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Roger Livesey is a Actor British born on 25 june 1906 at Barry, Vale of Glamorgan (United-kingdom)

Roger Livesey

Roger Livesey
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 25 june 1906 at Barry, Vale of Glamorgan (United-kingdom)
Death 4 february 1976 (at 69 years) at Watford (United-kingdom)

Roger Livesey (25 June 1906 – 4 February 1976) was a British stage and film actor. He is most often remembered for the three Powell & Pressburger films in which he starred: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going! and A Matter of Life and Death. Tall and broad with a mop of chestnut hair, Livesey used his highly distinctive husky voice, gentle manner and athletic physique to create many notable roles in his theatre and film work.

Biography

Roger Livesey a eu une importante carrière d'acteur, au théâtre et au cinéma. Il est particulièrement connu pour ses rôles dans les films de Michael Powell et Emeric Pressburger, notamment Colonel Blimp et Une question de vie ou de mort.

Dans Colonel Blimp, il joue aux côtés d'Ursula Jeans (1906-1973) qu'il épouse en 1937 et dont il reste veuf.

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Filmography of Roger Livesey (33 films)

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Actor

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, 2h6
Directed by Terence Young
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Vittorio De Sica, Leo McKern, George Sanders
Roles Drunken Parson
Rating57% 2.854042.854042.854042.854042.85404
In the 18th Century, an orphan, Moll Flanders, grows up to become a servant for the town's mayor, who has two grown sons. Moll is seduced and abandoned by one, then marries the other, a drunken sot who dies, making her a young widow.
Of Human Bondage, 1h40
Directed by Henry Hathaway, Ken Hughes, Bryan Forbes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Kim Novak, Laurence Harvey, Tony Randall, Robert Morley, Siobhán McKenna, Roger Livesey
Roles Thorpe Athelny
Rating64% 3.246513.246513.246513.246513.24651
After two unsuccessful years pursuing an art career in Paris, clubfooted Philip Carey decides to study medicine. He meets and falls in love with Mildred Rogers, a low-class waitress who takes advantage of his feelings for her.
No, My Darling Daughter, 1h37
Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Michael Redgrave, Michael Craig, Roger Livesey, Juliet Mills, Ian Fleming, Peter Barkworth
Roles General Henry Barclay
Rating59% 2.954452.954452.954452.954452.95445
Wealthy businessman and single parent Sir Michael Carr (Michael Redgrave) does not know how to deal with his daughter Tansy (Juliet Mills), at that awkward age between teenager and adult. His close friend and employee ex-General Henry Barclay (Roger Livesey) has the same kind of problem with his son. Thomas Barclay (Michael Craig) left the military and has now tendered his resignation from Carr's automobile company.
The Entertainer, 1h36
Directed by Tony Richardson, Peter Yates
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Alan Bates, Daniel Massey
Roles Billy Rice
Rating70% 3.542883.542883.542883.542883.54288
Jean Rice, a young London art teacher, travels to a seaside resort (not specified but partly filmed in Morecambe) to visit her family. She is emotionally confused, having had a row with her fiancé, who wants her to emigrate with him to Africa. She is also deeply concerned about the Suez Crisis, having seen her soldier brother off to the war. She has attended a peace rally in Trafalgar Square, directed against prime minister Anthony Eden.
The League of Gentlemen, 1h56
Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Bryan Forbes, Richard Attenborough, Kieron Moore
Roles Mycroft
Rating71% 3.5972953.5972953.5972953.5972953.597295
A manhole opens at night in an empty street and out climbs Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Hyde (Jack Hawkins) in a dinner suit. He gets into a Rolls-Royce and drives home. There, he prepares seven envelopes, each containing an American crime paperback called The Golden Fleece, ten £5-notes cut in half (i.e. £50 in total with the other halves) and an unsigned invitation from “Co-operative Removals Limited” to lunch at the Cafe Royal.
The Stowaway, 1h33
Directed by Ralph Habib, Lee Robinson
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Martine Carol, Karlheinz Böhm, Roger Livesey, Serge Reggiani, Arletty, James Condon
