Personal Info
Birth date
1905-01-15 (120 Years)
Day of death
1981-03-04
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Bombay, British India, India
Also known as
Torin Herbert Erskine Thatcher
Lt. Torin Thatcher R.A.
T. Atkinson
Торин Тэтчер
托林·撒切尔
Torin Thatcher
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Torin Thatcher (15 January 1905 - 4 March 1981) was an English actor born in Bombay, British India, India), to English parents. He was an imposing, powerfully built figure noted for his flashy portrayals of screen villains. He was educated in England at Bedford School and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He worked as a schoolmaster before first appearing on the London stage in 1927 and then entering British films in 1934. He appeared in the 1937 Old Vic stage production of Hamlet, in which Laurence Olivier made his first appearance in the title role, opposite Vivien Leigh as Ophelia. During the Second World War, he served with the Royal Artillery and was demobilized with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Thatcher appeared in classic British films of the late 1930s and 1940s, including Major Barbara (1941) and Great Expectations (1946), in which he played Bentley Drummle. He moved to Hollywood in the 1950s. He was constantly in demand, invariably lending his looming figure and baleful countenance to sinister or stern roles in popular costume thrillers such as The Crimson Pirate (1952), Blackbeard the Pirate (1952), The Robe (1953) (as the disapproving father of Richard Burton's character), The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), Helen of Troy (1956), Darby's Rangers (1958), and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958). He also appeared in the Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard 1962 remake of Mutiny on the Bounty. He returned to the stage quite frequently, notably on Broadway, in such esteemed productions as Edward, My Son (1948), That Lady (1949) and Billy Budd (1951). In 1959, he portrayed Captain Keller in the award-winning play The Miracle Worker with Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. All of these plays were filmed, but Thatcher did not appear in the movie versions. Also a steady fixture on television, he appeared in such made-for-TV films as adaptations of A. J. Cronin's Beyond This Place (1957) and The Citadel (1960),Bonanza(1961), and Brenda Starr (1976). He also played the title role in a Philco Television Playhouse version of Othello and acted in a CBS production of Beyond This Place (1957). Thatcher died of cancer on March 4, 1981, in Thousand Oaks, California, in the Los Angeles area.
Filmography
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
5.5
Overview:
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
5.714
Overview:
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.Star Trek
8.015
Overview:
Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen led by Khan Noonian Singh. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no man has gone before.Perry Mason
7.7
Overview:
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.The Philco Television Playhouse
6.286
Overview:
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
7.8
Overview:
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.Climax!
3.273
Overview:
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.Daniel Boone
6.9
Overview:
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10, 1970 on NBC for 165 episodes, and was made by 20th Century Fox Television. Ed Ames co-starred as Mingo, Boone's Cherokee friend, for the first four seasons of the series. Albert Salmi portrayed Boone's companion Yadkin in season one only. Dallas McKennon portrayed innkeeper Cincinnatus. Country Western singer-actor Jimmy Dean was a featured actor as Josh Clements during the 1968–1970 seasons. Actor and former NFL football player Rosey Grier made regular appearances as Gabe Cooper in the 1969 to 1970 season. The show was broadcast "in living color" beginning in fall 1965, the second season, and was shot entirely in California and Kanab, Utah.Thriller
6.417
Overview:
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.Peter Gunn
6.5
Overview:
Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the action with your eyes closed, Peter Gunn worked in style. Known as Pete to his friends and simply as Gunn to his enemies, he did his job in a calm cool way.Mission: Impossible
7.6
Overview:
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is led by Dan Briggs, played by Steven Hill; Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, takes charge for the remaining seasons. A hallmark of the series shows Briggs or Phelps receiving his instructions on a recording that then self-destructs, followed by the theme music composed by Lalo Schifrin. The series aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to March 1973, then returned to television for two seasons on ABC, from 1988 to 1990, retaining only Graves in the cast. It later inspired a popular series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise, beginning in 1996.Adventures in Paradise
