The motor neurone diseases are a group of progressive neurological disorders that destroy motor neuron, the cells that control voluntary muscle activity including speaking, walking, breathing, swallowing and general movement of the body....
. The last two years of her life saw the degenerative effects of this disease manifest, but she maintained her humorous disposition and continued writing a diary, just as she had done for decades. Rosemary Ackland died on 25 July 2002.

In the years since her death, Ackland has read and edited the diaries for a forthcoming publication.

Filmography

  • Destination Downing Street (1957) (TV) as Immelmann
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959 film)

    A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1959 in film cinema of the Czech Republic animated film directed by Jir? Trnka. It is based on the William Shakespeare play of the A Midsummer Night's Dream....
     (1959)
  • In Search of the Castaways
    In Search of the Castaways

    In Search of the Castaways is a novel by the France writer Jules Verne, published in 1867-1868. The original edition, by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Edouard Riou....
     (1962) (uncredited) as Seaman on yacht
  • The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1963) (TV) as Editor of English Language Newspaper in India
  • David Copperfield (1966) (TV Series) as Mr. Peggotty
  • Rasputin: the Mad Monk (1966) as The Bishop
  • Lord Raingo (1966) (TV) as Tom Hogarth
  • On the March to the Sea (1966) (TV)
  • Room 13
    Room 13

    Room 13 is a 1989 horror novel by Robert Swindells. It won the Children's Book Award in 1990. ...
     (1966) (TV) as Herr Scavenius
  • The Further Adventures of the Three Musketeers (1967) (TV Series) as d'Artagnan
    D'Artagnan

    Charles de Batz-Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan served Louis XIV of France as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard and died at the Siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch War....
  • The Troubleshooters (1966) (TV) (1966-1968) as Mr. Gibbon (1966), Sam Jardine (1966-1967), Considine (1968), Lewis (1968)
  • Mystery and Imagination (1966) (TV) (1966, 1968) as Herr Scavenius
  • A Place of One's Own
    A Place of One's Own

    A Place of One's Own is a Cinema of the United Kingdom film directed by Bernard Knowles. An atmospheric ghost story based on the novel by Osbert Sitwell, it stars James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price and Dulcie Gray....
     (1968) (TV)
  • Z Cars (1967) (TV) (1967-1968) as Det. Insp. Todd
  • The Avengers
    The Avengers (TV series)

    The Avengers was a British television series featuring secret agents in 1960s United Kingdom. The programmes were made by TV company Associated British Corporation, and created by its Head of Drama Sydney Newman....
     (1969) (TV Series) as Brig. Hansing
  • The Gold Robbers (1969) (TV) as Derek Hartford
  • Before the Party (1969) (TV) as Harold Bannon
  • The House That Dripped Blood
    The House That Dripped Blood

    The House That Dripped Blood is a 1970 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom horror film anthology film directed by Peter Duffell and distributed by Amicus Productions....
     (1970) as Neville Rogers
  • Mr. Forbush and the Penguins (1972) as The Leader
  • Thirty-Minute Theatre (1971) (TV) (1971, 1972)
  • Villain
    Villain (1971 film)

    Villain is a 1971 in film gangster film directed by Michael Tuchner and starring Richard Burton, Ian McShane, T.P. McKenna and Donald Sinden....
     (1971) as Edgar Lewis
  • The Persuaders!
    The Persuaders!

    The Persuaders! is a 1971 in television crime fiction television program, produced by ITC Entertainment for initial broadcast on ITV and American Broadcasting Company....
     (1972) (TV) as Felix Meadowes
  • Shirley's World
    Shirley's World

    Shirley's World was a Television program aired first by American Broadcasting Company during the Television in the United States 1971-72 United States network television schedule....
     (1972) (TV) as Inspector Vaughan
  • The Happiness Cage
    The Happiness Cage

    The Happiness Cage is a 1972 in film science fiction film which directed by Bernard Girard. Film stars Christopher Walken and Joss Ackland. Film also known as The Mind Snatchers and it is the first starring role for Walken....
     (1972) as Dr. Frederick
  • Six Faces (1972) (TV Series) as Harry Mellor
  • Six Faces: True Life (1972) (TV)
  • Six Faces: Gallery of Faces (1972) (TV)
  • Penny Gold (1973)
  • The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
    The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

    The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes is a term applied to fictional detectives of the Victorian and Edwardian period. It has been used as the title of a number of anthologoies or collections:...
     (1973) (TV) as Grubber
  • Hitler: The Last Ten Days
    Hitler: The Last Ten Days

