Acting

Jonathan Newth

Born 1939-03-06 · Edmonton, London, England, UK

Jonathan Newth is a British actor who has appeared extensively in British television drama for over 50 years. Newth trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Newth's theatre work includes appearances with the RSC, in the West End and on Broadway. Newth's television credits include Emergency Ward 10, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Ace of Wands, The Troubleshooters, Z-Cars, Callan, Van der Valk, The Brothers, Softly, Softly, Poldark, Doctor Who (Underworld), Notorious Woman, Secret Army (Barsacq), The Professionals, The Nightmare Man, The Day of the Triffids, Tenko (Colonel Clifford Jefferson), Triangle, Angels, Juliet Bravo, After Henry, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ("The Bruce-Partington Plans"), Boon, Bugs, The Bill, Agatha Christie's Poirot (Dumb Witness), Peak Practice and Heartbeat.

Acting credits

The Affair of the Necklace poster
5.6

In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.

The Affair of the Necklace

2001

North Sea Hijack poster
6.3

When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.

North Sea Hijack

1980

Incognito poster
5.8

Harry Donovan is an art forger who paints fake Rembrandt picture for $500,000. The girl he meets and gets into bed with in Paris, Marieke, turns out to be an arts expert Harry's clients are using to check the counterfeit picture he painted.

Incognito

1997

Carry On Spying poster
6.4

Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.

Carry On Spying

1964

Into the Unknown poster
NR

A look at the complex production of the Doctor Who story Underworld, with particular emphasis on the difficulties in achieving the bluescreen virtual studio sets.

Into the Unknown

2010

Pope John Paul II poster
7.5

Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.

Pope John Paul II

1984

Spider's Web poster
7.2

Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent.

Spider's Web

1982

Doctor Who: Underworld poster
5.3

On the edge of the universe, the Doctor, Leela and K9 encounter a Minyan ship on an epic quest to find their race banks... but their people have encountered the Time Lords before...

Doctor Who: Underworld

1978

Champions poster
6.6

The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National

Champions

1984

Tennis Court poster
9.0

Maggie and Harry Dowl arrive in England to inspect a house left to Maggie. The house has a dilapidated tennis court, but this seems to have some force which takes over the daughter of the local holy man, as well as causing tennis balls to gush blood and kill people with animated nets.

Tennis Court

1984

A Voyage Round My Father poster
7.4

A successful lawyer struck with blindness in middle age continues his battles in the courtroom with the assistance of his family. As his son deals with bitter memories of their relationship, he also seeks his father's respect and love and in the process learns to love in return.

A Voyage Round My Father

1984

Yellow Dog poster
4.9

A Japanese cop is sent to join the London police force on a secret investigation.

Yellow Dog

1973

The Nightmare Man poster
6.7

A heavy fog cuts the small isolated Scottish island off from the mainland, and dentist Michael Gaffikin has just discovered a dismembered corpse on the golf links. Michael and his artist girlfriend, Fiona Patterson, assist the local law enforcements in searching for the murderer. However, as the body count rises and the surrounding circumstances turn increasingly bizarre and gruesome, everyone begins to wonder if the killer is a human or an unimaginable creature...

The Nightmare Man

1981

Certainties and Doubts poster
NR

From 1979, exploring the life of Henrik Ibsen, through his plays and the words of his critics and admirers. With excerpts from the Ibsen canon.

Certainties and Doubts

1979

The Suicide Club poster
8.0

Prince Florizel of Bohemia discovers a secret club where desperate men gamble with their lives, and vows to bring it to an end.

The Suicide Club

1970

Accounts poster
5.2

Financial and emotional accounts are settled as a family battle to survive in an unforgiving land.

Accounts

1983

No Defence poster
NR

Rape is a matter which generates strong emotions. Immediate sympathies go to the victim...

No Defence

1980

Remembering Douglas Camfield poster
8.0

The life and work of respected director Douglas Camfield is remembered in this documentary.

Remembering Douglas Camfield

2013

The Case of Marcel Duchamp poster
7.0

A witty, feature-length drama-documentary in which Marcel Duchamp, who once compared his own mind to that of a master criminal, is investigated by Sherlock Holmes. Holmes comes out of retirement, and with the assistance of Dr. Watson, proceeds to delve into the mystery of Duchamp’s major work, the once-notorious Large Glass (The Bride Stripped Bare by the Bachelors, even) 1915-23.

The Case of Marcel Duchamp

1984

No artwork available
NR

A boy plants a microphone in the sitting-room so that he can listen to his parents after going to bed at night.

The Wire

1983

The Fools on the Hill poster
NR

This is a dramatisation of the events surrounding the opening night of British television on November 2, 1936 at Alexandra Place in London. It was produced to commemorate its 50th anniversary.

The Fools on the Hill

1986