5.7
Overview:
Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.Get Smart
7.922
Overview:
Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show stars Don Adams, Barbara Feldon, and Edward Platt. Henry said they created the show by request of Daniel Melnick, who was a partner, along with Leonard Stern and David Susskind, of the show's production company, Talent Associates, to capitalize on "the two biggest things in the entertainment world today"—James Bond and Inspector Clouseau. Brooks said: "It's an insane combination of James Bond and Mel Brooks comedy." This is the only Mel Brooks production to feature a laugh track. The success of the show eventually spawned the follow-up films The Nude Bomb and Get Smart, Again!, as well as a 1995 revival series and a 2008 film remake. In 2010, TV Guide ranked Get Smart's opening title sequence at No. 2 on its list of TV's Top 10 Credits Sequences, as selected by readers.Lost in Space
7.1
Overview:
The space family Robinson is sent on a five-year mission to find a new planet to colonise. The voyage is sabotaged time and again by an inept stowaway, Dr. Zachary Smith. The family's spaceship, Jupiter II, also carries a friendly robot who endures an endless stream of abuse from Dr. Smith, but is a trusted companion of young Will RobinsonOne Step Beyond
5.6
Overview:
Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond is an American anthology series created by Merwin Gerard. The original series ran for three seasons on ABC from January 1959 to July 1961.Land of the Giants
6.7
Overview:
Set fifteen years in the then-future year 1983, the series tells the tale of the crew and passengers of a sub-orbital transport ship named Spindrift. In the pilot episode, the Spindrift is en route from Los Angeles to London, on an ultra-fast sub-orbital flight. Just beyond Earth's boundary with space, the Spindrift encounters a magnetic space storm, and is dragged through a space warp to a mysterious planet where everything is twelve times larger than on Earth, whose inhabitants the Earthlings nickname "the Giants". The Spindrift crash-lands, and the damage renders it inoperable.Telephone Time
6.3
Overview:
Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbitt who hosted the first season. Frank C. Baxter hosted the 1957 and 1958 seasons. The program was directed by Arthur Hiller.Alfred Hitchcock Presents
7.731
Overview:
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.The Time Tunnel
7.6
Overview:
The Time Tunnel is a 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure. The show was creator-producer Irwin Allen's third science fiction television series, released by 20th Century Fox and broadcast on ABC. The show ran for one season of 30 episodes. Reruns are viewable on cable and by internet streaming. A pilot for a new series was produced in 2002, although it was not picked up.The Millionaire
5
Overview:
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.Petrocelli
7
Overview:
Petrocelli is an American legal drama which ran for two seasons on NBC from September 11, 1974 to March 31, 1976. Tony Petrocelli is an Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer who gave up the big money and frenetic pace of major-metropolitan life to practice in a sleepy city in the American Southwest. He and wife Maggie live in a trailer in the country while waiting for their new house to be built, and travel around in a beat-up old pickup truck. For a quiet rural area, Petrocelli seems to have no trouble running into his share of murderers to defend.The 20th Century Fox Hour
5.429
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The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.Profiles in Courage
5
Overview:
Profiles in Courage is an American historical anthology series that was telecast weekly on NBC from November 8, 1964 to May 9, 1965. The series was based on the recently President John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Profiles in Courage.DuPont Show of the Month
6.75
Overview:
DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.The Great Adventure
NYR
Overview:
The Great Adventure is a historical anthology series that appeared on CBS for the 1963-1964 television season. The series, narrated each week by Van Heflin, and featuring theme music by Richard Rodgers, presented a weekly one-hour dramatization of the lives of famous Americans and important historical events in American History.Night Gallery
7.8
Overview:
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.Gunsmoke
6.6
Overview:
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen
