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Samuel John Kydd is a Actor British born on 15 february 1917 at Belfast (United-kingdom)

Samuel John Kydd

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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 15 february 1917 at Belfast (United-kingdom)
Death 26 march 1982 (at 65 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Sam Kydd (15 February 1915 – 26 March 1982) was an English actor. His best-known roles were as the smuggler Orlando O'Connor in two major British television series of the 1960s, and as a recurring character in Coronation Street.
An early film was The Captive Heart 1946,where he played a non-speaking p.o.w. with Michael Redgrave.

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Filmography of Samuel John Kydd (129 films)

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Eye of the Needle, 1h52
Directed by Richard Marquand
Origin German
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Romance
Themes Spy films, Radio, Political films
Actors Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Christopher Cazenove, Ian Bannen, Philip Martin Brown, George Belbin
Roles Lock Keeper
Rating70% 3.54523.54523.54523.54523.5452
A man calling himself Henry Faber is actually a German spy nicknamed "the Needle" because of his preferred method of assassination, the stiletto. He is a coldly calculating sociopath, emotionlessly focused on the task at hand, whether the task is to signal a U-boat or to gut a witness to avoid exposure.
The Mirror Crack'd, 1h45
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about films, Films about television
Actors Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Rock Hudson, Edward Fox, Geraldine Chaplin
Roles Film Technician (uncredited)
Rating61% 3.099543.099543.099543.099543.09954
Set in the fictional English village of St. Mary Mead, home of Miss Jane Marple (Angela Lansbury), in 1953, a big Hollywood production company arrives to film a costume movie about Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I with two famous movie stars, Marina Rudd and Lola Brewster (Elizabeth Taylor and Kim Novak, respectively). The two actresses are old rivals who despise each other. Marina, making a much heralded comeback after a prolonged "illness" and retirement (due to what was really a nervous breakdown), and her husband, Jason Rudd (Rock Hudson), who is directing the movie they are making, arrive with their entourage. When she learns that Lola will be in the movie as well, she becomes enraged and vents her anger. Lola and her husband, Marty Fenn (Tony Curtis), who is producing the movie, arrive. Excitement runs high in the village as the locals have been invited to a reception held by the movie company in a manor house, Gossington Hall, to meet the celebrities. Lola and Marina come face to face at the reception and exchange some potent and comical insults, nasty one-liners, as they smile and pose for the cameras. The two square off in a series of clever verbal cat-fights throughout the movie.
Yesterday's Hero, 1h35
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Association football films, Musical films
Actors Ian McShane, Suzanne Somers, Adam Faith, Paul Nicholas, Samuel John Kydd, Glynis Barber
Roles Sam Turner
Rating50% 2.524332.524332.524332.524332.52433
Rod Turner fait son retour en signant deux lors de la finale de la Coupe.
Confessions of a Window Cleaner, 1h30
Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Robin Askwith, Anthony Booth, Linda Hayden, Sheila White, Dandy Nichols, Bill Maynard
Roles 1st Removal Man
Rating47% 2.358222.358222.358222.358222.35822
Like many British sex comedies of the 1970s the narrative involves a male protagonist who gets into compromising situations with a succession of women. The optimistic and inept Timothy Lea is freshly employed by his brother-in-law Sid as a window cleaner. With Sid an impending father to be, he looks to Timmy to fully 'satisfy' his customers, little realising that Timmy's accident prone ways often stretch to his sex life with his clients. Timmy bed hops from unsatisfied housewives to even a lesbian love tryst, all the while with his main eye on successful police woman, Elizabeth Radlett, who will have none of Timmy's sexual advances. He proposes as a result, much to his family's upset, unaware that Timmy's usual run of luck will affect the outcome!
Great Expectations, 2h4
Directed by Joseph Hardy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about children
Actors Michael York, Sarah Miles, James Mason, Margaret Leighton, Robert Morley, Anthony Quayle
Roles Scarred Convict
Rating61% 3.0975053.0975053.0975053.0975053.097505
Un jour qu’il se rend sur la tombe de ses parents, Pip vient en aide à un évadé en volant de la nourriture chez ses tuteurs. Quelque temps plus tard, le garçon est conduit dans une étrange demeure où le temps semble s’être arrêté. Il y rencontre une sinistre vieille dame et sa jeune protégée, Estella, qui le fascine. Ces événements changeront à jamais la destinée de Pip…
Steptoe & Son Ride Again, 1h39
Directed by Peter Sykes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H. Corbett, Diana Dors, Milo O'Shea, Neil McCarthy, Bill Maynard
Roles Claude
Rating65% 3.2970253.2970253.2970253.2970253.297025