    Hitler: The Last Ten Days is a 1973 in film film depicting the days leading up to Adolf Hitler's Hitler's Death. It stars Alec Guinness and Simon Ward....
     (1973) (TV) as Gen. Burgdorf
  • England Made Me (1973) as Haller
  • The Three Musketeers
    The Three Musketeers (1973 film)

    The Three Musketeers is a 1973 in film film based on the The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, p?re. Directed by Richard Lester and written by George MacDonald Fraser ....
     (1973) as D'Artagnan's Father
  • The Protectors
    The Protectors

    The Protectors was a United Kingdom television series, an action Thriller created by Gerry Anderson - his second TV series using live actors as opposed to animated puppets....
     (1974) (TV) as Arthur Gordon
  • The Black Windmill
    The Black Windmill

    The Black Windmill is a United Kingdom spy thriller released in 1974 in film.It stars Michael Caine, John Vernon, Janet Suzman and Donald Pleasence, and was directed by the United States, Don Siegel....
     (1974) as Chief Supt. Wray
  • S*P*Y*S
    S*P*Y*S

    S*P*Y*S is a 1974 in film comedy about a two bumbling men who are mistaken for spies and targeted for elimination by the KGB. The film was directed by Irvin Kershner, and stars Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, and Zouzou ....
     (1974) ... Martinson
  • The Little Prince
    The Little Prince (film)

    The Little Prince is a 1974 in film musical film with a screenplay and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. It proved to be the creative team's penultimate collaboration ....
     (1974) as The King
  • Great Expectations
    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens first serial ised in All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It is regarded as one of his greatest and most sophisticated novels, and is one of his most enduringly popular, having been adapted for stage and screen over 250 times....
     (1974) (TV) as Joe Gargery
  • One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
    One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing

    One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing is a 1975 in film United Kingdom comedy film, which is set in the early 1920s, about the theft of a dinosaur skeleton from the Natural History Museum....
     (1975) as B.J. Spence
  • Royal Flash
    Royal Flash (film)

    Royal Flash is a 1975 film based on George MacDonald Fraser's second Harry Paget Flashman novel, Royal Flash. It starred Malcolm McDowell as Flashman....
     (1975) as Sapten
  • Operation Daybreak
    Operation Daybreak

    Operation Daybreak is a 1975 World War II film based on the true story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in Prague - starring Anthony Andrews, Timothy Bottoms and Martin Shaw....
     (1975) as Janák
  • [You Talk Too Much (1976) (TV)
  • The Crezz (1977) (TV Series) as Charles Bronte
  • The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
    The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It

    The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know it is a 1977 in film Comedy film starring John Cleese. It is a low-budget spoof of the Sherlock Holmes detective series, as well as the mystery genre in general....
     (1977) as President
  • Watership Down
    Watership Down (film)

    Watership Down is a 1978 in film animated film directed by Martin Rosen and based on Watership Down by Richard Adams. It was largely financed by Jake Eberts' company, Goldcrest Films....
     (1978) (voice) as Black Rabbit
  • Enemy at the Door
    Enemy at the Door

    Enemy At The Door is a United Kingdom television drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV.The series was shown between 1978 and 1980 and dealt with the Nazi Germany Occupation of the Channel Islands, one of the Channel Islands, during the Second World War....
     (1978) (TV) as Major General Laidlaw
  • The Greek Tycoon
    The Greek Tycoon

    The Greek Tycoon is a 1978 in film Cinema of the United States drama film directed by J. Lee Thompson. The screenplay by Morton S. Fine is based on a story by Fine, Nico Mastorakis, and Win Wells loosely based on Aristotle Onassis and his relationship with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis....
     (1978) (uncredited)
  • Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
    Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

    Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? is a 1978 in film comedy film starring George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, and Robert Morley. It was based on a novel entitled Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe by Nan and Ivan Lyons....
     (1978) as Cantrell
  • Return of the Saint
    Return of the Saint

    Return of the Saint was a United Kingdom action-adventure television series that aired for one season in 1978 and 1979 in Britain on ITV, and was also broadcast on CBS in the United States....
     (1978) (TV) as Gunther
  • The Sweeney
    The Sweeney

    The Sweeney was a United Kingdom television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, an elite branch of the Metropolitan Police Service specialising in combatting armed robbery and violent crime within the Metropolitan Police area in London....
     (1978) (TV) as Alan Ember
  • A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
    A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (film)

