Acting

Hugh Armstrong

Born March 6, 1944 · East Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, UK

Died January 26, 2016 · aged 71

No biography available.

Known For

The BeastmasterThe Beastmaster · 1982
The Beastmaster
6.31982
MovieFantasyAdventure
Dar, the son of a king, is hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man, his new father is murdered by savages and he discovers that he has the ability to communicate with animals, which leads him on a quest for revenge against his father's killers.
Stuart: A Life BackwardsStuart: A Life Backwards · 2007
Stuart: A Life Backwards
7.42007
MovieDramaTV Movie
Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
Death LineDeath Line · 1972
Death Line
5.81972
MovieHorror
When a government official disappears in the London tunnels, after several reports of missing people in the same location, Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously, along with a couple who stumble into a victim by accident.
SafeSafe · 1993
Safe
5.31993
MovieDramaTV Movie
Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London.
How to Get Ahead in AdvertisingHow to Get Ahead in Advertising · 1989
How to Get Ahead in Advertising
6.31989
MovieFantasyComedy
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
Prudence and the PillPrudence and the Pill · 1968
Prudence and the Pill
5.71968
MovieComedyRomance
Prudence Hardcastle is on the pill. So is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Is it the teenage niece, the maid, the chauffeur, a lover, Prudence's husband Gerald, or all of the above?
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & GirlyMumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly · 1970
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly
6.01970
MovieComedyHorror
A wealthy, fatherless British clan kidnap bums and hippies, forcing them to participate in an elaborate role-playing game in which they are the perfect family; those who refuse or attempt escape endure ritualistic murder.
Tell Me LiesTell Me Lies · 1968
Tell Me Lies
6.41968
MovieDramaDocumentary
Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in London in 1967 and released only briefly in the UK and New York at the height of the Vietnam War – remains both thought-provoking and disturbing. A theatrical and cinematic social comment on US intervention in Vietnam, Brook’s film also reveals a 1960s London where art, theatre and political protest actively collude and where a young Glenda Jackson and RSC icons such as Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Scofield feature prominently on the front line. Multi-layered scenarios staged by Brook combine with newsreel footage, demonstrations, satirical songs and skits to illustrate the intensity of anti-war opinion within London’s artistic and intellectual community.

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Tell Me LiesTell Me Lies · 1968
Tell Me Lies
6.41968
MovieDramaDocumentary
Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in London in 1967 and released only briefly in the UK and New York at the height of the Vietnam War – remains both thought-provoking and disturbing. A theatrical and cinematic social comment on US intervention in Vietnam, Brook’s film also reveals a 1960s London where art, theatre and political protest actively collude and where a young Glenda Jackson and RSC icons such as Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Scofield feature prominently on the front line. Multi-layered scenarios staged by Brook combine with newsreel footage, demonstrations, satirical songs and skits to illustrate the intensity of anti-war opinion within London’s artistic and intellectual community.

Avant-garde Actor