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Peter Madden is a Actor British born on 9 august 1904

Peter Madden

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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 9 august 1904
Death 24 february 1976 (at 71 years)

Dudley Frederick Peter Butler Madden, dit Peter Madden est un acteur britannique, né le 9 août 1904 à Ipoh (Malaisie ; alors Malaisie britannique), mort le 24 février 1976 à Bognor Regis (Sussex de l'Ouest).

Biography

Il est né dans une famille de planteurs d'hévéas. Son père Frederick Charles Lynch Butler Madden était né à Dum Dum en Inde et s'était illustré en France pendant la Première Guerre mondiale.

Après cinq téléfilms d'origine théâtrale tournés pour la télévision britannique naissante à la fin des années 1930, Peter Madden débute au cinéma (un petit rôle non crédité) dans le film américain Tom Brown étudiant de Robert Stevenson (1940, avec Jimmy Lydon dans le rôle-titre et Cedric Hardwicke).

Suivent trente-neuf autres films, majoritairement britanniques — plus quelques autres films américains ou coproductions —, dont Exodus d'Otto Preminger (1960, avec Paul Newman et Eva Marie Saint), Bons baisers de Russie de Terence Young (1963, avec Sean Connery et Daniela Bianchi), Le Docteur Jivago de David Lean (1965, avec Omar Sharif et Julie Christie), ou encore La Vie privée de Sherlock Holmes de Billy Wilder (1970, avec Robert Stephens et Colin Blakely).

Son dernier film est la coproduction Le Message de Moustapha Akkad (version anglaise, avec Anthony Quinn et Irène Papas), sortie en 1976, année de sa mort.

Au petit écran, outre quatre autres téléfilms à partir de 1950, Peter Madden contribue surtout à soixante-six séries britanniques, entre 1958 et 1976. Mentionnons Destination Danger (six épisodes, 1964-1965), Sherlock Holmes (sept épisodes, 1965-1968, dont six où il personnifie l'Inspecteur Lestrade), Chapeau melon et bottes de cuir (trois épisodes, 1961-1969) et Le Saint (trois épisodes, 1966-1969).

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Filmography of Peter Madden (35 films)

