Personal Info
Birth date
1926-06-01 (99 Years)
Day of death
2015-07-15
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
Also known as
-Aubrey Morris
Biography
Aubrey Morris (June 1, 1926 - July 15, 2015) was a British actor was a British actor known for his appearances in the films A Clockwork Orange and The Wicker Man. His many memorable performances include: the Freud-fixated writer Mr. Mybug in Cold Comfort Farm (1968); the sleazy probation officer Mr. Deltoid in A Clockwork Orange (1971); a sinister gravedigger in The Wicker Man (1973); the oily manservant Grosvenor, asking Michael Palin for the use of the 'naughty books', in "The Curse of the Claw" episode of Ripping Yarns (1976); the jolly captain of the 'B-Ark' (filled with such folk as telephone sanitizers), spending years luxuriating in his bubble-bath in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981); and last, but not least, the ancient thespian Chesterton, shuffling off this mortal coil while being read quotes from King Lear in HBO's Deadwood (2004). Residing in the U.S. since the mid-1980s, Aubrey Morris continued to ply his trade right up until his death at the venerable age of 89.
Filmography
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
8.278
Overview:
Four egocentric friends run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia and try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a myriad of uncomfortable situations that usually only get worse before they get better.Babylon 5
8.039
Overview:
Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.Murder, She Wrote
7.5
Overview:
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.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 Avengers
7.734
Overview:
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).Columbo
8.088
Overview:
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.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.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.The Saint
7.3
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.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.Space: 1999
7.1
Overview:
The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.Tales from the Crypt
7.949
Overview:
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?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.Boy Meets World
8.2
Overview:
The coming of age events and everyday life-lessons of Cory Matthews, a Philadelphian who grows up from a young boy to a married man.Lovejoy
7.3
Overview:
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.Playhouse
7
Overview:
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.The Sweeney
7.739
Overview:
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.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.Return of the Saint
7
Overview:
Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.Sledge Hammer!
7.908
Overview:
Sledge Hammer! is an American satirical police sitcom produced by New World Television that ran for two seasons on ABC from 1986 to 1988. The series was created by Alan Spencer and stars David Rasche as Inspector Sledge Hammer, a preposterous caricature of the standard "cop on the edge" character. Al Jean and Mike Reiss, best known for their work on The Simpsons, wrote for the show and worked as story editors.Journey to the Unknown
6.3
Overview:
A British television anthology series with a fantasy, science fiction and supernatural theme, similar to the American television series The Twilight Zone, and deals with normal people whose everyday situations somehow become extraordinary.On the Buses
7.2
Overview:
On the Buses is a British comedy series created by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney, broadcast in the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1973. The writers' previous successes with The Rag Trade and Meet the Wife were for the BBC, but the corporation rejected On the Buses, not seeing much comedy potential in a bus depot as a setting. The comedy partnership turned to a friend, Frank Muir, Head of Entertainment at London Weekend Television, who loved the idea; the show was accepted and despite a poor critical reception became a hit with viewers.Danger Man
7.2
Overview:
Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.Mystery and Imagination
5.5
Overview:
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.The Prisoner
7.735
Overview:
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
8.1
Overview:
Don't Panic! The story of Arthur Dent, an average Englishman who life was spared by his friend, who turned out to be an alien, while the planet Earth is destroyed. His friend tells him about the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a guide with anything you ever needed, and wanted to know. They travel across the galaxy, meeting friendly, and not so friendly characters in order to find the great question (the answer being 42).The Champions
