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Robert Flemyng is a Actor British born on 3 january 1912 at Liverpool (United-kingdom)
Robert Flemyng OBE, MC (3 January 1912 – 22 May 1995) was an English film and stage actor.
Flemyng was married to Carmen Sugars, who died in 1994, and they had one daughter. According to Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography, a biography of Alec Guinness by Piers Paul Read, he "[fell] in love with a younger man in [his] middle age." He could not act upon his repressed feelings because male homosexuality was illegal in the United Kingdom (until 1967) and because he was married. Therefore, "he had a nervous breakdown and then a stroke and had a really terrible time."
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Robert Flemyng
Birth name Benjamin Arthur Flemyng
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 3 january 1912 at Liverpool (United-kingdom)
Death 22 may 1995 (at 83 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Military Cross
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 3 january 1912 at Liverpool (United-kingdom)
Death 22 may 1995 (at 83 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Awards Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Military Cross
Biography
Flemyng was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, the son of a doctor, and was educated at Haileybury. He began his career as a medical student before abandoning medicine to become an actor. Flemyng made his stage debut in the early 1930s, and worked steadily in both London and Broadway. His first film appearance was in 1937, but he didn't appear steadily in films until after he served in the Second World War. During the war he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with great distinction, reaching the rank of full colonel at the age of 33. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1941, was mentioned in despatches and was appointed OBE in 1944.Flemyng was married to Carmen Sugars, who died in 1994, and they had one daughter. According to Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography, a biography of Alec Guinness by Piers Paul Read, he "[fell] in love with a younger man in [his] middle age." He could not act upon his repressed feelings because male homosexuality was illegal in the United Kingdom (until 1967) and because he was married. Therefore, "he had a nervous breakdown and then a stroke and had a really terrible time."
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Shadowlands (1993)
, 2h11Directed by Richard Attenborough
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Edward Hardwicke, Robert Flemyng, James Frain
Roles Claude Bird
Rating72%
The story follows Lewis as he meets an American fan, Joy Gresham, whom he befriends and eventually marries. The story also deals with his struggle with personal pain and grief: Lewis preaches that one should endure suffering with patience, but finds that the simple answers he had preached no longer apply when Joy becomes afflicted with cancer and eventually dies.
Kafka (1991)
, 1h38Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Biography, Comedy
Themes Films about writers, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey, Ian Holm, Jeroen Krabbé, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Roles The Keeper of the Files
Rating67%
Set in the city of Prague in 1919, Kafka tells the tale of an insurance worker who gets involved with an underground group after one of his co-workers is murdered. The underground group, responsible for bombings all over town, attempts to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization in order to confront them.
Paris by Night (1989)
, 1h43Directed by David Hare
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, Iain Glen, Robert Hardy, Jane Asher, Andrew Ray
Roles Jack Sidmouth
Rating59%
Une personnalité politique britannique, de passage à Paris, se retrouve impliquée dans un meurtre.
Spider's Web (1982)
, 1h45Directed by Basil Coleman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Robert Flemyng, Penelope Keith, Thorley Walters, David Yelland, Brian Protheroe, Holly Aird
Roles Sir Rowland Delahaye
Rating72%
The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
, 1h42Directed by Don Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter, Karen Dotrice, John Mills, Miles Anderson
Roles Magistrate
Rating65%
In 1914, German spies are everywhere in London. After a spate of assassinations of important British politicians, a retired British intelligence officer, Colonel Scudder, realises his life and his mysterious black notebook are in danger. He turns to Richard Hannay, a mining engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, who happens to be staying in a flat in the same building. Scudder tells Hannay of a plot by Prussian 'sleeper' agents, who are planning to pre-empt a war against the Triple Entente powers by assassinating a foreign minister of state visiting the UK.
The Four Feathers (1978)
, 1h40Directed by Don Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Beau Bridges, Jane Seymour, Robert Powell, Simon Ward, Harry Andrews, Richard Johnson
Roles The Old Colonel
Rating63%
Lieutenant Harry Faversham (Beau Bridges) is the latest scion of a prominent military family. A deeply sensitive boy, he is much traumatised by the early death of his kind-hearted mother. Though he never wants to be a soldier, he feels obliged to join the army. Though no coward (as he will later show), he has no interest in an army career. Having met and become engaged to Ethne, he decides to resign his commission. The fact that war in the Sudan is coming is irrelevant to this decision. During their engagement ball on the final day of his army career, Faversham receives telegrammes summoning him and three of his brother officers (Durrance, Willoughby and Trench) back to the regiment prior to being sent to the Sudan. As determined as ever to leave the army, Faversham burns the telegrammes so that he can pretend not to have been summoned back to the regiment before his commission expires. Willoughby sees him burning papers and notices that he is embarrassed to have been taken by surprise in doing so. On later realising that Faversham was burning the telegrammes from the army, Willoughby assumes that Faversham has done so because he is afraid of going to the Sudan. Durrance, Willoughby and Trench then send Faversham three white feathers, betokening cowardice, and turn their backs on him. When Faversham tries to explain to Eithne what has happened, she also reaches the same mistaken conclusion and gives him a fourth white feather. Following his regiment's deployment, Faversham realizes he has made a grave mistake and, having toyed with suicide, finally resolves to redeem his honour.
