Personal Info
Birth date
1906-08-18 (119 Years)
Day of death
1979-10-13
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Eltham, London, England, UK
Also known as
-André van Gyseghem
Biography
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Filmography
The Saint
7.312
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.The Prisoner
7.7
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 Count of Monte Cristo
4.4
Overview:
The Count of Monte Cristo was a 1956 ITC Entertainment/TPA television series adapted very loosely from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, adapted by Sidney Marshall. It premiered in the UK in early 1956 and ran for 39 thirty-minute episodes. The first twelve episodes were filmed in the United States, at the Hal Roach studios, with the rest being filmed at ITC's traditional home of Elstree. A 5-disc DVD set containing all thirty-nine episodes was released by Network Studio on 12 April 2010. ITC produced a film based on the same source-material, The Count of Monte-Cristo, in 1975.Ordeal by Fire
NYR
Overview:
The biggest wildfire in North American history is brought to life, revealing what it means to us today, when the people of America are still figuring out how their federal government should manage and protect federal lands. It also explores how 21st century frontier technologies and people are coping with each other and with the ancient cycles of fire in a harsh yet beautiful land.The Adventures of William Tell
6.3
Overview:
The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.Sunday Night Theatre
3.5
Overview:
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959. The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.Warning to Wantons
6
Overview:
Featuring an early role for accomplished French actress Anne Vernon alongside Mary Poppins star David Tomlinson, this effervescent comedy charts the romantic adventures of a young woman who swaps her strict convent school for the heady pleasures of high society. Seventeen-year-old Renee slips away from her convent school, joins her fashionable mother and launches herself into Society with one aim: to conquer the hearts of all the men she encounters. Setting her sights on Max, a bridegroom-to-be, her expert scheming and manipulative behaviour soon ensures that he falls under her spell... but his fiancee isn't giving up without a fightOrson Welles' Great Mysteries
6.7
Overview:
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries was a British television series The series was an anthology of different tales. Each episode was introduced by Orson Welles, who was the only regular actor in the series. In the opening titles, Welles would be shown in silhouette as he walked through a hallway towards the camera, smoking a cigar and outfitted in a broad-brimmed hat and a huge cloak, the outfit itself being a nod to his having provided the voice of The Shadow in the radio program. When he actually appeared on-screen to introduce the episodes, his face would be all that would be shown, in extreme close-up and very low lighting.Napoleon and Love
NYR
Overview:
Napoleon and Love was a 1974 British television series originally aired on ITV and lasting for 9 episodes from 5 March to 30 April 1974. The series starred Ian Holm in the title role as Napoleon I and depicts his relationships with the women who featured in his life as a backdrop to his rise and fall.The Limping Man
5.2
Overview:
An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a limping sniper.Festival
8
Overview:
An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.Cromwell
6.5
Overview:
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.Rotten to the Core
6.2
Overview:
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy PerkinsThe Pied Piper
5.9
Overview:
Greed, corruption, ignorance, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. Minstrels go to Hamelin for the Mayor's daughter's wedding to the Baron's son. He wants her dowry to pay his army while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local apothecary who's a Jew seeks a treatment for the plague; the priests charge him with witchcraft. One of the minstrels, who has soothed the Mayor's daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for the fee. The Mayor agrees, then renigs. In the morning, the plague, the Jew's trial, and the Piper's revenge come at once.Would You Look at Them Smashing All Those Lovely Windows
NYR
Overview:
Drama about the 1914-16 Irish uprising, from the perspective of Irish rebels and English military planners.Luther
NYR
Overview:
An epic drama of the 16th Century Catholic monk Martin Luther who started the Reformation.Late Night Horror
NYR
Overview:
A short-lived horror anthology broadcast in the United Kingdom weekly in 1968 from 11 April until 16 May 1968 on the BBC. After complaints that is was not suitable for audiences, the series was pulled, with five of the six episodes believed lost.The Search for the Nile
6
Overview:
The Nile's source was the last great mystery for European explorers in the 19th century. The story of its discovery is one of heroism in the service of faith, greed, and obsession.The People’s Jack
NYR
Overview:
A musical version of the life of the 17th Century English radical politician, John Wilkes, who campaigned for the right for voters to determine their representatives, not the House of Commons.Stop Press Girl
5.571
Overview:
A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.Candles at Nine
4.5
Overview:
A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom the other relatives didn't know was related to him. Several attempts on her life are thwarted by a detective, who sets out to discover who's behind the scheme to kill her.Acting
1974Napoleon and Love (1 Episode) as Unknown
1973Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (1 Episode) as Judge
1972The Pied Piper as Friar
1972Crown Court (0, 6, 3 Episode) as Unknown, The Hon. Mr. Justice Barclay, Mr. Justice Barclay
1971The Search for the Nile (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1971The Search for the Nile as Sir Roderick Murchison
1970Cromwell as Archbishop Rinuccini
1970Would You Look at Them Smashing All Those Lovely Windows as Sir Mathew Nathan, Eamonn de Valera
1970The People’s Jack as Lord Sandwich
1968Late Night Horror (1 Episode) as Baxter
1968Luther as The Prior
1967The Prisoner (1 Episode) as Retiring Number Two
1965Rotten to the Core as Field Marshal von Schneer
1963Festival (1 Episode) as Vennekohl
1962The Saint (1 Episode) as Ahmed Bayer
1961Amelia (7 Episodes) as Unknown
1959The Third Man (1 Episode) as Unknown
1958The Adventures of William Tell (1 Episode) as Grand Duke
1957Ordeal by Fire as Marquis de Saint-Avare
1956The Count of Monte Cristo (1 Episode) as Unknown
1953The Limping Man as George, Stage Doorman
1950Sunday Night Theatre (1 Episode) as Chancellor Metternich
1949Stop Press Girl as Ex-Editor of Evening Comet (uncredited)
1949Warning to Wantons as Oblensky
1944Candles at Nine as Cecil Tempest