6.1
Overview:
The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network ITV during 1968–1969, produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. The series was broadcast in the US on NBC, starting in summer 1968.War and Remembrance
7.938
Overview:
War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Herman Wouk. It is the sequel to highly successful The Winds of War.Man in a Suitcase
7
Overview:
Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches for answers.Ivanhoe
6.3
Overview:
Ivanhoe is a British television series first shown on ITV in 1958-59. The show features Roger Moore in his first starring role, as Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, in a series of adventures aimed at a children's audience. The characters were drawn loosely from Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel.Acting
TBADangerous Ice as Hogan
TBANot At All as Ron
TBARome, Sweet Home as The Tailor
TBADon't I Look Like A Lord's son? as The Actor
2013Cannon Fodder: The Making of Lifeforce as Self
2008Visioneers as Old Man Jeffers
2008Necessary Evil as Rev. Arends
2005It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (1 Episode) as Albert Zimmerman
2003Red Roses and Petrol as Father Morton
2003Knee High P.I. as Worthington
2001Mermaid Chronicles Part 1: She Creature as Mr. Woolrich
1998Legend of the Mummy as Doctor Winchester
1996Bordello of Blood as McCutcheon
1995Project Shadowchaser III as Unknown
1994My Girl 2 as Alfred Beidermeyer
1994Babylon 5 (1 Episode) as Duncan
1993Boy Meets World (1 Episode) as Professor Cookmond
1990A Mom for Christmas as Nicholas
1989Alien Nation (1 Episode) as Unknown
1989Tales from the Crypt (1 Episode) as Freddy
1989The Rachel Papers as Sir Herbert
1988War and Remembrance (1 Episode) as Unknown
1987Beauty and the Beast (1 Episode) as Unknown
1986Sledge Hammer! (1 Episode) as Unknown
1986Lovejoy (2 Episodes) as Marcel Jaworski
1985Lifeforce as Sir Percy Heseltine
1984Murder, She Wrote (1, 1 Episode) as Forbes, Mr. Bellows
1984Oxford Blues as Doctor Quentin Boggs
1984The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood as Archbishop
1983Reilly: Ace of Spies (2 Episodes) as Mendrovovich
1982Intensive Care as Headmaster
1981The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy as Captain
1981The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1 Episode) as Captain
1980Fatal Spring as Tom Owen
1980S.O.S. Titanic as John Hart, Steward
1978Return of the Saint (1 Episode) as Garton
1978Disraeli (2 Episodes) as Isaac D'Israeli
1977The Curse of the Claw as Grosvenor
1976Night Ferry as Soapy
1975The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother as Coach Driver
1975Lisztomania as Manager
1975Space: 1999 (1 Episode) as Petros High Priest
1975Love and Death as Soldier 4
1975The Sweeney (1 Episode) as The Card Player
1974Man About the House as Lecturer
1974Playhouse (1 Episode) as Tom Owen
1973The Wicker Man as Old Gardener / Gravedigger
1972Go for a Take as Director
1972Crown Court (1 Episode) as Unknown
1971A Clockwork Orange as Deltoid
1971Columbo (1 Episode) as Fred
1971Blood from the Mummy's Tomb as Doctor Putnum
1971Jamie (13 Episodes) as Mr. Zed
1970Play for Today (1 Episode) as Headmaster
1970From a Bird's Eye View (1 Episode) as Hotel Proprietor
1970Goodbye Gemini as Houseboat Party Guest
1970Catweazle (1 Episode) as Leslie Milton
1969The Main Chance (1 Episode) as Elbert Cheever
1969If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium as Harry Dix
1969On the Buses (1 Episode) as Unknown
1968Journey to the Unknown (1 Episode) as Unknown
1968The Champions (1 Episode) as Van Velden
1968Up the Junction as Creely
1967The Prisoner (1 Episode) as Town Crier / Roman Emperor
1967Man in a Suitcase (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1967The Magnificent Two as News Announcer (uncredited)
1966The Corridor People (1 Episode) as Robag
1966The Sandwich Man as Cedric
1966The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery as Unknown
1966Mystery and Imagination (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1966Softly, Softly (1 Episode) as Unknown
1965The Night Caller as Thorburn
1963The Sentimental Agent (1 Episode) as Unknown
1962City Beneath the Sea (7 Episodes) as Unknown
1962The Saint (1 Episode) as Pebbles
1962The Quare Fellow as Silvertop
1962Afternoon of a Nymph as Joe
1962Out of This World (1 Episode) as Unknown
1962Oliver Twist (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1962Z-Cars (1 Episode) as Unknown
1962Two Letter Alibi as Hotel Receptionist
1961Flower of Evil (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1961The Avengers (1 Episode) as Unknown
1960Danger Man (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959No Hiding Place (1 Episode) as Unknown
1958Ivanhoe (1 Episode) as Rushkin
1956The Advancing Shadow as Len Mingh
1948Fly Away Peter as Ted Hapgood