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Peter Copley is a Actor British born on 20 may 1915 at Bushey (United-kingdom)

Peter Copley

Peter Copley
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Birth name Peter Francis Gabain Copley
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 20 may 1915 at Bushey (United-kingdom)
Death 7 october 2008 (at 93 years) at Bristol (United-kingdom)

Peter Copley (20 May 1915 – 7 October 2008) was an English television, film and stage actor.

Biography

Copley was born in Bushey, Hertfordshire, son of the printmakers, John Copley and Ethel Gabain.

After changing his mind about joining the Royal Navy, he studied at the Old Vic School and in 1932 started out as a stage actor. He made his first film appearance in 1934, going on to play a wide variety of characters from the villainous to the meek and mild. In 1946 he appeared on stage in "Cyrano de Bergerac" at the New Theatre in London. Away from acting, Peter Copley was called to the bar in 1963, and was a sharp-witted legal expert and part-time lawyer who successfully handled several court cases in the 1960s.

TV credits include: Thorndyke, Danger Man, The Saint, The Avengers, The Forsyte Saga, The Troubleshooters, The Champions, Department S, Doomwatch, Z-Cars, Fall of Eagles, Survivors, Bless Me, Father (episode "A Legend Comes to Stay"), Father Brown Mysteries (episode "The Curse of the Golden Cross"), Doctor Who (in the serial "Pyramids of Mars"), Sutherland's Law, Tales of the Unexpected, Miss Marple, Lovejoy, The Bill, The Cadfael Chronicles and One Foot in the Grave.

Usually with

Ronald Neame
Ronald Neame
(2 films)
Leo McKern
Leo McKern
(4 films)
Dirk Bogarde
Dirk Bogarde
(2 films)
Albert Lewin
Albert Lewin
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Peter Copley (36 films)