The Medusa Touch (1978)
, 1h45Directed by Jack Gold
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about writers
Actors Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick, Harry Andrews, Marie-Christine Barrault, Alan Badel
Roles Judge McKinley
Rating68%
Monsieur Brunel, a French detective on an exchange scheme in London, is assigned to investigate the murder of novelist John Morlar. As they examine the crime scene, Brunel discovers the victim is still alive in spite of his severe injuries and has him rushed to hospital.
Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978)
Directed by Waris Hussein
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Peggy Ashcroft, Maurice Denham, Edward Fox, Cynthia Harris, Marius Goring, Nigel Hawthorne
Roles Sir Donald Somervell
Rating75%
Golden Rendezvous (1977)
, 1h49Directed by Freddie Francis
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Films about hijackings
Actors Richard Harris, Ann Turkel, Gordon Jackson, John Vernon, David Janssen, Burgess Meredith
Roles Capt. Bullen
Rating55%
The Caribbean Star, a combination cargo ship and floating casino is hijacked by terrorists led by Luis Carreras (John Vernon), who installs an atomic bomb, holding both the passengers and the bomb hostage, hoping to exchange them for the gold bullion on an U.S. Treasury ship. However, First Officer John Carter (Richard Harris), Susan Beresford (Ann Turkel), and Dr. Marston (Gordon Jackson) join forces to foil the plan. David Janssen and Burgess Meredith also appear in supporting roles.
Young Winston (1972)
, 2h37Directed by Richard Attenborough, Brian W. Cook
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Jack Hawkins, Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Ian Holm
Roles Dr. Buzzard
Rating66%
Le scenario est largement inspiré du livre de Winston Churchill, My Early Life (Mes Aventures de Jeunesse) film raconte la jeunesse du futur Premier Ministre britannique .
Travels with My Aunt (1972)
, 1h49Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Louis Gossett Jr., Robert Stephens, Raymond Gérôme, Cindy Williams
Roles Crowder
Rating62%
While attending the cremation of his mother's remains, London bank manager Henry Pulling (Alec McCowen) meets aging eccentric Augusta Bertram (Maggie Smith), a flaming redhead who claims to be his aunt and announces that the woman who raised him was not his biological mother. She invites him back to her apartment, where her lover, an African fortune teller named Zachary Wordsworth (Louis Gossett Jr.), is waiting for her. Shortly after she receives a package allegedly containing the severed finger of her true love, Ercole Visconti (Robert Stephens), with a note promising the two will be reunited upon payment of $100,000 ($433,000 in 2013 dollars).
The Darwin Adventure (1972)
, 1h31Directed by Jack Couffer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Nicholas Clay, Ian William Richardson, Robert Flemyng, Aubrey Woods, Denise Gyngell, John Baskcomb
Roles Prof. Henslow
Rating70%
The Firechasers (1971)
Directed by Sidney Hayers
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Chad Everett, Anjanette Comer, Keith Barron, Rupert Davies, James Hayter, Robert Flemyng
Roles Carlton
Rating57%
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
, 2h24Directed by Richard Attenborough
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Political films
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Phyllis Calvert, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Colin Farrell, John Clements, John Gielgud
Roles Staff Officer in Gassed Trench
Rating69%
Oh! What A Lovely War summarises and comments on the events of World War I using popular songs of the time, many of which were parodies of older popular songs, and using allegorical settings such as Brighton's West Pier to criticise the manner in which the eventual victory was won.
Battle of Britain (1969)
, 2h31Directed by Guy Hamilton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Harry Andrews, Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard, Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Michael Caine
Roles Wing Cmdr. Willoughby
Rating68%
In the Battle of France in June 1940, RAF pilots evacuate a small airfield in advance of the German Blitzkrieg. The pilots, along with British and French military, leave just as German aircraft arrive and execute a heavy strafing attack. RAF Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding (Laurence Olivier), realising that an imminent invasion of Great Britain will require every available aircraft and airman to counter it, stops additional aircraft being deployed to France so that they are available to defend Britain. In the next dramatic scene, French civilians watch in awe as a convoy of German troops march into France and take control.