    A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square is a 1979 in film British heist film directed by Ralph Thomas, written by Guy Elmes and starring Richard Jordan, Oliver Tobias, and David Niven....
     (1979) (uncredited) as Prison Warden
  • Saint Jack
    Saint Jack

    Saint Jack is a 1973 novel by Paul Theroux and a 1979 in film of the same name. It tells the life of Jack Flowers, a pimp in Singapore. Feeling hopeless and undervalued, Jack tries to make money by setting up his own bordello, and clashes with Han Chinese Triad society members in the process....
     (1979) as Yardley
  • Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a spy novel by John le Carr?, first published in 1974. It is the first volume of a three-book series informally known as The Karla Trilogy, followed by The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People....
     (TV) (1979) as Jerry Westerby
  • Tales of the Unexpected
    Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)

    Tales Of The Unexpected is a United Kingdom television series that originally aired between 1979 and 1988, made by Anglia Television for ITV....
     (1980) (TV) (1980, 1988) as Malcolm Harper (1980), Colonel George Peregrine (1988)
  • A Question of Guilt
    A Question of Guilt

    A Question of Guilt is a novel in the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew super mystery series....
     (1980) (TV Series) as Samuel Kent
  • The Love Tapes (1980) (TV) (uncredited) as Narrator
  • Rough Cut
    Rough cut

    In filmmaking, the Rough cut is the second of three stages of offline editing. The rough cut is the first stage in which the movie begins to resemble its final product....
     (1980) as Insp. Vanderveld
  • The Gentle Touch
    The Gentle Touch

    The Gentle Touch is a United Kingdom television drama made by LWT for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a woman police detective as its leading character, being ahead of the similarly-themed BBC series Juliet Bravo by four months....
     (TV) as Ivor Stocker
  • The Apple
    The Apple (film)

    The Apple is a 1980 musical film science fiction film starring Catherine Mary Stewart and directed by Menahem Golan. It is a discoesque rock opera-styled feature, set in a futuristic 1994, dealing with themes of conformity versus rebellion and infused with The_bible#Christian_Bible ....
     (1980) as Hippie Leader/Mr. Topps
  • Dangerous Davies - The Last Detective (1981) as Chief Insp. Yardbird
  • Thicker Than Water (1981) (TV) as Joseph Lockwood
  • The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1982) (TV) as Edward Moulton-Barrett
  • Shroud for a Nightingale
    Adam Dalgliesh

    Adam Dalgliesh is a fictional character who has been the protagonist of fourteen Mystery fiction novels by P. D. James. Dalgliesh first appeared in James' 1962 novel Cover Her Face, and has appeared in most of James' subsequent novels....
     (1984) (TV) as Stephen Courtney-Briggs, surgeon
  • The Tragedy of Coriolanus
    BBC Television Shakespeare

    The BBC Television Shakespeare was a set of television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, produced by the BBC between 1978 and 1985....
     (1984) (TV) as Menenius
  • Shadowlands
    Shadowlands

    Shadowlands is a 1985 in television television film, written by William Nicholson , directed by Norman Stone and produced by David M. Thompson for BBC Wales....
     (1985) (TV) as C. S. Lewis
    C. S. Lewis

    Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as Jack, was an academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist....
  • A Zed & Two Noughts
    A Zed & Two Noughts

    A Zed & Two Noughts is a 1985 in film film written and directed by Peter Greenaway....
     (1985) as Van Hoyten
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : The Copper Beeches
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (TV series)

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the name given to the TV series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by United Kingdom television company Granada Television between 1984 and 1994, although only the first two series bore that title on screen....
     (1985) (TV Series) as Jephro Rucastle
  • Lady Jane
    Lady Jane (film)

    Lady Jane is a 1986 in film United Kingdom costume drama romance film directed by Trevor Nunn, written by David Edgar , and stars Helena Bonham Carter in the title role....
     (1986) as Sir John Bridges
  • When We Are Married
    When We Are Married

    When We Are Married is a 1938 play by English dramatist, J. B. Priestley. It is the first play ever to be televised unedited from a theatre....
     (1987) (TV) as Henry Ormonroyd
  • White Mischief
    White Mischief