The Steptoes have retired their horse - because the horse is lame, after having to pull the cart (and Harold) home from York, after the horse walked into the back of a removal van which then drove off - and plan to buy a new one with Albert's life savings of £80, putting £9 away for "emergencies". Harold sends Albert home and returns several hours later drunk and introduces Hercules the Second, a short sighted racing greyhound. Harold reveals to Albert that he purchased this from local gangster and loan shark Frankie Barrow for the £80 plus a further £200 owing on top. Furthermore, he plans to pay a small fortune to keep it fed on egg and steak.
Up the Chastity Belt, 1h34
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Frankie Howerd, Graham Crowden, Bill Fraser, Norman Beaton, David Prowse, Roy Hudd
Roles Locksmith
Rating51% 2.598192.598192.598192.598192.59819
Howerd played dual roles as King Richard the Lionheart and cowardly peasant Lurkalot (his character in Up Pompeii was the slave Lurcio). The plot served as an excuse to serve up the usual collection of puns and double entendres that characterised most British film comedy in the 1970s, but did feature Eartha Kitt singing "A Knight for My Nights" and Hugh Paddick (of Julian and Sandy fame in the Round the Horne BBC radio series) as a notable Robin Hood, leader of a band of men who were camp homosexual rather than merry.
10 Rillington Place, 1h51
Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Prison films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Films about capital punishment
Actors Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Jimmy Gardner, Isobel Black, André Morell
Roles Furniture Dealer
Rating74% 3.746573.746573.746573.746573.74657
The film begins in 1944 with John Christie murdering his neighbor Muriel Eady: he lures her to his flat in 10 Rillington Place by promising to cure her bronchitis with a "special mixture", then incapacitates her with carbon monoxide gas, strangles her with a piece of rope, and has (implied) sex with her corpse. He buries her in his flat block's communal garden, where a dog uncovers one of his previous victims.
Dad's Army
Dad's Army (1971)
, 1h35
Directed by Norman Cohen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Political films
Actors Arthur Lowe, Clive Dunn, John Le Mesurier, John Laurie, James Beck, Arnold Ridley
Roles Nazi Orderly
Rating68% 3.426813.426813.426813.426813.42681
1940 - Operation Dynamo has just taken place. From the newly conquered French coastline, a Wehrmacht colonel looks out over the English Channel with powerful binoculars. Surveying the white cliffs of Dover, he spies Godfrey emerging from a lavatory. Godfrey joins the rest of his platoon, who are defiantly waving the Union Flag. The colonel fumes contemptuously, "How can the stupid British ever hope to win?!"
Quest for Love, 1h27
Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Romance
Actors Joan Collins, Geraldine Moffat, Tom Bell, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott, Laurence Naismith
Roles Taximan
Rating65% 3.2935253.2935253.2935253.2935253.293525
An explosion at a demonstration of his new invention catapults physicist Colin Trafford into a parallel universe - an identical world, but with subtle differences, where John F. Kennedy is Secretary General of the League of Nations and World War II and the Vietnam War never happened. Here he's a famous author with a beautiful wife with whom he instantly falls in love, but for whom his alternate self never cared. But just as suddenly, another accident propels Trafford back to our world where he is caught in a race against time in a quest to find the woman he loves. Little does she know, however, that her life depends on him finding her.
Too Late the Hero, 2h13
Directed by Robert Aldrich, Oscar Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Henry Fonda, Ken Takakura, Denholm Elliott, Ian Bannen
Roles C/Sgt.
Rating65% 3.297723.297723.297723.297723.29772
In the 1942 Pacific War theater of World War II, Lieutenant Sam Lawson, USN (Robertson), is a Japanese language interpreter who — so far — has avoided combat. His commanding officer (Henry Fonda in a cameo role) unexpectedly cancels his leave and informs Lawson that he is to be assigned to a British infantry commando unit in the New Hebrides Islands for a combat mission.
Moon Zero Two, 1h40
Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films about music and musicians, Sur la Lune, Films set in the future, Musical films, Political films, Dystopian films, Space opera
Actors James Olson, Catherine Schell, Warren Mitchell, Adrienne Corri, Bernard Bresslaw, Dudley Foster
Roles Len the Barman
Rating45% 2.260912.260912.260912.260912.26091
In the year 2021, the moon is in the process of being colonized, and this new frontier is attracting a diverse group of people to settlements such as Moon City, Farside 5 and others.
Till Death Us Do Part, 1h40
Directed by Norman Cohen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Una Stubbs, Anthony Booth, Liam Redmond, Bill Maynard
Roles Fred
Rating61% 3.055973.055973.055973.055973.05597
The film begins in September 1939 shortly before World War II begins. Alf Garnett, a dockyard worker, and his wife Else have been married for only a few weeks, and are already weary of one another. Alf gets called up for military duty but is turned down because he's in a reserved occupation. The film depicts their lives during the London Blitz. Else eventually gets pregnant to Alf and Else's shock, and they have a baby daughter, Rita, in 1942. The war ends in 1945 with a huge street party and Alf, characteristically, gets drunk.