Personal Info
Birth date
1931-03-19 (94 Years)
Day of death
2021-01-05
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Also known as
James Green
Jimmy Greene
James Greene
Biography
James Greene was a Northern Irish actor of film, TV and stage
Filmography
Doctor Who
7.551
Overview:
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.Midsomer Murders
7.5
Overview:
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.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.Agatha Christie's Poirot
8.159
Overview:
From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.The Crown
8.205
Overview:
The gripping, decades-spanning inside story of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Prime Ministers who shaped Britain's post-war destiny. The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world – Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street – and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. Two houses, two courts, one Crown.Charmed
8.2
Overview:
Three sisters (Prue, Piper and Phoebe) reunite and unlock their powers to become the Charmed Ones, the most powerful good witches of all time, whose prophesied destiny is to protect innocent lives from evil beings such as demons and warlocks. Each sister possesses unique magical powers that grow and evolve, while they attempt to maintain normal lives in modern day San Francisco.Howards' Way
5.625
Overview:
The BBC's answer to Dynasty, Howards' Way was launched in 1985 with an enormous 1 million pound budget. The main characters in the show were 'best boat designer in the world' Tom Howard, his boutique running wife Jan Howard, 'I'll have a drink' Jack Rolfe and a nasty man called Ken Masters. It starred Maurice Colbourne.Shetland
7.494
Overview:
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.Bergerac
6.667
Overview:
Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.As Time Goes By
7.6
Overview:
Two lovers are reunited after decades apart following a mutual misunderstanding.Humans
7.468
Overview:
In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.Joey
6.3
Overview:
The charming and still-single Joey has struck out on his own and moved to Hollywood, hoping to truly make it as an actor. After reuniting with his high-strung sister Gina, Joey moves in with Michael, his 20-year-old genius nephew, who unbelievably is literally a rocket scientist. However, what Joey lacks in book smarts he makes up for with people smarts – making him the best new friend his nephew could ask for.Merlin
7.819
Overview:
The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.Wolf Hall
7.512
Overview:
England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?The Paradise Club
5.8
Overview:
The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank & Danny Kane. Two series were produced and were broadcast between 1989 and 1990. The show focuses upon two brothers, Frank & Danny Kane. Their mother, Ma Kane, is the matriarch of a criminal gang in South London, helped by her son Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club on the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime.Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
7.2
Overview:
Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
6.429
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.Heartbeat
7.125
Overview:
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.Cuckoo
6.763
Overview:
Cuckoo is every parent's worst nightmare - a slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas. Ken is the over-protective father of a girl who's impulsively married an American hippie on her gap year.Big School
6.8
Overview:
A comedy about a dysfunctional staff room, unrequited love and interactive whiteboards set in an urban secondary school. Chemistry teacher Mr. Church is hopelessly in love with the school's new French teacher, who in turn is being chased by a lothario gym teacher.Secret Army
7.5
Overview:
World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.William and Mary
7.8
Overview:
William and Mary is an ITV romantic comedy drama set in London, England, starring Martin Clunes as William Shawcross, an undertaker, and Julie Graham as Mary Gilcrest, a midwife. Its title refers to its two principal characters and is a cultural reference to the reign of the English monarchs William and Mary. It was shown in three six-part series in 2003-2005. It was also screened on Seven's best of-Scottish and English-oriented 7TWO.God, the Devil and Bob
7.5
Overview:
God strikes a wager with the Devil: if just one person can convince him that the world is worth saving, he'll spare humanity from destruction, if not, God will scrap all of creation and start over. The Devil is allowed to choose the candidate, and true to form, he picks the least likely person to determine the fate of the world--self-centered, slow-witted Detroit autoworker Bob Alman, an icon of mediocrity. Reluctantly, Bob accepts God's challenge, and has to live a decent life with no hints from God and constant temptation from the Devil. Caught between the forces of divinity and deviance, with the weight of the world on his shoulders, there's nothing left to do but laugh.So You Think You've Got Troubles
6
Overview:
Six-part comedy series about a Londoner, and non-practising Jew, is sent by his boss to Northern Ireland to run a tobacco company.The Fades
7.2
Overview:
Seventeen-year old Paul can see the spirits of the dead. When one of these restless spirits crosses back into the living world, he is forced into a fight to prevent the apocalypse.How Not to Live Your Life
