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David Daker is a Actor British born on 1 january 1935 at Bilston (United-kingdom)

David Daker

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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1 january 1935 (89 years) at Bilston (United-kingdom)

David Daker (born 1935) is an English actor.

He is best known for his role as Harry Crawford in the hit series Boon. He also played PC Owen Culshaw in Z-Cars, Jarvis in Porridge and Captain Nathan Spiker in Dick Turpin. He appeared in the Doctor Who serials The Time Warrior and Nightmare of Eden.

Guest roles include: King of the River, Coronation Street, UFO, Dixon of Dock Green, Villains, Hadleigh, Doctor Who, The Carnforth Practice, Hunter's Walk, Thriller, Dial M for Murder, Churchill's People, The Main Chance, Softly, Softly: Taskforce, Warship, Rising Damp, Regan (pilot of The Sweeney), Target, Play for Today, When the Boat Comes In, All Creatures Great and Small, Strangers, Hazell, The Gentle Touch, Only Fools and Horses, Minder, Juliet Bravo, Crown Court, Casualty, Dangerfield, Heartbeat, The Bill, Midsomer Murders, Dalziel and Pascoe, Where the Heart Is, The Last Detective, Powers, Doctors and Holby City.

In film he played young Kevin's father in Time Bandits (1981) and the desk sergeant in I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990).

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Filmography of David Daker (12 films)

