Cast & creator
Murray Melvin
Best known for Midsomer Murders, The Avengers, BBC Play of the Month
Murray Melvin (10 August 1932-14 April 2023) was an English actor and writer. He won the 1962 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award for his role in A Taste of Honey (1961).
60
film credits
28
television credits
88
1960–2023 · acting roles
6.3
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (88)
Showing 88 of 88 credits
Midsomer Murders
Bentham DeQuetteville
1997
The Avengers
1961
BBC Play of the Month
The Dauphin
1965BBC Play of the Month
Travelling Barber
1965
Theatre 625
Berthold
1964Theatre 625
Thumb
1964
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Wojciech
1965
Torchwood
Bilis
2006
Crossbow
1987
Out of the Unknown
Fred
1965
The Lost City of Z
Lord James Bernard
2017
Bugs
1995
The Phantom of the Opera
Reyer
2004
Chillers
Mr Taylor
1990
Barry Lyndon
Reverend Runt
1975
Super Gran
Neville Mince
1985
The Informer
William Waterwell
1966
The Devils
Father-Canon Jean Mignon
1971
Ooh La La!
Vladimir
1968
Half Hour Story
Alex
1967
Starhunter
Caravaggio AI
2000
Alice in Wonderland
Chief Executioner
1999
David Copperfield
Dr Edward Chillip
2000
Starhunter ReduX
Caravaggio
2018
The Genius of Mozart
Lorenzo da Ponte
2004
Christopher Columbus
Padre Linares
1985
Shout at the Devil
Lt. Phipps
1976
The Prince and the Pauper
Prince's Dresser
1977Six
Lupin Pooter
1964
Princess Caraboo
Lord Motley
1994The Wednesday Thriller
Arthur
1965
Oscar's Orchestra
1995
H.M.S. Defiant
Wagstaffe
1962
A Taste of Honey
Geoffrey Ingham
1961Clouds of Glory
Robert Lovell
1978
Let Him Have It
Secondary School Teacher
1991
Alfie
Nat
1966
Start the Revolution Without Me
Blind Man
1970Angel Pavement
Turgis
1967
The Emperor's New Clothes
Antommarchi
2001
Sacred Hearts
Father Power
1985
The Boy Friend
Alphonse
1971
The Krays
Newsagent
1990
Sparrows Can't Sing
Georgie
1963
Kaleidoscope
Aimes
1966
Stanleyandus - a Kubrick odyssey
self
2022
The Criminal
Antlers
1960
The Undertaker
Lenny
2023
Doomsday Gun
Shop Manager
1994
As You Like It
Sir Oliver Martext
1992
Comrades
Mr. Frampton's Clerk
1987
Gawain and the Green Knight
Seneschal
1973
Lisztomania
Hector Berlioz
1975
David Copperfield
Dr Edward Chillip
2001
Slipstream
Man on Stairs
1989
Smashing Time
1st Exquisite
1967
Ghost in the Noonday Sun
Hamidos
1973
The Ghost of Peter Sellers
Self
2018
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
Blifil
1976
The Fixer
Priest
1968
Joseph Andrews
Beau Didapper
1977
Nutcracker
Leopold
1982
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Doctor
1972
The Adventures Of Don Quixote
Traveling Barber
1973
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
Self
2002
Gulliver's Travels
Subtracto (voice)
1977
Something in the Cellar
Fred
1969The Fool
Jeremy Ruttle
1990
The Tyrant King
Gerald Gould
1968
T-Bag: The Reunion Documentary
Self
2007
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
Photographer
1966
Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image
Himself
2006
Petticoat Pirates
Kenneth
1961
Ghost Stories: The Curious Tales of the Making of Ghost Story
Himself
2009
Solo for Sparrow
Larkin
1962
Testimony
Film Editor
1988Testimony
The Film Editor
1988
The Diary of a Nobody
Lupin Pooter
1964
Ghost Story
McFayden
1974
The Village
Male Librarian
2010
The Ceremony
Gendarme
1963
Stanley and Us
Self
1999
Set the Night on Fire: The Story of Ewan MacColl
Self
2021
This Office Life
Reporter
1984
Stories from a Flying Trunk
Hans Christian Andersen
1979
Suspect
Teddy Boy
1960
Sunday Pursuit
Head waiter
1990The Grey Mile
Professor Worth
2012