Acting

Valentine Dyall

Born May 7, 1908 · London, England, UK

Died June 24, 1985 · aged 77

No biography available.

Known For

Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.

The Night of the Generals · 1967

The Night of the Generals

★ 6.81967

MovieThrillerMystery

A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.

Brief Encounter · 1945

Brief Encounter

★ 7.71945

MovieDramaRomance

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.

Ivanhoe · 1952

Ivanhoe

★ 6.81952

MovieAdventureRomance

Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…

First Men in the Moon · 1964

First Men in the Moon

★ 6.31964

MovieAdventureScience Fiction

The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.

Caesar and Cleopatra · 1945

Caesar and Cleopatra

★ 6.21945

MovieDramaHistory

At the height of the Roman Civil War, an aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra, whom he teaches how to rule Egypt.

Knights of the Round Table · 1953

Knights of the Round Table

★ 6.01953

MovieRomanceAction

In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection.

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Lynd's Assistant / Dr. Noah (voice) (uncredited)

The Night of the Generals · 1967

The Night of the Generals

★ 6.81967

MovieThrillerMystery

German Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)

Brief Encounter · 1945

Brief Encounter

★ 7.71945

MovieDramaRomance

Alec's Friend Stephen Lynn (uncredited)

Ivanhoe · 1952

Ivanhoe

★ 6.81952

MovieAdventureRomance

Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.

Norman Guard

Mr. Dudley

First Men in the Moon · 1964

First Men in the Moon

★ 6.31964

MovieAdventureScience Fiction

Narrator (uncredited)

Caesar and Cleopatra · 1945

Caesar and Cleopatra

★ 6.21945

MovieDramaHistory

At the height of the Roman Civil War, an aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra, whom he teaches how to rule Egypt.

1st. Guardsman

Knights of the Round Table · 1953

Knights of the Round Table

★ 6.01953

MovieRomanceAction

Narrator (uncredited)

The Slipper and the Rose · 1976

The Slipper and the Rose

★ 6.91976

MovieFantasyRomance

Prince Edward wants to marry for love, but the King and court of the Kingdom of Euphrania are anxious for the Prince to wed no matter what. When the Prince meets Cinderella at a ball, he's sure she's the one, and when she loses her slipper upon exiting the dance, the Prince is determined to find and marry her.

2nd Major Domo

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp · 1943

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

★ 7.51943

MovieWarDrama

General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

von Schonborn

The City of the Dead · 1960

The City of the Dead

★ 6.51960

MovieMysteryHorror

In Whitewood, Massachusetts, a presumed witch places a curse on the town before she is burned at the stake. 300 years later, a college student arrives and checks into the mysterious Raven's Inn to research the town's history with witchcraft.

Jethrow Keane

A hunt for a spy in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.

Warren Skelton

A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.

God (uncredited)

I Know Where I'm Going! · 1945

I Know Where I'm Going!

★ 7.11945

MovieRomanceDrama

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.

Mr. Robinson

Britannia Hospital · 1982

Britannia Hospital

★ 6.21982

MovieComedyScience Fiction

Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.

Mr Rochester

The Queen of Spades · 1949

The Queen of Spades

★ 6.51949

MovieDramaFantasy

A czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul to the devil in order to always win at cards.

St. Germain's Messenger

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.

Duke of Burgundy

A portrait of the English city of York on the occasion of its 1900th anniversary.

Narrator

An offbeat anthology film, mix of sex, horror and humor filmed in varied styles.

The Mummy (voice)

Corridor of Mirrors · 1948

Corridor of Mirrors

★ 6.01948

MovieDramaRomance

A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

Counsel for the Defence (uncredited)

In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

Oliver Pike Harmsworth

Helter Skelter · 1949

Helter Skelter

★ 6.41949

MovieComedyRomance

A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.

Man Telling Story at BBC (uncredited)

Martin Luther, Heretic · 1983

Martin Luther, Heretic

★ 7.01983

MovieDrama

Martin Luther inspires a breakaway from the Roman Catholic church and is the founder of Protestantism.

