Acting
Peter Bathurst
Born 1912-05-04 · Woking, Surrey, England, UK
Acting credits
6.1A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took place on the same day in three successive years. The police don't trust their instincts - but as 10th July nears again, a solicitor has started receiving threatening letters...
Final Appointment
1954
9.0A play by Terence Rattigan about the stories of several people staying at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."
Separate Tables
1970
NRRoger Andover will inherit a fortune if he marries. But he is a solitary man with no ambition: human relationships mystify and dismay him. But to present a life-like female android as your wife: surely that will satisfy everyone? Andover finds more than he bargained for when his robot bride challenges his preconceptions about humanity.
Andover and the Android
1965
5.8The Kadi of Bagdad has harem troubles in this low budget comedy from Edgar Ulmer.
Babes in Bagdad
1952
6.6Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.
Gift Horse
1952
5.5Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the testy resident commissioner, who had been expecting an experienced man, soon shows his disapproval.
Pacific Destiny
1956
4.9The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
John and Julie
1955
6.8A group of gold-skinned aliens known as the Axons land on Earth and offer wondrous technology in exchange for fuel. The Doctor, however, isn't fooled, uncovering the Axons' true nature and once again facing his archenemy the Master...
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
1971
7.0Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.
The World of George Orwell: 1984
1965
6.9In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer.
Make Mine Mink
1960
10.0A woman abandons her husband, changes her name, and remarries again. Complications ensue.
The Murder Game
1965
4.3The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to control the world with the help of his robot, which accidentally gets shipped to Mother Riley. Through radar control, he contacts the robot and orders it to come to him, bringing along Mother Riley! But his life is turned upside down when he holds this most meddling of mothers captive.
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
1952
6.7Three Post Office employees are at work when the facility is held up. The robber kills the supervisor and knocks out another employee. The third one offers no resistance and survives unscathed. Afterwards he begins to wonder if his refusal to resist was a prudent move to preserve his family, or an act of cowardice, as many in the town believe. The resulting conflict begins to tear apart his family.
Two Living, One Dead
1961
6.7Three men arrive in a small town to pull the local bank heist.
Three Crooked Men
1958
6.3An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.
The Siege of Pinchgut
1959
6.8Ten strangers are invited to a mansion on a remote island, where they are killed one by one by a mysterious assailant. Based on the Agatha Christie novel, also known by the title And Then There Were None.
Ten Little Indians
1959
8.1Following the Doctor's regeneration into a new, younger body, the TARDIS lands at an Earth colony on the planet Vulcan in the far future. Mistaken for an official Earth Examiner, the Doctor discovers that a scientist called Lesterson is attempting to reactivate two inanimate, subservient Daleks found in a crashed space rocket. The colonists refuse to heed the Doctor's dire warnings that the Daleks are dangerous.
Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks
1966
7.0In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
The Winslow Boy
1958
6.0An amateur detective investigates a string of acid bath murders while on holiday.
Mr Beamish Goes South
1953
6.3A yacht in the English Channel is helped to port - when the police arrive there are no crew, no papers and no clues. What is the mystery of the ghost ship?
Dangerous Voyage
1954
6.0A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.
Seagulls Over Sorrento
1954
8.0An Australia propaganda war film documenting the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Nominated for the Academy Award.
The Bismarck Convoy Smashed!
1943
6.3Fourteen years after he was blinded in a WWII concentration camp, a Canadian perfume executive travels to London on business and recognizes the voice of the traitor who betrayed him and his fellow prisoners to the Germans.
The Betrayal
1957
This film extols the over-producing wheat, meat, dairy, timber, steel, and Merino wool industries of Australia as assets to the Allied war effort. Describes the production of weapons and military supplies in Australian plants. "Dedicated to maintaining a life-line to Britain, Australia aids in the production of supplies and munitions for export; 'Aussie' troops are shown training and embarking for the front lines."
Australia Marches with Britain: Highlights of the National War Effort
1941