NYR
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Make way for the reluctant detective. It's Ellery Queen, the suave, debonair and brilliant hero of the new, live, full-hour detective show. George Nader plays the stalwart writer turned investigator.Hallmark Hall of Fame
8.571
Overview:
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.Acting
1974Petrocelli (1 Episode) as Unknown
1972Search (1 Episode) as Unknown
1970Night Gallery (1 Episode) as Captain of the Lusitania (segment "Lone Survivor")
1968Land of the Giants (1 Episode) as Dr. Berger
1968The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Sir Turnbull
1967The Guns of Will Sonnett (1 Episode) as Unknown
1967The King's Pirate as Captain Cullen
1966Hawaii as Reverend Thorn
1966Mission: Impossible (1, 1 Episode) as Archbishop Djelvas, General Rados Adolph Gollan
1966The Time Tunnel (1 Episode) as Dr. Everett Holland
1966Star Trek (1 Episode) as Marplon
1965Get Smart (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965Lost in Space (1 Episode) as The Space Trader
1965The Sandpiper as le juge Thompson
1965The Holy Terror as Dr. Poole
1964Profiles in Courage (1, 1 Episode) as Sewall, Cannon
1964Daniel Boone (1, 1 Episode) as President John Adams, Cyrus Blake / Enoch Blake
1964Hell of Borneo as Mr. Bellflower
1963Decision at Midnight as Unknown
1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1963The Great Adventure (1, 1 Episode) as General Howe, Colonel Lewis Washington
1963Drums of Africa as Jack Cuortemayn
1962Mutiny on the Bounty as Staines
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1 Episode) as Alva Hardwicke
1962Jack the Giant Killer as Pendragon
1961The Canadians as Superintendent Walker
1960Thriller (1 Episode) as Jeremy Teal
1960The Citadel as Sir Robert Abbey
1959Adventures in Paradise (1 Episode) as Michael Cameron
1959One Step Beyond (1 Episode) as Earl of Culdane
1958The 7th Voyage of Sinbad as Sokurah the Magician
1958The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen (1 Episode) as King Bendigo
1958Peter Gunn (1 Episode) as Unknown
1958Darby's Rangers as Sergeant McTavish
1957Witness for the Prosecution as Mr. Myers
1957DuPont Show of the Month (1 Episode) as Rees Mathry
1957Perry Mason (1 Episode) as Walter Frazer
1957Band of Angels as Capt. Canavan
1957Istanbul as Douglas Fielding
1956Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre (1 Episode) as Ab Richards
1956The Deadly Riddle as The Red Knight
1956Telephone Time (1 Episode) as Unknown
1956Helen of Troy as Ulysses
1956Diane as Louis - Count de Breze
1955Lady Godiva of Coventry as Lord Godwin
1955The 20th Century Fox Hour (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1, 1 Episode) as Constable Johnson, Felix Edward Manbridge
1955Gunsmoke (1 Episode) as John Tyson
1955Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing as Humphrey Palmer-Jones
1955The Millionaire (1 Episode) as Max MacIntyre
1954Bengal Brigade as Colonel Morrow
1954Climax! (1, 1 Episode) as John Philippson, Fred Beresford
1954The Black Shield of Falworth as Sir James
1954Knock on Wood as Godfrey Langston
1953The Robe as Sen. Gallio
1953Houdini as Otto
1953The Desert Rats as Col. Barney White
1952Blackbeard, the Pirate as Sir Henry Morgan
1952The Snows of Kilimanjaro as Johnson
1952The Crimson Pirate as Humble Bellows
1952Affair in Trinidad as Inspector Smythe
1951Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 Episode) as Dr. Poole
1950The Black Rose as Harry
1949Now Barabbas as Customs Officer
1948Bonnie Prince Charlie as Colonel Ker
1948The Philco Television Playhouse (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Othello
1948The Fallen Idol as Policeman
1947The End of the River as Lisboa
1947When The Bough Breaks as Adams
1947Jassy as Bob Wicks
1947The Man Within as Jailer
1946Great Expectations as Bentley Drummle
1946I See a Dark Stranger as Police Constable
1946The Captive Heart as Repatriation Official (uncredited)
1942The Next of Kin as German General
1942Saboteur as Man (uncredited)
1941Major Barbara as Todger Fairmile
1941Gasbags as SS Man
1940Saloon Bar as Mr. Garrod
1940The Case of the Frightened Lady as Jim Tilling, the Groundsman
1940Night Train to Munich as Unknown
1940Let George Do It! as U-Boat Commander
1940Law and Disorder as Karl Bergsen
1940Contraband as Sailor
1939The Lion Has Wings as Seaman Receiving Information About German Activity
1939The Kindled Flame as Festus
1939Old Mother Riley, MP as Jack Nelson
1939The Spy in Black as Submarine Officer
1938Climbing High as Jim Castle
1937Young and Innocent as Nobby's Lodging House Caretaker (uncredited)
1937Sabotage as Mr. Verloc's Visitor (uncredited)
1936Crime Over London as Unknown
1936The Man Who Could Work Miracles as Observer
1936The Common Round as Martin
1935Drake of England as Unknown
1933Red Wagon as Eddie Prince