Peter Reynolds

Acting

Peter Reynolds

Born — Died

1921-08-16 — 1975-04-22

Place of birth

Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

40 titles

Peter Reynolds was a British film and television actor.

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 11 titles

The Hands of Orlac poster
4.4

A famed concert pianist's hands are destroyed in a plane crash; when he receives transplants from a recently executed strangler, his murderous new mitts attract the attention of a sleazy illusionist turned blackmailer.

The Hands of Orlac

1960

The Challenge poster
5.5

Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.

The Challenge

1960

West 11 poster
6.9

In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a turn for the worse when he encounters Richard Dyce, an ex-army officer.

West 11

1963

The Painted Smile poster
5.8

Jo and Mark are working the "outraged husband" racket when they fall foul of the sinister Kleinie....

The Painted Smile

1962

Spare the Rod poster
6.2

It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?

Spare the Rod

1961

No artwork available
6.2

A young woman sets out to get revenge against a rich man who murdered her lover.

A Question of Suspense

1961

The Breaking Point poster
5.8

A young man's gambling losses cause him to become embroiled in a currency heist.

The Breaking Point

1961

Highway to Battle poster
6.5

Months before the out break of WWII, suspicion falls on a German ambassador when one of his envoys fails to return to Berlin. The arrival of two Gestapo agents searching for the missing man causes the ambassador and his family to rethink their Nazi allegiance but is it too late to escape from Hitler's evil grasp?

Highway to Battle

1961

Your Money or Your Wife poster
4.5

Newly wed couple Gay and Pel Butterworth are forced to take in some strange paying guests when their inheritance proves troublesome, but all is not as straight forward as it seems, when they discover they may have to divorce to get their hands on half the money...

Your Money or Your Wife

1960

The Man Who Couldn't Walk poster
10.0

Crime story dealing with safe-breakers and gang warfare.

The Man Who Couldn't Walk

1960

Gaolbreak poster
5.1

An honest news agent realizes that his 2 sons are corrupt. When one criminal son is in jail, the other breaks him out to help with a job.

Gaolbreak

1962

1950s · 18 titles

Man Bait poster
5.9

A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.

Man Bait

1952

Shake Hands with the Devil poster
6.5

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization by his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.

Shake Hands with the Devil

1959

You Can't Escape poster
7.5

Novelist Peter Darwin is engaged to heiress Kay March. When he accidentally kills Claire, his former mistress, during a quarrel, he persuades a reluctant Kay to help him bury the body in a wood. When the body is found and with the truth close to being uncovered, Darwin resorts to desperate actions to cover his crime.

You Can't Escape

1956

The Magic Box poster
6.5

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green. He changed his name to include his first wife's for the photographic portrait work he excelled at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

The Magic Box

1952

Devil Girl from Mars poster
5.2

Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soon conquer the Earth and enslave its men for breeding purposes.

Devil Girl from Mars

1954

The Long Haul poster
5.8

An American ex-GI takes a job as a truck driver to support his British war bride Connie. It isn't long, however, before Harry is blackmailed into joining a smuggling operation run by a conniving criminal.

The Long Haul

1957

The Woman's Angle poster
8.0

The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable light.

The Woman's Angle

1952

The Vanquished poster
6.3

Three tales of privileged youth entangled in murder: French students kill for money, an Italian student smuggles cigarettes, and an English poet exploits a grim discovery.

The Vanquished

1953

Guilt Is My Shadow poster
5.7

A woman is haunted by her conscience after she murders a man and then hides the body. Based on the novel 'You're Best Alone' by Norah Lofts.

Guilt Is My Shadow

1950

Wrong Number poster
6.0

Because she dials the wrong number, an old lady hears information which enables the police to solve a robbery and murder.

Wrong Number

1959

Black 13 poster
7.0

The son of a college professor who turns to a life of crime after killing a pedestrian in an automobile accident.

Black 13

1953

24 Hours of a Woman's Life poster
5.8

A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.

24 Hours of a Woman's Life

1952

The Good Beginning poster
10.0

After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the flat on a tight budget, for she hopes that one day with her support her husband will eventually run his own business. A lack of understanding of each other s character and aspirations, however, leads to many problems before Johnny and Kit are able to attempt a 'good beginning' to their marriage.

The Good Beginning

1953

The Delavine Affair poster
5.5

Peter Reynolds stars as Rex Banner, a newspaperman who makes it his life's mission to track down a vicious gang of thieves. When his informant winds up dead, Rex finds himself framed for murder.

The Delavine Affair

1955

Smart Alec poster
9.0

A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.

Smart Alec

1951

Four Days poster
6.8

A melodrama adapted from a play concerning the neglected wife of a financially embarrassed business man. Attempted suicide, forgery, fights and blackmail all in four days!

Four Days

1951

The Bank Raiders poster
6.5

A third rate con man lands himself the job of a get-away driver for a bank heist that has complications.

The Bank Raiders

1958

No artwork available
10.0

First episode of the television series "The Vise" (1954)

One Just Man

1954

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