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Dudley Foster is a Actor British born on 7 august 1924 at Brighouse (United-kingdom)
Dudley Foster (7 August 1924 – 8 January 1973) was an English actor most notable on TV.
Foster was born in Brighouse, West Riding of Yorkshire. He appeared in such series as Danger Man, The Saint, The Avengers - notably in "The Hour That Never Was" (1965), "Something Nasty in The Nursery" (1967) and "Wish You Were Here" (1969 – playing a perfect mannered yet sinister hotel manager in a parody of the TV series The Prisoner),
The Persuaders ! (1971 in the episode "Anyone Can Play", in which he played the spy network paymaster Heather), Steptoe and Son (four episodes; playing the oily 'card shark' in "Full House", the supercilious Labour Party rep in "My Old Man's A Tory", the pained Police Inspector in "Robbery with Violence", and uncredited as the car salesman in "The Colour Problem") and Doctor Who (The Space Pirates), often in villainous roles; in Z-Cars, he played a police detective, c. 1962 Insp. (later Supt.) Dunn. He was also in the BBC serial of Francis Durbridge; 'Bat Out of Hell' playing a formidable Police Inspector. Foster also had earlier made educational films for use in schools playing Gas Engineers etc. He occasionally appeared in films. He was notable for his sharp facial features, his long pointed nose and curiously piercing eyes. His early death was the result of suicide by hanging.
In 1965 he appeared in the film The Little Ones as Superintendent Carter alongside Derek Newark.
He also participated in a 30-minute documentary titled Two in a Tiger. This film follows his training as he learns to fly a De Havilland Tiger Moth.
In 1970 he provided the voice-over for an edition of the BBC documentary series Chronicle: "The Great Iron Ship", about the salvage and return from the Falkland Islands of the Isambard Kingdom Brunel ship SS Great Britain.
Dudley Foster died in London.
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Birth name Frank Dudley Foster
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 7 august 1924 at Brighouse (United-kingdom)
Death 8 january 1973 (at 48 years)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 7 august 1924 at Brighouse (United-kingdom)
Death 8 january 1973 (at 48 years)
Dudley Foster (7 August 1924 – 8 January 1973) was an English actor most notable on TV.
Foster was born in Brighouse, West Riding of Yorkshire. He appeared in such series as Danger Man, The Saint, The Avengers - notably in "The Hour That Never Was" (1965), "Something Nasty in The Nursery" (1967) and "Wish You Were Here" (1969 – playing a perfect mannered yet sinister hotel manager in a parody of the TV series The Prisoner),
The Persuaders ! (1971 in the episode "Anyone Can Play", in which he played the spy network paymaster Heather), Steptoe and Son (four episodes; playing the oily 'card shark' in "Full House", the supercilious Labour Party rep in "My Old Man's A Tory", the pained Police Inspector in "Robbery with Violence", and uncredited as the car salesman in "The Colour Problem") and Doctor Who (The Space Pirates), often in villainous roles; in Z-Cars, he played a police detective, c. 1962 Insp. (later Supt.) Dunn. He was also in the BBC serial of Francis Durbridge; 'Bat Out of Hell' playing a formidable Police Inspector. Foster also had earlier made educational films for use in schools playing Gas Engineers etc. He occasionally appeared in films. He was notable for his sharp facial features, his long pointed nose and curiously piercing eyes. His early death was the result of suicide by hanging.
In 1965 he appeared in the film The Little Ones as Superintendent Carter alongside Derek Newark.
He also participated in a 30-minute documentary titled Two in a Tiger. This film follows his training as he learns to fly a De Havilland Tiger Moth.
In 1970 he provided the voice-over for an edition of the BBC documentary series Chronicle: "The Great Iron Ship", about the salvage and return from the Falkland Islands of the Isambard Kingdom Brunel ship SS Great Britain.
Dudley Foster died in London.
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Mistress Pamela (1974)
, 1h31Directed by Jim O'Connolly
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Ann Michelle, Dudley Foster, Anna Quayle, Anthony Sharp, Derek Fowlds, Fred Emney
Roles Jonathan
Rating63%
In the eighteenth century, Pamela, a servant girl in the household of Lord Devenish, must fight off the advances of her young master - a gentleman determined to have Pamela as his mistress.
