George Murcell
Acting
Born 1925-10-30
Died 1998-12-03
Naples, Campania, Italy
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Arthur George Murcell (30 October 1925 – 3 December 1998) was a British character actor.
Born in Italy, he made his film debut in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Battle of the River Plate (1956), Murcell went on to develop a career playing snarling villains in both film and television. These could either be stupid, brutish henchmen, as in Hell Drivers and Campbell's Kingdom (both 1957), or sophisticated rogues, such as Needle in "You Have Just Been Murdered", an episode of The Avengers.
He specialised in playing foreign characters, including Germans, Russians and South Americans. A number of these roles were in ITC adventure TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Danger Man, The Baron, The Saint, The Champions (Reply Box No.666 episode, 1967) Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Persuaders! and Jason King. His film roles included Sea of Sand (1958), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), The Heroes of Telemark (1965), Kaleidoscope (1966), The Fixer (1968), A Dandy in Aspic (1968), The Assassination Bureau (1969), A Walk with Love and Death (1969), Penny Gold (1973), Special Branch (1974), Inside the Third Reich (1982, as Hermann Göring), Year of the Gun (1991), and Cutthroat Island (1995).
He enjoyed a long stage career, which involved working with Tyrone Guthrie and Peter Brook, and was active in the Royal Shakespeare Company.In the 1970s, he acquired a Victorian church in North London, which he converted into an Elizabethan-style theatre in collaboration with director Adrian Brown. In 1973, he opened it as "St George's Theatre", intending that it present little-seen classical plays.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he continued to work at St George's Theatre as both an actor and a director, often with his wife, Elvi Hale.
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Filmography
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The Avengers
The Saint
Gideon's Way
The Professionals
Theatre 625
The Adventures of Robin Hood
No Hiding Place
The Persuaders!
Sunday Night Theatre
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Danger Man
The Champions
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Sunday-Night Play
You Only Live Twice
Cutthroat Island
Supercar
Jason King
Manhunt
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
The Fall of the Roman Empire
The Heroes of Telemark
The Informer
Peter the Great
1990
The Battle of the River Plate
Inside the Third Reich
Sea of Sand
Smuggler
Hell Drivers
The Assassination Bureau
Kaleidoscope
The Horsemen
In Search of the Castaways
Armchair Cinema
Presented in Supercolorisation
Pascali's Island
The Prison
Rogues' Gallery
Year of the Gun
Armchair Theatre
A Dandy in Aspic
Blood of the Vampire
Campbell's Kingdom
The Naked Runner
The Angry Silence
A Walk with Love and Death
The Year of the Sex Olympics
The Cherry Orchard
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Don't Panic Chaps
There Was a Crooked Man
Penny Gold
Mafia Junction
Sea Fury
The Ice Princess
The Pursuers
Penelope Pulls It Off
A Sound from the Sea
Crossroads to Crime
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