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Robin Bailey is a Actor British born on 5 october 1919 at Hucknall (United-kingdom)
William Henry Mettam "Robin" Bailey (5 October 1919 – 14 January 1999) was an English actor. He was born in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Although often chosen for upper class and tradition-bound roles such as Mr Justice Graves in Thames Television's Rumpole of the Bailey, Bailey is perhaps most fondly remembered for his portrayal of Uncle Mort in I Didn't Know You Cared, the BBC's adaptation of Peter Tinniswood's stories about an extended Yorkshire family. The television series ran from 1975 to 1979, and is available on DVD. Bailey continued to play Uncle Mort in a series of radio programmes. Bailey also collaborated with Tinniswood on the television and radio series Tales from a Long Room, playing the Brigadier, an eccentric cricket-lover with a fund of extraordinary tales about the game and its players.
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Birth name William Henry Mettam Bailey
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 5 october 1919 at Hucknall (United-kingdom)
Death 14 january 1999 (at 79 years)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 5 october 1919 at Hucknall (United-kingdom)
Death 14 january 1999 (at 79 years)
William Henry Mettam "Robin" Bailey (5 October 1919 – 14 January 1999) was an English actor. He was born in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.
Although often chosen for upper class and tradition-bound roles such as Mr Justice Graves in Thames Television's Rumpole of the Bailey, Bailey is perhaps most fondly remembered for his portrayal of Uncle Mort in I Didn't Know You Cared, the BBC's adaptation of Peter Tinniswood's stories about an extended Yorkshire family. The television series ran from 1975 to 1979, and is available on DVD. Bailey continued to play Uncle Mort in a series of radio programmes. Bailey also collaborated with Tinniswood on the television and radio series Tales from a Long Room, playing the Brigadier, an eccentric cricket-lover with a fund of extraordinary tales about the game and its players.
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, 1hOrigin United-kingdom
Genres Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors David Suchet, Martin Jarvis, Miriam Margolyes, Alan Rothwell, Maurice Denham, John Woodvine
Rating84%
A couple had three sons, and the youngest was a fool. One day, the Tsar declared that whoever made him a ship that could sail through the air would marry his daughter. The older two set out, with everything their parents could give them; then the youngest set out as well, despite their ridicule and being given less fine food. He met a little man and, when the man asked to share, he hesitated only because it was not fit. But when he opened it, the food had become fine.
Jane and the Lost City (1987)
, 1h34Directed by Terry Marcel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Sam J. Jones, Maud Adams, Graham Stark, Robin Bailey, Jasper Carrott, Ian Roberts
Rating43%
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sends Jane (Hughes) and the Colonel (Bailey) on a mission to prevent the diamonds of the fabled Lost City from falling into enemy hands. Journeying to Africa where they are joined by Jungle Jack Buck (Jones), their quest is dogged by Nazi agents Lola Pagola and Heinrich (Adams and Carrott).
Dead on Time (1983)
Directed by Lyndall Hobbs
Genres Comedy
Actors Rowan Atkinson, Peter C. Bull, Jo Kendall, Nigel Hawthorne, Nell Campbell, Hugh Thomas
Roles Intelligent Man
Rating62%
, 1h18Directed by Eric Sykes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Eric Sykes, Robin Bailey, Norman Bird, Glyn Houston, Roy Kinnear, Marc Sinden
Rating57%
A Boy Scout troop led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland. However, the woods are actually teeming with strange characters, some of whom turn out to be disguised police officers and others criminals. The police are searching for £2,000,000 in stolen banknotes and hope that the criminals will lead them to them. The criminals, on the other hand, are aware that the police are looking for them and doing their best to avoid betraying the location of their stash. It later transpires that the money is just a smokescreen for a top-secret document that the gang's leader - actually a KGB officer - is trying to smuggle out of the country. Despite an escalation of security in which the police are eventually joined by the army, navy and air force, it is the scoutmaster's chaotic bungling that leads him to discover the money and flush out the ringleader. At the end it is revealed that the scoutmaster was in fact an undercover police officer and that his bungling was a ruse.
The Four Feathers (1978)
, 1h40Directed by Don Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Beau Bridges, Jane Seymour, Robert Powell, Simon Ward, Harry Andrews, Richard Johnson
Roles Col. Eustace
Rating63%
Lieutenant Harry Faversham (Beau Bridges) is the latest scion of a prominent military family. A deeply sensitive boy, he is much traumatised by the early death of his kind-hearted mother. Though he never wants to be a soldier, he feels obliged to join the army. Though no coward (as he will later show), he has no interest in an army career. Having met and become engaged to Ethne, he decides to resign his commission. The fact that war in the Sudan is coming is irrelevant to this decision. During their engagement ball on the final day of his army career, Faversham receives telegrammes summoning him and three of his brother officers (Durrance, Willoughby and Trench) back to the regiment prior to being sent to the Sudan. As determined as ever to leave the army, Faversham burns the telegrammes so that he can pretend not to have been summoned back to the regiment before his commission expires. Willoughby sees him burning papers and notices that he is embarrassed to have been taken by surprise in doing so. On later realising that Faversham was burning the telegrammes from the army, Willoughby assumes that Faversham has done so because he is afraid of going to the Sudan. Durrance, Willoughby and Trench then send Faversham three white feathers, betokening cowardice, and turn their backs on him. When Faversham tries to explain to Eithne what has happened, she also reaches the same mistaken conclusion and gives him a fourth white feather. Following his regiment's deployment, Faversham realizes he has made a grave mistake and, having toyed with suicide, finally resolves to redeem his honour.
A Journey to London (1975)
Origin United-kingdom
Actors Robin Bailey, Trevor Bannister, Janet Stephanie Francis, Freddie Jones, Bill Maynard, Clive Merrison
Sir Francis Headpiece takes his family to London.
