Edward Burnham

Acting

Edward Burnham

Born 1916-12-25 · Lincolnshire, England, UK

Acting credits

The Abominable Dr. Phibes poster
7.0

After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

1971

To Sir, with Love poster
7.4

A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.

To Sir, with Love

1967

Young Winston poster
6.2

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.

Young Winston

1972

Young Winston poster
6.2

This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.

Young Winston

1972

When Eight Bells Toll poster
5.7

Phillip Calvert is a British Treasury secret service agent assigned to stop the ruthless pirating of millions in gold bullion off the western coast of the Scottish highlands. His search takes him to the small port town of Torbay on the Isle of Torbay where numerous fishing boats, yachts and people have been mysteriously disappearing. A trail of deceit and subterfuge leads him to Cypriot tycoon and shipping magnate Sir Anthony Skouras and his beautiful wife, Charlotte aboard their luxury yacht anchored off the coast, who may hold the answers to the truth.

When Eight Bells Toll

1971

10 Rillington Place poster
7.3

The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.

10 Rillington Place

1971

Doctor Who: Robot poster
7.0

The newly-regenerated Doctor helps UNIT battle a sentient robot being manipulated by a corrupt scientific organization.

Doctor Who: Robot

1975

Little Dorrit poster
6.4

Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.

Little Dorrit

1987

Memed My Hawk poster
6.0

In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province's powerful and corrupt governor. When an assassination attempt is made against the official, the young man flees his village and joins up with a group of outlaws fighting against the wealthy and powerful landowners who control the lives of the locals and make life miserable for them. The outlaws' successes prompt the governor to call in the Turkish army to capture or kill them.

Memed My Hawk

1984

The Hiding Place poster
6.9

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-World War II Holland. Their uneventful lives are disrupted with the coming of the Nazis. Suspected of hiding Jews and caught breaking rationing rules, they are sent to a concentration camp, where their Christian faith keeps them from despair and bitterness.

The Hiding Place

1975

No artwork available
NR

Steven is a beautiful, lovable little boy, but there is something about him that sets him apart.

Steven

1974

Romeo and Juliet poster
NR

BBC Play of the Month adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story.

Romeo and Juliet

1967

Diamond Skulls poster
3.4

Hugo Buckton seems to have it all: He is apparently rich and has a beautiful wife and a doting son. In actuality, though, Hugo is having money problems and is paranoid that his wife is cheating on him. After a boozy night at a party, Hugo hits and kills a woman with his car -- and at his friends' urging, keeps driving. When Hugo starts receiving letters from someone who knows about the accident, he begins to suspect that he has been set up.

Diamond Skulls

1990

Man in the Moon poster
6.7

William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the nearby National Atomic Research Center where they figure anyone who could fail at being a guinea pig is just what they need. They con William into thinking he will continue his guinea pig career by testing out some equipment for them before they send a group of astronauts to the moon.

Man in the Moon

1960

No artwork available
NR

A man who feels trapped by his life volunteers to become an exhibit in a zoo.

A Man in the Zoo

1975

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

Where Is Parsifal? poster
3.9

Tucked away in his castle, a hypochondriac inventor plays generous host to a revolving cast of wacky guests. But to pay off his mounting debts, he must sell either a powerful businessman or a rich gypsy on his latest creation: a laser skywriter.

Where Is Parsifal?

1984

Friend or Foe poster
7.5

Two evacuated children in wartime rural England find two German airmen hiding out in the woods. An adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's 1977 novel from writer/director John Krish .

Friend or Foe

1982

Doctor Who: The Invasion poster
8.8

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe return to Earth and become embroiled in the schemes of Tobias Vaughn. They meet up with an old friend, Colonel (now Brigadier) Lethbridge-Stewart, and some old enemies, the Cybermen.

Doctor Who: The Invasion

1968

Night Is the Time for Killing poster
6.0

Film starring Judy Geeson, James Smilie, Charles Gray, Alister Williamson

Night Is the Time for Killing

1975

No artwork available
10.0

Helicopter pilots help children to track down cattle rustlers.

The Copter Kids

1976

No artwork available
NR

Russia's Space Race success is mainly due to a brilliant rocket scientist, Kuprin. But a journalist and a politician in London remember him as a fervent Anglophile who had to leave Britain under duress. Can he be persuaded to return?.

A Call on Kuprin: Part 1

1961

'That Crazy Woman' poster
NR

In 1960, at the age of 56, Dr. Barbara Moore became a national hero by walking from John O'Groats to Land's End. One of the last great English eccentrics, even though she was Russian.

'That Crazy Woman'

1980

Are Friends Electric? poster
NR

This documentary examines Tom Baker's introduction as the Doctor and the making of his first story, Robot.

Are Friends Electric?

2007