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Robert Urquhart is a Actor British born on 16 october 1921 at Ullapool (United-kingdom)
Robert Urquhart (16 October 1922 – 21 March 1995) was a Scottish character actor who mainly worked in British television during his career.
He was born in Ullapool, Scotland and educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh.
Having initially entered the Merchant Navy, he won an ex-Serviceman's scholarship to train at RADA. Urquhart made his stage debut in 1947, while his first film role was in You're Only Young Twice (1952).
He appeared in many television shows of the detective/special-agent genre, such as Department S, Callan, The Professionals, Man in a Suitcase, The Avengers, and opposite Patrick McGoohan in the episodes of Danger Man entitled "English Lady Takes Lodgers" and "It's Up To The Lady" (1965) and as the title character in "The Man with the Foot" (1966). He also played the lead role in Jango, a short lived 1961 production by Associated Rediffusion. Urquhart also starred as Wing Commander MacPhearson in the 1970s series Pathfinders.
His wife was Jean Urquhart.
He died in Edinburgh on 21 March 1995.
Au cinéma, il collabore à trente-trois films (britanniques surtout, plus quelques films américains ou co-productions), entre 1952 et 1987 (voir la filmographie partielle ci-dessous).
À la télévision, Robert Urquhart participe à dix téléfilms et à soixante-huit séries, de 1950 à 1994.
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 16 october 1921 at Ullapool (United-kingdom)
Death 21 march 1995 (at 73 years) at Edinburgh (United-kingdom)
Birth 16 october 1921 at Ullapool (United-kingdom)
Death 21 march 1995 (at 73 years) at Edinburgh (United-kingdom)
He was born in Ullapool, Scotland and educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh.
Having initially entered the Merchant Navy, he won an ex-Serviceman's scholarship to train at RADA. Urquhart made his stage debut in 1947, while his first film role was in You're Only Young Twice (1952).
He appeared in many television shows of the detective/special-agent genre, such as Department S, Callan, The Professionals, Man in a Suitcase, The Avengers, and opposite Patrick McGoohan in the episodes of Danger Man entitled "English Lady Takes Lodgers" and "It's Up To The Lady" (1965) and as the title character in "The Man with the Foot" (1966). He also played the lead role in Jango, a short lived 1961 production by Associated Rediffusion. Urquhart also starred as Wing Commander MacPhearson in the 1970s series Pathfinders.
His wife was Jean Urquhart.
He died in Edinburgh on 21 March 1995.
Biography
Robert Urquhart débute au théâtre en 1945 et joue notamment à Glasgow, dont plusieurs fois au sein de la Citizens Theatre Company. Il se produit également à Londres et à Broadway (New York) — une seule fois, en 1966, dans une comédie musicale —, et interprète en particulier William Shakespeare (voir la rubrique "Théâtre" qui suit).Au cinéma, il collabore à trente-trois films (britanniques surtout, plus quelques films américains ou co-productions), entre 1952 et 1987 (voir la filmographie partielle ci-dessous).
À la télévision, Robert Urquhart participe à dix téléfilms et à soixante-huit séries, de 1950 à 1994.
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Testimony (1988)
, 2h31Directed by Tony Palmer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Ben Kingsley, Terence Rigby, Ronald Pickup, John Shrapnel, Vernon Dobtcheff, Mark Thrippleton
Roles Journalist
Rating69%
The Kitchen Toto (1988)
, 1h36Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Bob Peck, Phyllis Logan, Robert Urquhart, Edward Judd
Roles D.C. McKinnon
Rating61%
In Kenya 1950, a British policeman takes a murdered black priest's son to live with him at his home as a houseboy.
Playing Away (1987)
Directed by Horace Ové
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Cricket films
Actors Ross Kemp, Robert Urquhart, Norman Beaton, Nicholas Farrell, Brian Bovell, Gary Beadle
Roles Godfrey
Rating59%
Restless Natives (1985)
, 1h30Directed by Michael Hoffman
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Ned Beatty, Robert Urquhart, Bernard Hill, Mel Smith, Nanette Newman, Bryan Forbes
Roles Baird
Rating67%
, 2h15Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Actors Carroll Baker, Paul Brooke, Warren Clarke, Michael Elphick, José Ferrer, Lucy Gutteridge
Roles Albrecht Hoffman
Rating64%
Helmut and Karl Hoffman are two brothers who grow up in the Great Depression of the Weimar Republic, witness the coming to power of the NSDAP (Nazi Party) and the establishment of the Third Reich. Karl, an unemployed mechanic, is enthusiastic about the Nazis and joins the Sturmabteilung (SA-"Storm Battalion"), the Nazi Party militia, after hearing its commander Ernst Röhm speak at a Nazi Party rally. Helmut is reluctant and thinks the Nazis are simply another political party.