Commuter Husbands (1974)
, 1h25Directed by Derek Ford
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films
Actors Gabrielle Drake, Robin Bailey, Heather Chasen, George Selway
Roles Dennis
Rating51%
The Story Teller (Drake) enters the Penthouse Club in London, which she declares is the "front line" in the battle of the sexes, proving "that man is the most dangerous animal of them all - excepting woman". She introduces six stories about wayward husbands.
See No Evil (1971)
, 1h29Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Mia Farrow, Dorothy Alison, Robin Bailey, Norman Eshley, Paul Nicholas, Michael Elphick
Roles George Rexton
Rating65%
After being blinded in a horse riding accident, Sarah (Mia Farrow) visits her uncle's home. Out on a date with her boyfriend Steve (Norman Eshley), she escapes the fate of her relatives (Dorothy Alison, Robin Bailey, and Diane Grayson), who are murdered at their home by a psychotic killer. Sarah returns from her date and spends the night in the house, unaware that three of her family members' corpses are strewn about the house.
You Only Live Twice (1967)
, 1h57Directed by Lewis Gilbert, Peter Hunt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films about children, Space adventure films, Spy films, Seafaring films, Sports films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Volcanisme, Martial arts films, Political films
Actors Sean Connery, Tetsurō Tanba, Mie Hama, Donald Pleasence, Akiko Wakabayashi, Bernard Lee
Rating67%
An American NASA spacecraft is hijacked from orbit by another, unidentified spacecraft. The U.S. suspect it to be the Soviets, but the British suspect Japanese involvement since the spacecraft landed in the Sea of Japan. To investigate, MI6 operative James Bond—agent 007—is sent to Tokyo after faking his own death in Hong Kong and being buried at sea from HMS Tenby (F65).
Danger Route (1967)
, 1h31Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Richard Johnson, Carol Lynley, Barbara Bouchet, Sylvia Syms, Gordon Jackson, Diana Dors
Roles Parsons
Rating55%
A leading British secret agent/assassin returns home to the Channel Islands from a mission in the Caribbean fearing his nerve has gone, and attempts to resign. He is persuaded by his superiors to undergo a final mission and assassinate a defector but the job turns out to be much more complex than he had been led to believe.
The Whisperers (1967)
, 1h45Directed by Bryan Forbes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Edith Evans, Ronald Fraser, Eric Portman, Nanette Newman, Harry Baird, Gerald Sim
Roles Psychiatrist
Rating71%
Mrs. Ross, an impoverished elderly eccentric living in a ground floor flat in an unnamed town in the North and dependent on welfare, is visited by her criminal son, who hides a package containing a large sum of stolen money in an unused bedroom. Thinking the money is a windfall intended for her, Mrs. Ross makes elaborate plans which she casually confides to a stranger, who pretends to befriend her but actually kidnaps her to obtain the money. Rendered drunk and turned into the elements by her captors, Mrs. Ross contracts pneumonia and barely recovers in hospital. Her sympathetic agent at the welfare bureau finds her and reunites her with her ne'er-do-well husband who deserted her decades ago. Motivated by his own need for stability, he moves back in with her but soon turns to crime, which forces him to flee and desert her again. Having been on the verge of a return to decent living, Mrs. Ross resumes her decayed status as a reclusive derelict of society.
The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966)
, 1h33Directed by Daniel Petrie
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Spy films, Films about dogs
Actors Laurence Harvey, Daliah Lavi, Lionel Jeffries, Eric Sykes, Eric Portman, Denholm Elliott
Roles Man with Aston Martin
Rating56%
The Mouse on the Moon (1963)
, 1h22Directed by Richard Lester
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy
Themes Space adventure films, Monde imaginaire, Sur la Lune, Political films, Space opera, Sur la Lune
Actors Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Cribbins, Ron Moody, Terry-Thomas, David Kossoff, June Ritchie
Roles Member of Whitehall Conference
Rating62%
Financial disaster looms for Grand Fenwick when the current vintage of its only export, wine, starts exploding in would-be consumers' faces. Prime Minister Mountjoy (Ron Moody) decides to ask the United States for a loan, ostensibly to fund its entry in the race to the Moon, but actually to save the duchy (and install modern plumbing so he can have a hot bath). The devious politician knows that the Americans will not believe him, but will consider the half million dollars he is asking for to be cheap propaganda supporting their hollow call for international co-operation in space. He is delighted when they send him double the amount as an outright gift. The Soviets, not wishing to be one-upped by their Cold War rivals, deliver an obsolete rocket. Mountjoy asks resident scientist Professor Kokintz (David Kosoff) to arrange a small explosion during the "launch" of their lunar rocket to make it look like they have actually spent the money as intended.
Another Time, Another Place (1958)
, 1h31Directed by Lewis Allen
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Glynis Johns, Sean Connery, Terence Longdon, Raymond Burr
Rating58%
An American reporter, Sara Scott (Turner) is working in Europe during World War II and begins an affair with a British reporter named Mark Trevor (Connery). Sara is conflicted on whether to marry her rich boss (Sullivan) or the charming young reporter she is having an affair with. Finally, she chooses Mark, only to find that he is married and has a son. The two separate shortly thereafter, then decide to stay together and work out their problems.
Just My Luck (1957)
, 1h26Directed by John Paddy Carstairs
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films
Actors Margaret Rutherford, Norman Wisdom, Leslie Phillips, Jill Dixon, Delphi Lawrence, Joan Sims
Roles Steward
Rating61%
Norman Hackett (Norman Wisdom) works in a jewellers workshop and dreams about meeting the shop window dresser over the road from his workshop.