Stanley Meadows

Acting

Stanley Meadows

Born 1931-07-14 · Stepney, London, England, UK

Stanley Meadows was a reliable British character actor prolific in the 1960s and 70s.

Acting credits

The Mummy poster
6.7

One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel, wife of one of the explorers, resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.

The Mummy

1959

The Ipcress File poster
6.8

Sly and dry intelligence agent Harry Palmer is tasked with investigating British Intelligence security, and is soon enmeshed in a world of double-dealing, kidnap and murder when he finds a traitor operating at the heart of the secret service.

The Ipcress File

1965

Performance. poster
6.8

In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide—and the impact is both exotic and explosive.

Performance.

1970

Kaleidoscope poster
5.3

Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a plant in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe. In his gambling depredation, Barney is spotted by Angel McGinnis, the daughter of a Scotland Yard Inspector 'Manny' McGinnis on the lookout for a man to do a job. The inspector enlists Barney's help in playing poker with a shady London character whom Scotland Yard wants to force to financial ruin.

Kaleidoscope

1966

The Night Caller poster
5.6

The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth.

The Night Caller

1965

The Naked Runner poster
6.1

Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to travel to East Germany to attend a trade show and show off his invention, taking his 10 year old son with him for a holiday. Meanwhile a British Intelligence officer who served with Laker in the Second World War decides to use the opportunity of Laker's trip and his lack of an intelligence profile to coerce him into carrying out an assassination.

The Naked Runner

1967

A Prize of Arms poster
6.7

A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.

A Prize of Arms

1962

Payroll poster
6.8

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in the raid, his wife plans revenge, and with the police closing in, the gang start to turn on each other.

Payroll

1961

Macready's Gala poster
7.0

The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.

Macready's Gala

1966

The Terrornauts poster
5.5

A group of scientists are kidnapped and taken to an outer space outpost in order to save Earth from destruction.

The Terrornauts

1967

The Omega Mystery poster
NR

Butler and Robinson have to track down a saboteur at an atomic research station before it is too late.

The Omega Mystery

1961

Jackpot poster
6.0

Back in London after serving time, an ex-convict learns that his wife is not willing to return to him. He plans to crack a safe at a club.

Jackpot

1960

The Boy with Two Heads poster
6.5

Chris & Jill discover a South American shrunken head with magical powers.

The Boy with Two Heads

1958

Clash by Night poster
7.2

A gangster is caught and arrested by police. When he's being transported by bus -- filled with innocent civilians -- it's hi-jacked by his gang in attempt to free their boss. They hide out. As the authorities close in they threaten to torch the barn the escapee and his men are hiding in -- with their hostage inside.

Clash by Night

1964

Leeds United! poster
10.0

The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose efforts were undermined by the trade union that they belonged to.

Leeds United!

1974

Prends ta Rolls et va pointer poster
5.4

Camille Vigault, takes advantage of his vacation to visit a cousin winemaker in Roussillon. Quickly tired by work in the countryside, he prefers to buy an old abandoned Rolls Royce from his cousin.

Prends ta Rolls et va pointer

1981

A Night Out poster
7.0

Against the wishes of his domineering mother, Albert Stokes attends a work party. But the evening is not the escape he was hoping for.

A Night Out

1960

The Last Lonely Man poster
8.0

What if it became possible for the personality to pass at the moment of death into the mind of someone still alive? Then the big new problem would be, into whom?

The Last Lonely Man

1969

No artwork available
7.0

The story begins with the death of a cat. For Mrs Everton, the owner, it climaxes four months of terror during which she has been paying two young brothers £1 a week to keep them from carrying out their threats against her two cats.Although Mrs Everton is aware that the two boys aren't responsible for the cat's death, she nevertheless sets out to wreak revenge.

A Game, Like, Only a Game

1966

The Main Chance poster
6.0

A wealthy young layabout tries to double cross the master-crook who has engaged him to do a job.

The Main Chance

1964