George Murcell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 30, 1925
- Died
- December 3, 1998 (aged 73)
- Birthplace
- Naples, Campania, Italy
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.
Known For
Filmography
Presented in Supercolorisation
TV · as Professor Rudolph Popkiss / Black Morgan (voice), Professor Rudolph Popkiss (voice) (credit only) · 1 ep
The Ice Princess
Movie
Cutthroat Island
Movie · as Mordachai Fingers
Year of the Gun
Movie · as Pierre Bernier
Pascali's Island
Movie · as Herr Gesing
Peter the Great
TV · 4 eps
Inside the Third Reich
TV · as Herman Goering · 2 eps
Smuggler
TV · as Silas Kemble · 13 eps
1990
TV · as Tiny · 8 eps
The Professionals
TV · as Yashinkov · 1 ep
Penelope Pulls It Off
Movie · as Owen
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Movie
The Prison
Movie · as Maître Rabut
Armchair Cinema
TV · as Maître Rabut · 1 ep
Mafia Junction
Movie
Penny Gold
Movie · as Doctor Merrick
The Horsemen
Movie · as Mizrar
The Persuaders!
TV · as Zorakin · 1 ep
Jason King
TV · 1 ep
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
TV · as Inspector Vandeleur · 1 ep
A Sound from the Sea
Movie · as George
Manhunt
TV · as Franco · 1 ep
The Assassination Bureau
Movie · as Zeppelin pilot
A Walk with Love and Death
Movie · as The Captain
The Possessed
Movie · as Liputin
The Year of the Sex Olympics
Movie · as Grels
A Dandy in Aspic
Movie
The Champions
TV · as Nikko, El Gaudillo · 1 ep
Rogues' Gallery
TV · as Sir Esmond Bellasize · 1 ep
The Naked Runner
Movie
You Only Live Twice
Movie · as Russian Diplomat (uncredited)
Kaleidoscope
Movie · as Johnny
The Informer
TV · as Willie Cluff · 1 ep
The Heroes of Telemark
Movie · as Sturmfuhrer
Gideon's Way
TV · as Kautsky · 1 ep
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV · as Second Man · 1 ep
The Troubleshooters
TV · as Al Nillson, Pazoli · 1 ep
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Movie · as Victorinus
Theatre 625
TV · as Delamarche, Wensley Grafton, Grels · 1 ep
In Search of the Castaways
Movie · as Ayerton's Assistant
The Cherry Orchard
Movie · as Yermolai Alexeyevich Lopahin
The Saint
TV · as Vogler, Abdul Graner · 2 eps
The Pursuers
Movie · as Freddy
Supercar
TV · 39 eps
The Avengers
TV · as Needle · 2 eps
The Angry Silence
Movie · as Jones
There Was a Crooked Man
Movie · as Receptionist at 'The McKillup Arms'
Crossroads to Crime
Movie · as Diamond
Sunday-Night Play
TV · as Gannerac · 1 ep
Danger Man
TV · as Bruno · 1 ep
Don't Panic Chaps
Movie · as Meister
No Hiding Place
TV · 1 ep
Sea of Sand
Movie · as Cpl. Simms
Blood of the Vampire
Movie · as First Guard
Sea Fury
Movie · as Loudon
Campbell's Kingdom
Movie · as Max, a worker
Hell Drivers
Movie · as Tub
The Battle of the River Plate
Movie · as Chief Officer, Newton Beach
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
TV · as Jaggyd · 1 ep
Armchair Theatre
TV · as Beno · 1 ep
The Merry Christmas
Movie · as Mr. Fezziwig
The Adventures of Robin Hood
TV · as Sheriff's Guard · 1 ep
Sunday Night Theatre
TV · as M. Lafarge · 1 ep