Joss Ackland
Born: 1928-02-29 in North Kensington, London, England, UK
Died: 2023-11-19
Known For: Acting
Biography
Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland CBE (29 February 1928 – 19 November 2023) was an English actor who appeared in more than 130 film and television roles. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying Jock Delves Broughton in White Mischief (1987). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joss Ackland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2014
- Katherine of Alexandria as Rufus
- The Portrait as Henry Winter
2013
- Prisoners of the Sun as Professor Mendella
2011
- The Boy with Chocolate Fingers as Narrator
2010
- Peak Performers - The Mk3 Ford Cortina as Narrator
2007
- Kingdom as Mr. John Narbutowicz
- Flawless as Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft
- Hogfather as Mustrum Ridcully
- How About You... as Donald Vanston
- In Search of the Great Beast 666: Aleister Crowley as Narrator
2006
- The One Show as Self
- Hogfather as Mustrum Ridcully
- Above and Beyond as Winston Churchill
- Moscow Zero as Tolstoy
- These Foolish Things as Albert
2005
- Asylum as Jack Straffen
- Icon as General Nikolayev
- Defining a Style as Self
2004
- A Different Loyalty as Randolph Cauffield
2003
- Henry VIII as Henry VII
- I'll Be There as Evil Edmonds - The BeeLzeeBOPS
2002
- K-19: The Widowmaker as Marshal Zelentsov
- No Good Deed as Mr. Quarre
2001
- Othello as James Brabant
2000
- Easter Tales as Barabbas
- Passion of Mind as Dr. Langer, the French Psychiatrist
- The Mumbo Jumbo as Mayor Smith
- Lounge Act
1999
- Milk as Vicar
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service as The Prussian
1998
- Heat of the Sun as Max Van Der vuurst
- Firelight as Lord Clare
- My Giant as Monsignor Popesou
- Swept from the Sea as Mr. Swaffer
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Sir Freddy Butler
1996
- Testament: The Bible in Animation as Samuel (voice)
- D3: The Mighty Ducks as Hans
- Surviving Picasso as Henri Matisse
- Deadly Voyage
- Hidden in Silence as German Factory Manager
- To the Ends of Time as King Francis
1995
- Citizen X as Bondarchuk
- A Kid in King Arthur's Court as King Arthur
- Mad Dogs and Englishmen as Insp. Sam Stringer
- Daisies in December as Gerald Carmody
1994
- Miracle on 34th Street as Victor Landbergh (uncredited)
- Jacob as Isaak
- OcchioPinocchio as Brando Della Valle
- Giorgino as Father Glaise
- Citizen Locke as Lord Ashley
- Julius Caesar as Caesar
- Joan Miró: Constellations - The Color of Poetry as Self
1993
- Nowhere to Run as Franklin Hale
- The Thief and the Cobbler as Brigand (voice)
- Mother's Boys as Lansing, Jude's Attorney
- Simulacrum as The Chemist
- Voices in the Garden as Sir Charles Peverall
1992
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as The Prussian
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Caesar (voice)
- The Mighty Ducks as Hans
- Once Upon a Crime as Hercules Popodopoulos
- Project: Shadowchaser as Kinderman
- The Bridge as Smithson
- Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls as King Edward
- White Bear's Secret as Brown Bear (voice)
1991
- A Woman Named Jackie as Aristotle Onassis
- Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey as De Nomolos
- Ashenden
- Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors as Lewis Serrocold
- The Princess and the Goblin as King Papa (voice)
- A Murder of Quality as Terence Fielding
- The Object of Beauty as Mr. Mercer
- The Sheltering Desert
- Brown Bear's Wedding as Brown Bear (voice)
1990
- The Hunt for Red October as Ambassador Andrei Lysenko
- Jekyll & Hyde as Dr. Charles Lanyon
- The Secret Life of Ian Fleming as Gen. Gerhard Hellstein
- Tre colonne in cronaca as Gaetano Leporino, il finanziere
- The Palermo Connection as il boss
1989
- Lethal Weapon 2 as Arjen Rudd
- First and Last as Alan Holly
1988
- To Kill a Priest as Colonel
- Codename: Kyril as 'C'
- Codename: Kyril as 'C'
- It Couldn't Happen Here as Priest/Murderer
- The Man Who Lived at the Ritz as Hermann Goering
- Olympus Force: The Key as George Grossopoulos
1987