Roles Major Owens
Rating58% 2.929362.929362.929362.929362.92936
A group of adventurers compete with one another to find the missing heir Rene Marechal, thought to be near Tahiti. Major Owens, a middle aged Englishman with a shady past, discovers the island on which Marechal lives but is murdered by the criminal Mougins.
It Happened in Broad Daylight, 1h35
Directed by Ladislao Vajda
Origin Suisse
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Heinz Rühmann, Siegfried Lowitz, Michel Simon, Gert Fröbe, Heinrich Gretler, Berta Drews
Roles Professor Manz (voice: English version)
Rating77% 3.892973.892973.892973.892973.89297
The three films follow the same basic plot, where a senior police detective is attached to elucidate the murder of a little girl. As the detective hopes for leads while talking with the mother of the murdered girl, he pledges to find her killer – and so, even after leaving the police force, he embarks upon buying a gasoline shop in the remote area where he hopes to find the criminal, and uses a little girl as bait to attract the killer. His trap is ultimately successful in ensnaring the murderer.
Finger of Guilt
Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Richard Basehart, Mary Murphy, Constance Cummings, Roger Livesey, Faith Brook, Mervyn Johns
Roles Ben Case
Rating61% 3.096713.096713.096713.096713.09671
Reggie Wilson, a film cutter, has lost his Hollywood career due to an affair with his boss's wife. He has moved to England and made good, marrying the daughter of a studio head and working on new film Eclipse. His new life is threatened when he starts to receive demanding letters from a woman who claims to have had a brief affair with him, and who knows intimate details about his life - but whom he cannot remember at all.
The Master of Ballantrae, 1h29
Directed by William Keighley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Swashbuckler, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Political films
Actors Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Yvonne Furneaux, Beatrice Campbell, Felix Aylmer
Roles Col. Francis Burke
Rating63% 3.1951053.1951053.1951053.1951053.195105
At the Durrisdeer estate in Scotland in 1745, Jamie Durie (Errol Flynn), his younger brother Henry (Anthony Steel) and their father Lord Durrisdeer (Felix Aylmer) receive news of the Jacobite rising. Their retainer, MacKellar (Mervyn Johns), recommends that one brother join the uprising while the other remains loyal to King George II, so that whichever side wins, the family's status and estate will be preserved. Both brothers want to go. Jamie insists on tossing a coin for the privilege and wins, despite the opposition of his fiancée, Lady Alison (Beatrice Campbell).
Green Grow the Rushes
Directed by Derek N. Twist
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Roger Livesey, Richard Burton, Honor Blackman, Frederick Leister, Arnold Ridley, Colin Gordon
Roles Capt. Cedric Biddle
Rating59% 2.9542.9542.9542.9542.954
Three British government bureaucrats arrive in Kent to inquire as to why the coastal Anderida marsh is not being cultivated. The reason is that most of the local people know about or are involved in the liquor smuggling scheme operated by Captain Biddle and his accomplice Robert (Richard Burton), who is posing as a fisherman when he is seen by the newspaper editor and his journalist daughter Meg.
That Dangerous Age
Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Myrna Loy, Roger Livesey, Peggy Cummins, Richard Greene, Elizabeth Allan, Jean Cadell
Roles Sir Brian Brooke
Rating63% 3.1873053.1873053.1873053.1873053.187305
A lady on the Isle of Capri, neglected by a husband who works too much, strikes up a romance with another man.
Vice Versa
Vice Versa (1948)
, 1h51
Directed by Peter Ustinov
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Comedy
Actors Roger Livesey, Anthony Newley, Petula Clark, Kay Walsh, James Robertson Justice, David Hutcheson
Roles Paul Bultitude
Rating62% 3.146563.146563.146563.146563.14656
During the British Raj, unscrupulous Marmaduke Paradine steals the Garuda Stone, the magical eye of an Indian idol, which grants one wish to each possessor. He had been warned that the thief of the stone would have bad luck; convinced by the time he returns to England, he gives it to his former brother-in-law, widower Paul Bultitude.