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Michael Aldridge is a Actor British born on 9 september 1920 at Glastonbury (United-kingdom)

Michael Aldridge

Michael Aldridge
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Birth name Michael William ffolliott Aldridge
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 9 september 1920 at Glastonbury (United-kingdom)
Death 10 january 1994 (at 73 years) at Greenwich (United-kingdom)

Michael William ffolliott Aldridge (9 September 1920 – 10 January 1994) was an English actor. He was known for playing Seymour in the television series Last of the Summer Wine from 1986 to 1990 and he had a long career as a character actor on stage and screen dated back to the 1930s.

Usually with

Orson Welles
Orson Welles
(1 films)
George Harrison
George Harrison
(2 films)
Madonna
Madonna
(1 films)
Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths
(1 films)
John Irvin
John Irvin
(2 films)
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Filmography of Michael Aldridge (11 films)

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Actor

Shanghai Surprise
Shanghai Surprise (1986)
, 1h37
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Sean Penn, Madonna, Paul Freeman, Richard Griffiths, Victor Wong, Philip Sayer
Roles Mr. Burns
Rating33% 1.661081.661081.661081.661081.66108
Glendon Wasey (Sean Penn) is a sleazy, down-on-his-luck con man struggling to sell glow-in-the-dark neckties in Shanghai. When he encounters the lovely Gloria Tatlock (Madonna), a missionary nurse who wants to obtain a supply of opium to ease the suffering of her patients, he decides to help her get hold of a stolen supply of the valuable drug. The only problem is that a lot of other people want to secure the stolen opium as well—gangsters, smugglers, thugs and a host of dangerous lowlifes.
Clockwise
Clockwise (1986)
, 1h36
Directed by Christopher Morahan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education
Actors John Cleese, Penelope Wilton, Alison Steadman, Stephen Moore, Patrick Godfrey, Joan Hickson
Roles Prior
Rating65% 3.297813.297813.297813.297813.29781
Brian Stimpson (Cleese), headmaster of Thomas Tompion Comprehensive School, has been elected to chair the annual Headmasters' Conference. Habitually disorganised as a young man, Stimpson is now fastidiously organized and punctual, and his school runs "like clockwork". He is the first headmaster of a comprehensive school to chair a Headmaster's Conference, that honour usually being reserved for heads of the more prestigious private schools.
Murder by the Book
Murder by the Book (1986)
, 45minutes
Directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Peggy Ashcroft, Ian Holm, Richard Wilson, Michael Aldridge
Roles Edmond Cork
Rating69% 3.45373.45373.45373.45373.4537
Agatha Christie décide de tuer son personnage Hercule Poirot dans son prochain roman, mais celui-ci vient la rencontrer pour lui faire part de son mécontentement.
Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary (1985)
, 1h37
Directed by John Irvin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Horror, Romance
Actors Glenda Jackson, Ben Kingsley, Richard Johnson, Michael Gambon, Jeroen Krabbé, Rosemary Leach
Roles Mr Meager
Rating68% 3.441713.441713.441713.441713.44171
Two lonely Londoners - Neaera Duncan, a children's author (Glenda Jackson), and William Snow, a bookstore assistant (Ben Kingsley) - find common ground when visiting the sea turtles at London Zoo; independently of each other, both perceive that the turtles are unnaturally confined, and they hatch a plan with the assistance of zookeeper George Fairbairn (Michael Gambon) to smuggle them out and release them into the sea, which they ultimately succeed in accomplishing. Their release of the turtles represents metaphorically their release of themselves from their own inhibitions.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV miniseries)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV miniseries) (1979)

Directed by John Irvin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate, George Sewell, Bernard Hepton, Ian William Richardson
Roles Percy Alleline
Rating84% 4.2476154.2476154.2476154.2476154.247615
George Smiley (Guinness), deputy head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, is forced into retirement in the wake of "Operation Testify", a failed spy mission to Czechoslovakia. Veteran British agent Jim Prideaux (Bannen) had been sent to meet with a Czech general he's been told has information identifying a deep-cover Soviet spy planted in the highest echelons of British Secret Intelligence Service, known as the Circus because of its headquarters at Cambridge Circus in London.
Follow Me!
Follow Me! (1972)
, 1h35
Directed 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 Sir Philip Crouch
Rating68% 3.4445353.4445353.4445353.4445353.444535
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.
Chimes at Midnight
Chimes at Midnight (1965)
, 1h55
Directed by Orson Welles
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Films about royalty
Actors Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, John Gielgud, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, Marina Vlady
Roles Pistol
Rating75% 3.7950053.7950053.7950053.7950053.795005
The film opens with Sir John Falstaff and Justice Shallow walking through the snow, then to a warm fire inside the Boar's Head Tavern as the two reminisce. After a main credit sequence, the narrator explains that King Henry IV of England has succeeded Richard II, whom he had killed. Richard II's true heir, Edmund Mortimer, is a prisoner in Wales, and Mortimer's cousins Northumberland, Worcester and Northumberland's son Hotspur demand that Henry rescue Mortimer. Henry refuses and Northumberland, Worcester and Hotspur begin to plot his overthrow.
Life for Ruth
Life for Ruth (1962)
, 1h33
Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Janet Munro, Paul Rogers, Megs Jenkins, Michael Bryant
Roles Harvard
Rating70% 3.5236253.5236253.5236253.5236253.523625
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would have saved her life. Doctor Brown is determined to seek justice for what he sees as the needless death of a young girl.