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Actor

Kingdom of Heaven, 2h25
Directed by Ridley Scott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Politique, Films about religion, Transport films, Political films, Children's films, Films about royalty
Actors Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Marton Csokas
Roles Old Pilgram (director's cut)
Rating72% 3.647663.647663.647663.647663.64766
In 1184 France, Balian (Orlando Bloom), a blacksmith, is haunted by his wife's recent suicide. A group of Crusaders reach his village; one of them introduces himself as Balian's father, Baron Godfrey of Ibelin (Liam Neeson). Godfrey asks Balian to return with him to the Holy Land, but Balian declines and the Crusaders leave. The town priest, Balian's half-brother (Michael Sheen), reveals that he ordered Balian's wife beheaded before burial. In a fit of rage, Balian kills his brother and flees the village.
Oliver Twist, 2h10
Directed by Roman Polanski
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about children, L'enfance marginalisée
Actors Ben Kingsley, Jamie Foreman, Barney Clark, Harry Eden, Leanne Rowe, Edward Hardwicke
Roles Dining Hall Master
Rating67% 3.3986953.3986953.3986953.3986953.398695
In the 1800s, young orphan Oliver Twist is forcibly brought to a workhouse in an unidentified town In England on his ninth birthday. He and the other resident children are treated poorly and given very little food. Facing starvation, the boys select Oliver (through a lottery) to ask for more food at the next meal, which he tentatively does. This results in Oliver being chastised, and the workhouse officials, who are wealthy, well-fed, hypocritical men, decide to get rid of him. After nearly being sold as an apprentice to a cruel chimney sweep, Oliver is sent to Mr. Sowerberry, a coffin-maker, whose wife and senior apprentice take an instant dislike to the newcomer. After more poor treatment, Oliver snaps and attacks Noah, the snotty older apprentice, for having insulted his mother. Knowing his life with the Sowerberrys will only get worse, Oliver escapes on foot early the next morning.
Janice Beard 45 WPM, 1h21
Directed by Clare Kilner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Eileen Walsh, Patsy Kensit, Eddie Marsan, Rhys Ifans, Sandra Voe, David O'Hara
Roles Sean's Father
Rating60% 3.0011753.0011753.0011753.0011753.001175
Janice n'est pas comme les autres. Sa naissance propulse son père dans l'au-delà et plonge sa mère dans les affres de l'agoraphobie. A vingt-trois ans, elle décide de partir a Londres faire fortune et d'offrir a sa mère la cure qui la sauvera de sa phobie. La tête pleine de rêves de grandeur, elle passe d'un poste d'inéerimaire a un autre, jusqu'à ce que son amie Violet la fasse entrer comme secrétaire intérimaire chez un constructeur automobile. Bientôt, sa fantaisie et sa franchise gagnent le coeur de ses collègues.
A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia, 1h47
Directed by Christopher Menaul
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Ralph Fiennes, Alexander Siddig, Nicholas Jones, Jim Carter, Paul Freeman, Polly Walker
Roles Maitland
Rating67% 3.390153.390153.390153.390153.39015
The film starts with a quotation from Lawrence's book Seven Pillars of Wisdom which is used to provide the title of the film:
Empire of the Sun, 2h34
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about children, Seafaring films, Prison films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano, Leslie Phillips
Roles British Prisoner
Rating76% 3.8485453.8485453.8485453.8485453.848545
Japan had been at war with China since 1937 before declaring war on the United States and the United Kingdom. Amidst the war, Jamie Graham, a British upper middle class schoolboy fascinated with Japanese planes and pilots, is enjoying a privileged and spoiled life in the Shanghai International Settlement. At a costume party he attends with his parents, he wanders off and encounters a Japanese airplane that had been shot down. Nearby he finds a camp full of Japanese troops in a trench and is taken aback. Jamie's father finds him and forces him to leave, Jamie not realizing the impending danger. After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Japanese begin to occupy the Shanghai International Settlement and in the ensuing chaos to escape the city and catch the next ferry out of Shanghai, Jamie is separated from his parents in the crowds of panicking people. Over the crowds of people Jamie's mother shouts at him to wait for them back at their house and promises that they will come back for him. He spends some time living in his deserted house, occupying his time by waiting and eating remnants of food but eventually he ventures out into the city and finds it bustling with Japanese troops.
Little Lord Fauntleroy, 1h43
Directed by Jack Gold
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Rick Schroder, Alec Guinness, Eric Porter, Colin Blakely, Connie Booth, Patrick Stewart
Roles Reverend Muldaur
Rating73% 3.6959253.6959253.6959253.6959253.695925
Cedric Errol est un jeune Américain pauvre vivant dans le quartier de Brooklyn à New York. À l'âge de 9 ans, il apprend qu'il est le seul héritier d'un riche comté d'Angleterre. Cedric devient alors Lord Fauntleroy, destiné à être, un jour, Comte de Dorincourt.
The Black Panther, 1h42
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Donald Sumpter, Marjorie Yates, Andrew Burt, David Swift, David Swift, Lila Kaye
Rating66% 3.3364353.3364353.3364353.3364353.336435
L'histoire vraie du braqueur et meurtrier Donald Neilson qui, dans le milieu des années 1970, choqua l'Angleterre en kidnappant une jeune fille de 17 ans, Lesley Whittle, issue d'une riche famille et qu'il assassina sauvagement. Surnommé "la panthère noire" en raison de sa cagoule noire, cet ancien militaire, tyrannique avec ses proches, braqua méthodiquement plusieurs bureaux de postes se soldant par les meurtres de ses propriétaires. Ennemi public numéro 1, Neilson fut arrêté en 1975 et condamné à la prison à perpétuité.
Shout at the Devil, 2h4
Directed by John Glen, Peter Hunt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Lee Marvin, Roger Moore, Ian Holm, Barbara Parkins, Reinhard Kolldehoff, George Coulouris
Roles Admiral Howe
Rating60% 3.049953.049953.049953.049953.04995
Colonel Flynn O'Flynn (Lee Marvin), a hard-drinking American, manipulates British aristocrat Sebastian Oldsmith (Roger Moore) into helping poach ivory in Tanganyika, which is part of the German-controlled pre-World War I territory of German East Africa. On hearing news that the American has returned, Herman Fleischer, the local German Commander of the Southern Provinces, relentlessly hunts O'Flynn with his Schutztruppen.
Hennessy
Hennessy (1975)
, 1h43
Directed by Don Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Rod Steiger, Patrick Stewart, Lee Remick, Richard Johnson, Trevor Howard, Peter Egan
Roles Home Secretary
Rating61% 3.09383.09383.09383.09383.0938
After the death of his family during a riot in Belfast, Niall Hennessy comes up with a plan to blow up the British Houses of Parliament.
Gawain and the Green Knight, 1h33
Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Actors Murray Head, Nigel Green, Robert Hardy, Ciaran Madden, Anthony Sharp, David Leland
Roles Pilgrim
Rating54% 2.7128352.7128352.7128352.7128352.712835
The mysterious Green Knight appears before King Arthur's court in the New Year and demands the head of Sir Gawain as the prize in a bizarre game. Given a year's grace, Gawain sets off in search of the Knight for a rematch.
What Became of Jack and Jill?, 1h33
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Mona Washbourne, Paul Nicholas, George Benson, Peter Copley, Peter Jeffrey, George A. Cooper
Roles Dickson
Rating56% 2.8109452.8109452.8109452.8109452.810945
A young man lives with his grandmother. He and his girlfriend plot to kill the old lady.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre (1970)
, 1h50
Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Actors George C. Scott, Susannah York, Ian Bannen, Rachel Kempson, Nyree Dawn Porter, Jack Hawkins
Roles John
Rating63% 3.19893.19893.19893.19893.1989
Jane Eyre is an orphan, sent to the cruel school institution of Lowood. On leaving, she takes a position as governess to a girl named Adele at Thornfield Hall. Fully aware of her low rank and plain countenance, she makes the best of her situation. But Thornfield holds many secrets and despite mysterious occurrences that Jane cannot comprehend, she and Edward Rochester, owner of Thornfield and Adele's guardian, fall in love. Suddenly, when Jane is about to win the happiness she deserves, a dark secret comes to light which needs all her courage, love and maturity.
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, 1h38
Directed by Terence Fisher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Frankenstein films, Cyberpunk films
Actors Peter Cushing, Freddie Jones, Simon Ward, Veronica Carlson, Thorley Walters, Maxine Audley
Roles Principal
Rating66% 3.3462553.3462553.3462553.3462553.346255
Baron Victor Frankenstein is staying at a boarding house while a former fellow-scientist resides in a nearby insane asylum, slowly dying through lack of oxygen in the brain.
Mosquito Squadron, 1h30
Directed by Boris Sagal
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical, Romance
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors David McCallum, David Buck, Suzanne Neve, Charles Gray, Vladek Sheybal, Robert Urquhart
Roles Mr. Scott
Rating56% 2.849232.849232.849232.849232.84923
It is the Second World War and the Royal Air Force attacks German V-1 flying bomb installations during the early summer of 1944. The de Havilland Mosquito fighter-bomber aircraft of Squadron Leader David "Scotty" Scott (David Buck) is shot down during a low-level bombing raid on a V-1 launching site, and Scott and his navigator/bomb-aimer are reportedly killed. His wingman and friend, then-Flight Lieutenant (later insignia Royal Canadian Air Force squadron leader) Quint Munroe (David McCallum) comforts Scott's wife Beth (Suzanne Neve) and a romance soon develops, rekindling one that they had had years earlier.