George Murcell
Actor/Actriz
33
Movies
24
TV Shows
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.
As Actor/Actress
Los vengadores
Needle
The Saint
Vogler
The Professionals
Yashinkov
Theatre 625
Delamarche
Dos Tipos Audaces
Zorakin
No Hiding Place
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Sheriff's Guard
The Champions
Nikko
Danger Man
Bruno
Sunday Night Theatre
M. Lafarge
Gideon's Way
Kautsky
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Inspector Vandeleur
007: Sólo se vive dos veces
Russian Diplomat (uncredited)
Jason King
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
Jaggyd
Manhunt
Franco
La Pirata: La Isla de las Cabezas Cortadas
Mordachai Fingers
Supercar
The Informer
Willie Cluff
1990
Tiny
Armchair Theatre
Beno
Peter the Great
Smuggler
Silas Kemble
La caída del Imperio romano
Victorinus
Inside the Third Reich
Herman Goering
Presented in Supercolorisation
Professor Rudolph Popkiss / Black Morgan (voice)
The Heroes of Telemark
Sturmfuhrer
Armchair Cinema
Maître Rabut
The Battle of the River Plate
Chief Officer, Newton Beach
The Year of the Sex Olympics
Grels