Chancellor

Doctor Who: Logopolis · 1981

Doctor Who: Logopolis

★ 7.01981

MovieScience FictionAdventure

After an encounter with the Master, an airline stewardess named Tegan Jovanka becomes an unwitting stowaway aboard the TARDIS as it travels to the planet Logopolis. There, the Doctor discovers that the Master's interference with the Logopolitans' advanced mathematics has unleashed a wave of entropy which threatens to consume the entire universe.

The Black Guardian (archive footage)

The Avengers · 1961

The Avengers

★ 7.81961

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).

Butler

Doctor Who · 1963

Doctor Who

★ 7.91963

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

The Guardian

Blackadder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of The Great War.

Angus, a Lord

Blake's 7 · 1978

Blake's 7

★ 7.31978

SeriesDramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.

Nori

Secret Army · 1977

Secret Army

★ 7.81977

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.

Dr. Pascal Keldermans

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · 1981

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

★ 8.01981

SeriesComedySci-Fi & Fantasy

Don't Panic! The story of Arthur Dent, an average Englishman whose life was spared by his friend, who turned out to be an alien, while the planet Earth is destroyed. His friend tells him about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a guide with anything you ever needed, and wanted to know. They travel across the galaxy, meeting friendly, and not so friendly characters in order to find the great question (the answer being 42).

Deep Thought

Inspector Kellogg

The definitive adaptation of all twelve Miss Marple novels, starring Joan Hickson in the title role and featuring one of the all-time TV themes, composed by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. The series was produced by George Gallaccio, written by T. R. Bowen, Julia Jones, Alan Parker, Ken Taylor, and Jill Hyem, and co-stars David Horovitch and Ian Brimble as officers Slack and Lake. Over the course of the series it also features John Castle, Joan Sims, Sylvia Syms, Samantha Bond, Peter Davison, Timothy West, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Eddington, Cheryl Campbell, Maurice Denham, Donald Pleasence, Sophie Ward, Jean Simmons, and Joss Ackland.

Lorrimer

Hancock's Half Hour · 1956

Hancock's Half Hour

★ 7.41956

SeriesComedy

Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.

Shadows is a British Supernatural television anthology series produced by Thames Television for ITV between 1975 and 1978. Extending over three seasons, it featured ghost and horror dramas for children. Guest actors included John Nettleton, Gareth Thomas, Jenny Agutter, Pauline Quirke, Brian Glover, June Brown, Rachel Herbert, Jacqueline Pearce and Gwyneth Strong. The series was also notable for reviving the character of Mr. Stabs. Notable writers for the series included J. B. Priestley, Fay Weldon and PJ Hammond.

Radio Voice (voice)

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library · 1984

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library

★ 7.51984

SeriesCrimeDrama

Amateur detective Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young woman whose body is found in the library at Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Arthur Bantry.

Lorrimer

Peter and Paul · 1981

Peter and Paul

★ 7.21981

SeriesDramaFamily

Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Christ and their own personal conflicts.

Seneca

Six Dates with Barker · 1971

Six Dates with Barker

★ 7.41971

SeriesComedy

Six Dates with Barker is a 1971 ITV series of six one-off, half-hour situation comedies showcasing the talents of Ronnie Barker. Three of the stories were further developed: The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town was made into a serial as part of the 1976 sketch comedy programme The Two Ronnies; The Odd Job Man was adapted as a feature film, titled The Odd Job; and The Removals Person became Barker's final programme Clarence.

Lord Kitchener

Not on Your Nellie · 1974

Not on Your Nellie

★ 6.01974

SeriesComedy

When Jed Pickersgill finds himself too ill to run his Chelsea pub, The Brown Cow, he calls upon his middle-aged daughter Nellie for help. Nellie moves from Bolton to London to help, despite being a teetotal.

Voice on Horror Film (voice)