George Murcell

George Murcell

Arthur George Murcell (30 October 1925 – 3 December 1998) was a British character actor. Born in Italy, he made his film debut in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Battle of the River Plate (1956), Murcell went on to develop a career playing snarling villains in both film and television. These could either be stupid, brutish henchmen, as in Hell Drivers and Campbell's Kingdom (both 1957), or sophisticated rogues, such as Needle in "You Have Just Been Murdered", an episode of The Avengers. He specialised in playing foreign characters, including Germans, Russians and South Americans. A number of these roles were in ITC adventure TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Danger Man, The Baron, The Saint, The Champions (Reply Box No.666 episode, 1967) Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Persuaders! and Jason King. His film roles included Sea of Sand (1958), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), The Heroes of Telemark (1965), Kaleidoscope (1966), The Fixer (1968), A Dandy in Aspic (1968), The Assassination Bureau (1969), A Walk with Love and Death (1969), Penny Gold (1973), Special Branch (1974), Inside the Third Reich (1982, as Hermann Göring), Year of the Gun (1991), and Cutthroat Island (1995). He enjoyed a long stage career, which involved working with Tyrone Guthrie and Peter Brook, and was active in the Royal Shakespeare Company.In the 1970s, he acquired a Victorian church in North London, which he converted into an Elizabethan-style theatre in collaboration with director Adrian Brown. In 1973, he opened it as "St George's Theatre", intending that it present little-seen classical plays. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he continued to work at St George's Theatre as both an actor and a director, often with his wife, Elvi Hale.

  • Title: George Murcell
  • Popularity: 2.13
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1925-10-30
  • Place of Birth: Naples, Campania, Italy
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George Murcell Movies

  • 1958
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    Sea of Sand

    Sea of Sand

    6.4 1958 HD

    A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North...

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  • 1962
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    In Search of the Castaways

    In Search of the Castaways

    6.4 1962 HD

    Two teenagers, Mary (Hayley Mills) and Robert (Keith Hamshere) are lead by Professor Paganel (Maurice Chevalier) on a search expedition for the...

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  • 1962
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    The Cherry Orchard

    The Cherry Orchard

    8 1962 HD

    Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to...

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  • 1968
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    The Year of the Sex Olympics

    The Year of the Sex Olympics

    5.3 1968 HD

    Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the...

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  • 1964
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    The Fall of the Roman Empire

    The Fall of the Roman Empire

    6.474 1964 HD

    In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius...

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  • 1969
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    The Assassination Bureau

    The Assassination Bureau

    6.4 1969 HD

    In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are...

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  • 1960
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    The Angry Silence

    The Angry Silence

    7.1 1960 HD

    When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his...

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  • 1960
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    There Was a Crooked Man

    There Was a Crooked Man

    6.1 1960 HD

    When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught and jailed. When he is released he goes straight...

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  • 1969
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    A Walk with Love and Death

    A Walk with Love and Death

    5.974 1969 HD

    During France’s Hundred Years’ War, a Parisian student seeks refuge by the sea and falls in love with an aristocrat. As they find shelter...

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  • 1973
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    Mafia Junction

    Mafia Junction

    5.2 1973 HD

    Cliff works as a narcotics investigator for the police and infiltrate a mafia gang. Soon it turns out that Cliff has bigger plans than just to bust...

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  • 1988
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    Pascali's Island

    Pascali's Island

    6.4 1988 HD

    1908: Pascali, a spy for the Sultan, sends reports to Istanbul that nobody reads. His suspicions are roused when a British archaeologist appears, who...

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  • 1960
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    Crossroads to Crime

    Crossroads to Crime

    5.5 1960 HD

    Crossroads to Crime is about the investigations of a police constable (Anthony Oliver) who, working undercover without support from his colleagues,...

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  • 1959
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    Don't Panic Chaps!

    Don't Panic Chaps!

    5.6 1959 HD

    During World War II, four British soldiers are commissioned to set up an observation post on a seemingly deserted island in the Mediterranean....

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  • 1975
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    Penelope Pulls It Off

    Penelope Pulls It Off

    1.3 1975 HD

    A comedy directed by Peter Curran.

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  • 1975
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    Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    7 1975 HD

    A two-part program that examines the life of Samuel Coleridge from his orphaned childhood to how his friendship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth...

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  • 1970
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    A Sound from the Sea

    A Sound from the Sea

    1 1970 HD

    While hitchhiking towards the coast, two young men find themselves trapped at an inn by its strange landlord and his beautiful wife.

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  • 1973
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    Penny Gold

    Penny Gold

    5.7 1973 HD

    While investigating a murder case, a detective stumbles upon a rare-stamp swindle involving the victim's twin sister.

