1925-10-30 Naples, Campania, Italy
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.
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Cutthroat Island | Mordachai Fingers | 1995-12-22 |
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Year of the Gun | Pierre Bernier | 1991-09-10 |
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Pascali's Island | Herr Gesing | 1988-07-22 |
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Inside the Third Reich | Herman Goering | 1982-05-09 |
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Schwedischer Sommerwind | Owen | 1975-05-02 |
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner | 1975-06-11 | |
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Si può essere più bastardi dell'ispettore Cliff? | 1973-03-05 | |
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Penny Gold | Doctor Merrick | 1973-06-22 |
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The Horsemen | Mizrar | 1971-08-16 |
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A Sound from the Sea | George | 1970-08-17 |
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A Walk with Love and Death | The Captain | 1969-10-05 |
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The Assassination Bureau | Zeppelin pilot | 1969-03-09 |
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The Possessed | Liputin | 1969-05-02 |
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The Year of the Sex Olympics | Grels | 1968-07-29 |
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A Dandy in Aspic | 1968-04-02 | |
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You Only Live Twice | Russian Diplomat (uncredited) | 1967-06-13 |
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The Naked Runner | 1967-07-19 | |
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Kaleidoscope | Johnny | 1966-07-01 |
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The Heroes of Telemark | Sturmfuhrer | 1965-11-12 |
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The Fall of the Roman Empire | Victorinus | 1964-03-24 |
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The Cherry Orchard | Yermolai Alexeyevich Lopahin | 1962-04-17 |
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In Search of the Castaways | Ayerton's Assistant | 1962-12-01 |
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The Pursuers | Freddy | 1961-12-31 |
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Crossroads to Crime | Diamond | 1960-11-01 |
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There Was a Crooked Man | Receptionist at 'The McKillup Arms' | 1960-08-31 |
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The Angry Silence | Jones | 1960-03-10 |
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Don't Panic Chaps! | Meister | 1959-01-01 |
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Sea Fury | Loudon | 1958-08-26 |
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Sea of Sand | Cpl. Simms | 1958-11-04 |
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Blood of the Vampire | First Guard | 1958-08-25 |
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Campbell's Kingdom | Max, a worker | 1957-09-03 |
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Hell Drivers | Tub | 1957-07-23 |
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The Battle of the River Plate | Chief Officer, Newton Beach | 1956-10-30 |
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The Merry Christmas | Mr. Fezziwig | 1955-12-21 |