    White Mischief is a 1987 in film film dramatising the events of the Happy Valley set murder case in Kenya in 1941, when Jock Delves Broughton was tried for the murder of Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll....
     (1987) as Sir Jock Delves Broughton
  • A Killing on the Exchange (1987) (TV) as Sir Max Sillman
  • Queenie (1987) (TV) as Sir Burton Rumsey
  • The Sicilian
    The Sicilian

    The Sicilian is a novel by Italian-American author Mario Puzo. Published in 1984 by Random House , it is based on Puzo's most famous work, The Godfather ....
     (1987) as Don Masino Croce
  • It Couldn't Happen Here
    It Couldn't Happen Here

    It Couldn't Happen Here is a Pet Shop Boys film released in 1988 in film. It was originally conceived as an hour-long video based around their album Actually , but it turned into a surreal full-scale feature film directed by Jack Bond and co-starring Barbara Windsor, Joss Ackland, Neil Dickson and Gareth Hunt....
     (1988) as Priest/murderer
  • The Man Who Lived at the Ritz (1988) (TV) as Goering
  • Codename: Kyril (1988) (TV) as 'C'
  • To Kill a Priest (1988) as Colonel
  • First and Last
    First and Last

    First and Last is a TV gameshow contested by members of the public produced by Endemol for Channel 4. The only prize is a cash sum of up to ?25,000 for the winner....
     (1989) (TV) as Alan Holly
  • A Quiet Conspiracy (1989) (TV) as Theo Carter
  • The Justice Game (1989) (TV) as Sir James Crichton
  • Lethal Weapon 2
    Lethal Weapon 2

    Lethal Weapon 2 is a 1989 in film action film directed by Richard Donner, and starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Derrick O'Connor and Joss Ackland....
     (1989) as Arjen 'Aryan' Rudd
  • Jekyll & Hyde (1990) (TV) as Dr. Charles Lanyon
  • The Hunt for Red October (1990) as Ambassador Andrei Lysenko
  • The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990) (TV) as Gen. Gerhard Hellstein
  • Incident at Victoria Falls (1991) (TV) as King Edward
  • A Murder of Quality
    A Murder of Quality

    A Murder of Quality is the second novel by John le Carr?. It follows George Smiley, the most famous of le Carr?'s recurring characters, in his only book set outside the espionage community....
     (1991) (TV) as Terence Fielding
  • The Object of Beauty
    The Object of Beauty

    The Object of Beauty is a 1991 in film film directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg....
     (1991) as Mr. Mercer
  • Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
    Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

    Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey is a 1991 in film United States comedy film science fiction film, the sequel to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure....
     (1991) as Chuck De Nomolos
  • A Woman Named Jackie
    A Woman Named Jackie

    A Woman Named Jackie is a 1991 American made for television miniseries chronicling the life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.The miniseries was split into three parts:...
     (1991) (TV) as Aristotle Onassis
    Aristotle Onassis

    Aristotle Sokratis "Ari"/"Aristo" Onassis was one of the prominent shipping Business magnate of the 20th century. Some sources say he was born in 1900 and later changed his age to 16 so as to avoid deportation from Turkey....
  • Ashenden (1991) (TV) as Cumming
  • They Do It with Mirrors
    They Do It with Mirrors

    For the novel of the same name see Robert A. Heinlein'They Do It With Mirrors' is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1952 in literature under the title of 'Murder with Mirrors' and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 17 in the same year under Christie...
     (1991) (TV) as Lewis Serrocold
  • The Sheltering Desert (1992) as Col. Johnston
  • Once Upon a Crime
    Once Upon A Crime

    Once Upon A Crime is a 1992 ensemble cast comedy starring, among others; Richard Lewis , John Candy, Jim Belushi, Cybill Shepherd and Ornella Muti....
     (1992) as Hercules Popodopoulos
  • Shadowchaser (1992) as Kinderman
  • The Bridge
    The Bridge (1992 film)

    The Bridge is a 1992 drama independent film based on the novel by Maggie Hemingway. Directed by Sydney Macartney, it stars Saskia Reeves, David O'Hara, Joss Ackland, Rosemary Harris, Anthony Higgins, and Geraldine James....
     (1992) as Smithson
  • The Mighty Ducks
    The Mighty Ducks

    The Mighty Ducks is the first film in The Mighty Ducks films, produced by Avnet-Kerner Productions and Walt Disney Pictures, distributed by Buena Vista Distribution, and originally released to movie theatres on October 2, 1992....
     (1992) as Hans
  • The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
    The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

