Donald Houston — Actor (10)
Danger Within (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Danger Within
director: Don Chaffey actor: Richard Todd / Bernard Lee
other title: Verrat im Camp 127 / Danger intérieur
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
other title: Fuoco sullo Yangtse / Yangtse-Zwischenfall
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
633 Squadron (1964) [Movie] Skybridge TMDB IMDb WikiData
633 Squadron
other title: Squadriglia 633 / Flyvereskadrille 633
When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. The plant is in a seemingly-impregnable location beneath an overhanging cliff at the end of a long, narrow fjord lined with anti-aircraft guns. The only way to destroy the plant is by collapsing the cliff on top of it.
The Flaw (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Flaw
director: Terence Fisher actor: John Bentley / Donald Houston
A race car driver marries a woman for her money and plans to murder her. An old suitor steps in to help her but the driver takes steps to eliminate the rival. But there's a flaw in the driver's plans.
The Viking Queen (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Viking Queen
director: Don Chaffey actor: Don Murray / Donald Houston
other title: La regina dei Vikinghi / Königin der Wikinger
Set in ancient Britain, at a time when much of Europe was ruled with harsh tyranny by Rome, a tribe of Britons led by Selina, set out to defy the invaders and discard their yoke of bondage. The Roman commander, Justinian, is sent to quell the uprising, punishing the dissenters with brute force but when he becomes emotionally attached to Selina, he is torn between his duty to Rome and his love for the Viking Queen.
The 300 Spartans (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The 300 Spartans
other title: L'eroe di Sparta / Os 300 Espartanos
The 300 Spartans is an account of the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, in which the Greek Spartan King Leonidis, played by Richard Egan, led a remarkably small number of Greek Sparta to victory over an invading Persian army led by evil King Xerxes that was thought to number over 25,000. This spectacular conflict gave the Grecians enough time to organize a force to ultimately repel the Persians, and thus change the course of Western civilization.
The Prince and the Pauper (1962) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Prince and the Pauper
director: Don Chaffey actor: Guy Williams / Laurence Naismith
other title: Il principe e il povero / Der Prinz und der Bettelknabe
In the London of 1537, two boys resembling each other exactly meet accidentally and exchange "roles" for a short while. After many adventures, the prince regains his rightful identity and graciously makes his "twin" a ward of the court.
The Blue Lagoon (1949) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Blue Lagoon
director: Frank Launder actor: Jean Simmons / Donald Houston
other title: Incantesimo dei mari del Sud / Die blaue Lagune
In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly old sailor. Together they survive solely on their resourcefulness and the bounty of their remote paradise.
A Study in Terror (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Study in Terror
director: James Hill actor: John Neville / Donald Houston
other title: Sherlock Holmes: Notti di terrore / Sherlock Holmes' größter Fall
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who are the cast of the gradually unraveled story of the murderer and his motive.