John Fabian

Acting

John Fabian

Born 1927-05-19 · Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England, UK

John Fabian was born on May 19, 1927 in Wolverhampton, England. He is known for his work on A Town Like Alice (1956), The Onedin Line (1971) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). He died on April 11, 2012 in the UK.

Acting credits

Quatermass 2 poster
6.4

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.

Quatermass 2

1957

Trottie True poster
7.0

Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.

Trottie True

1949

Sally poster
7.7

Sally Ride's groundbreaking journey as the first American woman in space concealed a deeply personal story. Her life partner, Tam O'Shaughnessy, unveils their covert 27-year romance and its accompanying sacrifices.

Sally

2025

A Town Like Alice poster
6.4

In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.

A Town Like Alice

1956

The Night My Number Came Up poster
6.9

British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while he is flying to Tokyo the next day, circumstances start changing to align with the pilot's vivid vision, and it looks like the dream disaster may become a reality.

The Night My Number Came Up

1955

The Cockleshell Heroes poster
5.9

During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.

The Cockleshell Heroes

1955

First Man into Space poster
5.1

The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside...

First Man into Space

1959

Grip of the Strangler poster
6.0

A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.

Grip of the Strangler

1958

The Duke Wore Jeans poster
5.5

A Cockney lad pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess.

The Duke Wore Jeans

1958

Cinderella poster
NR

Film "Cinderella" based on the novel by Charles Perrault.

Cinderella

1958

The Solitary Child poster
6.0

A young woman marries a gentleman farmer who may have murdered his first wife.

The Solitary Child

1958

Behind the camera