Stuart Milligan

Acting

Stuart Milligan

Born

1953-09-10 (73)

Place of birth

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Stuart Milligan (born September 10, 1953, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American actor and voice actor, 6′ ½″ (184 cm) tall, who relocated to the United Kingdom in 1979 and has been based there since. His parents, Phyllis and Charles Milligan, were both teachers. He is married to Rosie (Dutch-born) and they have two daughters, Sjanneke and Maaike. He is best known for his recurring role as flamboyant illusionist Adam Klaus in the BBC mystery-comedy Jonathan Creek (1998–2010, 15 episodes). His most notable film credits include an uncredited Salvage Team Leader in Aliens (1986, directed by James Cameron), Officer Walters in Outland (1981), Captain in Spy Game (2001, with Robert De Niro and…

Known for

Doctor Who poster
7.6

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

Doctor Who

2005

Midsomer Murders poster
7.5

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

Midsomer Murders

1997

Silo poster
8.2

In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.

Silo

2023

The Crown poster
8.2

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

The Crown

2016

American Playhouse poster
6.6

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

American Playhouse

1982

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan poster
7.7

When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

2018

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2010s · 5 titles

2000s · 5 titles

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow poster
5.9

When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has been investigating the recent disappearance of prominent scientists. Suspecting a link between the global robot attacks and missing men, Sky Captain and Polly decide to work together. They fly to the Himalayas in pursuit of the mysterious Dr. Totenkopf, the mastermind behind the robots.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

2004

The Detonator poster
4.7

Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent must protect a witness as he crosses Europe.

The Detonator

2006

Spy Game poster
6.9

On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.

Spy Game

2001

Festival poster
6.0

'Festival' is a black comedy set during the annual Edinburgh Fringe festival. The film is based around both the judging of a major comedy award and the performers at one of the smaller venues. Various plot strands interweave, including the bitter relationship between a famous self-obsessed British comic and his ever-suffering assistant, an actress debuting at the festival with a one-woman show about Dorothy Wordsworth and a depressed, rich housewife who spies on the stoned Canadian theatre troupe to whom she has rented out her house

Festival

2005

Jonathan Creek: The Grinning Man poster
8.0

Jonathan Creek returns in this feature length episode to investigate a series of baffling disappearances in a “haunted” room at the top of a large gothic house. Home of stage musician Lance Gessler, the forbidding mansion known as ‘Metropolis’ is the site of an intriguing mystery. Over the last seventy years a number of visitors staying overnight in the gloomy old attic room have disappeared without trace...

Jonathan Creek: The Grinning Man

2009

1990s · 9 titles

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure poster
5.9

Indy and his girlfriend, Nancy Stratemeyer, whose father created the Nancy Drew mystery series, visit the laboratory of inventor Thomas Edison. The two must contend with dangerous German spies as they struggle to keep Edison's top secret new invention out of the hands of hostile enemy agents. To keep him from getting into any more trouble, Indy is sent to visit his aunt in New Mexico. While there, he is kidnapped by Pancho Villa and swept into the Mexican Revolution. Chaotic, free-wheeling border towns, a "Wild Bunch" style train robbery and a colorful barroom encounter with a young George Patton make for thrilling entertainment in this action-packed movie.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Spring Break Adventure

1999

Into Thin Air: Death on Everest poster
5.4

An adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best selling book, "Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster". This movie attempts to re-create the disastrous events that took place during the Mount Everest climb on May 10, 1996. It also follows Jon Krakauer throughout the movie, and portrays what he was going through while climbing this mountain.

Into Thin Air: Death on Everest

1997

Oklahoma! poster
6.7

A dark-themed and redesigned West End production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's seminal Broadway musical tells the story of farm girl Laurey and her courtship by two rival suitors, cowboy Curly and the sinister and frightening farmhand Jud.

Oklahoma!

1999

Robin Hood poster
9.0

Watch the transformation of young Robert Huntington as he becomes the heroic outlaw Robin Hood in this high quality entertaining animated feature for your kids and family. Join Robin Hood and his trusted companions as they dash from one adventure to the next. Robin won’t rest until he saves Maid Marian and restores King Richard to the throne.