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The Message, 2h51
Directed by Moustapha Akkad, Andrew Marton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films about Islam
Actors Anthony Quinn, Irène Papas, Michael Ansara, Michael Forest, Garrick Hagon, André Morell
Roles Toothless Man.
Rating80% 4.047094.047094.047094.047094.04709
The film follows Muhammad starting with Islam's beginnings in Mecca in which the first Muslims are persecuted for their beliefs, the exodus to Medina, and ending with the Muslims' triumphant return to Mecca.
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing, 1h40
Directed by Robert Stevenson, Art Stevens, Wolfgang Reitherman, John Lounsbery
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Spy films, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Children's films
Actors Peter Ustinov, Helen Hayes, Clive Revill, Derek Nimmo, Percy Herbert, Hugh Burden
Roles Sanders
Rating58% 2.9499652.9499652.9499652.9499652.949965
Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese spies.
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, 1h39
Directed by Terence Fisher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Frankenstein films, Cyberpunk films
Actors Peter Cushing, David Prowse, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith, John Stratton, Patrick Troughton
Roles Coach Driver
Rating62% 3.148593.148593.148593.148593.14859
Baron Victor Frankenstein (Cushing) is housed at an insane asylum where he has been made a surgeon at the asylum, and has a number of privileges, as he holds secret information on Adolf Klauss, the asylum's corrupt and perverted director (John Stratton). The Baron, under the alias of Dr. Carl Victor, uses his position to continue his experiments in the creation of man.
Henry VIII and His Six Wives, 2h5
Directed by Waris Hussein
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Politique, Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Keith Michell, Charlotte Rampling, Donald Pleasence, Jane Asher, Brian Blessed, Frances Cuka
Roles Fisher
Rating67% 3.3892053.3892053.3892053.3892053.389205
On his deathbed, Henry VIII reflects upon his long reign, and especially the crucial part his six marriages have played. The bulk of the film is depicted in flashback, while the elderly Henry VIII is surrounded by his family and courtiers waiting for him to die.
Nearest and Dearest, 1h26
Directed by John Robins
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Hylda Baker, Jimmy Jewel, Madge Hindle, Norman Mitchell, Joe Gladwin, Pat Ashton
Rating66% 3.311343.311343.311343.311343.31134
On their father's death, Eli and Nellie Pledge inherit a pickle factory in Colne, in the north of England. The warring siblings struggle to keep the decrepit "Pledge's Purer Pickles" afloat, hampered by severe lack of funds, zero business acumen and by having inherited a workforce that is a decade beyond retirement age. While Nellie works hard to keep the business going, Eli prefers to indulge in the delights of beer, cigarettes, gambling and women.The annual Summer holiday is soon upon them and the entire factory is closed down. Nellie takes Eli to a Blackpool boarding house run by landlady Mrs. Rowbottom, whose eyes light upon bachelor Eli. Eli though, only has eyes for the younger Freda. Complications ensue when Eli, Nellie, Mrs. Rowbottom and Freda all try to gain control of the factory, causing ensuing farcical mishaps. Eli's attempts to further his financial ambitions by marrying off Nellie to a colleague in the pickling business are challenged when Vernon Smallpiece is snatched from the altar by bailiffs for non-payment of his debts.
On the Buses, 1h28
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Reg Varney, Doris Hare, Anna Karen, Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis, Michael Robbins
Roles Mr Brooks
Rating60% 3.0020553.0020553.0020553.0020553.002055
Bus driver Stan (Reg Varney) cannot afford the payments on a new washing machine or other expensive items his Mum and sister have bought on hire purchase. His overtime earnings have been cut because the bus company has decided to revoke a long-standing rule and employ women bus drivers. Worried at the thought of no overtime, and therefore less wages, he joins forces with his longtime colleague Jack (Bob Grant) to sabotage the new female employees. Meanwhile, just as his sister Olive (Anna Karen) starts working in the canteen, she discovers that she's expecting a baby. A sub plot explores Olive's journey to hospital while in labour in a motorcycle side car and the domestic disturbance the baby brings. Another sub plot explores Stan and Jack's amorous adventures. Stan flees a jealous husband in his bus and demolishes a telephone kiosk and bus shelter in the process. As a result, he is forced to undertake a driving test on a bus skid pan.
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 2h5
Directed by Billy Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Adventure, Historical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Sherlock Holmes films, Political films, Buddy films, LGBT-related films, Films about royalty, LGBT-related film
Actors Robert Stephens, Geneviève Page, Colin Blakely, Christopher Lee, Clive Revill, Irene Handl
Roles Von Tirpitz
Rating69% 3.4974553.4974553.4974553.4974553.497455
The film is divided into two separate, unequal stories. In the shorter of the two, Holmes is approached by a famous Russian ballerina, Madame Petrova (Tamara Toumanova), who proposes that they conceive a child together, one who she hopes will inherit her physique and his intellect. Holmes manages to extricate himself by claiming that Watson is his lover, much to the doctor's embarrassment.
