Personal Info
Birth date
1906-08-28 (119 Years)
Day of death
1986-12-29
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Catford, London, England, UK
Also known as
Leslie Gilbert Dwyer
Leslie Dwyer
Biography
Leslie Dwyer was an English film and tv actor, best known to modern audiences for his role as Mr Partridge, the miserable Punch and Judy man with a dislike of children in television's Hi-de-Hi.
Filmography
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.Doctor Who
7.874
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.Crown Court
5.4
Overview:
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.The Sweeney
7.8
Overview:
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.No Hiding Place
3.7
Overview:
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
6.667
Overview:
Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's sewing machine breaks, so Robert sends a repairman, Ambrose, to fix it. It's lust at first sight for Harriet, who convinces Ambrose to hide out in the attic for a tryst. When her new beau shows no desire to leave, the pair begin a years-long love affair right under Robert's nose.Z-Cars
7
Overview:
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.Piccadilly Incident
6.2
Overview:
A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.The 39 Steps
6.2
Overview:
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.The Black Rider
6.2
Overview:
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...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.Public Eye
7.8
Overview:
Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."Angels
3.7
Overview:
Angels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print for such medical soaps as Casualty, Holby City, plus daytime soap, Doctors. The medical soap focuses on different departments within Heath Green Hospital and was a highly successful continuing drama.Eyewitness
6.7
Overview:
After a fight with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads for the local cinema, and in doing so, becomes the only eyewitness to a couple of crooks, who are robbing the cinema's safe. In her haste to escape the thieves, she is knocked down by a passing bus, and is taken to the local hospital. The two crooks follow, and wait for a chance to finish her off, and thus eliminate the only person who can tie them to the robbery.Night Boat to Dublin
6.3
Overview:
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.Softly, Softly
5
Overview:
Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.Dodging the Column
NYR
Overview:
The transporting of a distillation colurm, 137 feet long, 500 miles by road from Greenwich to Grangemouth in Scotland. The commentary, spoken by the rigger in charge and one of the tractor drivers, expresses the humour and resourcefulness with which these transport workers tackle their job; and the camera has captured moments of beauty as well as some amusing episodes in this journey of the longest load to travel by road in Britain.The Bad Lord Byron
5.5
Overview:
Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.Terry and June
6.2
Overview:
Terry and June Medford are both middle aged and beginning to find the trials of life are more difficult as they try to succeed in their daily lives. The couple have just moved to Purley, south-east London... Aunt Lucy and the mynah bird had disappeared, as had the occasionally visiting daughters. Terry and June now mixed with a friendly next door neighbour, Beattie; Terry's chatty work colleague, Malcolm; and their gruff boss Sir Dennis Hodge. Otherwise, things were much as before, with Terry's pigheaded childishness causing no end of problems, usually thwarting June's attempts at leading a cosy life.A Matter of Life and Death
7.8
Overview:
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.Lilli Marlene
5.6
Overview:
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.The Hour of 13
5.7
Overview:
1890, London, and a serial killer known as The Terror is murdering policemen. When gentleman thief Nicholas Revel unwittingly becomes the chief suspect, he must use his guile and wits to prove he’s not the killer; whilst also not getting caught for a jewel robbery he has just committed.Smart Alec
8.5
Overview:
A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.Laughter in Paradise
6.5
Overview:
When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This is the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn.Double Confession
6.1
Overview:
The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes involved with the criminals who make various unsuccessful attempts on his life while the police clear up the mystery.The Way Ahead
6.539
Overview:
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.Stormy Crossing
4.8
Overview:
After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her other boyfriend, Sheldon Lawrence. John Ireland plays an Interpol detective who stems Bond's homicidal hijinks. Black Tide was produced by Monty Berman in his pre-Saint days.Acting
TBAAfter Loch Lomond as Mr. Maystead
1981Hi-de-Hi! (39 Episodes) as Mr. Partridge
1980Dominique as Unknown
1979Terry and June (1 Episode) as Uncle Vernon
1977Street Party as Grandad
1976The Peddler as Alec's Father
1976Waxworks as Unknown
1975Angels (1 Episode) as Unknown
1975Late Call (4 Episodes) as Arthur Calvert
1975The Sweeney (1 Episode) as Ted Greenhead
1973Brenda as Les Penny
1973Seven of One (1 Episode) as Unknown
1973Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters as Vorg
1972Crown Court (1 Episode) as Unknown
1972A Touch of the Victorians as Jack
1971The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1 Episode) as Lost Property Man
1971You're Only Young Twice (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1971A Hole Lot of Trouble as Evangelist
1970Play for Today (1 Episode) as Alec's Father
1969Crooks and Coronets as Henry
1968The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom as Bookshop Assistant
1968Lionheart as Carpenter
1966King of the River (1 Episode) as The Ganger
1966Softly, Softly (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965Die, Monster, Die! as Potter
1965I've Gotta Horse as Bert
1965Public Eye (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Arthur Mack
1963Doctor Who (4 Episodes) as Vorg
1963Seventy Deadly Pills as Police Constable Robinson
1962Suspense (1 Episode) as George Carter
1962Z-Cars (3, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Joe
1959No Hiding Place (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1959Left Right and Centre as Alf Stoker
1959The 39 Steps as Milkman
1958Under Night Streets as Jack Bedwell (voice)
1958Stormy Crossing as Bill Harris, Kitty's Trainer
1957The End Begins as Sgt. Marks
1956Eyewitness as Henry Cammon
1956Cloak Without Dagger as Fred Borcombe
1956Not So Dusty as Unknown
1955Room in the House as Benji Pugh
1955Where There's a Will as Alfred "Alfie" Brewer
1954The Black Rider as Robert Plack
1954The Good Die Young as Stookey
1953Roadhouse Girl as George Saunders
1952The Hour of 13 as Ernie Perker
1952Hindle Wakes as Chris Hawthorn
1952My Wife's Lodger as Roger the Lodger
1952Judgment Deferred as Flowers
1952Dodging the Column as Narrator (voice)
1951There Is Another Sun as Mick Foley
1951Laughter in Paradise as Police Sergeant
1951Smart Alec as Gossage
1950Midnight Episode as Unknown
1950Lilli Marlene as Berry
1950Double Confession as Leonard
1949Poet's Pub as Holly
1949Now Barabbas as Brown
1949A Boy, a Girl and a Bike as Steve Hall
1949The Bad Lord Byron as Fletcher
1949It's Not Cricket as Batman
1948The Calendar as Sam Hillcott
1948Bond Street as Barman
1947When The Bough Breaks as George
1947Temptation Harbour as Reg Slater
1946A Matter of Life and Death as ARP Warden (uncredited)
1946Piccadilly Incident as Sam
1946I See a Dark Stranger as Soldier in Café (uncredited)
1946Night Boat to Dublin as George Leggett
1945Perfect Strangers as Stripey
1945Great Day as Pub Customer
1944United States as British soldier
1944The Way Ahead as Pvt. Sid Beck
1943Yellow Canary as Ship's Steward
1943The Lamp Still Burns as Siddons
1942The Young Mr. Pitt as Servant at Lord Auckland's
1942In Which We Serve as Parkinson
1942The Goose Steps Out as German Soldier on Train
1942They Flew Alone as Lighthouse Keeper (uncredited)
1936Cheer Up as Hotel Guest (uncredited)