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  • 1958
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    Blood of the Vampire

    Blood of the Vampire

    5.615 1958 HD

    A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to life with a heart transplant. Along with his...

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  • 1971
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    The Horsemen

    The Horsemen

    6.5 1971 HD

    In Afghanistan, the ruthless sport of buzkashi is a game of great pride. When Uraz breaks his leg and loses a spirited match, he brings shame to his...

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  • 1956
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    The Battle of the River Plate

    The Battle of the River Plate

    6.2 1956 HD

    In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British...

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  • 1969
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    The Possessed

    The Possessed

    1 1969 HD

    Adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel about liberal discussion versus revolutionary action in a provincial Russian town in the mid-nineteenth century.

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  • 1965
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    The Heroes of Telemark

    The Heroes of Telemark

    6.9 1965 HD

    Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy...

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  • 1995
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    Cutthroat Island

    Cutthroat Island

    5.789 1995 HD

    Morgan Adams and her slave, William Shaw, are on a quest to recover the three portions of a treasure map. Unfortunately, the final portion is held by...

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  • 1967
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    The Naked Runner

    The Naked Runner

    6 1967 HD

    Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to...

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  • 1958
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    Sea Fury

    Sea Fury

    6 1958 HD

    The captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement with a young girl at the behest of her father, in the...

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  • 1955
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    The Merry Christmas

    The Merry Christmas

    1 1955 HD

    Musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

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  • 1957
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    Campbell's Kingdom

    Campbell's Kingdom

    5.5 1957 HD

    Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In...

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  • 1961
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    The Pursuers

    The Pursuers

    5 1961 HD

    A group of former concentration camp prisoners has formed an underground network to hunt Nazi leaders, who are still on the loose. At a secret...

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  • 1967
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    You Only Live Twice

    You Only Live Twice

    6.568 1967 HD

    A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the...

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  • 1957
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    Hell Drivers

    Hell Drivers

    6.667 1957 HD

    An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.

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  • 1982
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    Inside the Third Reich

    Inside the Third Reich

    7.3 1982 HD

    A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based...

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  • 1991
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    Year of the Gun

    Year of the Gun

    4.9 1991 HD

    American novelist David Raybourne accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a...

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  • 1966
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    Kaleidoscope

    Kaleidoscope

    4.8 1966 HD

    Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original...

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  • 1961
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    Supercar

    Supercar

    6.8 1961 HD

    Supercar was a children's TV show produced by Gerry Anderson and Arthur Provis's AP Films for ATV and ITC Entertainment. 39 episodes were produced...

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  • 1965
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    Gideon's Way

    Gideon's Way

    6.8 1965 HD

    Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at...

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  • 1961
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    The Avengers

    The Avengers

    7.7 1961 HD

    The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left...

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  • 1971
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    The Persuaders!

    The Persuaders!

    7.618 1971 HD

    An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.

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  • 1971
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    Jason King

    Jason King

    7.3 1971 HD

    Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering...

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  • 1962
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    The Saint

    The Saint

    7.3 1962 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

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  • 1968
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    The Champions

    The Champions

    6.1 1968 HD

    The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network...

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  • 1968
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    The Champions

    The Champions

    6.1 1968 HD

    The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network...

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  • 1955
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    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    6.4 1955 HD

    The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the...

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  • 1971
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    The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

    The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

    7.3 1971 HD

    Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.

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  • 1959
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    No Hiding Place

    No Hiding Place

    3.7 1959 HD

    No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16...

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  • 1962
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    Suspense

    Suspense

    5.5 1962 HD

    Anthology series telling suspenseful tales.

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  • 1981
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    Smuggler

    Smuggler

    5 1981 HD

    Set during the Napoleonic wars of the early 1800s, Oliver Tobias stars as Jack Vincent, a swashbuckling ex-British naval captain turned smuggler. A...

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  • 1986
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    Peter the Great

    Peter the Great

    8.2 1986 HD

    Peter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian emperor Peter the Great, and based on the biography by...

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  • 1962
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    The Saint

    The Saint

    7.3 1962 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

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  • 1968
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    Rogues' Gallery

    Rogues' Gallery

    10 1968 HD

    Rogues' Gallery was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1968 and 1969. It was set around London's Newgate Prison in the 18th...

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  • 1970
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    Manhunt

    Manhunt

    6.5 1970 HD

    Manhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend Television in 1969 and broadcast nationwide.

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  • 1977
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    1990

    1990

    6 1977 HD

    The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically...

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  • 1956
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    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

    6.5 1956 HD

    The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened...

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  • 1977
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    The Professionals

    The Professionals

    7.4 1977 HD

    The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was...

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