The Picasso Summer, 1h30
Directed by Robert Sallin, Serge Bourguignon
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Albert Finney, Yvette Mimieux, Georgina Cookson, Theo Marcuse, Tutte Lemkow, Peter Madden
Roles Blind Artist
Rating52% 2.614822.614822.614822.614822.61482
George Smith (Albert Finney) is a middle age San Francisco architect in mid-life crisis and dissatisfied with the extent of his professional career, as his latest project is nothing more than a warehouse. After he and his wife Alice (Yvette Mimieux) attend a large party they go home and reassess their lives. George remembers how he used to admire Pablo Picasso so much when he was in college and suddenly proposes to his wife that they go to Europe and find Picasso. As they travel through numerous places in France and Spain they meet a number of interesting people but George's obsessive quest begins to wear on Alice. They never actually find Picasso, and in a typical Hollywood ending, they walk off into the sunset after reaffirming their love for each other.
Frankenstein Created Woman, 1h26
Directed by Terence Fisher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Frankenstein films, Cyberpunk films
Actors Peter Cushing, Thorley Walters, Duncan Lamont, Peter Madden, Derek Fowlds, Barry Warren
Roles Chief of Police
Rating64% 3.2482853.2482853.2482853.2482853.248285
Years later, Hans Werner (Robert Morris) is working as an assistant to Baron Victor Frankenstein (Peter Cushing), helped by Dr Hertz (Thorley Walters) who is in the process of discovering a way of trapping the soul of a recently deceased person. Frankenstein believes he can transfer that soul into another recently deceased body to restore it to life.
The Violent Enemy, 1h34
Directed by Don Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Tom Bell, Susan Hampshire, Ed Begley, Noel Purcell, Peter Madden
Roles Hewitt
Rating65% 3.273143.273143.273143.273143.27314
IRA bomb expert Sean Rogan escapes from prison, and is reluctantly recruited into a scheme to blow up a British electronics factory back in Ireland.
Doctor Zhivago, 3h17
Directed by David Lean
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Politique, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films
Actors Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay
Roles Political Officer
Rating78% 3.94723.94723.94723.94723.9472
The film takes place mostly against a backdrop of the pre-World War I years, World War I itself, the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the Russian Civil War. A narrative framing device, set in the late 1940s to early 1950s, involves KGB Lieutenant General Yevgraf Andreyevich Zhivago (Alec Guinness) searching for the daughter of his half brother, Doctor Yuri Andreyevich Zhivago (Omar Sharif), and Larissa ("Lara") Antipova (Julie Christie). Yevgraf believes a young woman, Tanya Komarova (Rita Tushingham), may be his niece and tells her the story of her father's life.
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, 1h38
Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Transport films, Rail transport films, Natural horror films, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Vampires in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Max Adrian, Donald Sutherland, Michael Gough, Jennifer Jayne
Roles Caleb (segment 1 "Werewolf")
Rating65% 3.29773.29773.29773.29773.2977
Five men enter a train carriage in London bound for Bradley, and are joined by a sixth, the mysterious Doctor Schreck (Peter Cushing) whose name, he mentions, is German for "terror". During the journey, the doctor opens his pack of Tarot cards (which he calls his "House of Horrors") and proceeds to reveal the destinies of each of the travellers. This provides the framework to tell five horror stories.
Nothing But the Best, 1h39
Directed by Clive Donner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Alan Bates, Harry Andrews, Millicent Martin, Denholm Elliott, Godfrey Quigley, Alison Leggatt
Roles Ex Politician
Rating66% 3.3361553.3361553.3361553.3361553.336155
James, a young man starting with a large West End firm of estate agents and auctioneers, is ambitious to get to the top. In a cheap café he meets Charles, a drunken layabout who has everything James wants: effortless upper-class arrogance and impeccable tailoring. In return for a room to live in and loans for drink and betting, Charles agrees to tutor James in the life skills he needs to succeed. By bluff and sabotage James rises in his firm, catching the eye of the owner and of his only daughter Ann. Disaster threatens when Charles has a big win and decides to end the deal. James hastily strangles him and his landlady agrees to hide the corpse in her cellar in return for continuing sexual comfort. After long courtship, Ann agrees to marry James and her father makes him a partner in the business. Having conveniently sent his lower middle-class parents to Australia, his success will be crowned by a grand society wedding. Ann's father then confesses that he has a totally disreputable son they never see called Charles and developers who have bought the house of James's former landlady find a corpse in the cellar.
Woman of Straw, 2h2
Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Gina Lollobrigida, Sean Connery, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Knox, Noel Howlett, Peter Madden
Roles Yacht Captain
Rating67% 3.3933553.3933553.3933553.3933553.393355
Connery's character Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond (Richardson) by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs (Lollobrigida), to marry him. After his uncle's demise Anthony becomes a murder suspect. Lollobrigida's character is the Woman of Straw of the title.