Christian Rodska

Acting

Christian Rodska

Born 1945-09-05 · Cullercoats, Northumberland, England, UK

Christian Rodska (born Christian Rodskjaer; 5 September 1945 — 21 March 2024) was an English actor who had appeared in many television and radio series and narrated a number of audiobooks, including Sir Winston Churchill's Nobel Prize winning The Second World War. He was perhaps best known for his regular role as Ron Stryker in the 1971–73 ITV series Follyfoot. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Acting credits

The Monuments Men poster
6.1

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?

The Monuments Men

2014

The Reckoning poster
7.5

Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to his hometown of Liverpool, where he’s confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died in a fight with some Anglo-Saxon teddy boys. It becomes a matter of honour for him to take his revenge without involving the police.

The Reckoning

1970

Les Misérables poster
7.1

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

Les Misérables

1978

John Rabe poster
7.1

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

John Rabe

2009

Night People poster
NR

A classical string quartet stop at a motorway cafe in early hours. Among the people they meet are a football supporter, a commercial traveller and an elderly couple on their way to Gretna Green to get married.

Night People

1978

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley poster
6.7

A light hearted look at future Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's rise from research chemist in 1949 to becoming MP for Finchley in 1959, encompassing her early relationship and marriage to oil millionaire Denis Thatcher.

Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley

2008

No artwork available
NR

Leila is a young mother who wants to return to work and decides to train as a sewing machine mechanic. Her husband is opposed to her taking work in a field traditionally restricted to men.

Leila

1978

Doomwatch: Winter Angel poster
7.3

University lecturer Neil Tannahill is drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving secretly-stored Soviet nuclear waste at a remote British nuclear facility after receiving an enigmatic note from legendary atomic scientist and one-time former head of "Doomwatch" (the infamous Scientific watchdog group of the seventies), Dr Spencer Quist.

Doomwatch: Winter Angel

1999

The Likely Lads poster
6.3

With the destruction of their previous neighbourhood has inevitably come the destruction of the lads’ favoured watering hole The Fat Ox. Again, it’s Bob rather than Terry who is visibly distressed by this. Upset and much the worse for free alcohol, Bob then storms into the library to seek sympathy from Thelma - who is, predictably, unimpressed. So when Thelma finds out that Terry has been getting semi-serious with glamorous Finnish shop assistant Chris, she takes it upon herself to try and pair them off for good via planning first a dinner party and then that mainstay of 70s comedy, a camping expedition. Of course, things don’t go quite according to plan and before you can say ‘I can see the way this is going’ we are set up for japes, larks and embarrassing incidents aplenty, which culminate in the lads getting rather fed up with their partners’ attempts to inflict the rugged outdoor lifestyle upon them and trying to hitch up and drive off with the girls still asleep in the caravan.

The Likely Lads

1976

Sharpe's Mission poster
6.9

France, 1813. Wellington orders Sharpe to join the dashing colonel Brand on a hazardous journey behind French enemy lines with the aim of blowing up an ammunition store. Sharpe's wife Jane becomes disillusioned with Sharpe's frequent absences. Left behind in the camp, she warms to the attentions of another admirer. Meanwhile, Sharpe is out in the mountains and is dangerously outnumbered, with with the French ranks closing in. He must risk his own life, however, to confront a far deadlier enemy on his own side.

Sharpe's Mission

1996

Penny Gold poster
6.0

While investigating a murder case, a detective stumbles upon a rare-stamp swindle involving the victim's twin sister.

Penny Gold

1973

The Ghost of Greville Lodge poster
7.0

Teenager James Greville has lived in children's homes his whole life, so he is surprised when a Great Uncle invites him to his country manor for a holiday. While exploring the sprawling Greville Lodge he soon discovers that it has many secrets.

The Ghost of Greville Lodge

2000

The World Cup: A Captain's Tale poster
7.5

The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham.

The World Cup: A Captain's Tale

1982

Guardians of the Flutes poster
3.7

High in the mountains of New Guinea live the Sambia people, a war-like tribe whose secret rituals of initiation are aimed at making their warriors courageous and bold.

Guardians of the Flutes

1994

A Beast with Two Backs poster
10.0

A young local girl is murdered by a mentally disturbed youth, but the villagers blame a stranger, an Italian traveling showman and his bear, rather than see the rot in their own camp.

A Beast with Two Backs

1968

No artwork available
NR

A promotional compilation of clips from beloved well known children's BBC shows.

Character Building

1995

Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace poster
10.0

Just weeks after VE day, Winston Churchill found himself in new battle: to be reelected Prime Minister. Confident of his victory after leading through WWII, he never expected his countrymen to turn so vehemently on their Great British Bulldog

Churchill: Winning the War, Losing the Peace

2015

Churchill: When Britain Said No poster
8.0

Documentary which examines the reasons why Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party lost the General Election of 1945, after Churchill had just led the country to victory in the World War II.

Churchill: When Britain Said No

2015

L'appel du 18 juin poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'appel du 18 juin

2010

Inside the Titanic - Countdown zum Untergang poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Inside the Titanic - Countdown zum Untergang

2012

The Galactic Garden poster
8.0

A pair of space travellers arrive on Earth to study the planet's lifeforms, landing in an English garden. However, on Earth they are about three quarters of an inch tall and therefore find themselves encountering its natural and giant indigenous life, such as worms, spiders, goldfish and a tortoise. A drama documentary on natural history with a science fiction twist.

The Galactic Garden

1985

Max Beeza and the City in the Sky poster
9.0

A mysterious airship attacks the towering city in the sky and only comedian Max Beeza can save the day.

Max Beeza and the City in the Sky

1977