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Robert Flemyng
Liverpool, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Flemyng OBE, MC (3 January 1912 – 22 May 1995) was a British film and stage actor. Flemyng was born in Liverpool, the son of a doct…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Flemyng OBE, MC (3 January 1912 – 22 May 1995) was a British film and stage actor. Flemyng was born in Liverpool, the son of a doctor, and was educated at Haileybury. He began his career as a medical student before abandoning medicine to become an actor. Flemyng made his stage debut in the early 1930s, and worked steadily in both London and Broadway. His first film appearance was in 1937, but he didn't appear steadily in films until after he served in World War II. During the war he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with great distinction, reaching the rank of full colonel at the age of 33. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1941, mentioned in despatches, and was appointed OBE in 1944. He played the idealistic schoolmaster in the 1948 Roy Boulting film, The Guinea Pig, starring Richard Attenborough, and the key role of Detective Sergeant Roberts in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp. One memorable role was as a necrophiliac in the film The Horrible Dr. Hichcock in 1962. He ably played a sardonic British Secret Intelligence Service chief (his boss being George Sanders) in the 1966 film The Quiller Memorandum. The character actor worked in films and television until his death in 1995. Some of his later films include Kafka (1991) and Shadowlands (1993). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Flemyng, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1995
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
Movie Patient 2
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1993
Shadowlands
Movie Claude Bird
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1992
Memento Mori
Movie Ronald Sidebottome
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1991
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
TV show Aegeus
- 1991
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1991
Kafka
Movie The Keeper of the Files
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1989
Paris by Night
Movie Jack Sidmouth
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1982
Spider's Web
Movie Sir Rowland Delahaye
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1982
A Cotswold Death
Movie Sir Charles
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1982
Fame Is the Spur
TV show Lord Lostwithiel
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1980
Lady Killers
TV show Mr. Justice Havers
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1979
Rebecca
TV show Colonel Julyan
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1978
Edward and Mrs Simpson
TV show Sir Donald Somervell
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1978
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Movie Sir Donald Somervell
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1978
The Thirty Nine Steps
Movie Magistrate
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1978
The Medusa Touch
Movie Judge McKinley
More credits
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1978
Enemy at the Door
TV show Sir James Prideaux
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1978
The Four Feathers
Movie The Old Colonel
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1977
The Professionals
TV show Sir John Terringham
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1977
Golden Rendezvous
Movie Capt. Bullen
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1976
The New Avengers
TV show Minister Quaintance
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1976
Loyalties
Movie Gen Canynge
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1974
Miss Nightingale
Movie W.E. Nightingale
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1972
Travels with My Aunt
Movie Crowder
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1972
The Darwin Adventure
Movie Prof. Henslow
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1972
Young Winston
Movie Dr. Buzzard
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1972
Late Night Theatre
TV show Rivers
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1971
The Persuaders!
TV show Sir George
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1971
The Firechasers
Movie Carlton
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1970
Play for Today
TV show Sir Charles
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1969
Battle of Britain
Movie Wing Cmdr. Willoughby
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1969
The Body Stealers
Movie W.C. Baldwin
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1969
Oh! What a Lovely War
Movie Staff Officer in Gassed Trench
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1969
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
TV show Major Lavender
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1968
The Blood Beast Terror
Movie Dr. Carl Mallinger
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1967
Half Hour Story
TV show Martin
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1967
The Deadly Affair
Movie Samuel Fennan
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1966
The Spy with a Cold Nose
Movie M.I.5 Director
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1966
The Quiller Memorandum
Movie Rushington
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1965
BBC Play of the Month
TV show Gen. Canynge
