Acting

Alan Downer

Born 1930-09-12 · Swansea, Wales, UK

Alan Downer was born on 12 September 1930 in Swansea, Wales, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Triton (1968), To Have and to Hold (1986) and Emmerdale Farm (1972). He was married to Dilys Laye. He died on 16 March 1995 in London, England, UK.

Acting credits

Welcome Home poster
NR

Dr Frank Bowers has been looking forward to returning home after a long stay in a psychiatric ward. But when he gets there, he finds that not only does no one recognize him, but another man called Frank Bowers is living in his place.

Welcome Home

1971

Bellman and True poster
6.6

Hiller, a computer expert, was bribed by group of bank robbers to obtain details of the security system at a newly-built bank. Having obtained the information, he thought he'd seen the last of the robbers. But now they've traced him and his son to London. They hold the son hostage and force Hiller to decode the information about the alarm and then to take part in the robbery.

Bellman and True

1987

Drake's Venture poster
5.8

Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world in search of adventure and treasure.

Drake's Venture

1980

No artwork available
NR

Spoof story, set in the 1950s, about espionage in a humberside village.

The Blacktoft Diaries: True or False?

1979

Come the Revolution poster
10.0

Comedy about a pub theatre group seen as dramatic revolutionaries by an actress with more than her share of imagination.

Come the Revolution

1977

Romance on the Orient Express poster
5.4

Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, who met and had a tender romance ten years earlier while vacationing in France, which ended abruptly when he walked out on her without saying a word. Now Alex tries to make up for lost time with Lily while she digs into his past to find out what haunting secrets that he has which led to their abrupt break-up.

Romance on the Orient Express

1985

Unreported Incident poster
NR

Jack Lawrence and Jimmy Dunne were once, briefly, enemies at opposite ends of a gun on the Irish border; now their lives have become inextricably mixed. They are together on a chat show whose host wants a sob story with a happy ending, but gets something entirely different.

Unreported Incident

1988

No artwork available
7.0

When kidnappers abduct his teenage daughter, Sue, industrialist Vincent Craig could easily raise the ransom money. But Craig intends to do things his own way. He believes he knows who is behind the kidnapping--and that the motives are personal, not financial.

The Victim

1980

Operation Julie poster
3.5

A TV movie directed by Bob Mahoney. Based on the book by Dick Lee & Colin Pratt it tells the true story of a long running Police investigation which resulted in the arrests of 120 people and jail sentences of 170 years for the manufacture and distribution of £100M of LSD.

Operation Julie

1985

A Choice of Evils poster
NR

Cardinal Volponi tries to save his old friend, a priest-turned-militant communist, from being executed by the Nazis alongside 334 other hostages but struggles to reason with either the Vatican, the Nazis or his friend.

A Choice of Evils

1977

Casting the Runes poster
7.0

The producer of an investigative television programme which is critical of an occultist finds out that he has a curse put on her.

Casting the Runes

1979