William Beckley

Acting

William Beckley

Born 1930-01-15 · London, England, UK

Acting credits

Escape from the Planet of the Apes poster
6.4

The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

1971

My Fair Lady poster
7.5

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

My Fair Lady

1964

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask poster
6.5

A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality. From aphrodisiacs to sexual perversion to the mystery of the male orgasm, characters like a court jester, a doctor, a queen and a journalist adventure through lab experiments and game shows, all seeking answers to common questions that many would never ask.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex *But Were Afraid to Ask

1972

The Killing of Sister George poster
6.2

When June Buckridge arrives at her London flat and announces 'They are going to murder me', her long-time lover and doll-cuddling flat mate Alice 'Childie' McNaught realizes that things are going to change. For June is referring to her character 'Sister George', a lovable nurse she portrays in a popular daytime serial. To make matters worse, the widowed executive at the BBC responsible for the decision to kill off Sister George - Mercy Croft is also a predatory lesbian who is after Childie and will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

The Killing of Sister George

1968

Too Late the Hero poster
6.4

A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heroes' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.

Too Late the Hero

1970

Sextette poster
4.0

On the day of her wedding to her sixth husband, glamorous silver screen sex symbol Marlo Manners is sought to intervene in a political dispute between nations, which leads to chaos.

Sextette

1978

The Legend of Lylah Clare poster
6.0

A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.

The Legend of Lylah Clare

1968

Young Lady Chatterley poster
4.8

Cynthia inherits a large estate and moves in. She reads her aunt's diary and finds out how she was taught in the ways of love by her gardener in 1901 at the age of 21. She decides to continue the fruitful relationship and gets it on with the handsome young gardener herself.

Young Lady Chatterley

1977

The President's Analyst poster
5.9

At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.

The President's Analyst

1967

The Memory of Eva Ryker poster
8.0

A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship torpedoed during World War II. When her father hires an investigator to look into the circumstances of the mother's death 30 years prior, it triggers a new rash of emotional turmoil for the young woman and uncovers a heinous crime.

The Memory of Eva Ryker

1980

Daughter of the Mind poster
6.7

Professor Samuel Hale Constable is a government expert in the field of cybernetics. He and his wheelchair-bound wife Lenore became parents late in life, only to lose their daughter Mary before she reached adolescence. Now their daughter's spirit seems to be reaching out to her grief-stricken father from beyond the grave, encouraging him to give up the important project on which he's been working.

Daughter of the Mind

1969

High Risk poster
6.5

A troupe of former circus performers plot to steel a valuable artifact from an embassy in Washington, DC.

High Risk

1976

Death Race poster
5.1

In the North African desert in World War II, a crippled American fighter plane that is unable to take off tries to evade and destroy a pursuing Nazi tank.

Death Race

1973

Farewell to the Planet of the Apes poster
6.3

When the astronauts Burke and Virdon, with their chimp companion Galen, are captured in a fishing village that employs human slave labor, they must prove their worth as fishermen or be sacrificed to the 'gods of the sea,' or what the men call sharks. Escaping from the forced labor camp, the trio become involved in a plot to develop a glider to drop a fragmentation bomb on the gorilla council. [The fifth of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Tomorrow's Tide" and "Up Above the World So High"]

Farewell to the Planet of the Apes

1980

The Woman I Love poster
7.0

The love of King Edward VIII for American divorcée Wallis Warfield Simpson eventually leads to his abdication.

The Woman I Love

1972

My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn poster
4.3

The life and wanton times of Errol Flynn

My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn

1985

Casino poster
10.0

Mike Connors is a suave gambler who owns a floating hotel/casino which takes a turn when the passengers are stalked by a saboteur during the casino ship's maiden voyage.

Casino

1980

Back to the Planet of the Apes poster
6.0

Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes. The men befriend a chimp named Galen who helps them to escape. In the hopes of finding a way to get back to their own time, the astronauts search for a computer in an earthquake-threatened city, with which they will be able to access their flight records. [The first of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Escape from Tomorrow" and "The Trap"]

Back to the Planet of the Apes

1980

The Picture of Dorian Gray poster
6.2

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

1973

Hard Knocks poster
4.5

A suspenseful and romantic tale of a young man, Guy Montgomery (Michael Christian), whose whole life thus far has been a desperate escape from a tragic and dangerous past. Idealistic as he tries to be, a series of unfortunate incidents in the neon jungle of Hollywood lead him deeper and deeper into the mire of its seamier side until one terrifying evening at the home of a famous actress (Josette Banzet) Guy gets into a fight with her husband and beats him up so badly that he thinks he has killed the man. Once again, Guy is running from his past toward an uncertain future.

Hard Knocks

1979

Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love poster
7.0

Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different segments: in the first, a computer falls in love with its programmer; in the second, a World War II vet falls in love with a murderer; in the third, a woman falls in love with a penniless painter.

Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love

1974

A Time for Love poster
8.0

A California businessman on a trip to Hong Kong is drawn into a love affair with a girl half his age, discovering they have known each other in previous lives.

A Time for Love

1974

The Gentleman Tramp poster
7.1

A film about the life and work of the master comedy filmmaker, Charles Chaplin.

The Gentleman Tramp

1976

The Open Window poster
6.5

A man travels to the country house of a distant aunt in search of peace and quiet. But when he arrives, he learns of a tragedy that happened there which keeps the house and the family frozen in time.

The Open Window

1972