Robert Flemyng
Acting
Born 1912-01-03
Died 1995-05-22
Liverpool, England, UK
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Robert Flemyng OBE, MC (3 January 1912 – 22 May 1995) was a British film and stage actor.
Flemyng was born in Liverpool, the son of a doctor, and was educated at Haileybury. He began his career as a medical student before abandoning medicine to become an actor. Flemyng made his stage debut in the early 1930s, and worked steadily in both London and Broadway. His first film appearance was in 1937, but he didn't appear steadily in films until after he served in World War II. During the war he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with great distinction, reaching the rank of full colonel at the age of 33. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1941, mentioned in despatches, and was appointed OBE in 1944.
He played the idealistic schoolmaster in the 1948 Roy Boulting film, The Guinea Pig, starring Richard Attenborough, and the key role of Detective Sergeant Roberts in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp.
One memorable role was as a necrophiliac in the film The Horrible Dr. Hichcock in 1962. He ably played a sardonic British Secret Intelligence Service chief (his boss being George Sanders) in the 1966 film The Quiller Memorandum. The character actor worked in films and television until his death in 1995. Some of his later films include Kafka (1991) and Shadowlands (1993).
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Acting
58 credits
Play for Today
Thursday Theatre
The Avengers
BBC Play of the Month
The Professionals
The Persuaders!
Danger Man
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Public Eye
Suspicion
The New Avengers
Man of the World
Funny Face
Enemy at the Door
Lady Killers
Half Hour Story
Battle of Britain
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Late Night Theatre
Edward and Mrs Simpson
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
Rebecca
The Medusa Touch
Shadowlands
Young Winston
Fame Is the Spur
The Thirty Nine Steps
The Quiller Memorandum
The Deadly Affair
Family Solicitor
The Man Who Never Was
Oh! What a Lovely War
Kafka
The Blue Lamp
Conspirator
Blind Date
The Four Feathers
The Magic Box
Let's Be Happy
Paris by Night
Travels with My Aunt
The Blood Beast Terror
The Guinea Pig
The Spy with a Cold Nose
Golden Rendezvous
Spider's Web
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Memento Mori
Bond Street
A Touch of Larceny
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
Cast a Dark Shadow
The Holly and the Ivy
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
A Cotswold Death
The Firechasers
The Body Stealers
Wuthering Heights
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