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Don Henderson is a Actor and Line Producer born on 10 november 1932 at Leytonstone (United-kingdom)

Don Henderson

Don Henderson
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Birth name Donald Francis Henderson
Birth 10 november 1932 at Leytonstone (United-kingdom)
Death 22 june 1997 (at 64 years) at Warwick (United-kingdom)

Don Henderson (10 November 1931 – 22 June 1997) was an English actor of stage, television and screen. Henderson was known for playing both "tough guy" roles and authority figures, and is remembered for his portrayal of detective George Bulman between 1976 and 1987 in the popular Granada Television police drama series The XYY Man, Strangers, and Bulman, as priest Frank Kane in BBC drama The Paradise Club (1989–90), and as General Tagge in the first Star Wars film (1977). This last role also brought him attention from science fiction fans, and he later appeared in cult science fiction television series Red Dwarf and Doctor Who.

Biography

He lived in his adopted home town of Stratford-upon-Avon for many years, where he was a familiar face to locals. He also had several minor roles at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in the town. Prior to becoming an actor, Henderson was a detective sergeant with the Essex Constabulary.

Best films

No Escape (1994)
(Actor)

Usually with

Jules Bass
Jules Bass
(4 films)
Terry Jones
Terry Jones
(4 films)
Jake Eberts
Jake Eberts
(6 films)
Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Don Henderson (33 films)