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I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle, 1h41
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Neil Morrissey, Amanda Noar, Michael Elphick, Anthony Daniels, George Rossi, Daniel Peacock
Roles Sergeant
Rating54% 2.704872.704872.704872.704872.70487
A motorbike gang kills an occultist with a crossbow during a satanic ritual. An evil spirit inhabits a damaged bike. Noddy is then seen purchasing that very motorcycle for the price of £1100 from a dealer, but he tells Kim he only paid £600. He proceeds to take it home and fix, with his friend, Buzzer, and girlfriend, Kim, the damage caused by the crossbow by replacing the fuel tank. Buzzer steals the petrol cap for "funsies" but then the bike kills him by decapitation.
The Woman in Black, 1h40
Directed by Herbert Wise
Genres Horror, Historical
Actors Adrian Rawlins, Bernard Hepton, David Daker, Pauline Moran, David Ryall, Clare Holman
Roles Josiah Freston
Rating70% 3.5457653.5457653.5457653.5457653.545765
A young solicitor, Arthur Kidd, is sent to a big city on the East Coast of England to attend the funeral of Mrs. Alice Drablow, an elderly reclusive widow. On the train, Kidd meets Sam Toovey, a local land owner who is unsettled upon hearing that Kidd is dealing with the Drablow estate. Arriving at Crythin Gifford, Kidd lodges at a local inn where he finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about Mrs. Drablow's dreary home, Eel Marsh House.
Britannia Hospital, 1h56
Directed by Lindsay Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Malcolm McDowell, Leonard Rossiter, Fulton Mackay, Joan Plowright, John Moffatt, Robin Askwith
Roles Guest Patient
Rating62% 3.101353.101353.101353.101353.10135
A new wing at Britannia Hospital is to be opened, and the Queen Mother – referred to as HRH – is due to arrive. The administrator of the hospital, Potter (Leonard Rossiter), is confronted with demonstrators protesting against an African dictator who is a VIP patient, striking ancillary workers (opposed to the exotic gastronomic demands of the hospital's private patients) and a less-than-cooperative Professor Millar (Graham Crowden), the head of the new wing. Rather than cancel the royal visit, Potter decides to go out and reason with the protestors. He strikes a deal with the protest leader — the private patients of Britannia Hospital are to be ejected and, in return, the protestors allow a number of ambulances into the hospital. However, unbeknown to the protestors, these ambulances actually contain the Queen Mother and her entourage.
Time Bandits, 1h56
Directed by Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, David Warner, Sean Connery, Katherine Helmond, Shelley Duvall, Ralph Richardson, Peter Vaughan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Films based on mythology, Films about religion, Transport films, Time travel films, RMS Titanic in fiction, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Craig Warnock, Sean Connery, John Cleese, Shelley Duvall, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond
Roles Kevin's Father
Rating68% 3.4479853.4479853.4479853.4479853.447985
Eleven-year-old Kevin has a vivid imagination and is fascinated by history, particularly Ancient Greece; his parents ignore his activities, having become more obsessed with buying the latest household gadgets to keep up with their neighbours. One night, as Kevin is sleeping, an armoured knight on a horse bursts out of his wardrobe. Kevin is scared and hides as the knight rides off into a forest setting where once his bedroom wall was; when Kevin looks back out, the room is back to normal and he finds one of his photos on the wall similar to the forest he saw. The next night he prepares a satchel with supplies and a Polaroid camera, but is surprised when six dwarves spill out of the wardrobe. Kevin quickly learns the group has stolen a large, worn map, and are looking for an exit from Kevin's room before they are discovered. They find that Kevin's bedroom wall can be pushed, revealing a long hallway. Kevin is hesitant to join until the visage of a menacing head – the Supreme Being – appears behind them, demanding the return of the map. Kevin and the dwarves fall into an empty void at the end of the hallway.
That Summer!, 1h34
Directed by Harley Cokeliss
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Ray Winstone, Stephanie Cole, Ewan Stewart, David Lloyd Meredith, John Junkin, David Daker
Roles Pub Landlord
Rating64% 3.223713.223713.223713.223713.22371
It is the story of a 21-year-old named Steve Brodie (Ray Winstone) who goes to the Devon seaside resort of Torquay after leaving borstal where he is seen easily winning in a swimming race. He befriends the son of a butcher from London named Jimmy and they start dating two girls from Northern England. Steve works in a pub, Jimmy hires skiffs on the beach and the girls are employed as chambermaids at a hotel. Three loutish Scottish youths have some confrontations with Steve and then frame him for a robbery at a chemist shop. This leads to his arrest just before the start of a 'round the bay' swimming race in which he is due to compete against one of them.
Charlie Muffin
Directed by Jack Gold
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors David Hemmings, Jennie Linden, Sam Wanamaker, Ralph Richardson, Ian William Richardson, Pinkas Braun
Roles Bolton
Rating66% 3.335173.335173.335173.335173.33517
The Cold War espionage thriller follows the moves of British anti-hero spy Charlie Muffin (Hemmings) who has fallen on hard times since the forced retirement of Sir Archibald Willoughby, his previous boss at the U.K. secret service (played by Sir Ralph Richardson). His new boss, Sir Henry Cuthbertson (Ian Richardson), who epitomizes the haughty upper class British imperialist, hardly attempts to conceal his disdain for the under-educated agent who quite obviously doesn't stem from the "right class". Right at the start of the film, we witness how Charlie has evidently been deemed expendable and accordingly gets set up to be caught or killed during a joint mission in East Germany — this despite Muffin essentially having been responsible for the mission's success. Cuthbertson's lap-dog agents Snare and Harrison — who are both totally lacking in experience and as arrogant as their boss — are shocked and embarrassed to see Muffin returning alive and well.
