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George Murcell

  • Name: George Murcell
  • Birthday: 1925-10-30
  • Place of birth: Naples, Campania, Italy
  • Popularity: 0.131
Biography: 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... Read More

Movies:

Title Release date
Cutthroat Island   as  Mordachai Fingers 1995-12-22
Year of the Gun   as  Pierre Bernier 1991-09-10
Pascali's Island   as  Herr Gesing 1988-07-22
Inside the Third Reich   as  Herman Goering 1982-05-09
Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1975-06-11
Penelope Pulls It Off   as  Owen 1975-05-02
Penny Gold   as  Doctor Merrick 1973-06-22
Mafia Junction 1973-03-05
The Horsemen   as  Mizrar 1971-08-16
A Sound from the Sea   as  George 1970-08-17
A Walk with Love and Death   as  The Captain 1969-10-05
The Possessed   as  Liputin 1969-05-02
The Assassination Bureau   as  Zeppelin pilot 1969-03-09
The Year of the Sex Olympics   as  Grels 1968-07-29
A Dandy in Aspic 1968-04-02
The Naked Runner 1967-07-19
You Only Live Twice   as  Russian Diplomat (uncredited) 1967-06-13
Kaleidoscope   as  Johnny 1966-07-01
The Heroes of Telemark   as  Sturmfuhrer 1965-11-12
The Fall of the Roman Empire   as  Victorinus 1964-03-24
In Search of the Castaways   as  Ayerton's Assistant 1962-12-01
The Cherry Orchard   as  Yermolai Alexeyevich Lopahin 1962-04-17
The Pursuers   as  Freddy 1961-12-31
Crossroads to Crime   as  Diamond 1960-11-01
There Was a Crooked Man   as  Receptionist at 'The McKillup Arms' 1960-08-31
The Angry Silence   as  Jones 1960-03-10
Don't Panic Chaps!   as  Meister 1959-01-01
Sea of Sand   as  Cpl. Simms 1958-11-04
Sea Fury   as  Loudon 1958-08-26
Blood of the Vampire   as  First Guard 1958-08-25
Campbell's Kingdom   as  Max, a worker 1957-09-03
Hell Drivers   as  Tub 1957-07-23
The Battle of the River Plate   as  Chief Officer, Newton Beach 1956-10-30
The Merry Christmas   as  Mr. Fezziwig 1955-12-21