Display filmography as list

Actor

The Wind in the Willows, 1h39
Directed by Terry Jones, Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass, Rachel Talalay
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Matt Lucas, Mark Gatiss, Lee Ingleby, Bob Hoskins, Michael Murphy, Imelda Staunton
Rating63% 3.197193.197193.197193.197193.19719
Matt Lucas comme un crapaud merveilleux, Mark Gatiss comme un rat hérissés, Lee Ingleby comme une taupe nerveux, et Bob Hoskins comme un vieux grincheux Badger faire un casting de classe à l'intérieur une autre version du livre classique de Kenneth Grahame.
FairyTale: A True Story, 1h35
Directed by Charles Sturridge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Les fées, Children's films
Actors Peter O'Toole, Harvey Keitel, Florence Hoath, Paul McGann, Elizabeth Inglis, Joseph May
Rating64% 3.247923.247923.247923.247923.24792
Early 20th Century Europe was a time and place rife with conflicting forces, from the battlefields of World War I to the peaceful countryside of rural England. Scientific advances such as electric light and photography appeared magical to some; spiritualism was championed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle while his friend Harry Houdini decried false mediums who prey upon grieving families. J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan charmed theatergoers of all ages. Young Frances Griffiths, whose father is missing in action, arrives by train to stay with her cousin Elsie Wright in rural Yorkshire.
Preaching to the Perverted, 1h40
Directed by Stuart Urban
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, BDSM in films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Guinevere Turner, Tom Bell, Christien Anholt, Ricky Tomlinson, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Sue Johnston
Roles Commander Cope
Rating58% 2.9033352.9033352.9033352.9033352.903335
Henry Harding MP, a British government minister on a moral crusade, hires an inexperienced young computer whizzkid, Peter Emery who works for a Christian computer company called Holy Hardware, to infiltrate the United Kingdom BDSM scene. Harding is set on putting a club called "House of Thwax" run by Mistress Tanya Cheex out of business, and is sure that Peter's secretly videotaped evidence of the club's activities will do the trick. However, the virginal Peter takes a liking to Tanya Cheex and finds himself falling for the Mistress. Amongst the locations used Layer Marney Tower in Essex plays a pivotal role for a party scene.
The Wind in the Willows, 1h27
Directed by Terry Jones, Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass, Rachel Talalay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Children's films
Actors Steve Coogan, Bob Hoskins, Eric Idle, Mark Gatiss, Terry Jones, Matt Lucas
Roles The Sentry
Rating62% 3.144873.144873.144873.144873.14487
Mole's (Steve Coogan) underground home is knocked in when the field above it is bulldozed by the Weasels; the field was owned by Mr. Toad (Terry Jones), who has sold it to finance his latest fad: caravanning. Mole flees to the river and meets the Water Rat (Eric Idle), who is preparing to embark on a picnic. Seeing Mole's distress, Rat decides to take Mole to see Toad. Toad encourages them to travel with him on the open road, in his newly bought canary-coloured cart. Disaster strikes when a pair of joyriders in a motor car knock over the cart. Rat calms Toad's horse instead of Mole. Toad, however, instantly discards the cart and becomes obsessed with motoring. He is a reckless driver, however, and ends up needing more money from the Weasels. Their volatile Chief (Antony Sher) tries to persuade him to sell Toad Hall.
Danielle Steel's Zoya, 2h51
Directed by Richard Colla
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Denise Alexander, Don Henderson, Diana Rigg
Roles Feodor
Rating65% 3.2855953.2855953.2855953.2855953.285595
Zoya, jeune aristocrate Russe, échappe à la chute des Romanov et trouve refuge à Paris avec sa grand-mère. Elles ont tout perdu mais Zoya n'a pas perdu son rêve : devenir ballerine et elle fera tout pour y arriver. C'est aussi à Paris qu'elle va vivre ses premiers émois amoureux quand elle rencontre le séduisant capitaine Clayton Andrews…
The Wind in the Willows, 1h13
Directed by Terry Jones, Arthur Rankin Jr., Jules Bass, Rachel Talalay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Alan Bennett, Bob Hoskins, Michael Gambon, Mark Gatiss, Rik Mayall, Matt Lucas
Rating73% 3.6875453.6875453.6875453.6875453.687545
Tired from spring cleaning, Mole ventures out of his hole for the first time and stumbles across a river and a new-found friend Ratty. The two friends enjoy themselves then call on Mr. Toad, who takes them for a trip on the open road by gypsy caravan until a passing motor car causes the caravan to crash and Toad to develop a mania for driving motor cars. Back at the riverbank Ratty gets a temporary phase of a desire to emigrate but Mole snaps him out of it.
No Escape
No Escape (1994)
, 1h58
Directed by Martin Campbell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Prison films, Films set in the future, Dystopian films
Actors Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Kevin Dillon, Kevin J. O'Connor, Don Henderson
Roles Killian
Rating61% 3.0516753.0516753.0516753.0516753.051675
In the year 2022, the penal system is run entirely by corporations, with prisoners seen as assets. Highly-trained ex-marine John Robbins is imprisoned for life for murdering his commanding officer, who in 2011 ordered him to kill scores of innocent men, women and children in Benghazi (Libya). The event haunts Robbins over a decade later.
White Angel
Directed by Chris Jones
Genres Thriller
Actors Don Henderson, Peter Firth, Mark Stevens
Roles Inspector Taylor
Rating54% 2.718812.718812.718812.718812.71881
The Baby of Mâcon, 2h2
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Horror, Historical
Actors Julia Ormond, Ralph Fiennes, Philip Stone, Don Henderson, Jessica Hynes, Kathryn Hunter
Roles The Father Confessor
Rating69% 3.4500153.4500153.4500153.4500153.450015
A town cursed with barren women and famine is saved by a miracle birth to an old, ugly woman: the Mother. Immediately afterwards, the old woman's Daughter (Ormond) claims to have delivered the baby herself in a virgin birth. She imprisons the Mother and begins to exploit the Baby by selling blessings to the desperate townspeople of Mâcon.
The BFG
The BFG (1989)
, 1h27
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors David Jason, Amanda Root, Angela Thorne, Michael Knowles, Mollie Sugden, Frank Thornton
Roles Bloodbottler / Fleshlumpeater / Sergeant (voice)
Rating66% 3.345433.345433.345433.345433.34543
Sophie is a young orphan living with many other orphan girls, in the orphanage run by the cantankerous Mrs. Clonkers. One night, Sophie sees a cloaked giant blowing something through a trumpet into a bedroom window down the street; whereupon the giant carries her to his homeland of Giant Country. There, he identifies himself as the Big Friendly Giant, who, at night, blows dreams into the bedrooms of children, while the other giants were man-eating, and they preferred children. Because the BFG refuses to eat people or steal food from humans, he subsists on a revolting vegetable known as a 'Snozzcumber'. Sophie and the BFG quickly become friends; but Sophie is soon put in danger by the sudden arrival of the Bloodbottler Giant, who suspects the BFG of harboring Sophie.When Sophie announces she is thirsty, the BFG treats her to a fizzy drink called 'Frobscottle', which causes the drinker to fart : this is known as a Whizzpopper to giants, and causes the drinker to fly.
The BFG
The BFG (1989)
, 1h27
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Actors David Jason, Amanda Root, Ballard Berkeley, Michael Knowles, Don Henderson, Mollie Sugden
Roles Bloodbottler / Fleshlumpeater / Sergeant (voice)
Rating66% 3.345433.345433.345433.345433.34543
Sophie est arraché de son orphelinat tôt un matin par le BFG (Big Friendly Giant), qui elle est témoin engagés dans des activités mystérieuses. Elle est bientôt mis à l'aise, comme elle apprend que le travail de BFG est de collecter, cataloguer et livrer des rêves agréables aux enfants. Elle le rejoint ce soir-là, mais un des géants moyens de les suivre, l'intention de manger les enfants du monde.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, 2h5
Directed by Terry Gilliam, Michele Soavi
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Sur la Lune, Space opera, Sur la Lune, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman
Roles Commander
Rating70% 3.54873.54873.54873.54873.5487
The film begins in an unnamed war-torn European city in the late 18th century (dubbed "The Age of Reason" in an opening caption), where, amid explosions and gunfire from a large Turkish army outside the city gates, a fanciful touring stage production of Baron Munchausen's life and adventures is taking place. Backstage, city official "The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson" reinforces the city's commitment to reason (here meaning uniformity) by ordering the execution of a soldier (Sting in a cameo) who had just accomplished a near-superhuman feat of bravery, claiming that his bravery is demoralizing to other soldiers.