Acting

David Calder

Born August 1, 1946 · Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK (age 80)

David Calder is an English television, stage, and screen actor.

Known For

Superman · 1978

Superman

★ 7.21978

MovieScience FictionAction

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer · 2006

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

★ 7.42006

MovieCrimeFantasy

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.

In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.

The Lost City of Z · 2017

The Lost City of Z

★ 6.42017

MovieAdventureDrama

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor · 2008

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

★ 5.52008

MovieAdventureAction

Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to pursue a quest for world domination. This time, O'Connell enlists the help of his wife and son to quash the so-called 'Dragon Emperor' and his abuse of supernatural power.

The World Is Not Enough · 1999

The World Is Not Enough

★ 6.31999

MovieAdventureAction

Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.

Queen of the Desert · 2015

Queen of the Desert

★ 5.82015

MovieDramaAdventure

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire in the Near and Middle East at the dawn of the twentieth century. Her knowledge of the tribal leaders is used by the British to establish the Kingdoms of Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

The Lady in the Van · 2015

The Lady in the Van

★ 6.42015

MovieComedyDrama

The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years.

Filmography

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Superman · 1978

Superman

★ 7.21978

MovieScience FictionAction

3rd Crewman

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer · 2006

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Bishop of Grasse

In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.

Louis Stanley

The Lost City of Z · 2017

The Lost City of Z

★ 6.42017

MovieAdventureDrama

Secretary Bryce

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor · 2008

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

★ 5.52008

MovieAdventureAction

Roger Wilson

The World Is Not Enough · 1999

The World Is Not Enough

★ 6.31999

MovieAdventureAction

Sir Robert King

Queen of the Desert · 2015

Queen of the Desert

★ 5.82015

MovieDramaAdventure

Hugh Bell

The Lady in the Van · 2015

Mr. Fairchild

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.

Monk 1

FairyTale: A True Story · 1997

FairyTale: A True Story

★ 6.41997

MovieFantasyDrama

In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on the true story of the Cottingley Fairies.

Harold Snelling

The Last Front · 2024

The Last Front

★ 6.02024

MovieWarDrama

In a Belgian village during the start of World War I, the Lambert family finds themselves thrust into the heart of the conflict in The Last Front. Leonard Lambert, a devoted husband and father, grapples with protecting his family as German forces advance to their village. Amidst the war, a tender love story blossoms between Adrien Lambert, Leonard's son, and Louise Janssen, a local villager.

Father Michael

The Hatton Garden Job · 2017

The Hatton Garden Job

★ 5.52017

MovieCrimeAction

In April 2015, the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area, was burgled by 4 elderly men. With the stolen property having a value of up to £200 million, the incident has been called the "largest burglary in English history".

Terry Perkins

The Scandalous Lady W · 2015

The Scandalous Lady W

★ 6.62015

MovieDramaTV Movie

A gripping 18th century drama details the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley, who dared to leave her husband and elope with his best friend, Captain George Bisset. Lady Seymour Worsley escapes her troubled marriage only to find herself at the centre of a very public trial brought by her powerful husband Sir Richard Worsley.

Lord Chief Justice Mansfield

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 · 2009

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

★ 6.92009

MovieThrillerCrime

After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police's Ripper investigation and see what they could have missed.

Sir John Marsden

A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only one of the group who speaks English, and he uses this as a tool over his team. When the unrest in Poland leads to a military takeover, Nowak is faced with a much more difficult situation than he expected.

Supermarket Manager

United is based on the true story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes", the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of the their number. The film draws on first-hand interviews with the survivors and their families to tell the inspirational story of a team and community overcoming terrible tragedy.

Harold Hardman

Defence of the Realm · 1986

Defence of the Realm

★ 6.41986

MovieActionThriller

A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.

Harry Champion

The King Is Alive · 2000

The King Is Alive

★ 5.52000

MovieDrama

Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear only manages to plunge this disparate group of travelers into turmoil as they struggle to overcome both nature's wrath and their own morality.

Charles

Drama about journalist Heather Brooke's fight for the disclosure of MPs' expenses.

Stuart Bell

A Question of Attribution · 1991

A Question of Attribution

★ 6.81991

MovieDramaTV Movie

Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Courtauld Institute, and presents his interrogator with a puzzle in the shape of a doubtful Titian painting. He also does art restoration work in Buckingham Palace, where he gets into an interesting conversation with HMQ.

Chubb

The War That Never Ends · 1991

The War That Never Ends

★ 5.01991

MovieDramaHistory

The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and others.

Cleon

The Trick tells the story of world-renowned Professor Philip Jones; Director of Climate Research at the University of East Anglia, who back in 2009 found himself at the eye of an international media storm and the victim of cyberterrorism. With time running out against an unseen enemy, The Trick looks at the potentially devastating consequences to humanity from climate change denial; how a media storm undermined public confidence in the science and how the concept of ‘truth’ took a back seat causing us to lose a decade of action.

Sir David King

Wallis & Edward · 2005

Wallis & Edward

★ 5.62005

MovieDramaRomance

The story of the divorcee who dared to fall in love with the future King of England.

Winston Churchill

National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar · 2018

National Theatre Live: Julius Caesar

★ 7.52018

MovieDrama

Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their homes to celebrate. Alarmed by the autocrat’s popularity, the educated élite conspire to bring him down. After his assassination, civil war erupts on the streets of the capital. Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake.

Julius Caesar

Midsomer Murders · 1997

Midsomer Murders

★ 7.51997

SeriesCrimeDrama

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

George Hamilton

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

Phillip Perry

A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.

Frank McAffee

Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Sir Aaron Armstrong

Call the Midwife · 2012

Call the Midwife

★ 7.62012

SeriesDrama

Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.

Donald

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

Micky 'The Fish' Metcalfe

Spooks · 2002

Spooks

★ 7.72002

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.

Sergei Lermov

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.

Donald Dowd

A Touch of Frost · 1992

A Touch of Frost

★ 7.51992

SeriesDramaCrime

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

Kenneth Shaw

A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.

Victor Maher

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

Saul Arkwright

Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.

Andrew Lipton

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.

Sid Lestade

An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.

Percy

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.

Sir Clive Hamer

Waking the Dead · 2001

Waking the Dead

★ 7.22001

SeriesCrimeMystery

A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

Commander Bill Drake

An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.

Nils Krogstad

The Professionals · 1977

The Professionals

★ 7.61977

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.

Insp. Shannon

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries · 2002

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries

★ 7.42002

SeriesCrimeDrama

DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.

Richard Martin

It is 1986 and Britain is booming. "Rivals" dives headfirst into the cutthroat world of TV where hair-dos are big and ambitions are even bigger. Deals are brokered in boardrooms, as well as bedrooms. Nobody can be sure who will come out on top. With every man and woman out only for themselves, can true love really blossom?

Rev. Fergus Penney

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators · 2018

Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators

★ 7.22018

SeriesComedyDrama

Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents.

Harold Hamworthy

Between the Lines · 1992

Between the Lines

★ 5.51992

SeriesDrama

Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wales. Along the way Clark overcomes strong influence from his superiors and problems in his private life, most notably the break-up of his marriage following an affair with WPC Jenny Dean.

Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively married an American hippie on her gap year.

Charles

The wise-cracking Edward 'Fitz' Fitzgerald is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.

Father Michael Harvey