William Simons

Acting

William Simons

Born 1940-11-17 · Mumbles, Swansea, Wales, UK

William Simons was born on November 17, 1940 in Mumbles, South Wales, UK. He is an actor, known for Cribb (1980), Ivory Hunter (1951) and Heartbeat (1992).

Acting credits

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Mary stands trial for throwing vitriol in the face of Elizabeth, her rival for the love of Frank.

The Watercress Girl

1972

Mandy poster
7.1

London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy's mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.

Mandy

1952

Julius Caesar poster
8.7

The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.

Julius Caesar

1979

Pope John Paul II poster
7.5

Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic world.

Pope John Paul II

1984

The Woman in Black poster
6.9

A lawyer travels to a small seaside town to settle the estate of a recently deceased woman, but soon becomes ensnared in something much more sinister.

The Woman in Black

1989

Where No Vultures Fly poster
6.3

A true story about an Englishman working as a game warden in Kenya who is disgusted by the ongoing destruction of African wildlife, and decides to create a national park to protect them.

Where No Vultures Fly

1951

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Anna Carteret and David Suchet (TV's Hercule Poirot) star in Being Normal. The pair play a British couple who must come to terms with their son's physical handicap. "Denial" is the operative word in the early scenes, leading to several tense confrontations.

Being Normal

1983

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Ivan Turgenev's comedy features an attractive woman approaching middle age. At her husband's country estate, with an admirer in constant attendance, she loses her heart (and her common sense) to her ward's handsome tutor.

A Month in the Country

1985

Doctor Who: The Sun Makers poster
7.0

Far in the distant future, Earth has become uninhabitable, forcing Mankind to colonise first Mars and then Pluto. No longer the coldest planet in the solar system, Pluto is now warmed by artificial suns. The Doctor, Leela and K9 arrive to discover the exploitation of the Megropolis people by the ruling elite, lead by the Collector. Deep in the Undercity, a small group of revolutionaries plot to overthrow the company and the Doctor is forced to fight the oppression of the people using Fire against Fire...

Doctor Who: The Sun Makers

1977

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

The Blacktoft Diaries: True or False?

1979

Bird Fancier poster
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There's big money in pigeon racing if you've got a fast flyer, and Joe Desmond's blue-pied hen is a natural winner. But Joe's lucky streak with the birds has gone on a bit too long for the comfort of his competitors. It's time someone else had a turn. Mal Middleton's comedy was filmed on location in his home town of Sheffield.

Bird Fancier

1985

The People’s Jack poster
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A musical version of the life of the 17th Century English radical politician, John Wilkes, who campaigned for the right for voters to determine their representatives, not the House of Commons.

The People’s Jack

1970

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7.0

A school journey through the city of London as seen through the eyes of the children and their teacher.

Capital Visit

1955

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Stephen (Paul Henley) works in a bank. A virgin, he shows no interest in sex, and is cruelly scorned by an aggressive female neighbour when he rebuffs her advances. He lives with his mother, an overbearing woman who mocks him for being wet. But Stephen has a secret – he likes to wear women’s clothing. When his horrified mother finds out, she takes him to meet a fellow cross-dresser to ‘solve’ the problem. But the meeting ends unexpectedly, when the other man realises that Stephen is not transvestite, but transsexual.

Even Solomon

1979

West of Zanzibar poster
5.5

Game warden Bob Payton tracks an ivory smuggling ring through some of the most treacherous passages of the African veldt.

West of Zanzibar

1954

Death Is Part of the Process poster
8.0

South Africa in the 60s. The campaign of sabotage is halted and the arrests continue. The Special Branch obviously have inside Information.

Death Is Part of the Process

1986

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Drama about the 1914-16 Irish uprising, from the perspective of Irish rebels and English military planners.

Would You Look at Them Smashing All Those Lovely Windows

1970