William Sylvestor — Actor (17)
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Ring of Spies (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Ring of Spies
director: Robert Tronson actor: Bernard Lee / William Sylvester …
other title: 003 contro Intelligence Service
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.
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Offbeat (1961) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Offbeat
director: Cliff Owen actor: William Sylvester / Mai Zetterling …
other title: Colpo sensazionale / The Devil Inside …
When Scotland Yard finds themselves up against a brick wall in tracking down a vicious gang of thieves and bank robbers, they call in Layton, a loner from MI5 to work his way into the gang and help bring them down.
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The Stranger Came Home (1954) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Stranger Came Home
director: Terence Fisher actor: Paulette Goddard / William Sylvester …
other title: Meurtres sans empreintes / A Stranger Came Home …
Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return. Two more murders and a frame-up befall the quartet before an inspector closes the case.
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Devils of Darkness (1965) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Devils of Darkness
director: Lance Comfort actor: William Sylvester / Hubert Noël …
other title: I diavoli delle tenebre / Die Gruft der toten Frauen …
A secret vampire cult, which has its headquarters beneath the town cemetery, searches for victims for its human sacrifice rituals.
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Give Us This Day (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Give Us This Day
director: Edward Dmytryk actor: Sam Wanamaker / Lea Padovani …
other title: Cristo tra i muratori / Haus der Sehnsucht …
Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.
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Riding with Death (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Riding with Death
director: Don McDougall / Alan J. Levi actor: Ben Murphy / Richard Dysart …
Agent Sam Casey is in a satellite explosion and the radiation turns him invisible. He gets a watch that keeps him visible, and he uses it to switch from visible to invisible. He is assigned to transport a chemical called Tripolydine, which is purported to be the most efficient fuel; when the cover is blown on that and he uncovers and stops the Tripolydine fraud, he must then stop a terrorist from blowing up race cars.
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The Yellow Balloon (1953) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Yellow Balloon
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Andrew Ray / Kathleen Ryan …
other title: Il tunnel del terrore / Amenaza siniestra …
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.
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Busting (1974) [Movie] TMDB WikiData Skybridge IMDb
Busting
director: Peter Hyams actor: Elliott Gould / Robert Blake …
other title: Mani sporche sulla città / Spur der Gewalt …
Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.
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The Hindenburg (1975) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Hindenburg
director: Robert Wise actor: George C. Scott / Anne Bancroft …
other title: Hindenburg / Die Hindenburg …
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.
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Devil Doll (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Devil Doll
director: Lindsay Shonteff actor: Bryant Haliday / William Sylvester …
other title: Il mostro e le vergini / La Poupée diabolique …
An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress' millions.
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Gorgo (1961) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Gorgo
director: Eugène Lourié actor: Bill Travers / William Sylvester …
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
director: John Newland actor: Kim Darby / Jim Hutton …
other title: Non avere paura del buio / Gate of Darkness …
A young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own.
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Heaven Can Wait (1978) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Heaven Can Wait
director: Warren Beatty / Buck Henry actor: Warren Beatty / Julie Christie …
other title: Il paradiso può attendere / O Céu Pode Esperar …
Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.