Cast & creator
Robert Flemyng
Best known for Play for Today, The Avengers, BBC Play of the Month
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Flemyng OBE, MC (3 January 1912 – 22 May 1995) was a British film and stage actor. Flemyng was born in Liverpool, the son of a doctor, and was educated at Haileybury. He began his career as a medical student before abandoning medicine to become an actor. Flemyng made his stage debut in the early 1930s, and worked steadily in both London and Broadway. His first film appearance was in 1937, but he didn't appear steadily in films until after he served in World War II. During the war he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with great distinction, reaching the rank of full colonel at the age of 33. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1941, mentioned in despatches, and was appointed OBE in 1944. He played the idealistic schoolmaster in the 1948 Roy Boulting film, The Guinea Pig, starring Richard Attenborough, and the key role of Detective Sergeant Roberts in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp. One memorable role was as a necrophiliac in the film The Horrible Dr. Hichcock in 1962. He ably played a sardonic British Secret Intelligence Service chief (his boss being George Sanders) in the 1966 film The Quiller Memorandum. The character actor worked in films and television until his death in 1995. Some of his later films include Kafka (1991) and Shadowlands (1993). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Flemyng, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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film credits
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television credits
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1937–1995 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (70)
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Play for Today
Sir Charles
1970
The Avengers
Lord Maxted
1961
BBC Play of the Month
Gen. Canynge
1965
The Professionals
Sir John Terringham
1977
Compact
1962
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Major Lavender
1969
Danger Man
Logan
1960Thursday Theatre
Julian Anson
1964
The Persuaders!
Sir George
1971
Public Eye
Maj-Gen. Felcourt
1965
The New Avengers
Minister Quaintance
1976
Suspicion
Nigel Crossley
1957
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Aegeus
1991
Man of the World
O'Connor
1962
Enemy at the Door
Sir James Prideaux
1978
Lady Killers
Mr. Justice Havers
1980
Half Hour Story
Martin
1967Late Night Theatre
Rivers
1972
Edward and Mrs Simpson
Sir Donald Somervell
1978
Funny Face
Paul Duval
1957
Zero One
1962
Battle of Britain
Wing Cmdr. Willoughby
1969Family Solicitor
Anthony Freeman
1961The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
Sir Percival Glyde
1960The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
Lawrence
1960
Rebecca
Colonel Julyan
1979Fame Is the Spur
Lord Lostwithiel
1982
Shadowlands
Claude Bird
1993
The Medusa Touch
Judge McKinley
1978
The Man Who Never Was
Lt. George Acres
1956
Oh! What a Lovely War
Staff Officer in Gassed Trench
1969
The Thirty Nine Steps
Magistrate
1978
Conspirator
Captain Hugh Ladholme
1949
The Deadly Affair
Samuel Fennan
1967
Travels with My Aunt
Crowder
1972
The Blood Beast Terror
Dr. Carl Mallinger
1968
Kafka
The Keeper of the Files
1991
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Theseus & the Minotaur
Aegeus
1991
Let's Be Happy
Lord James MacNairn
1957
Young Winston
Dr. Buzzard
1972
The Quiller Memorandum
Rushington
1966
A Touch of Larceny
Cmdr. John Larkin
1960
The Blue Lamp
Police Sgt. Roberts
1950
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
Prof. Bernard Hichcock
1962
The Holly and the Ivy
Major
1952
Cast a Dark Shadow
Phillip Mortimer
1955
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
Patient 2
1995
The Spy with a Cold Nose
M.I.5 Director
1966
Blind Date
Sir Brian Lewis
1959
The Four Feathers
The Old Colonel
1978
Golden Rendezvous
Capt. Bullen
1977
Paris by Night
Jack Sidmouth
1989
The Magic Box
Doctor
1952
The Guinea Pig
Nigel Lorraine
1948
The King's Breakfast
The Lord Chamberlain
1963
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Sir Donald Somervell
1978
Wuthering Heights
Dr. Kenneth
1958
Spider's Web
Sir Rowland Delahaye
1982
Memento Mori
Ronald Sidebottome
1992
The Body Stealers
W.C. Baldwin
1969Loyalties
Gen Canynge
1976
Windom's Way
Col. George Hasbrook
1957
The Firechasers
Carlton
1971
The Darwin Adventure
Prof. Henslow
1972
A Cotswold Death
Sir Charles
1982
Sting of Death
1955
Bond Street
Frank Moody
1948
Head Over Heels
Pierre
1937
Blackmailed
Dr. Giles Freeman
1951Miss Nightingale
W.E. Nightingale
1974