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Dickie Owen is a Actor born on 26 march 1927
Dickie Owen (26 March 1927 – 7 April 2015) was a British actor. He was known for his roles in Zulu, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb and The Mummy's Shroud.
Owen largely retired from acting and in the 1970s, worked as a radio dispatcher for a cab company. After a long public absence, Owen was interviewed in 2011 about his experiences making Zulu.
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Birth 26 march 1927
Death 7 april 2015 (at 88 years)
Death 7 april 2015 (at 88 years)
Owen largely retired from acting and in the 1970s, worked as a radio dispatcher for a cab company. After a long public absence, Owen was interviewed in 2011 about his experiences making Zulu.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
, 2h24Directed by Ken Hughes, Brian W. Cook
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical
Themes Monde imaginaire, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Aviation films, Musical films, Road movies, Children's films
Actors Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Adrian Hall, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe, Anna Quayle
Roles Major Domo (uncredited)
Rating68%
Set in the 1910s, the story opens with a montage of European Grand Prix races in which a particular car appears to win every race. In the final race, the car swerves to avoid a girl and a dog, loses control, crashes, and catches fire, bringing its racing career to an end. The car ends up in an old garage in rural England, where two children, Jeremy and Jemima Potts, have grown fond of it. They are told by a junkman that he intends to buy the car from the garage owner for scrap. The children (who live with their widowed father Caractacus Potts, an eccentric inventor, and his equally peculiar father) implore their father to buy the car before the junkman does, but he does not have the money. While playing truant, they meet Truly Scrumptious, a beautiful upper class woman with her own motorcar. She brings them home to report their truancy to their father. Truly shows interest in Caractacus' odd inventions, but he is affronted by her insistence that his children should be in school.
The Mummy's Shroud (1967)
, 1h30Directed by John Gilling
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantasy, Horror
Actors André Morell, John Phillips, David Buck, Peter Cushing, Elizabeth Sellars, Michael Ripper
Roles Prem
Rating55%
The Mummy's Shroud is set in 1920 and tells the story of a team of archaeologists who come across the lost tomb of the boy Pharaoh Kah-To-Bey (Toolsie Persaud). The story begins with a flash back sequence to Ancient Egypt and we see the story of how Prem (Dickie Owen), a manservant of Kah-To-Bey, spirited away the boy when his father (Bruno Barnabe) was killed in a palace coup and took him into the desert for protection. Unfortunately, the boy dies and is buried.
Three Hats for Lisa (1965)
, 1h39Directed by Sidney Hayers
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Joe Brown, Sophie Hardy, Una Stubbs, Sid James, Peter Bowles, Jeremy Lloyd
Roles Policeman
Rating53%
Three young Cockneys take a day off work to meet an Italian movie star at Heathrow airport. She travels with them and their taxi driver in search of some typically British hats. The rule of the game is to steal a hat from its wearer. Lisa wants a bobby's helmet, a businessman's bowler, and the bearskin cap off a palace guard. A musical chase ensues around Swinging Sixties London, evading press and police.
, 1h18Directed by Michael Carreras
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Actors Terence Morgan, Ronald Howard, Fred Clark, George Pastell, Jack Gwillim, Michael Ripper
Roles The Mummy (Ra-Antef)
Rating56%
"Egypt in the year 1900". A mummy is discovered by three Egyptologists: Englishmen John Bray (Ronald Howard) and Sir Giles Dalrymple (Jack Gwillim) as well as French Professor Eugene Dubois (unbilled Bernard Rebel, who died three weeks before the film's UK premiere). Assisting in the expedition is Professor Dubois' daughter, and Bray's fiancée, Annette (Jeanne Roland), herself an Egyptology expert. All the artifacts are brought back to London by the project's backer, American showman Alexander King (Fred Clark), who plans to recoup his investment by staging luridly sensational public exhibits of the Egyptian treasures. Soon after arrival, however, the mummy revives and starts to kill various members of the expedition, while it becomes evident that sinister Adam Beauchamp (Beecham) (Terence Morgan), a wealthy arts patron whom members of the expedition meet on the ship returning to England, harbors a crucial revelation of the mummy's past and future.
Zulu (1964)
, 2h18Directed by Cy Endfield
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Nigel Green
Roles Corporal Schiess
Rating76%
In 1879, a communiqué from Lord Chelmsford to the Secretary of State for War in London (voice-over narration by Richard Burton) details the crushing defeat of a British force at the hands of the Zulus at the Battle of Isandlwana. In the aftermath of the battle, the victorious Zulus walk amongst the scattered bodies of dead British soldiers and gather their rifles. At a mass Zulu marriage ceremony witnessed by missionary Otto Witt (Jack Hawkins) and his daughter (Ulla Jacobsson), Zulu King Cetewayo (Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi) is also informed of the great victory.
Hell Is a City (1960)
, 1h38Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Maxine Audley, Billie Whitelaw, Joseph Tomelty
Roles Bragg
Rating69%
Committed but seen-it-all police inspector Martineau rightly guesses that after a violent jailbreak a local criminal will head home to Manchester to pick up the spoils from his last job. Martineau is soon investigating a murder during a street robbery which seems to lead back to the same villain. Concentrating on the case and using his local contacts to try to track the gang down, he is aware he is not keeping his own personal life together as well as he might.
A Touch of Larceny (1960)
, 1h33Directed by Guy Hamilton, Peter Yates
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors James Mason, George Sanders, Vera Miles, Ollie Johnston, Robert Flemyng, Duncan Lamont
Roles 2nd Policeman (uncredited)
Rating66%
A naval war hero but a bit of a scoundrel, Commander Max Easton has a position with the Admiralty but spends most of his time playing squash and pursuing women.
Watch Your Stern (1960)
, 1h30Directed by Gerald Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Eric Barker, Leslie Phillips, Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Hattie Jacques, Joan Sims
Roles Sailor
Rating58%
When the crew of a British warship lose the plans for a top-secret torpedo, they try and hide the fact from an Admiral and an Admiralty scientist.