Acting

Edward Cast

Born 1925-03-02 · Hackney, London, England, UK

Acting credits

Doctor Dolittle poster
6.2

A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.

Doctor Dolittle

1967

The Long Arm poster
6.9

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.

The Long Arm

1956

The Dam Busters poster
6.9

The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.

The Dam Busters

1955

Dr. Crippen poster
6.1

A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.

Dr. Crippen

1963

Tiger Bay poster
7.2

In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal murder of a young woman. Instead of reporting the crime, she merely pockets a prize for herself — the perpetrator's shiny black revolver — and flees. When Detective Graham discovers that Gillie has the murder weapon, the fiery young girl weaves a web of lies to throw him off course.

Tiger Bay

1959

10 Rillington Place poster
7.3

The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.

10 Rillington Place

1971

The Malpas Mystery poster
7.0

After Audrey leaves prison after being framed for jewel theft, she gets a job offer from the mysterious Mr. Malpas, triggering a plot involving a missing heir, diamonds and kidnapping.

The Malpas Mystery

1960

No artwork available
7.0

A boy and girl find true love for each other and escape from boredom and crime.

Linda

1960

Quest for Love poster
6.8

After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself trapped in an alternate reality that bears some similarities to our own, but also has some striking differences. In this other reality the Second World War had never occurred, mankind had not yet traveled into Space and Mt. Everest had not yet been conquered, just to name a few things. Also in this other reality he is no longer a scientist but rather a well known author. After a personal tragedy in this alternate world, he finds himself back in his own world and desperately trying to locate the woman he fell in love with in the other world. Little does she know, however, that her life depends on him finding her.

Quest for Love

1971

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

The Cracksman poster
6.6

Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a beautiful hostess as a trap, into which the hapless Ernest inevitably falls..!

The Cracksman

1963

Adventure Story poster
6.0

The story of Alexander the Great.

Adventure Story

1961

Snowball poster
7.4

A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. The story gets out of control and the conductor, a war veteran with memory problems, is harassed until events take a tragic turn.

Snowball

1960

Blore M.P. poster
3.3

Derek Blore, MP, enjoys both a happy successful political career and a sideline in the suburbs. When his two political lives become confused, with an added Russian complication, he finds a national scandal engulfing him.

Blore M.P.

1989

Seventy Deadly Pills poster
7.5

A small boy, Dickie Goodwin, finds some strychnine pills mixed with sweets in a stolen car left in a deserted garage. With them he buys his way into the Rocket Gang. Brian, the leader, shares out the pills for swaps next day. One of the gang eats hers and collapses. The police frantically search for the pills and a broadcast appeal is made. Brian hears this and reaches the gang at Battersea funfair just in time to save them.

Seventy Deadly Pills

1963

Deadly Record poster
6.0

A young airline pilot wrongly accused of murdering his unfaithful wife searches for the real killer.

Deadly Record

1959

The Professionals poster
5.5

A renowned safecracker and his crew try to rob a bank by entering the vault through the sewer system.

The Professionals

1960

The Dover Road Mystery poster
7.0

A British short film about Scotland Yard investigating a group of bank robbers who take normal sedan cars and transform them into race cars.

The Dover Road Mystery

1960