Personal Info
Birth date
1947-08-06 (77 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Zurich, Switzerland
Also known as
Oliver Tobias Freitag
Oliver Tobias
Biography
Oliver Tobias is a Swiss-born UK-based film, stage, and television actor and director.
Filmography
Das Traumschiff
4.3
Overview:
The series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world.Robin of Sherwood
7.627
Overview:
Robin of Sherwood was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on the ITV network. In America it was retitled Robin Hood and shown on the premium cable TV channel Showtime and on PBS. The show starred Michael Praed and Jason Connery as two different incarnations of the title character. Unlike previous adaptations of the Robin Hood legend, Robin of Sherwood combined a gritty, authentic production design with elements of real-life history, 20th century fiction, and pagan myth. The series is also notable for its haunting title music by Clannad, which won a BAFTA award.Jesus of Nazareth
7.8
Overview:
Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.Sherlock Holmes
8.105
Overview:
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.The Lost Islands
6.2
Overview:
The Lost Islands is an Australian television series. It first aired in Australia on 1 January 1976, and was later screened around the world, including the UK, France, Italy, The Netherlands, as well as Israel, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and the United States.Thriller
6.6
Overview:
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
6.4
Overview:
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials. The series was a co-production by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television, and is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, all the episodes had American actors as either the leads or in key roles. It was first aired in the UK by ITV in 1984, though was not simulcast and was shown in different timeslots throughout the various ITV regions.Dick Turpin
7.286
Overview:
Richard O'Sullivan stars as Dick Turpin in this action-filled adventure series chronicling the exploits of England's most celebrated highwayman.Arthur of the Britons
6
Overview:
This series strips away the elaborate medieval view of Camelot, and presents Arthur as the chief of a small Celt tribe in Dark-Ages Britain, a century or two after the withdrawal of Rome. Arthur struggles to weave the scattered tribes of Celts, Jutes, etc. into a union that can effectively oppose the Saxon invaders who are arriving in Britain in growing numbers. He is aided by his adoptive father, Llud, and his foster brother, Kai, who is himself a Saxon foundling.Perfect Scoundrels
6
Overview:
Perfect Scoundrels first broadcast in 1990 on British television. A comedy-drama following two con-men doing their best to separate various people from their moneySmuggler
5
Overview:
Set during the Napoleonic wars of the early 1800s, Oliver Tobias stars as Jack Vincent, a swashbuckling ex-British naval captain turned smuggler. A strong-willed, independent man who lives by both his wits and the sword, Vincent is ably assisted by Sarah and petty thief Honesty Evans in his struggle to stay one step ahead of the Excise Men...Cluedo
6.4
Overview:
Cluedo was a UK television game show based on the board game of the same name. Each week, a reenactment of the murder at the stately home Arlington Grange of a visiting guest was played and, through a combination of interrogating the suspects and deduction, celebrity guests had to discover who committed the murder, which of six weapons and in which room it was committed, whilst viewers were invited to play along at home.The Adventurer
NYR
Overview:
Jack Vincent, an aristocrat forced by circumstances to become a smuggler, is caught and transported on the IIMS Success to a penal colony on Norfolk Island, off the New Zealand coast. Unhappily for Vincent, the ship's captain is none other than his brother-in-law, Lt.Harry Anderson. The two men have quarreled violently in the past over Anderson's treatment of Vincent's sister, and now Anderson subjects him to particularly harsh and humiliating treatment. Vincent stages a successful mutiny, casting Anderson and those loyal to him adrift, and plans to sail to America. When the Success is shipwrecked, Vincent is one of three survivors; but Anderson also survives the storm, and vows to pursue Vincent until he sees him hanged at Execution Dock. So begins a fight for survival for Vincent and his crew, complete with hostile natives, unscrupulous sea-traders, crazed prophets and buried treasure.Arabian Adventure
5.8
Overview:
An evil caliph (Christopher Lee) offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a prince if he can complete a perilous quest for a magical rose. Helped by a young boy and a magic carpet, Prince Hasan (Oliver Tobias), has to overcome genies, fire breathing monsters and treacherous swamps to reach his prize and claim the hand of the Princess Zuleira (Emma Samms).Rewind The 60s