Robin Hood

1991

The Visitor poster
4.7

Four 20-somethings are coasting through life in a fashionable part of London. A misunderstanding leads to the introduction of a stranger into their home, who starts to take control...

The Visitor

1999

Robin Hood III: Enemies Forever poster
10.0

Join Robin Hood on another adventure in this high quality animated feature for your kids and family. This time, Robin escapes the Sherwood forest fire and must confront the evil Baron and Count John.

Robin Hood III: Enemies Forever

1991

Prague Duet poster
6.4

Dr. Lauren is staying in Prague for a conference and falls in love with Czech writer Jiri Kolmar.

Prague Duet

1998

Robin Hood IV, King's Return poster
10.0

Robin Hood is saved from near death by Big, a giant man who has lost his memory. Robin is finally victorious after the Count and the Baron are arrested and banished from the kingdom.

Robin Hood IV, King's Return

1991

No artwork available
NR

Anthology of short plays on the topic of seduction

Seduction

1991

1980s · 7 titles

Outland poster
6.4

On the sunless moon Io, Marshall William T. O’Niel goes toe-to-toe with the corrupt manager of a mining colony and his gang of roughnecks while investigating a rash of worker suicides.

Outland

1981

Spies Like Us poster
6.2

Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for nuclear war.

Spies Like Us

1985

Lifeforce poster
6.2

A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, commencing an apocalyptic descent into chaos.

Lifeforce

1985

Santa Claus: The Movie poster
6.3

In ancient times, a man named Claus, who delivers toys in his small village, fulfils his destiny to become Santa Claus after meeting an expert toy-making elf, Patch, in the North Pole. In the present day, Santa Claus has become overwhelmed by his workload, and the disgruntled Patch flees the workshop to New York City. There, Patch unknowingly threatens the fate of Christmas by taking a job at a failing toy company run by a scheming businessman.

Santa Claus: The Movie

1985

Ragtime poster
7.0

A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

Ragtime

1981

Murder on the Moon poster
3.8

After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the moon. When a murder occurs on the outpost, both U.S. and Soviet investigators are forced to work on the case together.

Murder on the Moon

1989

Three Wishes for Jamie poster
7.5

Adapted from Charles O'Neal's 1949 book, this follows the lighthearted adventures of a late 19th Century young man named Jamie McGrew, the three wishes granted to him in a dream by a fairy queen, and the unusual way they come true. His first is for travel (he goes from Ireland to a life of horse trading in Georgia); his second, to marry the girl of his dreams; the third, a son with the gift of poetry and the ability to speak in the ancient Gaelic tongue.

Three Wishes for Jamie

1987

Series credits

Doctor Who poster
7.6

The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.

Doctor Who

2005

Midsomer Murders poster
7.5

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

Midsomer Murders

1997

Midsomer Murders poster
7.5

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

Midsomer Murders

1997

Silo poster
8.2

In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.

Silo

2023

The Crown poster
8.2

The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.

The Crown

2016

American Playhouse poster
6.6

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

American Playhouse

1982

American Playhouse poster
6.6

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

American Playhouse

1982

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan poster
7.7

When CIA analyst Jack Ryan stumbles upon a suspicious series of bank transfers his search for answers pulls him from the safety of his desk job and catapults him into a deadly game of cat and mouse throughout Europe and the Middle East, with a rising terrorist figurehead preparing for a massive attack against the US and her allies.

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan

2018

Lewis poster
7.6

Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.

Lewis

2007

Benidorm poster
7.6

Set in the Solana all-inclusive Resort, Benidorm follows the antics of regulars and first-time holiday makers on their journeys abroad.

Benidorm

2007

Jonathan Creek poster
7.6

Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is a magician with a natural ability for solving puzzles. He soon puts this ability to the use of solving impossible crimes and mysterious murders.

