Acting

Leonard Cracknell

Born — Died

1941-01-20 — 1998-03-13

Place of birth

Taunton, Somerset, England, UK

Known for

Acting

Credits

7 titles

Known for

The Wednesday Play poster
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An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

The Wednesday Play

1964

Sergeant Cork poster
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Sergeant Cork is a British detective television series which first aired between 1963 and 1968 on ITV. It was a police procedural show that followed the efforts of two police officers and their battle against crime in Victorian London. In all 66 hour-long episodes were aired during the five-year run, although the last episode was not broadcast until January 1968, 16 months after the others. Journalist Tom Sutcliffe has credited it as a first example of the use of the Victorian-era policeman in a television crime series. A 1969 review in The Age opined that rather than suspense, the strengths of the series were its "excellent period settings and wonderfully thick pea-soupers" which "add up to splendid evocative stuff", as well as the performance of star John Barrie. At no time during the whole series is Sergeant Cork's first name given.

Sergeant Cork

1963

The Terrornauts poster
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A group of scientists are kidnapped and taken to an outer space outpost in order to save Earth from destruction.

The Terrornauts

1967

Invasion poster
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Routine tests on a traffic accident victim lead to shocking discoveries when the man's blood is found to be unidentifiable and x-rays reveal a disc embedded in his brain. His fabulous tale of being an escaped prisoner from an alien spaceship takes a turn for the sinister when the hospital staff realise that they're under a state of siege...

Invasion

1965

If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them poster
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Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.

If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them

1968

The Big Breaker poster
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A lodger, recuperating from a heart attack, sets his sights on his landlady.

The Big Breaker

1964

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