Personal Info
Birth date
1932-06-02 (93 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
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Also known as
-Alan Dobie
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Filmography
Play for Today
6.3
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.The Human Jungle
8.2
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The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.The Chairman
5.5
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An American scientist is sent to Red China to steal the formula for a newly developed agricultural enzyme. What he is not told by his bosses is that a micro-sized bomb has been planted in his brain so that should the mission ever look likely to fail, he can be eliminated at the push of a button!Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
7
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English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.Sunday-Night Play
NYR
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BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.The Suicide Club
NYR
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Prince Florizel of Bohemia discovers a secret club where desperate men gamble with their lives, and vows to bring it to an end.Festival
8
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An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.The Charge of the Light Brigade
6.118
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During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.White Mischief
6.08
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A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up for war. They are busy swapping partners, doing drugs, and attending lavish parties and horse races. She begins a torrid affair with one of the bon vivants, and her husband finds out and confronts them. The husband and wife decide to break up peacefully, but the bon vivant is murdered and all the evidence points to the husband.The Disputation
1
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In 1263, King James I of Aragon organizes a debate between representatives of Judaism and Christianity regarding whether or not Jesus was the Messiah.War & Peace
7.1
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The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.Detective
NYR
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A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC programmes made before the early 1970s, many of its episodes no longer exist. Of the eighteen episodes from the first season only twelve are currently known to exist; likewise six of the sixteen editions from the second run are considered lost, and just one of the final ten survives in the archives.Testament: The Bible in Animation
6.4
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A nine-part series of Old Testament stories for younger viewers using various animation techniques, including stop-motion, cel animation and computer animation.Mystery and Imagination
5.5
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Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 by the ITV network and produced by ABC and Thames Television.Madame Sin
6.7
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A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.Kessler
6.8
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Drama series about the attempts to unmask Ludwig Kessler, the fictional head of the Gestapo in Belgium from the series SECRET ARMY, who escaped punishment, changed his name to Manfred Dorf, and became a successful businessman.A Collier's Friday Night
NYR
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A glimpse into the home life of a coal miner and his family. Frustrated with their lot in life, the family quarrel and squabble incessantly with one another in this adaptation of a DH Lawrence short story.Double Dare
NYR
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Martin Ellis (Alan Dobie) is a blocked screenwriter who invites Helen, an actress (Kika Markham), to a hotel in central London to discuss an idea for a play he is writing with her in mind. As they discuss the play, Martin discovers that a businessman and an escort named Carol are sat at a nearby table and appear to be speaking lines from the as yet unwritten piece. Martin becomes anxious at what will eventually become of the girl, already knowing that the play will not have a happy resolutionSeven Keys
6.8
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Alan Dobie plays a convict who is bequeathed a set of seven keys by a fellow prisoner. After discovering that the deceased was an embezzler who stole £20,000 that was never recovered; he sets out to find the cash after finishing the last three months of his sentence. However he must first solve the mystery of which locks the keys fit, and run the gauntlet of the police and a number of gangsters who are after him and the money.The Comedy Man
6.9
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A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.Captured
4.6
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Directed by cult British director John Krish, the film was sponsored by the Army Kinematograph Corporation. This tightly plotted drama shows British POWs enduring brainwashing and torture during the Korean War, thereby revealing what a soldier could expect if he was ever captured by enemy forces.A Question Of Faith
NYR
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The last days of famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy which are paralleled with one of his last stories - The Death of Ivan Ilyich - about a man who is happy with his life until he finds out he's sick and is about to die.Hard Times
5
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Thomas Gradgrind devotes his life to a philosophy of rationalism, self-interest and hard fact. His raising of his children to this way of thinking creates opportunity and tragedy.Cribb
7.5
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Adapted from Peter Lovesey's Sergeant Cribb novels and set in Victorian London around the time of the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888, Alan Dobie starred as the tough Detective Sergeant who worked for the newly formed Criminal Investigation Department, determined to remove crime from the streets of London using the latest detection methods.Alfred the Great
4.3
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While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows to take up arms against the invaders, leading the English Christians to fight for their country. Alfred soundly defeats the Danes and becomes a hero. But now, although Alfred still longs for the priesthood, he is torn between his passion for God and his lust for blood.Night Mail 2
NYR
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An updated version of the classic 1936 "Night Mail", this time using an aeroplanes and vans as well as trains, and with poetry by Blake Morrison.The House on Kirov Street
NYR
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It is November 1941, and the German Army is sweeping through the Crimea. German officers are billeted in Yalta - some of them in Anton Chekhov's old house in Kirov Street. The house is now a museum, but it is guarded by Chekhov's sister for whom the war, like the Revolution before it, is just another unwelcome disturbance.Acting
2008Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh as Mr. Frank Fragg - Prosecutor
1996Testament: The Bible in Animation (1 Episode) as Saul (voice)
1987White Mischief as Sir Walter Harrigan
1987Night Mail 2 as Narrator
1987The Hospice as Falkner
1986The Disputation as Moses ben Nachman
1985The House on Kirov Street as Maj. Beckman
1981Kessler (6 Episodes) as Richard Bauer
1981Hedda Gabler as Judge Brack
1980Cribb (13 Episodes) as Sergeant Cribb
1979A Question Of Faith as Ivan Illych
1979Waxwork as Cribb
1977Hard Times (4 Episodes) as Stephen Blackpool
1976A Collier's Friday Night as Mr Lambert
1976Double Dare as Martin Ellis
1976For Services to Myself as Roger Banks
1972War & Peace (20 Episodes) as Andrei Bolkonsky
1972Madame Sin as White
1971The Save the Children Fund Film as Narrator
1970Play for Today (1 Episode) as Martin Ellis
1970The Suicide Club as Prince Florizel
1969Alfred the Great as Ethelred
1969Jumbo as Narrator (voice)
1969The Chairman as Benson
1969Bird's Eye View (1 Episode) as Self - Narrator
1968The Long Day's Dying as Helmut
1968The Charge of the Light Brigade as Riding Master Mogg
1967Contrasts (1 Episode) as Macbeth
1966Francis Bacon: Fragments of a Portrait as Self
1966Mystery and Imagination (1 Episode) as Unknown
1966The River Must Live as Unknown
1965The Siege of Manchester as Captain Rosworm
1964The Comedy Man as Jack Lavery
1964Detective (1 Episode) as Martin Cotterell
1964Faces of Harlow as Narrator (voice)
1963Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow as Mr. Frank Fragg - Prosecutor
1963Festival (1 Episode) as Everyman
1963The Human Jungle (1 Episode) as Patrick
1961Seven Keys as Russell
1960Sunday-Night Play (1 Episode) as Eric Birling
1959Captured as Unknown
1956Armchair Theatre (1 Episode) as Captain Marshall