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.

Acting

1995

Cutthroat Island
Movie

Mordachai Fingers

1991

Year of the Gun
Movie

Pierre Bernier

1988

1982

1981

Smuggler
Tv

Silas Kemble

1974

Armchair Cinema
Tv

Maître Rabut

1974

The Prison
Movie

Maître Rabut

1974

The Prison
Movie

Maître Rabut

1974

The Prison
Movie

Maître Rabut

1973

Penny Gold
Movie

Doctor Merrick

1971

1971

1970

Manhunt
Tv

Franco

1968

Rogues' Gallery
Tv

Sir Esmond Bellasize

1967

You Only Live Twice
Movie

Russian Diplomat (uncredited)

1964

Theatre 625
Tv

Wensley Grafton

1964

1964

Theatre 625
Tv

Delamarche

1962

1962

1962

The Saint
Tv

Abdul Graner

1962

The Cherry Orchard
Movie

Yermolai Alexeyevich Lopahin

1961

Supercar
Tv

Unknown

1961

1960

There Was a Crooked Man
Movie

Receptionist at 'The McKillup Arms'

1958

1957

1956

The Battle of the River Plate
Movie

Chief Officer, Newton Beach

Infos

Full Name
George Murcell
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
10/30/1925
Date of Death
12/3/1998