Robert Flemyng
Born: 1912-01-03 in Liverpool, England, UK
Died: 1995-05-22
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Flemyng OBE, MC (3 January 1912 – 22 May 1995) was a British film and stage actor. Flemyng was born in Liverpool, the son of a doctor, and was educated at Haileybury. He began his career as a medical student before abandoning medicine to become an actor. Flemyng made his stage debut in the early 1930s, and worked steadily in both London and Broadway. His first film appearance was in 1937, but he didn't appear steadily in films until after he served in World War II. During the war he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with great distinction, reaching the rank of full colonel at the age of 33. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1941, mentioned in despatches, and was appointed OBE in 1944. He played the idealistic schoolmaster in the 1948 Roy Boulting film, The Guinea Pig, starring Richard Attenborough, and the key role of Detective Sergeant Roberts in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp. One memorable role was as a necrophiliac in the film The Horrible Dr. Hichcock in 1962. He ably played a sardonic British Secret Intelligence Service chief (his boss being George Sanders) in the 1966 film The Quiller Memorandum. The character actor worked in films and television until his death in 1995. Some of his later films include Kafka (1991) and Shadowlands (1993). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Flemyng, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1995
- The Vacillations of Poppy Carew as Patient 2
1993
- Shadowlands as Claude Bird
1992
- Memento Mori as Ronald Sidebottome
1991
- Kafka as The Keeper of the Files
- The Storyteller: Greek Myths as Aegeus
1989
- Paris by Night as Jack Sidmouth
1982
- Spider's Web as Sir Rowland Delahaye
- A Cotswold Death as Sir Charles
1980
- Lady Killers as Mr. Justice Havers
1978
- The Thirty Nine Steps as Magistrate
- The Medusa Touch as Judge McKinley
- Enemy at the Door as Sir James Prideaux
- The Four Feathers as The Old Colonel
- Edward & Mrs. Simpson as Sir Donald Somervell
- Edward and Mrs Simpson as Sir Donald Somervell
1977
- The Professionals as Sir John Terringham
- Golden Rendezvous as Capt. Bullen
1976
- Loyalties as Gen Canynge
- The New Avengers as Minister Quaintance
1975
1974
- Miss Nightingale as W.E. Nightingale
1972
- Young Winston as Dr. Buzzard
- The Darwin Adventure as Prof. Henslow
- Travels with My Aunt as Crowder
1971
- The Persuaders! as Sir George
- The Firechasers as Carlton
1970
- Play for Today as Sir Charles
1969
- Battle of Britain as Wing Cmdr. Willoughby
- The Body Stealers as W.C. Baldwin
- Oh! What a Lovely War as Staff Officer in Gassed Trench
1968
- The Blood Beast Terror as Dr. Carl Mallinger
1967
- The Deadly Affair as Samuel Fennan
1966
- The Quiller Memorandum as Rushington
- The Spy with a Cold Nose as M.I.5 Director
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Gen. Canynge
- Public Eye as Maj-Gen. Felcourt
1964
- Thursday Theatre as Julian Anson
1963
- The King's Breakfast as The Lord Chamberlain
1962
- Compact
- The Horrible Dr. Hichcock as Prof. Bernard Hichcock
- Man of the World as O'Connor
- Zero One
1961
- The Avengers as Lord Maxted
1960
- A Touch of Larceny as Cmdr. John Larkin
1959
- Blind Date as Sir Brian Lewis
1958
- Wuthering Heights as Dr. Kenneth
1957
- Funny Face as Paul Duval
- Suspicion as Nigel Crossley
- Let's Be Happy as Lord James MacNairn
- Windom's Way as Col. George Hasbrook
1956
- The Man Who Never Was as Lt. George Acres
1955
- Cast a Dark Shadow as Phillip Mortimer
- Sting of Death
1952
- The Magic Box as Doctor
- The Holly and the Ivy as Major
1951
- Blackmailed as Dr. Giles Freeman
1950
- The Blue Lamp as Police Sgt. Roberts
1949
- Conspirator as Captain Hugh Ladholme
1948
- Bond Street as Frank Moody
- The Guinea Pig as Nigel Lorraine
1937
- Head Over Heels as Pierre