Jonathan Creek

1997

Death by Lightning poster
7.3

The story of James Garfield, who rose from obscurity to become America's 20th President — and Charles Guiteau, the man who assassinated him.

Death by Lightning

2025

Dempsey and Makepeace poster
6.8

Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.

Dempsey and Makepeace

1985

Secret Army poster
7.8

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.

Secret Army

1977

The Chief poster
7.0

The Chief is a British crime drama transmitted on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995. Produced by Anglia Television, it centred on the politics at the top of a typical English police force in its continual battle to solve the problems the times, in this case the fictional Eastland of East Anglia.

The Chief

1990

Avenue 5 poster
6.6

40 years in the future, space captain Ryan Clark and the crew of the luxury space cruise ship Avenue 5 navigate disgruntled passengers and unexpected events after experiencing technical difficulties onboard.

Avenue 5

2020

The English poster
7.3

An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke, arrives into the new and wild landscape of the American West to wreak revenge on the man she sees as responsible for the death of her son.

The English

2022

The Basil Brush Show poster
7.3

The Basil Brush Show was a British children's television sitcom series, starring the glove puppet fox, Basil Brush. It was produced for six series by The Foundation, airing on CBBC from 4 October 2002 to 21 December 2007. The show is a spin-off from the original 1960's/1970's BBC television series, but without any of the original cast.

The Basil Brush Show

2002

Black Earth Rising poster
6.5

As a child, Kate Ashby was rescued from the horrific aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and brought to the UK. But the tragic shadow of her past proves impossible to escape.

Black Earth Rising

2018

No artwork available
NR

A Millennium update of the popular British soap opera 'Crossroads' which originally ran from 1964 to 1988. The motel is now a hotel and a brand new cast are in residence.

Crossroads

2001

Oppenheimer poster
6.7

Spanning 1938 to 1953, theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer leads the effort to develop the atom bomb during the Second World War. When revealed, his work initially makes him a hero in the United States, but an ever-changing world soon sees him recast as a security risk.

Oppenheimer

1980

Shockers poster
NR

An anthology series of horror stories by contemporary British screenwriters.

Shockers

1999

Toast of Tinseltown poster
7.2

Tortured thespian Steven Toast relocates to the ultimate actor's playground - Hollywood. Surely this time he will get the adulation he so richly deserves.

Toast of Tinseltown

2022

Daylight Robbery poster
8.7

Daylight Robbery is a British television drama mini-series that aired on ITV from 9 September 1999 to 18 December 2000. Focusing on four Essex women struggling with personal and domestic problems, decide to turn to crime to make ends meet.

Daylight Robbery

1999

The Assets poster
6.9

1985 serves as the backdrop to the final showdown of the Cold War when Sandy and her partner Jeanne Vertefeuille vowed to find the mole that would turn out to be the most notorious traitor in US history, Aldrich Ames. Sandy is in a race against time to save the Soviet intelligence officers from being caught and killed. Living her own double life at home, this beautiful wife and mother vowed to stop at nothing until she uncovered the truth.

The Assets

2014

We'll Meet Again poster
7.0

It's 1943 and the American Air Force has come to Market Weatherby, a small East Anglian town. The war-weary British and the brash American GIs sometimes clash, but friendships are also forged.

We'll Meet Again

1982

The Fortunate Pilgrim poster
6.2

The saga of an Italian immigrant family in search of the American dream.

The Fortunate Pilgrim

1988

Doctor Who: Dreamland poster
5.6

While visiting a diner in Nevada in 1958, the Doctor finds an alien artifact and ends up on a mission to save the Rivesh Mantilax from the danger of the Viperox and the U.S. Military.

Doctor Who: Dreamland

2009

Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial poster
6.0

Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial, is a BBC documentary film series consisting of three one-hour films that re-enact the Nuremberg War Trials of Albert Speer, Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess. They were broadcast on BBC Two in 2006 to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the trials.

Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial

2006

No artwork available
NR

A retired journalist finds that his life is in danger when he uncovers details of a secret NATO project.

A Quiet Conspiracy

1989