Aces High
Aces High (1976)
, 1h54
Directed by Jack Gold
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Peter Firth, John Gielgud, David Wood
Roles Bennett
Rating64% 3.2416953.2416953.2416953.2416953.241695
In a one-week timeframe, life at the front in a RFC squadron is documented. The real story begins a year before with fighter ace Major John Gresham (Malcolm McDowell) speaking to a class of students at Eton public school in October 1916. One year later, a new recruit arrives at Gresham's base in France, 2nd Lt. Croft (Peter Firth). Gresham had been his house captain at Eton and is also the boyfriend of his older sister. Gresham already relies on alcohol to cope with combat stress and continue flying. Now the strain of being responsible for this young recruit (a potential brother-in-law) is an additional burden. Croft has to learn how to survive not only in the air but on the ground as well as he makes some minor mistakes in squadron etiquette.
Voyage of the Damned, 2h35
Directed by Stuart Rosenberg
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War
Themes Seafaring films, Films about religion, Transport films, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Max von Sydow, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell
Roles First Officer
Rating63% 3.1953353.1953353.1953353.1953353.195335
Based on actual events, this film tells the story of the 1939 voyage of the MS St. Louis, which departed from Hamburg carrying 937 Jews from Germany, ostensibly to Havana, Cuba. The passengers, having seen and suffered rising anti-Semitism in Germany, realised this might be their only chance to escape. The film details the emotional journey of the passengers who gradually become aware that their passage was planned as an exercise in propaganda, and that it had never been intended that they disembark in Cuba. Rather, they were to be set up as Pariahs, to set an example before the world. As a Nazi official states in the film, when the whole world has refused to accept them as refugees, no country can blame Germany for the fate of the Jews.
Stardust
Stardust (1974)
, 1h51
Directed by Michael Apted
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Musical films
Actors David Essex, Adam Faith, Larry Hagman, Richard LeParmentier, Ines Des Longchamps, Rosalind Ayres
Roles Ralph Woods
Rating64% 3.243153.243153.243153.243153.24315
Following on from the events in the late 1950s/early '60s of That'll Be the Day, the characters Jim Maclaine, Jeanette and J.D. have moved into the mid '60s/early '70s and the growing career of aspiring rock star MacLaine. MacLaine has assembled a group of musicians and formed the band the Stray Cats, he seeks out his old friend Mike to become the band’s road manager. Mike acquires a new van, accommodation and a recording session for the group. MacLaine soon becomes a massive star and is plunged into the centre of media attention. He indulges in casual sex and heavy drug use and the film documents the detrimental effects of this success on MacLaine and his relationship with his friends and colleagues. In particular, MacLaine’s long-standing friendship with manager Mike is now soured by money and success.
The Black Windmill, 1h46
Directed by Don Siegel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Michael Caine, John Vernon, Janet Suzman, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Clive Revill
Roles MI5 Man
Rating62% 3.147413.147413.147413.147413.14741
Two schoolboys are playing with a model plane on an abandoned military base in the English countryside. They are approached by two RAF personnel who rebuke them for trespassing, and take them to see their commanding officer. It soon becomes apparent that they are not really in the military and the two boys are kidnapped.
O Lucky Man!, 3h3
Directed by Lindsay Anderson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Musical
Actors Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe, Helen Mirren, Graham Crowden
Roles Policeman at Accident/Man at Stag Party/Munda's Manservant/Policeman at Tenement
Rating75% 3.794453.794453.794453.794453.79445
The film opens with a short fragment outside the plot but clearly related on repeated viewings. Grainy, black-and-white, and silent, a title "Once Upon a Time" leads to Latino labourers picking coffee beans while armed foremen push rudely between them. One worker (McDowell with black hair and moustache) pockets a few beans ("Coffee for the Breakfast Table") but is seen by a foreman. He is next seen before a fat Caucasian magistrate who loses some saliva as he removes his cigar only to say "Guilty." The foreman pulls his machete and lays it across the unfortunate laborer's wrists, bound to a wooden block, revealing that he is to lose his hands for the theft of a few beans. The machete lifts, descends, and we see McDowell draw back in a silent scream. The scene blacks out, the word NOW appears onscreen and expands quickly to fill it.
The Optimists of Nine Elms, 1h50
Directed by Anthony Simmons
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Actors Peter Sellers, Marjorie Yates, David Daker, Hilary Pritchard, Patricia Brake, Bruce Purchase
Roles Bob Ellis
Rating65% 3.2921753.2921753.2921753.2921753.292175
Londres, dans le quartier de Nine Elms. Sam, un acteur vieillissant, et son chien se lient d'amitié avec deux enfants. Ceux-ci achètent un chien, mais cela est mal accepté chez eux vu les difficultés de logement de leur famille. Ils finissent par offrir le chien à Sam, dont le vieux chien vient de mourir.