Cy Grant

Acting

Cy Grant

Born 1919-11-08 · Beterverwagting, British Guiana

Cy Grant was born on November 8, 1919 in Beterverwagting, British Guiana [now Guyana]. He is known for At the Earth's Core (1976), Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967) and Calypso (1958). He was married to Dorith. He died on February 13, 2010 in London, England.

Acting credits

Shaft in Africa poster
6.1

Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

Shaft in Africa

1973

At the Earth's Core poster
5.1

A huge burrowing machine tunnels out of control at ferocious speed, cutting clean through to the center of the earth, to the twilight world of pellucidar. Once there, Dr. Perry and David Innes are threatened by half human creatures, lizard-like birds, and man-eating plants.

At the Earth's Core

1976

Blake's 7: Aftermath poster
NR

The Intergalactic War is over. The Combined forces of Earth's galaxy have triumphed over the invasion force from Andromeda, but the price of victory has been high.

Blake's 7: Aftermath

1986

Safari poster
5.6

Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda.

Safari

1956

Sea Wife poster
5.6

In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator, and a black seaman. Only the seaman knows the woman is a nun. The men reveal their true selves under the hardships of survival. Told in a too-long flashback frame.

Sea Wife

1957

Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars poster
1.0

A compilation of four episodes from the Supermarionation series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. Captain Scarlet and the members of Spectrum battle the Mysterons from Mars who are trying to establish a base on the moon.

Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars

1981

Black and White in Colour poster
10.0

A two part documentary that details the contribution of black and Asian people to television history from the birth of television in 1936 to 1992. Interviewees include: Pearl Connor, Thomas Baptiste, Lenny Henry, Norman Beaton, Horace Ové, Carmen Munroe, and Stuart Hall.

Black and White in Colour

1992

Calypso poster
9.0

CALYPSO (1958) was entirely shot on location in the Antilles archipelago with mostly non-professional actors and was released in colour and Cinemascope. It was a kind of follow-up to the previous Italian exotic documentary films from the 1950s and especially to L´ULTIMO PARADISO.

Calypso

1957

Target: Captain Black! poster
NR

Brand New Super Space Theatre Movie

Target: Captain Black!

2026

Captain Scarlet vs. The Mysterons poster
NR

Astronauts on a mission to Mars attack the city of the Mysterons, a race of aliens with the ability to create duplicates of beings and objects. In revenge, the Mysterons declare war on humanity.

Captain Scarlet vs. The Mysterons

1980

A Man from the Sun poster
7.0

A mixed party of West Indian settlers arrives in London, where they encounter prejudice from the white population and integrate themselves into the existing West Indian community.

A Man from the Sun

1956

The Encyclopaedist poster
NR

A young salesman from Trinidad tries to sell a complete set of encyclopedia to Sally Louth, a housewife living on the Chelsea-Fulham border in London.

The Encyclopaedist

1961