P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang (1982)
Directed by Michael Apted
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Abigail Cruttenden, Alison Steadman, Frances Ruffelle, Robert Urquhart, Peter Dean, Richenda Carey
Roles Headmaster
Rating70%
Alan Duckworth (known as 'Quack Quack' to his friends) is a socially awkward fourteen-year-old who is obsessed with cricket and Ann Lawton, a girl in his class. Alan daydreams throughout his day showing up late for school and making little academic progress. He becomes friends with the groundsman Tommy (Garry Cooper) who he sees as some sort of 'war hero'. Alan often follows Tommy around telling him how Tommy helped to win the war while making predictions about what the world will be like now the war is won. Among other things, Alan predicts there will be no more wars, everyone will speak Esperanto and everyone, regardless of race or creed, will have a Teasmade.
The Dollar Bottom (1981)
, 33minutesDirected by Roger Christian
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Robert Urquhart, Rikki Fulton
Roles Headmaster
Rating65%
Schoolboys at a public school set up an insurance scheme against being caned by the teachers. The scheme proves so successful that they float the company on the Stock Market.
The Dogs of War (1980)
, 1h50Directed by John Irvin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Monde imaginaire
Actors Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely, Hugh Millais, Paul Freeman, Jean-François Stévenin
Roles Capt. Lockhart
Rating62%
As the film opens, mercenaries Jamie Shannon, Drew, Derek, Michel, Terry and Richard are making a hasty exit from a war-torn Central American country by forcing their way onto a government civilian DC-3 airplane. When a Central American officer demands Richard's body to be removed to make room for others, one of the mercenaries shows he is still able to safely grasp the spoon of a hand grenade and Drew insists his friend "goes home". After Shannon returns home, he gets an offer from a British businessman named Endean who is interested in "certain resources" of a small African nation named Zangaro. Endean pays Shannon $15,000 to go on a reconnaissance mission in Zangaro which is run by a paranoid and brutal dictator named General Kimba.
A Tale of Two Cities (1980)
, 2h42Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Animation, Romance
Themes Political films, French Revolution films
Actors Chris Sarandon, Peter Cushing, Alice Krige, Billie Whitelaw, Nigel Hawthorne, Flora Robson
Roles Attorney General
Rating65%
Dickens' London-lawyer hero (Chris Sarandon) makes the ultimate sacrifice for the woman he loves in Paris during the Reign of Terror.
Gator (1976)
, 1h55Directed by James Best, Burt Reynolds, Hal Needham
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Jack Weston, Lauren Hutton, Jerry Reed (Hubbard), Burt Reynolds, Alice Ghostley, Dub Taylor
Roles 3rd Agent
Rating57%
Gator McKlusky (Burt Reynolds) had been just released from prison following the events of White Lightning and is living in the Okefenokee Swamp with his father and daughter. Federal agents know that he is still making moonshine with his father (John Steadman) and Suzie (Lori Futch) and use this information to coerce him into assisting them to catch a corrupt politician.
Just Another Saturday (1975)
, 1h15Directed by John Mackenzie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Billy Connolly, Eileen McCallum, Bill Henderson, Phil McCall, Alex Norton, Mary Riggans
Rating5%
John looks forward with nervous excitement to the annual Orange order march in Glasgow, in which he will lead his local Orange Lodge band as mace-swinger. However, as the day progresses he begins to become disillusioned with the day and his colleagues, as he witnesses their growing drunkenness and unwarranted violence against Catholic homes on the march's route. Events of the day lead him to question his involvement with the band, which also threatens his own safety.
Brotherly Love (1970)
, 1h52Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality
Actors Peter O'Toole, Susannah York, Michael Craig, Harry Andrews, Cyril Cusack, Judy Cornwell
Roles Auctioneer
Rating54%
A tragicomedy set in a fading Scottish aristocratic family, in which the drunken Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, Bt (Peter O'Toole) has an incestuous relationship with his equally eccentric sister Hilary Dow (Susannah York).
The Looking Glass War (1970)
, 1h48Directed by Frank Pierson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Christopher Jones, Pia Degermark, Ralph Richardson, Paul Rogers, Anthony Hopkins, Susan George
Roles Johnson
Rating57%
Polish defector Leiser (Christopher Jones) is offered by MI6 a chance at UK citizenship if he agrees to undertake a mission into East Germany. (This to replace an already murdered MI6 agent.) The mission, (To gather photographic intelligence on a covert East German rocket system in violation of international agreements.) begins to go wrong from the start when, having arrived in East Germany, he's forced to murder a lorry driver for rejecting his homosexual advances. Leiser's objective is further undermined when he falls in love with an East German woman looking for a way out of the country.
Mosquito Squadron (1969)
, 1h30Directed 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 Major Kemble (uncredited)
Rating56%
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.
55 Days at Peking (1963)
, 2h34Directed by Nicholas Ray, Andrew Marton, Guy Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Actors Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, Burt Kwouk, John Ireland
Roles Capt. Hanley
Rating67%
55 Days in Peking is a dramatization of the siege of the foreign legations' compounds in Peking (now known as Beijing) during the Boxer Rebellion which took place from 1898-1900 in China. It is based on the book by Noel Gerson.