Derek Tansley

Acting

Derek Tansley

Born 1917-07-07 · Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK

Acting credits

Knights of the Round Table poster
6.0

In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection.

Knights of the Round Table

1953

The Crimson Pirate poster
7.0

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.

The Crimson Pirate

1952

The Servant poster
7.6

An indolent aristocrat gets more than he bargained for when he hires a competent but silently devious manservant.

The Servant

1963

Curse of the Crimson Altar poster
5.2

When his brother disappears, a man visits the remote country house where he was last seen. While the host seems outwardly friendly and his niece more demonstrably so, there's a feeling of menace in the air with the overhanging legend of Lavinia Morley, the Black Witch of Greymarsh.

Curse of the Crimson Altar

1968

Mr. Selkie poster
6.0

Mr. Selkie is a seal who comes ashore in the shape of a man during full moon. He helps some children in an anti-pollution campaign.

Mr. Selkie

1979

The Vanquished poster
6.3

Three tales of privileged youth entangled in murder: French students kill for money, an Italian student smuggles cigarettes, and an English poet exploits a grim discovery.

The Vanquished

1953

The Open Door poster
7.0

Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill, and tormented by a wailing voice... but is it in the boy's imagination or not?

The Open Door

1966

The Oracle poster
6.0

An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.

The Oracle

1953

No artwork available
6.5

To beautify his street and trim city spending, stuffy councilman Jack (Francis Matthews) pushes to have the last gas lamp in town removed. But this angers his neighbors Albert (Ian Fleming) and Victoria (Amy Dalby), an inconspicuous pair of serial killers who choose Jack as their next victim. This dark comedy also stars Lisa Daniely as Mary, a local advocate who fights tooth and nail against Jack's modernization efforts.

The Lamp in Assassin Mews

1962

No artwork available
NR

Music-hall of the 1920s. Mile Entrechat.... Balletic Highlights. Alfonso ... The Singing Gondolier. Neither artiste is enjoying fame or acclaim. But together they make a triple act that can top the bill.

After You, Hugo

1985

No artwork available
7.0

A young man inherits an Irish castle and finds it full of smugglers.

Don't Say Die

1950

Hide and Seek poster
7.0

A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. The Russian is working with shady businessman Marek and they plan to kidnap the professor and make it look as though he has defected to the Soviet Union.

Hide and Seek

1964

R.U.R. poster
5.8

A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explored dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologically driven utopia.

R.U.R.

1948