7.611
Overview:
Sitcom about 20-something Don, a man with bad luck and even worse instincts. Don's overactive imagination is always in full flow in the form of quick-fire fantasy sequences as he imagines what he would really like to say.The Secret
6.4
Overview:
The true story of a Sunday school teacher and respectable dentist and pillar of the community, who formed a murderous partnership.What a Girl Wants
6.279
Overview:
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is that her long-lost dad is engaged to a fiercely territorial social climber with a daughter who makes Daphne's life miserable.Kingdom
7.095
Overview:
Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for the ITV network. It was created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal assistance. The series also starred Hermione Norris, Celia Imrie, Karl Davies, Phyllida Law and Tony Slattery. The first series of six one-hour episodes was aired in 2007 and averaged six million viewers per week. Despite a mid-series ratings dip, the executive chairman of ITV praised the programme and ordered a second series, which was filmed in 2007 and broadcast in January and February 2008. Filming on the third series ran from July to September 2008 for broadcast from 7 June 2009. Stephen Fry announced on his blog in October 2009 that ITV was cancelling the series, which was later confirmed by the channel, which said that given tighter budgets, more expensive productions were being cut.Harry's Game
6.5
Overview:
A British Cabinet Minister is gunned down outside his home in London by a member of the Provisional IRA. Security protocols are activated, but the assassin evades them and successfully escapes to Belfast. In the aftermath of the incident, rash decisions are made by politicians seeking revenge, and the Ministry of Defence responds by sending Captain Harry Brown (Ray Lonnen) - a special forces soldier who has done deep cover work in hostile territory - into the Falls Road area of Belfast, notorious for civil unrest and Republican activity. Harry's mission is to infiltrate the local nationalist population, uncover the identity of the assassin, and kill him in his own neighborhood - proving to the IRA that they are not safe, even in their "own back yard".Acting
2017Loving Vincent as Old Peasant
2017Born to Kill (4 Episodes) as Bob Franklin
2016The Crown (1 Episode) as Royal Horological Conservator
2016The Secret (4 Episodes) as Granda Harry Clarke
2015Humans (1 Episode) as Elderly Man
2015Wolf Hall (1 Episode) as Latin-Speaking Priest
2013The Christmas Candle as Old Man
2013Big School (9 Episodes) as Mr Hubble
2013Shetland (2 Episodes) as Andrew Haldane
2012Les Misérables as Ensemble 'Master of the House'
2012The Life and Adventures of Nick Nickleby (5 Episodes) as Mr. Cobbey
2012Cuckoo (1 Episode) as Gordon Andrews
2011Albert Nobbs as Patrick
2011The Fades (2 Episodes) as Eric
2011Dimensions as Old Man
2011Whole Lotta Sole as Granda Sox
2010Love/Loss as Laurie
2009Sherlock Holmes as Governor
2008Merlin (2 Episodes) as Ferryman
2008How Not to Live Your Life (1 Episode) as Wellington
2007James Ellis: An Actor's Life as Himself
2007Kingdom (1 Episode) as Mr. Hickey
2007This Life +10 as Unknown
2006Dracula as Dr. Blore
2006Brothers of the Head as Brian Aldiss
2005Breakfast on Pluto as Gentleman
2005Doctor Who (1 Episode) as The Abbott
2004Joey (1 Episode) as Walter
2003What a Girl Wants as Percy
2003William and Mary (1 Episode) as Arnold
2003Johnny English as Scottish Bishop
2003The Royal (1 Episode) as Dermot Sheahan
2001Instinct to Kill as Old Man
2001From Hell as Masonic Governor
2001Love in a Cold Climate (2 Episodes) as Slipping Wig Lord
2000Bob Martin (1 Episode) as Dr. Hubbard
2000God, the Devil and Bob (1 Episode) as Unknown
1999Janice Beard 45 WPM as Michael
1998Charmed (1 Episode) as Veteran
1997Photographing Fairies as Minister
1997Keeping Mum (1 Episode) as Minister
1997Midsomer Murders (1 Episode) as Douglas Wakely
1996Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1 Episode) as Sir Peter
1994Pauline Calf's Wedding Video as Priest
1994Guinevere as Bishop
1994Tom & Viv as Dr. Cyriax
1992Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1 Episode) as Gonzalo (voice)
1992You, Me & Marley as Father Peter
1992The Jazz Detective as Rev. Durdham
1992Heartbeat (1 Episode) as Swamus O'Toole
1992A Different Hand as The Priest
1992As Time Goes By (1 Episode) as Harris
1991So You Think You've Got Troubles (1 Episode) as John Drummond
1990Shoot to Kill as DPP
1989Perfect Witness as Paddy O'Rourke
1989The Paradise Club (1 Episode) as Brother Andrew
1989Agatha Christie's Poirot (1 Episode) as Snell
1987Empire of the Sun as British Prisoner
1987Brimstone and Treacle as Man in street
1985Howards' Way (1 Episode) as Dr. O'Rourke
1984Chocky as Mr. Trimble
1982Harry's Game (3 Episodes) as Senior Officer
1981Iris in the Traffic, Ruby in the Rain as Dr Blair
1981London Is Drowning as John
1981Bergerac (1 Episode) as Alcoholic
1977Secret Army (1 Episode) as Brigadier General Markham
1977The Spell as Stan
1975Good Salary, Prospects, Free Coffin as Constable Breck
1975Henry James' The Jolly Corner as Unknown
1974Eleanor as Det.-Sgt. Gregg
1974According to the Rules as Bank Manager
1974A Little Bit Of Wisdom (1 Episode) as Park Keeper
1972Carson Country as Clergyman
1970Play for Today (1 Episode) as Det. Sgt. Gregg
1961Mad Dog Coll as Unknown
1960John Brown's Raid as Unknown