    The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, also known as The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, is an Emmy Award-winning United States television series that ran from 1992 to 1996....
     (1992) (TV) as The Prussian
  • Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
    Shakespeare: the Animated Tales

    Shakespeare: The Animated Tales comprised two six-part television series, first broadcast in 1992 and 1994. Each episode was an animation half-hour adaptation of one of Shakespeare plays....
     (1992) (TV) (voice) as Julius Caesar
    Julius Caesar

    'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
  • Nowhere to Run
    Nowhere to Run (film)

    Nowhere to Run is a 1993 in film action film, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Rosanna Arquette, Kieran Culkin, Ted Levine and Joss Ackland....
     (1993) as Franklin Hale
  • Voices in the Garden (1993) (TV) as Sir Charles (Archie) Peverall
  • The Princess and the Goblin
    The Princess and the Goblin (film)

    The Princess and the Goblin is a 1992 in film animated adaptation of George MacDonald's 1872 book The Princess and the Goblin. It was the first animated feature from Cinema of Wales, and the 25th full-length cartoon from Cinema of Hungary....
     (1993) (voice) as King Papa
  • OcchioPinocchio (1994) as Brando
  • Jacob (1994) (TV) as Isaac
    Isaac

    According to the Hebrew Bible, Isaac The New Testament contains few references to Isaac. The Early Christianity views Abraham's willingness to follow God's command to Binding of Isaac as an example of faith and obedience....
  • Citizen Locke (1994) (TV) as Lord Ashley
  • Giorgino
    Giorgino

    Giorgino is a 1994 France film directed by Laurent Boutonnat....
     (1994) as Father Glaise
  • Citizen X
    Citizen X

    Citizen X is a made-for-TV movie, released in 1995, which gives a fictionalised account of the Ukrainian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, who was convicted of killing 52 women and children, and the efforts of detectives in the Soviet Union to capture him....
     (1995) (TV) as Bondarchuk
  • Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1995) as Insp. Sam Stringer
  • The Thief and the Cobbler
    The Thief and the Cobbler

    The Thief and the Cobbler is animated feature film by Canadian animator Richard Williams , who worked 26 years on the project. Beginning the work in 1964, Williams intended for the film to be his masterpiece, and a milestone in the art of animation....
     (1995) (voice) as Brigands
  • A Kid in King Arthur's Court
    A Kid in King Arthur's Court

    A Kid in King Arthur's Court is a 1995 film directed by Michael Gottlieb, produced by Trimark Pictures, and released by The Walt Disney Company....
     (1995) as King Arthur
    King Arthur

    King Arthur is a legendary Britons leader who, according to medieval histories and Romance , led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century....
  • Daisies in December (1995) (TV) as Gerald Carmody
  • Testament: The Bible in Animation
    Testament: The Bible in Animation

    Testament: The Bible in Animation was a 1990s animated series produced by Siamel 4 Cymru . It featured animated versions of stories from the Bible, each story using its own unique style of animation....
     (1996) (TV) (voice) as Noah
    Noah

    Noah was, according to the Bible, the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs ; and a prophet according to the Qur'an. The biblical story of Noah is contained in the book of Book of Genesis, chapters 5-9, while the Qur'an has a whole sura named after and devoted to his story with other references elsewhere....
  • Hidden in Silence (1996) (TV) as German factory manager
  • Deadly Voyage (1996) (TV) as Captain
  • To the Ends of Time (1996) (TV) as King Francis
  • Surviving Picasso
    Surviving Picasso

    Surviving Picasso is a 1996 in film Merchant Ivory starring Anthony Hopkins as the painter Pablo Picasso. It was shot in Paris and southern France....
     (1996) as Henri Matisse
    Henri Matisse

    Henri Matisse was a France artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid, brilliant and original draftsmanship. As a drawing, printmaking, and Sculpture, but principally as a Painting, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the 20th century....
  • D3: The Mighty Ducks
    D3: The Mighty Ducks

    D3: The Mighty Ducks also known as The Mighty Ducks 3 is the third film in The Mighty Ducks films* and the second theatrical sequel to The Mighty Ducks, and first to D2: The Mighty Ducks....
     (1996) as Hans
  • Swept from the Sea
    Swept from the Sea

    Swept from the Sea is a 1997 Film based on a 1903 story, Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad. It stars Rachel Weisz, Vincent Perez, Ian McKellen, Joss Ackland, Kathy Bates, Zoe Wanamaker and Tom Bell and was directed by Beeban Kidron....
     (1997) as Mr. Swaffer
  • Heat of the Sun (1998) (TV) as Max van der Vuurst
  • My Giant
    My Giant