NYR
Overview:
It is now fifty years since the start of the 1960s – ten years of change, innovation, excitement and creativity that revolutionised our lives. To celebrate this amazing decade, Lulu presents Rewind the 60s - five entertaining programmes that explore all aspects of the 1960s: from where we lived, to what we ate, to how we dressed, and what we listened to. With the help of some very special guests, Lulu shows us how that extraordinary decade transformed Britain and the world forever – and how much fun it was to live through.Dad's Army
5
Overview:
A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy as World War II draws to its conclusion.The Stud
4.9
Overview:
Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, The Hobo, and partying. She hires a manager, Tony, to run her club, but it is understood that his job security is dependent on him satisfying her nymphomaniac demands.The Wicked Lady
4.929
Overview:
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious activities.Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
7.198
Overview:
A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.Deadly Instincts
4.2
Overview:
It's an invasion of the most personal and terrifying kind. When a meteorite crash lands onto a Boston college campus and an alien beast is released, only one man understands its mission to mate. From the depths of an all girls college, the grotesque monster stalks his prey in a cat-and-mouse chase until the final conflict where only one species can survive.Acting
2023Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow as Self
2016Dad's Army as Canaris
2016Open My Eyes as Gunter Meinertzhagen
2014Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films as Self - Actor
2013Lord Montagu as Self - Narrator
2012Eldorado as Dick Wheeler
2010Rewind The 60s (1 Episode) as Unknown
2008Hunkeler macht Sachen as Thomas Garzoni
2007Rosamunde Pilcher: Flügel der Hoffnung as Roger Prentiss
2007Mord in bester Gesellschaft (1 Episode) as Comisario Ricardo Costa-Cruz
2004Method as Teddy
2004Unter weißen Segeln (1 Episode) as Yussuf Arazi
2003100 Greatest Sexy Moments as Self
2001Der Bestseller: Millionencoup auf Gran Canaria as Miguel Gonzales
2001Journey of a Lifetime - Europe and the Middle East as Narrator
2001Journey of a Lifetime - Australia to the Americas as Narrator
2001Journey of a Lifetime - Africa and Asia as Narrator
2000Mozart in Turkey as Pasha Selim
1999Grizzly Falls as Genet
1999Alec to the Rescue! as Professor James Richards
1997Diana & Me as Self
1997Sharpe: The Legend as Rebecque
1997Parkhotel Stern (1 Episode) as Leopold Wittenberg
1997Deadly Instincts as Moore
1996The Brylcreem Boys as Hans Jorg Wolff
1996Klinik unter Palmen (1 Episode) as Dr. Rudolfo Garcia
1995Savage Hearts as Ill-tempered Man
1995Vendetta as Da Piemonte
1995Rosamunde Pilcher: Wechselspiel der Liebe as Hugh
1994Broken Lullaby as Count Borodin
1994Calliope as Vikram Trott
1994Nexus 2.431 as Tarn
1993Flash – Der Fotoreporter (6 Episodes) as Flash
1993Donauprinzessin (13 Episodes) as Rick Reimers
1992Glückliche Reise (1 Episode) as Leibwächter Mathias
1991Firestar: First Contact as Captain Bremner
1990The Paper Man (6 Episodes) as Ian Harris
1990Cluedo (1 Episode) as Comte Henri de Beauchamp
1990Perfect Scoundrels (1 Episode) as Bite Lipton
1990The Last Match as Cliff Gaylor
1987Die Entführung aus dem Serail as Pasha Selim
1987The Adventurer (12 Episodes) as Jack Vincent
1987Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown as Johann Strauss
1986Cobra Mission as Richard Wagner
1986A Dangerous Kind of Love as Melchior Anderegg
1985Mata Hari as Ladoux
1984Last Video and Testament as Derek Tucker
1984Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (1 Episode) as Derek Tucker
1984Robin of Sherwood (1 Episode) as Bertrand de Nivelle
1984Sherlock Holmes (1 Episode) as Captain Croker
1983The Wicked Lady as Kit Locksby
1981Das Traumschiff (1 Episode) as Stefan Reinking
1981Smuggler (13 Episodes) as Jack Vincent
1980A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square as Foxy
1979Arabian Adventure as Prince Hasan
1979Dick Turpin (3 Episodes) as Noll Bridger
1978The Stud as Tony Blake
1977The Lost Islands (26 Episodes) as Unknown
1977Jesus of Nazareth (4 Episodes) as Joel
1977Ein Glas Wasser as Masham
1976Luke's Kingdom (13 Episodes) as Unknown
1975Won't Write Home, Mom–I'm Dead as Alan Smerdon
1975King Arthur, the Young Warlord as King Arthur
1974The God King as Migara
1973Thriller (1 Episode) as Alan Smerdon
1972Arthur of the Britons (24 Episodes) as Arthur
1971'Tis Pity She's a Whore as Giovanni
1969Arthur? Arthur! as Peter 'Bobo' Jackson