Acting

Sydney Arnold

Born 1900-02-21 · Westminster, London, England, UK

Acting credits

Top Secret! poster
7.1

Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.

Top Secret!

1984

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life poster
7.3

Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

1983

Doctor Who: The Highlanders poster
6.3

The time travellers arrive in Scotland just after the Battle of Culloden. The Second Doctor gains the trust of a small band of fleeing Jacobites by offering to tend to their wounded Laird, Colin McLaren. While Polly and the Laird's daughter, Kirsty, are away fetching water, he and the others are all captured by Redcoat troops commanded by Lieutenant Algernon Ffinch.

Doctor Who: The Highlanders

1967

One More Time poster
5.0

London nightclub buddies Salt and Pepper link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers.

One More Time

1970

Games That Lovers Play poster
4.0

Joanna Lumley and Penny Brahms star as notorious prostitutes Fanny Hill and Lady Chatterley faced with the challenge of seducing the seemingly impossible in this 1970s sex comedy

Games That Lovers Play

1971

The Crimson Permanent Assurance poster
7.2

A group of down-and-out accountants mutiny against their bosses and sail their office building onto the high seas in search of a pirate's life.

The Crimson Permanent Assurance

1983

The Midas Plague poster
7.0

The Future. Robot labour and free energy make the creation of goods easy and automatic. Now people are continually supplied with more things than they can possibly consume.

The Midas Plague

1965

A Night Out poster
NR

Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for "a night out" with his workmates; it turns nightmarish.

A Night Out

1967

84 Charing Cross Road poster
7.0

Adaptation of the Helene Hanff memoir, presented as part of Play for Today.

84 Charing Cross Road

1975

Sixty Minutes to Midnight poster
6.2

On New Year's Eve 1999 a construction worker suddenly finds himself starring on a TV Game Show that kills its contestants.

Sixty Minutes to Midnight

2019

Henry Intervening poster
NR

Today, Henry's usually dull journey to work is eventful enough to catapult him into the headlines.

Henry Intervening

1979