Paul Ditchfield

Acting

Paul Ditchfield

Born

1938-12-30 (87)

Place of birth

Manchester, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

5 titles

Paul Carter Ditchfield is an English-born South African actor, musician, and entertainer best known as one of the founding members of the comedy music group The Bat's. Paul is a prolific songwriter who plays keyboards and bass, and he formed The Bats pop group in 1964 with Eddie Eckstein, the late Barry Jarman and the late Jimmy Dunning. The Bats' first single record - All I Got - made No. 1 on the South African charts. When The Bats played in England and Germany, they made it to No. 8 on the Radio London charts with their own composition, Listen To My Heart. While Paul was in London, he played bass on Eddie Grant's Baby Come Back and some other hits of Eddie Grant's group The Equals. When…

Known for

Flight of the Phoenix poster
6.0

When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.

Flight of the Phoenix

2004

Donkerland poster
5.0

The story is set in the mountains of Kwazulu-Natal on the farm Donkerland. It follows the lives and times of seven generations of the De Witt family, from the Groot Trek in 1838 until 1996.

Donkerland

2013

Operation Delta Force poster
3.8

A team of military experts and scientists go after a terrorist group that has seized a deadly virus and is threatening to release it.

Operation Delta Force

1997

Mountains of the Moon poster
5.7

Chander Pahar follows Shankar Choudhury, a 20 year-old that takes a job working for the Uganda Railway, and winds up quitting his job in search of diamonds and the Kenya's Mountain of the Moon. Based on the popular Bengali adventure novel of the same name.

Mountains of the Moon

2013

Early Retirement poster
9.2

Everyone at the retirement village is very excited that the new resident is a well-known detective, because every imaginable crime is committed here: From disappearing jewelry, to sleeping pills mixed into the tea - but what if he suggests it's all happening in their heads?

Early Retirement

2019

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