George Murcell
Arthur George Murcell (30 October 1925 – 3 December 1998) was a British character actor. Born in Italy, he made his film debut in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Battle of the River Plate (1956), Murcell went on to develop a career playing snarling villains in both film and television. These could either be stupid, brutish henchmen, as in Hell Drivers and Campbell's Kingdom (both 1957), or sophisticated rogues, such as Needle in "You Have Just Been Murdered", an episode of The Avengers.
He specialised in playing foreign characters, including Germans, Russians and South Americans. A number of these roles were in ITC adventure TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Danger Man, The Baron, The Saint, The Champions (Reply Box No.666 episode, 1967) Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Persuaders! and Jason King. His film roles included Sea of Sand (1958), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), The Heroes of Telemark (1965), Kaleidoscope (1966), The Fixer (1968), A Dandy in Aspic (1968), The Assassination Bureau (1969), A Walk with Love and Death (1969), Penny Gold (1973), Special Branch (1974), Inside the Third Reich (1982, as Hermann Göring), Year of the Gun (1991), and Cutthroat Island (1995).
He enjoyed a long stage career, which involved working with Tyrone Guthrie and Peter Brook, and was active in the Royal Shakespeare Company.In the 1970s, he acquired a Victorian church in North London, which he converted into an Elizabethan-style theatre in collaboration with director Adrian Brown. In 1973, he opened it as "St George's Theatre", intending that it present little-seen classical plays.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he continued to work at St George's Theatre as both an actor and a director, often with his wife, Elvi Hale.
Fotos
Películas (35)
The Ice Princess
1996
Cutthroat Island
1995 · Mordachai Fingers
Year of the Gun
1991 · Pierre Bernier
Pascali's Island
1988 · Herr Gesing
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975
Penelope Pulls It Off
1975 · Owen
The Prison
1974 · Maître Rabut
Penny Gold
1973 · Doctor Merrick
Mafia Junction
1973
The Horsemen
1971 · Mizrar
A Sound from the Sea
1970 · George
A Walk with Love and Death
1969 · The Captain
The Possessed
1969 · Liputin
The Assassination Bureau
1969 · Zeppelin pilot
The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968 · Grels
A Dandy in Aspic
1968
The Naked Runner
1967
You Only Live Twice
1967 · Russian Diplomat (uncredited)
Kaleidoscope
1966 · Johnny
The Heroes of Telemark
1965 · Sturmfuhrer
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964 · Victorinus
In Search of the Castaways
1962 · Ayerton's Assistant
The Cherry Orchard
1962 · Yermolai Alexeyevich Lopahin
The Pursuers
1961 · Freddy
Crossroads to Crime
1960 · Diamond
There Was a Crooked Man
1960 · Receptionist at 'The McKillup Arms'
The Angry Silence
1960 · Jones
Don't Panic Chaps
1959 · Meister
Sea of Sand
1958 · Cpl. Simms
Sea Fury
1958 · Loudon
Blood of the Vampire
1958 · First Guard
Campbell's Kingdom
1957 · Max, a worker
Hell Drivers
1957 · Tub
The Battle of the River Plate
1956 · Chief Officer, Newton Beach
The Merry Christmas
1955 · Mr. Fezziwig
Series (28)
Presented in Supercolorisation
2022 · Professor Rudolph Popkiss / Black Morgan (voice), Professor Rudolph Popkiss (voice) (credit only)
Peter the Great
1986
Inside the Third Reich
1982 · Herman Goering
Smuggler
1981 · Silas Kemble
The Professionals
1977 · Yashinkov
1990
1977 · Tiny
Armchair Cinema
1974 · Maître Rabut
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971 · Inspector Vandeleur
The Persuaders!
1971 · Zorakin
Jason King
1971
Manhunt
1970 · Franco
The Champions
1968 · Nikko, El Gaudillo
Rogues' Gallery
1968 · Sir Esmond Bellasize
The Informer
1966 · Willie Cluff
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · Second Man
The Troubleshooters
1965 · Al Nillson, Pazoli
Gideon's Way
1965 · Kautsky
Theatre 625
1964 · Delamarche, Wensley Grafton, Grels
The Saint
1962 · Vogler, Abdul Graner
Supercar
1961
The Avengers
1961 · Needle
Sunday-Night Play
1960 · Gannerac
Danger Man
1960 · Bruno
No Hiding Place
1959
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
1956 · Jaggyd
Armchair Theatre
1956 · Beno
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955 · Sheriff's Guard
Sunday Night Theatre
1950 · M. Lafarge