- The Sicilian as Don Masino Croce
- White Mischief as 'Jock' Delves Broughton
- Queenie as Sir Burton Rumsey
- A Killing on the Exchange as Sir Max Sillman
- When We Are Married as Henry Ormonroyd
1986
- Lady Jane as Sir John Bridges
1985
- A Zed & Two Noughts as Van Hoyten
- Shadowlands as CS Lewis
1984
- Sherlock Holmes as Jephro Rucastle
- The Tragedy of Coriolanus as Menenius
- Shroud for a Nightingale as Stephen Courtney-Briggs
- The Leather Boys as Narrator
1983
- Natural World as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Dalgliesh as Stephen Courtney-Briggs
1982
- Wogan as Self
- The Barretts of Wimpole Street as Edward Moulton-Barrett
1981
- Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective as Chief Insp. Yardbird
- Elizabeth Alone as Major Orpen
- Findings on a Late Afternoon as Father
1980
- The Gentle Touch as Ivor Stocker
- Rough Cut as Insp. Vanderveld
- A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square as Prison Warden
- The Apple as Mr. Topps / Hippie Leader
- A Question of Guilt
- Closing Ranks as Victor Rogachev
- The Love Tapes as Narrator (voice)
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Colonel George Peregrine
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy as Jerry Westerby
- Turtle's Progress as Benny D-Day
- Saint Jack as Yardley
1978
- Return of the Saint as Gunther
- Enemy at the Door as Major General Laidlaw
- Watership Down as Black Rabbit (voice)
- Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? as Cantrell
- The Greek Tycoon as Naval officer (uncredited)
1977
- Silver Bears as Henry Foreman
- The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It as President
1976
- The Crezz as Charles Bronte
- You Talk Too Much as Doctor
1975
- The Sweeney as Alan Ember
- Royal Flash as Sapten
- Operation: Daybreak as Janák
- One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing as B.J. Spence
- Heading For Glory as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Magic Dream as Narrator
1974
- Playhouse as Maj. Orpen
- The Four Musketeers as D'Artagnan's Father (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Little Prince as The King
- The Black Windmill as Chief Supt. Wray
- S*P*Y*S as Martinson
- Great Expectations as Joe Gargery
- Miss Nightingale as Lord Palmerston
1973
- Centre Play as Doctor
- Orson Welles' Great Mysteries as Detective Inspector Hud
- The Three Musketeers as D’Artagnan’s Father
- Hitler: The Last Ten Days as General Burgdorf
- Penny Gold as Jones
- England Made Me as Haller
- Access to the Children as Malcolmson
1972
- The Protectors as Arthur Gordon
- Country Matters as Potter-Jones
- Shirley's World
- The Mind Snatchers as Dr. Frederick
- King's Cross Lunch Hour as The Man
- The Bankrupt as Ellis Cripper
- Crippled Bloom as Potter Jones
1971
- The Persuaders! as Felix Meadowes
- Justice as Sir Robert Beste
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Grubber
- The House That Dripped Blood as Neville Rogers (segment 2 "Waxworks")
- Villain as Edgar Lowis
- Mr. Forbush and the Penguins as Head of Board
- Getting In as An Applicant
1970
- Play for Today as Malcolmson
- The Lie as Albert
- Crescendo as Carter
- The Three Sisters as Chebutykin
1969
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre as Councillor Horne
1967
- The Further Adventures of the Musketeers as d'Artagnan
- One Pair of Eyes
1966
- Mystery and Imagination as Herr Scavenius
- David Copperfield as Daniel Peggotty
- Rasputin: The Mad Monk as The Bishop
- Death of a Salesman as Charley
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Chebutykin
- The Troubleshooters as Sam Jardine
- Londoners as Angus Grahame
- Tomorrow, Just You Wait as Tom Gorbet
1964
- Theatre 625 as Hockey Jagger
- The Wednesday Play as Cornelius
- Sherlock Holmes as Hon. Philip Green
- Maggie as Norman
1962
- In Search of the Castaways as Yacht Seaman
1961
- The Avengers as Brigadier Hansing
1959
1958
- Next to No Time as Turkish Bath Attendant
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Frank Penfold
1952
- Ghost Ship as Ron, 2nd Fisherman
1950
- Seven Days to Noon as Station Policeman
1949
- Landfall as O'Neil