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John Horsley is a Actor British born on 21 july 1920 at Westcliff-on-Sea (United-kingdom)

John Horsley

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Birth name John Lovell Horsley
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 21 july 1920 at Westcliff-on-Sea (United-kingdom)
Death 12 january 2014 (at 93 years)

John Lovell Horsley (21 July 1920 – 12 January 2014) was an English actor.

He was born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England. The son of a doctor, he made his acting debut at the Theatre Royal in Bournemouth. After appearing in repertory theatres he was called up for military service in the Royal Devon Yeomanry in which he served in Sicily and Italy during the Second World War. He then contracted hepatitis and become a member of an Army drama company that toured military units.

His early acting career saw him playing a succession of doctors and policemen in many films, the former on film in Hell Drivers (1957), the latter on television in Big Breadwinner Hog (1969). He was more prolific in television from the 1960s and played character roles in many series and programmes, though is perhaps best known for his role as Doc Morrissey in the BBC sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–79) in which his catchphrase was "Take two Aspirins". He reprised the role in The Legacy of Reginald Perrin in 1996.

Horsley was also cast in the role of Sir Ralph Shawcross in the BBC sitcom You Rang, M'Lord? (1990–93) and as the Bishop of Tatchester in the BBC adaptation of John Masefield's The Box Of Delights (1984). His final role was in the TV mini-series Rebecca in 1997.

Horsley was married to the actress June Marshall (1923-1988) from 1948 until her death, and had two daughters. He died on 12 January 2014 at Denville Hall, the retirement home for actors.

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Monty Berman
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John Gilling
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Val Guest
(4 films)
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Filmography of John Horsley (53 films)

