Cyril Luckham
Born: 1907-07-25 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
Died: 1989-02-08
Known For: Acting
Biography
Cyril Alexander Garland Luckham (25 July 1907 – 8 February 1989) was an English film, television and theatre actor. He was the husband of stage and screen actress Violet Lamb. The son of a paymaster captain in the Royal Navy, Cyril Luckham was educated at RNC Osborne and Dartmouth and briefly followed his father into the service. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1930 and retired the following year, transferring to the Emergency List. Afterwards he trained for the stage with the Arthur Brough school at Folkestone, making his debut with Brough's company there in The Admirable Crichton in 1935. For several years he appeared in provincial repertory, notably with the Rapier Players at Bristol's Little Theatre. He had been promoted to Lieutenant-Commander on the retired list in 1938 and was recalled to the Navy when the War broke out. He was invalided out soon afterwards following serious illness and returned to the theatre. Luckham made his West End debut as Torvald Helmer in A Doll's House at the Arts Theatre in July 1945. For several years afterwards his stage work was largely back in the provinces including the touring company of the Old Vic.
Filmography
1983
- Mrs. Silly as Bishop
- Doctor Who: Enlightenment as The White Guardian
1982
- The Barchester Chronicles as Bishop Grantly
1981
- Levkas Man as Gilmour
- The Winter's Tale as Antigonus
- The Potting Shed as Dr Baston
1980
- To Serve Them All My Days as Sir Rufus Creighton
- Donkeys' Years as Sydney Birkett
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Rawlsden
- The Omega Factor
- My Son, My Son
- Murder at the Wedding as Eric Russell
- Sweet Wine of Youth as Dean Inge
- The Saint and the Brave Goose as Coroner
1978
- Return of the Saint as Coroner
- The Famous Five as Mr Luffy
- Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man as Old Hardy
- What Every Woman Knows as Charles Venables
- Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation as The Guardian
1977
- The Professionals as Judge Hall
- Providence as Dr. Mark Eddington
1976
- Victorian Scandals as Sir Alexander Cockburn
1975
- The Venturers as Lord Kilvern
- The Doll as Sir Arnold Wyatt
- The Doll as Sir Arnold Wyatt
1974
- Playhouse as Dean Inge
- Father Brown as Lord Galloway
- Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
- The Wood Demon as Orlovsky
1973
- Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
- Scotch on the Rocks as Lord Thorganby
- Caring for History as Narrator
1972
- Crown Court
- The Protectors as Alec Weston
- The Adventurer as Lord Franklin
1971
- Justice as Justice Briggs
- The Guardians as Sir Timothy Hobson
- Mr. Forbush and the Penguins as Tringham
1970
- Ryan International
- One More Time as Magistrate
1969
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre as Mulberry
- Department S as Walker
- Paul Temple
- Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) as Laverick
- In Loving Memory
- W. Somerset Maugham as Sir Philip Brandower
- Anne of the Thousand Days as Prior Houghton
- Imperial Palace as Sir Henry Savott
1968
- The Company of Five as Mr James
- Stand by Your Screen as Norman Gritter
- Happy DeathDay
- The Spanish Farm as Baron D'Archeville
1967
- Omnibus as Self
- ITV Playhouse as Mr. Webber
- The World of Wodehouse as Vicar
- Angel Pavement as Mr. Smeeth
- The Naked Runner as Cabinet minister
1966
- A Man for All Seasons as Archbishop Cranmer
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Roebuck Ramsden
- Public Eye as Charles Luce
- Thirty-Minute Theatre as Dr. Pelham
- The Troubleshooters as Charles Andrews
- The Alphabet Murders as Sir Carmichael Clarke
- The Mind of the Enemy as Sir Henry Blake
- VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton as Archibald Lake
1964
- The Wednesday Play as General-Colonel Ludwig Beck
- Detective
- Thursday Theatre as Bishop Gardiner
- The Great War
- Victoria Regina as Lord Melbourne
- The Pumpkin Eater as Doctor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Egeus
- The July Plot as General-Colonel Ludwig Beck
1963
- Doctor Who as White Guardian
- Espionage as Admiral Bond
- No Cloak - No Dagger as Det. Chief-Supt. Gage
1962
- The Saint as Jack Hardy
- The Scales of Justice as Mr. Lawson
- Billy Budd as Hallam, Captain of Marines
- Some People as Magistrate
- Night Conspirators as Wolfgang Himmelmann
- The Dark Island
1960
- Sunday-Night Play as John Pearce
- An Age of Kings as Archbishop of Canterbury
1957
- Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! as Maurice Dekobra
- Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst as Commander in Chief
- How to Murder a Rich Uncle as Coroner
- The Birthday Present as Magistrate
- The End Begins as Dr. Wincot
1956
- The Battle of the River Plate as Lieutenant Jasper Abbot, H.M.S. Achilles
- Armchair Theatre as Dr. Wolfgang Himmelmann
1955
- ITV Play of the Week as Arthur Mounteney
- Out of the Clouds as Doctor Harman
1954
- Stranger from Venus as Dr. Meinard
1945
- Murder in Reverse? as Crossley's Guest