Frank Windsor

Acting

Frank Windsor

Born 1927-07-12 · Walsall, Staffordshire, England, UK

Actor known for the television series Z-Cars and its spin-offs Softly, Softly and Softly, Softly: Taskforce.

Acting credits

Revolution poster
5.4

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find his son, and eventually becomes convinced that he must take a stand and fight for the freedom of the Colonies, alongside the aristocratic rebel Daisy McConnahay. As Tom undergoes his change of heart, the events of the war unfold in large-scale grandeur.

Revolution

1985

Sunday Bloody Sunday poster
6.5

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also intimately involved with middle-aged doctor Daniel Hirsh. For both Alex and Daniel, the younger man represents a break with their repressive pasts, and though both know that Bob is seeing both of them, neither is willing to let go of the youth and vitality he brings to their otherwise stable lives.

Sunday Bloody Sunday

1971

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour poster
NR

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour is a stage play by Tom Stoppard with music by André Previn. It was first performed in 1977. The play criticizes the Soviet practice of treating political dissidence as a form of mental illness. Its title derives from the popular mnemonic used by music students to remember the notes on the lines of the treble clef. The filming was undertaken at a live performance at Wembley Conference Centre in April 1978, conducted by Previn.

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

1979

This Sporting Life poster
7.0

In early 1960s Northern England, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.

This Sporting Life

1963

The Fifteen Streets poster
6.4

In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.

The Fifteen Streets

1989

Assassin poster
5.8

When the British government orders the assassination of an Air Ministry official suspected of leaking top secret intel, their top assassin assigned to the job discovers there may be more to the hit than meets the eye.

Assassin

1973

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? poster
6.1

Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

1978

The Union poster
NR

A dramatised impression of the events surrounding the Electrical Trades Union ballot rigging case of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The Union

1981

Spring and Port Wine poster
5.8

A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton, England.

Spring and Port Wine

1970

No artwork available
NR

All freight movements over Britain's rail network are monitored and controlled by an advanced computer-based system known as TOPS (Total Operations Processing System). The film follows the progress of a wagon load of equipment from Truro to the Midlands and shows how TOPS makes it possible to accommodate a last minute change of plan.

Using Tops

1978

No artwork available
NR

A man sees a newspaper advert for a rotavator. He visits the seller and is invited to an allotment.

Allotment

1971

Touch and Go poster
7.0

Nick and Alison, a young couple although married for several years, find their sex-life is uninspiring. After much agonising, they decide to visit a wife-swapping club in a risky attempt to reinvigorate their marriage. However, after initial positive effects on their relationship, the activity begins to threaten the basis of their marriage.

Touch and Go

1998

Dropout poster
5.6

Disillusioned English banker's wife Mary meets troubled Italian immigrant Bruno, with whom she is captivated by and they set off on a voyage on which they meet a variety of society's dropouts.

Dropout

1970

The Shooting Party poster
6.6

1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby for a weekend shoot. As the terminal decrepitude of a dying class is reflected in the social interactions and hypocrisy of its members, only world weary Sir Randolph seems to realise that the sun is setting.

The Shooting Party

1985

The London Connection poster
7.8

A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of American tourists caught right in the middle.

The London Connection

1979

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus poster
8.0

Oedipus's wanderings come to an end when he finds his final resting place, as foretold by the gods. But his brother-in-law and his son each try to take him away.

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus

1986

Doctor Who: Ghost Light poster
8.4

The Doctor takes Ace on an initiative test to a strange Victorian old house where she is forced to confront her darkest fears.

Doctor Who: Ghost Light

1989

Coming Out of the Ice poster
6.8

A biographical film about Victor Herman, based on the memoir of the same name.

Coming Out of the Ice

1982

The Plank poster
7.4

Classic short British comedy, full of stars, about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion. TV remake of the 1967 short.

The Plank

1979

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective poster
6.2

When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15-year-old cold case.

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective

1981

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own poster
5.4

Barry McKenzie's Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that kidnapping her will draw tourists to his country. Barry and his mates set out to rescue her and bring her back to Australia.

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

1974

Robert poster
8.0

A schoolteacher mourning the death of her mother keeps an inattentive student behind one day after class, but from there things spiral, calling her ability to teach into question.

Robert

1967

Make and Break poster
NR

Lots of pent up business people struggle to balance business with pleasure.

Make and Break

1987

Between Two Women poster
5.4

Set in a Yorkshire milltown in 1957, Ellen Hardy is unhappily married but is close to her ten-year-old son, Victor. The family has recently moved house and Victor has started at a new school where Ellen has become friendly with his teacher, Kathy Thompson, who is keen to encourage him at art. As the friendship between the two women grows, Ellen's millworker husband, Hardy, feels increasingly alienated at home.

Between Two Women

2004