Follow Me! (1972)
, 1h35Directed by Carol Reed
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Mia Farrow, Chaim Topol, Michael Jayston, Margaret Rawlings, Annette Crosbie, Dudley Foster
Roles Mr. Mayhew
Rating68%
Set in London, it is the story of a wealthy businessman (Michael Jayston), who suspects that his wife (Farrow) is having an affair. He hires a private detective (Topol) to follow her. She becomes aware that she is being followed, and the detective realises that she has found out. However rather than abandoning the case, the detective begins an elaborate game of cat and mouse with the complicity of the wife.
Dulcima (1971)
, 1h38Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Carol White (actrice anglaise), John Mills, Stuart Wilson, Bernard Lee, Dudley Foster
Roles Symes
Rating64%
Quest for Love (1971)
, 1h27Directed 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 Grimshaw
Rating65%
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.
, 1h40Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Peter Cook, John Cleese, Denholm Elliott, Ronald Fraser, Harold Pinter, Arthur Lowe
Roles Federman
Rating68%
The mysterious Michael Rimmer (Cook) appears at a small and ailing British advertising agency, where the employees assume he is working on a time and motion study. However, he quickly begins to assert a de facto authority over the firm’s mostly ineffectual staff and soon acquires control of the business from the incompetent boss Ferret (Arthur Lowe). Rimmer then succeeds in establishing the newly invigorated firm as the country’s leading polling agency, and begins to make regular TV appearances as a polling expert. He subsequently moves into politics, acting as an adviser to the leader of the Tory opposition, and then becomes an MP himself, for the constituency of Budleigh Moor (a reference to Cook's frequent collaborator, Dudley Moore), along the way acquiring a trophy wife (Vanessa Howard). Relying on a combination of charisma and deception—and murder—he then rapidly works his way up the political ladder to become prime minister (after throwing his predecessor off an oil rig), and finally, by public demand, a near-dictatorial president. Ferret attempts to assassinate Rimmer as he and his wife ride through the capital in an open-topped convertible, but fails and falls to his death.
Foreign Exchange (1970)
Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Robert Horton, Sebastian Cabot, Jill St John, Dudley Foster, Eric Pohlmann, Timothy Bateson
Rating63%
Moon Zero Two (1969)
, 1h40Directed 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 Whitsun
Rating45%
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.
Where's Jack? (1969)
Directed by James Clavell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Adventure, Historical, Crime
Actors Stanley Baker, Tommy Steele, Fiona Lewis, Alan Badel, Dudley Foster, Michael Douglas
Rating64%
A Study in Terror (1965)
, 1h35Directed by James Hill (réalisateur britannique), James Hill
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Sherlock Holmes films, Serial killer films, Erotic thriller films, Buddy films
Actors John Neville, Donald Houston, John Fraser, Barry Jones, Anthony Quayle, Robert Morley
Roles Home Secretary
Rating64%
Although it is based on Conan Doyle's characters, the story is an original one, which has the famous detective on the trail of Jack the Ripper. In the dark alleys of nineteenth century London, the notorious Jack the Ripper committed a series of gruesome murders. The story of A Study in Terror challenges Sherlock Holmes to solve these horrific crimes. This leads Holmes through a trail of aristocracy, blackmail, and family insanity. Unlike Scotland Yard, and the real-life story, Holmes exposes the identity of the Ripper.
The Little Ones (1965)
, 1h6Directed by Jim O'Connolly
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Dudley Foster, Derek Newark, Kim Smith, Derek Francis, Cyril Shaps, John Chandos
Roles Supt. Carter
Two poor boys from London, Ted, an abused child and Jackie, the son of a prostitute run away to Liverpool in an attempt to stowaway on a ship bound to Jamaica. Arriving in Liverpool tired and hungry, they steal a suitcase which they hope to pawn for money to provide food. The owner of the suitcase, a wealthy shipping businessman, alerts the police and the boys are subsequently caught, scolded and sent home. Recognizing their dire life at home, a friendly superintendent tells that the boys that many ships leave here for Jamaica.
Term of Trial (1962)
, 2h10Directed by Peter Glenville
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about education
Actors Laurence Olivier, Simone Signoret, Sarah Miles, Terence Stamp, Hugh Griffith, Roland Culver
Roles Detective Sergeant Keirnan
Rating70%
Graham Weir is an alcoholic schoolteacher whose criminal record for refusing to fight during the Second World War has prevented him from progressing further in his teaching career. Now, years later, he is in a school where teens who don't like to be there and is married to a very embittered wife. While in school, he meets Shirley Taylor, a new girl in the school who starts to have a crush on him. Graham does not realize it, but Shirley's infatuation will lead to serious trouble, including the threat of a false sexual molestation charge.