    My Giant is a 1998 comedy drama film starring Billy Crystal and NBA player Gheorghe Muresan in his only film appearance. Crystal also co-wrote the story....
     (1998) (uncredited) as. Monsignor Popescu
  • The Mumbo Jumbo (2000) as Mayor Smith
  • Passion of Mind
    Passion of Mind

    Passion of Mind is a 2000 in film psychological drama film starring Demi Moore. It was the first English-language film from Belgium director Alain Berliner, best known for the arthouse success Ma Vie en Rose....
     (2000) as Dr. Langer, the French Psychiatrist
  • Othello
    Othello (2001 TV film)

    Othello is a United Kingdom 2001 in film made-for-TV film starring Eamonn Walker, Christopher Eccleston and Keeley Hawes. It is an adaptation in modern English language of William Shakespeare's play Othello....
     (2001) (TV) as James Brabant
  • The House on Turk Street (2002) as Mr. Thomas Quarre
  • K-19: The Widowmaker
    K-19: The Widowmaker

    K-19: The Widowmaker is a fact-based fictional movie released on July 19, 2002, about the first of many disasters that befell the Soviet submarine K-19....
     (2002) as Marshal Zelentsov
  • Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness
    Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness

    Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness is the sixth Video game in the Tomb Raider series, and is the sequel to Tomb Raider Chronicles. It was video game developer by Core Design and video game publisher by Eidos Interactive....
     (2003) (voice) as Pieter Van Eckhardt
  • Henry VIII (2003) (TV) as Henry VII
    Henry VII of England

    Henry VII was the Kingdom of England and Lordship of Ireland from his usurpation of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death on 21 April 1509, as the first monarch of the Tudor dynasty....
  • A Different Loyalty
    A Different Loyalty

    A Different Loyalty is a 2004 film inspired by the story of British traitor Kim Philby's love affair and marriage to Eleanor Brewer in Beirut and his eventual defection to the Soviet Union....
     (2004) as Randolph Cauffield
  • Midsomer Murders
    Midsomer Murders

    Midsomer Murders is a United Kingdom Television program drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. A detective drama, it focuses on the main character of Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby, played by John Nettles, and his efforts to solve the various crimes that take place in the List of fictional counties of Midsomer ....
     (2006) Vixen's Run.(TVs) as Sir Freddy Butler
  • These Foolish Things
    These Foolish Things

    These Foolish Things is a 1973 album by Bryan Ferry, containing cover versions of standard songs. It was his first Solo album, still being Roxy Music's lead singer....
     (2006) as Albert
  • Moscow Zero (2006) as Tolstoy
    Tolstoy

    Tolstoy, or Tolstoi is a prominent family of Russian nobility, descending from one Andrey Kharitonovich Tolstoy who served under Vasili II of Russia....
  • Above and Beyond
    Above and Beyond

    Above and Beyond may refer to:*Above and Beyond , a 1952 film about World War II American pilot Paul Tibbets and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima...
     (2006) (TV) as Winston Churchill
    Winston Churchill

    Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Territorial Decoration, Fellow of the Royal Society, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Queen's Privy Council for Canada was a Politics of the United Kingdom known chiefly for his leadership of the United King...
  • Hogfather (2006) (TV) as Mustrum Ridcully
    Mustrum Ridcully

    Mustrum Ridcully is a fictional character in the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett. He was introduced in Moving Pictures as the latest Archchancellor of Unseen University....
  • Rise of the Ogre
    Rise of the Ogre

    Rise of the Ogre is an autobiography about the virtual band Gorillaz. Ostensibly written by the four band-members in collaboration with Gorillaz musician and official scribe Cass Browne, the book is 304 pages long and is extensively illustrated....
     (Audiobook) (2006) (Narrarator)
  • How About You
    How About You

    How About You is a 2007 Ireland film directed by Anthony Byrne. The film is based on a short story of the same name by Maeve Binchy....
     (2007) as Donald
  • Prisoners of the Sun
    Prisoners of the Sun (film)

    Prisoners of the Sun is an upcoming movie directed by Roger Christian starring John Rhys-Davies, David Charvet, Carmen Chaplin, Emily Holmes, Nick Moran, Joss Ackland, Michael Higgs and Gulshan Grover...
     (2007) as Prof. Mendella
  • Flawless (2008) as MKA


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