Personal Info
Birth date
1919-06-05 (106 Years)
Day of death
2009-02-23
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
London, England, UK
Also known as
Laurence Stanley Payne
Laurie Payne
Laurence Payne
Biography
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Filmography
The Saint
7.312
Overview:
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.Doctor Who
7.867
Overview:
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.Play for Today
6.333
Overview:
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.Tales of the Unexpected
6.711
Overview:
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.Interpol Calling
6.7
Overview:
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
7.4
Overview:
An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.The Main Chance
7.7
Overview:
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.Maigret
6.9
Overview:
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.Thriller
6.6
Overview:
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
6.333
Overview:
An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.Colonel March of Scotland Yard
7.3
Overview:
Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.Lady Killers
5
Overview:
Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women. Introduced by Robert Morley, seven hour-long dramas reconstruct sensational trials which shocked Britain, offering in-depth analyses of individuals' motives and methods.Ben-Hur
7.9
Overview:
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.Tender Touches
4.3
Overview:
A very relatable soap opera wherein a love triangle leads to the ultimate discovery of self.The Tell-Tale Heart
5.9
Overview:
Themes of voyeurism and unrequited love compliment Poe's classic of murder and insanity in this superbly suspenseful loose interpretation. Anxiety-stricken librarian Edgar Marsh becomes infatuated with his next-door neighbor, but when he can't have her, he resorts to murder.A Matter of Life and Death
7.754
Overview:
When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.Sexton Blake
NYR
Overview:
ITV aired Thames Television's Sexton Blake starring Laurence Payne as Blake and Roger Foss as Tinker from Monday 25 September 1967 to Wednesday 13 January 1971. In keeping with Sexton Blake's classic print adventures, Payne's Blake drove a white Rolls-Royce named "The Grey Panther" and owned a bloodhound named Pedro. The show was originally produced by Ronald Marriott for Associated Rediffusion, with Thames Television taking over production in 1968.Barabbas
6.883
Overview:
Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place.The Hanged Man
5.5
Overview:
After surviving a series of attempts on his life, successful businessman Lew Burnett decides to remain "dead" after the most recent one so he can go undercover and find out which of his close friends and business associates want him dead.Airline
5
Overview:
Airline is a British television series produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network in 1982. The series starred Roy Marsden as Jack Ruskin, a pilot demobbed after the end of the Second World War who starts up his own air freight business. Airline was created by Wilfred Greatorex and lasted for one series of nine episodes broadcast in January & February 1982, with a repeat in the summer of 1984. Other leading cast members were Polly Hemingway, Richard Heffer, Sean Scanlan and Terence Rigby, while noted guest-stars included Anthony Valentine and Walter Gotell. It was partially filmed at the former RAF Rufforth in Yorkshire..The Crawling Eye
4.718
Overview:
A United Nations investigator crosses paths with a pair of psychic sisters on his way to Trollenberg observatory in the Swiss Alps, which has been plagued by a series of mountaineer disappearances that may be related to a radioactive cloud at the mountain's south face.Vampire Circus
5.8
Overview:
After a spate of murders, the villagers of Schtettel kill the depraved perpetrator, Count Mitterhouse. Fifteen years later the Circus of Nights appeared in the plague-ridden village and its performers include Mitterhouse's mistress, children and cousins. They have come to Schtettel to fulfil the Count's last words, an evil, vicious curse of death and destruction on those who participated in his impaling. The children of Schtettel become the targets for a brutal and devastating revenge as the Vampire Circus rehearses for its most deadly performance.The Third Alibi
6.5
Overview:
A composer (Laurence Payne) is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister (Jane Griffiths) has resulted in a pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.Ill Met by Moonlight
6.1
Overview:
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.The Singer Not the Song
6.75
Overview:
A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.Doctor Who: The Two Doctors
7.4
Overview:
Suddenly gripped by a memory of being executed in his second incarnation, the Sixth Doctor travels to Seville to save his past self and ensure his own existence in his present.The Queen's Guards
4.8
Overview:
Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.Acting
1992Macbeth as Duncan
1992Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1 Episode) as Duncan (voice)
1985Doctor Who: The Two Doctors as Dastari
1982Airline (1 Episode) as Unknown
1981Psy-Warriors as Weaver
1980Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive as Morix
1980Lady Killers (1 Episode) as Victor Mishcon
1979Tales of the Unexpected (1 Episode) as Collingwood
1976Romeo and Juliet as Capulet
1975The Hanged Man (0, 1 Episode) as Unknown, James Prendergast
1974One Deadly Owner as Unknown
1973Thriller (1 Episode) as John Jacey
1972Vampire Circus as Prof. Albert Mueller
1971The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1 Episode) as Prescott
1970Play for Today (1 Episode) as Weaver
1969The Main Chance (1 Episode) as James Galbraith
1967Sexton Blake (2 Episodes) as Sexton Blake
1966Doctor Who: The Gunfighters as Johnny Ringo
1963Doctor Who (2, 1, 3 Episode) as Johnny Ringo, Morix, Dastari
1963Mystery Submarine as Lt. Seaton
1962The Saint (1 Episode) as Noel Bastion
1962Studio Four (1 Episode) as Larsen
1962Crosstrap as Duke
1961Barabbas as Disciple
1961The Court Martial of Major Keller as Major Keller
1961The Queen's Guards as Unknown
1961The Third Alibi as Norman Martell
1961The Singer Not the Song as Pablo
1960The Tell-Tale Heart as Edgar Marsh
1960Maigret (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959Ben-Hur as Joseph (uncredited)
1959Interpol Calling (1 Episode) as Porton
1958The Crawling Eye as Philip Truscott
1957Dangerous Exile as Lautrec
1957Ill Met by Moonlight as Manoli
1956Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1 Episode) as Delius
1949Train of Events as Richard
1946A Matter of Life and Death as Prosecuting Counsel (uncredited)
Creator
2017Tender Touches ... Creator
Writing
1963Girl in the Headlines ... Novel