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George Murcell

1925-10-30

The Biography

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.

George Murcell in

Movies

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You Only Live Twice

6.568 average rating
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The Heroes of Telemark

6.9 average rating
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The Fall of the Roman Empire

6.474 average rating
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Cutthroat Island

5.8 average rating
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The Battle of the River Plate

6.2 average rating
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The Assassination Bureau

6.4 average rating
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In Search of the Castaways

6.4 average rating
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Year of the Gun

4.9 average rating
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Hell Drivers

6.667 average rating
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Pascali's Island

6.4 average rating
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Blood of the Vampire

5.615 average rating
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The Angry Silence

7.1 average rating
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Sea of Sand

6.4 average rating
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The Horsemen

6.5 average rating
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Campbell's Kingdom

5.5 average rating
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A Walk with Love and Death

5.974 average rating
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Penny Gold

5.7 average rating
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Inside the Third Reich

7.3 average rating
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Kaleidoscope

4.8 average rating
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The Cherry Orchard

8 average rating