Richard Vernon — Actor (20)

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A Month in the Country (1987) IMDb TMDB
A Month in the Country
director: Pat O'Connor actor: Colin Firth / Kenneth Branagh …
other title: Un mese in campagna / Un mes en el campo
A destitute WWI veteran is hired to help carry out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural Yorkshire church. While living in the quiet village, he forms a close friendship with an archaeologist and begins to come to terms with his trauma.

TV

The Man in Room 17 (1965) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Man in Room 17
director: Robin Chapman actor: Richard Vernon / Denholm Elliott
The Man in Room 17 is a British television series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s, produced by the Northern ITV franchise, Granada Television. Key to the series' success was the involvement of writer/producer Robin Chapman.

The show was set in Room 17 of the Department of Social Research, where former wartime agent-turned-criminologist Edwin Oldenshaw solved difficult police cases through theory and discussions with his assistants.

The novelty of the series was that Oldenshaw and his colleagues never needed to leave their office in order to resolve cases, preferring to spend their time playing the Japanese board game of Go. They simply provided their prognosis and left the police to do the cleaning up. Different directors were often appointed to film the Room 17 and outside-world scenes independently, to maintain a sense of distance between the two worlds.

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Indiscreet (1958) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Indiscreet
director: Stanley Donen actor: Cary Grant / Ingrid Bergman …
other title: Indiscreto / Indiskret …
Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. While talking about this subject with her sister, in walks Philip Adams and she realizes that this is the charming, smart, and handsome man she has been waiting for.

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Reach for Glory (1962) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Reach for Glory
director: Philip Leacock actor: Harry Andrews / Kay Walsh …
During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war games, hoping dearly that the war won't end before they can fight in it.

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Sapphire (1959) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sapphire
director: Basil Dearden actor: Nigel Patrick / Michael Craig …
other title: Zaffiro nero / Das Mädchen Saphir …
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.

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Cash on Demand (1961) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cash on Demand
director: Quentin Lawrence actor: Peter Cushing / André Morell …
other title: Pas de crédit pour les caves / Atraco a la moderna
A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal £90,000.

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The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (1981) IMDb
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
director: Alan J.W. Bell actor: Peter Jones / Simon Jones …
other title: Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis
An Earth Man and his alien friend escape an exploding Earth, and set forth on an odd adventure across the universe with a known fugitive.

TV

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) WikiData TMDB
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
director: Alan J.W. Bell / Douglas Adams actor: Simon Jones / David Dixon …
other title: Per Anhalter durch die Galaxis / Guía del autoestopista galáctico …
Don't Panic! The story of Arthur Dent, an average Englishman who life was spared by his friend, who turned out to be an alien, while the planet Earth is destroyed. His friend tells him about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a guide with anything you ever needed, and wanted to know. They travel across the galaxy, meeting friendly, and not so friendly characters in order to find the great question (the answer being 42).

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The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
director: Alan Gibson actor: Christopher Lee / Peter Cushing …
other title: I satanici riti di Dracula / Satan er løs... …
The police and British security forces call in Professor Van Helsing to help them investigate Satanic ritual which has been occurring in a large country house, and which has been attended by a government minister, an eminent scientist and secret service chief. The owner of the house is a mysterious property tycoon who is found to be behind a sinister plot involving a deadly plague. It is in fact Dracula who, sick of his interminable existence, has decided that he must end it all in the only possible way- by destroying every last potential victim.

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Village of the Damned (1960)
Village of the Damned
★ 7.3 (6 ratings) director: Wolf Rilla actor: George Sanders / Barbara Shelley …
other title: Il villaggio dei dannati / Rædslen Fra Himmelrummet …
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.

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The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) IMDb TMDB
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
director: Blake Edwards actor: Peter Sellers / Herbert Lom …
other title: La pantera rosa sfida l'ispettore Clouseau / Den lyserøde panter slår igen …
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

TV

The Sandbaggers (1978) TMDB
The Sandbaggers
director: Ian Mackintosh actor: Roy Marsden / Richard Vernon …
The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of the espionage game on the personal and professional lives of British and American intelligence specialists.

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Goldfinger (1964)
Goldfinger
★ 6.9 (8 ratings) director: Guy Hamilton actor: Sean Connery / Gert Fröbe …
other title: Agente 007 - Missione Goldfinger / James Bond: Agent 007 contra Goldfinger …
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.

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A Hard Day's Night (1964)
A Hard Day's Night
director: Richard Lester actor: John Lennon / Paul McCartney …
other title: Tutti per uno / En Hård Dags Nat …
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.

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The Servant (1963)
The Servant
★ 8.0 (5 ratings) director: Joseph Losey actor: Dirk Bogarde / James Fox …
other title: Il servo / O Criado …
Indolent aristocrat Tony employs competent Barrett as his manservant and all seems to be going well until Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister as a live-in maid.

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The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Tomb of Ligeia
director: Roger Corman actor: Vincent Price / Elizabeth Shepherd …
other title: La tomba di Ligeia / O Túmulo de Ligeia …
Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.

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Gandhi (1982)
Gandhi
director: Richard Attenborough actor: Ben Kingsley / Candice Bergen …
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.