Acting

David Lander

Born 1921-10-03 · Rochford, Essex, England, UK

Acting credits

The Twelve Chairs poster
6.2

In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.

The Twelve Chairs

1970

Time Without Pity poster
6.5

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”

Time Without Pity

1957

The Spanish Gardener poster
6.3

Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas. Harrington is unreasonably possessive of Nicholas and becomes jealous when he begins to form a close friendship with Jose, their gentle gardener.

The Spanish Gardener

1956

A Woman of Mystery poster
6.0

UK mystery about a reporter investigating the suicide of a seemingly insignificant hatcheck girl.

A Woman of Mystery

1958

House of Secrets poster
6.4

Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.

House of Secrets

1956

The Tell-Tale Heart poster
6.1

A man's sanity is a point of contention as he confesses to murdering an elderly man, driven by the victim's pale blue 'vulture eye', culminating in guilt-induced auditory hallucinations of the victim's beating heart.

The Tell-Tale Heart

1960

Some Will, Some Won't poster
5.2

Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.

Some Will, Some Won't

1970

Anna Karenina poster
6.6

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Anna Karenina

1961

No artwork available
NR

Analyses how people process information. Pretty girls, bizarrely dressed men and some improvisational actors demonstrate attention, language processing, long and short term memory, mnemonics, retrieval strategies, and problem solving.

Information Processing

Be My Guest poster
6.6

A couple inherit a hotel with no guests until their son's pop group turns things around.

Be My Guest

1965

No artwork available
7.0

An ex-boxer on the run from gangsters for refusing to throw a fight, helps a garage owner and his daughter to improve their business.

On the Run

1958