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Rebecca (miniseries), 2h58
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Charles Dance, Emilia Fox, Diana Rigg, Geraldine James, Jean Anderson, Faye Dunaway
Roles Frith
Rating73% 3.6756053.6756053.6756053.6756053.675605
While vacationing in Monte Carlo in 1927, Maxim de Winter meets the young and somewhat naive British companion of Mrs. Van Hopper, a typical Ugly American whose bout of influenza frees the girl – who, as in the original novel, is never identified by name – to spend time with the wealthy widower. When Mrs. Van Hopper announces plans to return to New York City, Max proposes to the girl and brings her to his Cornwall coast estate known as Manderley. There a large household staff is supervised by Mrs. Danvers, who was devoted to Max's first wife Rebecca, the victim of a sailing accident some ten months before, whose battered body was discovered forty miles up the coast and identified by her distraught husband.
Hercule Poirot's Christmas, 1h40
Directed by Edward Bennett
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Christmas films
Actors David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Vernon Dobtcheff, Eric Carte, Sasha Behar, Olga Lowe
Roles Tressilian
Rating79% 3.992173.992173.992173.992173.99217
Hercule Poirot se prépare à passer tranquillement les fêtes de Noël. Mais cinq jours avant Noël, Simeon Lee, un vieillard impotent, tyrannique et très riche, lui demande de se faire passer pour un vieil ami et de venir s’installer dans son manoir pour les fêtes afin de protéger sa vie qu’il croit en danger. Il a réuni sa famille, trois fils sans affection, deux mystérieuses belles-filles et une nièce exotique, afin de leur annoncer qu’il va modifier son testament et procéder à quelques aménagements dans l’attribution des rentes. Il annonce cette nouvelle sans ménagement à sa famille. Peu après, Simeon est retrouvé mort dans sa chambre fermée à clef de l'intérieur.
The Woman He Loved, 1h40
Directed by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Actors Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Olivia de Havilland, Tom Wilkinson, Lucy Gutteridge, Robert Hardy
Roles Justice Sir John Hawke
Rating61% 3.0984453.0984453.0984453.0984453.098445
28 mai 1972, le duc de Windsor, ex-roi Édouard VII, décède d'un cancer de la gorge un mois avant ses 78 ans dans sa résidence du Bois de Boulogne à Paris. Seule, ayant perdu son mari et son titre de duchesse, sa femme Wallis qui commence à être gagnée par la sénilité à 76 ans, se souvient des 35 années passées avec nostalgie et regret.
The Fourth Protocol, 1h59
Directed by John Mackenzie
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan, Ned Beatty, Joanna Cassidy, Julian Glover, Michael Gough
Roles Sir Anthony Plumb
Rating64% 3.247553.247553.247553.247553.24755
In 1968 the East-West agreement is established to halt nuclear proliferation. One of the clauses, the Fourth Protocol, forbids the non-conventional delivery of a nuclear weapon to a target.
The Doctor and the Devils, 1h33
Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Horror
Actors Timothy Dalton, Jonathan Pryce, Twiggy, Julian Sands, Stephen Rea, Phyllis Logan
Roles Dr Mackendrick
Rating61% 3.054563.054563.054563.054563.05456
Dr. Thomas Rock (Timothy Dalton) is a respected 19th-century anatomist lecturing at a prominent medical school. He is deeply passionate about improving medical knowledge, a pursuit for which he believes "the ends justify the means." Unfortunately, due to the laws of the time very few cadavers are legally available to the medical profession, necessitating the use of graverobbers or "Resurrection men" by the medical establishment to procure additional specimens. Dr. Rock's young assistant Dr. Murray (Julian Sands) is given the task of buying the bodies, for which he is authorized to pay a small fortune, particularly for fresher corpses. When alcoholic miscreants Fallon (Jonathan Pryce) and Broom (Stephen Rea) overhear details of the arrangement, they begin to murder the locals and sell their bodies. Gradually, Dr. Murray becomes more suspicious of the string of fresh bodies turning up at the medical school, but Dr. Rock dismisses his concerns. Meanwhile, Murray has begun to fall for beautiful local prostitute Jennie Bailey (Twiggy), who soon becomes the target of Fallon and Broom's murderous enterprise. When Jennie's friend Alice (Nichola McAuliffe) turns up dead in Dr. Rock's dissection room, Murray realizes what is happening and heroically rescues Jennie from a murderous Fallon. Both killers are soon arrested, but Broom agrees to turn state's evidence against his former partner, and is set free, unrepentant. Fallon is executed by hanging. Dr. Rock, for his part in the killings, is the subject of widespread public outrage, but ultimately not punished or censured by his colleagues. The film ends with Rock pondering his responsibility for the horrors and concluding, "oh my God -- I knew what I was doing.
Deceptions
Deceptions (1985)
, 3h1
Directed by Melville Shavelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Jumeaux ou jumelles
Actors Stefanie Powers, Barry Bostwick, Jeremy Brett, Sam Wanamaker, Fairuza Balk, Fabio Testi
Roles Vicar
Rating72% 3.6343653.6343653.6343653.6343653.634365
Lassée par son quotidien familial, Stephanie échange sa place avec sa sœur jumelle Sabrina, directrice d'une galerie d'art à Londres. Mais ce jeu va s'avérer dangereux…
Where the Bullets Fly, 1h28
Directed by John Gilling
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Spy
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Tom Adams, Dawn Addams, Michael Ripper, Tim Barrett, Joe Don Baker, Sid James
Roles Air Marshal
Rating55% 2.785972.785972.785972.785972.78597
The film begins with a pre-credit sequence in which a group of unnamed terrorists have parked a vehicle containing a guided missile pointed straight at the Palace of Westminster whilst politicians are heard on the film's soundtrack. They are thwarted by a group of older women in a tour group who turn out to be cross-dressing commandos who eliminate the terrorists with sub-machine guns and grenades. They are led by Agent Charles Vine with his second-in-command being Lt. Guy Fawkes who has saved the Parliament of England.
The Comedy Man, 1h32
Directed by Alvin Rakoff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Kenneth More, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, Billie Whitelaw, Norman Rossington, Angela Douglas
Roles Co-pilot
Rating68% 3.434053.434053.434053.434053.43405
Sacked from his job in provincial rep, actor Chick Byrd moves into digs in London with Julian, a fellow actor. Julian's career soars after a successful screen test, but Chick's meets with continued failure. Mobilised into action by the suicide of a friend, Chick auditions for a TV commercial and finally finds fame. Confident of his talents for the first time, but fearing he may have sold out, Chick leaves London to return to rep.
Jigsaw
Jigsaw (1962)
, 1h47
Directed by Val Guest
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jack Warner, Ronald Lewis, Yolande Donlan, Michael Goodliffe, John Le Mesurier, Moira Redmond
Rating71% 3.593333.593333.593333.593333.59333
A woman is murdered near Brighton. Two local detectives lead an investigation, methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove, but also further afield.
The Secret Ways, 1h52
Directed by Richard Widmark, Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Richard Widmark, Charles Régnier, Sonja Ziemann, Walter Rilla, Senta Berger, Howard Vernon
Roles Jon Brainbridge
Rating61% 3.091643.091643.091643.091643.09164
In Vienna, 1956, after Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, American adventurer Michael Reynolds (Richard Widmark) is hired by an international espionage ring to smuggle a noted scholar and resistance leader, Professor Jansci (Walter Rilla), out of Communist-ruled Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution. Reynolds goes to Vienna to see the professor's daughter, Julia (Sonja Ziemann), and he persuades her to accompany him to Budapest. Once there, Reynolds is kidnapped by freedom fighters who take him to the professor's secret headquarters.
Seven Keys
Seven Keys (1961)
, 57minutes
Directed by Pat Jackson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Jeannie Carson, Delphi Lawrence, Jack Carson, John Carson, John Lee, Anthony Nicholls
Roles Police Sergeant
Rating68% 3.4065653.4065653.4065653.4065653.406565
Alan Dobie plays a convict who is bequeathed a set of seven keys by a fellow prisoner. After discovering that the deceased was an embezzler who stole £20,000 that was never recovered; he sets out to find the cash after finishing the last three months of his sentence. However he must first solve the mystery of which locks the keys fit, and run the gauntlet of the police and a number of gangsters who are after him and the money.
The Sinister Man, 1h1
Directed by Clive Donner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Patrick Allen, John Bentley, Edward Atienza, Wilfrid Brambell, Michael Deacon, William Gaunt
Roles Pathologist
Rating58% 2.912942.912942.912942.912942.91294
The body of an Oxford professor is found floating in the river Thames. He had previously been studying an archeological artefact known as the Kytang Wafers, and this is now missing. Scotland Yard investigates.