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
- The Portrait as Henry Winter
- Katherine of Alexandria as Rufus
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
- Flawless as Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft
- Hogfather as Mustrum Ridcully
- Kingdom as Mr. John Narbutowicz
- How About You... as Donald Vanston
- In Search of the Great Beast 666: Aleister Crowley as Narrator
2006
- The One Show as Self
- Moscow Zero as Tolstoy
- Hogfather as Mustrum Ridcully
- These Foolish Things as Albert
- Above and Beyond
- Above and Beyond as Winston Churchill
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
- The Mumbo Jumbo as Mayor Smith
- Passion of Mind as Dr. Langer, the French Psychiatrist
- Lounge Act
- Tales from the Madhouse as Barabbas
1999
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service as The Prussian
- Milk as Vicar
1998
- Firelight as Lord Clare
- Swept from the Sea as Mr. Swaffer
- Heat of the Sun as Max Van Der vuurst
- My Giant as Monsignor Popesou
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Sir Freddy Butler
1996
- Surviving Picasso as Henri Matisse
- D3: The Mighty Ducks as Hans
- Hidden in Silence as German Factory Manager
- To the Ends of Time as King Francis
- Testament: The Bible in Animation as Samuel (voice)
- Deadly Voyage
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)
- OcchioPinocchio as Brando Della Valle
- Jacob as Isaak
- Citizen Locke as Lord Ashley
- Giorgino as Father Glaise
- 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
- Voices in the Garden as Sir Charles Peverall
- Simulacrum as The Chemist
1992
- Project: Shadowchaser as Kinderman
- The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as The Prussian
- The Mighty Ducks as Hans
- The Bridge as Smithson
- Once Upon a Crime as Hercules Popodopoulos
- Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Caesar (voice)
- Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls as King Edward
- White Bear's Secret as Brown Bear (voice)
1991
- Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey as De Nomolos
- The Princess and the Goblin as King Papa (voice)
- The Sheltering Desert
- Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors as Lewis Serrocold
- The Object of Beauty as Mr. Mercer
- A Woman Named Jackie as Aristotle Onassis
- Ashenden
- A Murder of Quality as Terence Fielding
- Brown Bear's Wedding as Brown Bear (voice)
1990
- The Hunt for Red October as Ambassador Andrei Lysenko
- The Palermo Connection as il boss
- The Secret Life of Ian Fleming as Gen. Gerhard Hellstein
- Jekyll & Hyde as Dr. Charles Lanyon
- Tre colonne in cronaca as Gaetano Leporino, il finanziere
1989
- Lethal Weapon 2 as Arjen Rudd
- First and Last as Alan Holly
1988
- Codename: Kyril as 'C'
- To Kill a Priest as Colonel
- It Couldn't Happen Here as Priest/Murderer
- Codename: Kyril as 'C'
- 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
- When We Are Married as Henry Ormonroyd
- Queenie as Sir Burton Rumsey
- A Killing on the Exchange as Sir Max Sillman
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
- Findings on a Late Afternoon as Father
- Elizabeth Alone as Major Orpen
1980
- The Apple as Mr. Topps / Hippie Leader
- Rough Cut as Insp. Vanderveld
- A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square as Prison Warden
- The Gentle Touch as Ivor Stocker
- The Love Tapes as Narrator (voice)
- A Question of Guilt
- Closing Ranks as Victor Rogachev
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Colonel George Peregrine
- Saint Jack as Yardley
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Turtle's Progress as Benny D-Day
1978
- Watership Down as Black Rabbit (voice)
- Return of the Saint as Gunther
- The Greek Tycoon as Naval officer (uncredited)
- Enemy at the Door as Major General Laidlaw
- Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? as Cantrell
1977
- Silver Bears as Henry Foreman
- The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It as President
1976
- You Talk Too Much as Doctor
- The Crezz as Charles Bronte
1975
- The Sweeney as Alan Ember
- Royal Flash as Sapten
- One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing as B.J. Spence
- Heading For Glory as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Operation: Daybreak as Janák
1974
- Playhouse as Maj. Orpen
- Great Expectations as Joe Gargery
- The Little Prince as The King
- Miss Nightingale as Lord Palmerston
- The Four Musketeers as D'Artagnan's Father (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Black Windmill as Chief Supt. Wray
- S*P*Y*S as Martinson
1973
- The Three Musketeers as D’Artagnan’s Father
- Penny Gold as Jones
- England Made Me as Haller
- Hitler: The Last Ten Days as General Burgdorf
- Access to the Children as Malcolmson
1972
- The Bankrupt as Ellis Cripper
- The Protectors as Arthur Gordon
- The Mind Snatchers as Dr. Frederick
- Shirley's World
- King's Cross Lunch Hour as The Man
1971
- The Persuaders! as Felix Meadowes
- Justice as Sir Robert Beste
- Villain as Edgar Lowis
- The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Grubber
- The House That Dripped Blood as Neville Rogers (segment 2 "Waxworks")
- Mr. Forbush and the Penguins as Head of Board
- Getting In as An Applicant
1970
- Play for Today as Malcolmson
- Crescendo as Carter
- The Lie as Albert
- The Three Sisters as Chebutykin
1967
- The Further Adventures of the Musketeers as d'Artagnan
1966
- Rasputin: The Mad Monk as The Bishop
- Mystery and Imagination
- David Copperfield as Daniel Peggotty
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Chebutykin
- The Troubleshooters as Sam Jardine
- Tomorrow, Just You Wait as Tom Gorbet
- Londoners as Angus Grahame
1964
- The Wednesday Play as Cornelius
- Theatre 625 as Hockey Jagger
- 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