Laurence Naismith
Born: 1908-12-14 in Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, UK
Died: 1992-06-05
Known For: Acting
Biography
Laurence Naismith (14 December 1908 – 5 June 1992) was an English actor. Naismith appeared in films such as Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Richard III (1955), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Carrington VC (1954) and as Captain Edward Smith of the RMS Titanic in A Night to Remember (1958). He appeared on Broadway in the musical Here's Love in 1963 and played the non-singing role of Merlin in the 1967 film version of the musical Camelot. In 1965 he guest-starred as barber Gilly Bright in episode 25, "The Threat" of 12 O-Clock High (TV series). He was Judge Fulton in the TV series The Persuaders! (1971), with Tony Curtis and Roger Moore. He also starred in a children's ghost film The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972). He portrayed Emperor of Austria Franz Joseph in the BBC production Fall of Eagles (1974). Naismith played the Prince of Verona in the BBC Television Shakespeare version of Romeo & Juliet. Outside of acting he was the landlord of the Rowbarge pub at Woolhampton, Berkshire and a keen cricket fan. Naismith married, in 1939, Vera Bocca of Horden, County Durham. Description above from the Wikipedia article Laurence Naismith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1993
- The Making of 'A Night to Remember' as Self (archive footage)
1982
- I Remember Nelson as Rev. Edmund Nelson
1978
- The BBC Television Shakespeare as Prince Escalus
- Return of the Saint as General Platt
- Romeo and Juliet as Prince Escalus
1977
- The Last Appointment! as Judge Fulton
1976
- The Switch as Judge Fulton
1974
- Fall of Eagles as Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria-Hungary
- Mission: Monte Carlo as Judge Fulton (archive footage)
- London Conspiracy as Judge Fulton (archive footage)
1973
- Oh, Father! as Father Harris
- The Persuaders! as Judge Fulton
1972
- The Protectors as Prof. Alexander Schelpin
- The Amazing Mr. Blunden as Mr. Frederick Percival Blunden
- Young Winston as Lord Salisbury
1971
- The Persuaders! as Judge Fulton
- Diamonds Are Forever as Sir Donald Munger
- Quest for Love as Sir Henry Lanstein
1970
- Scrooge as Mr. Fezziwig
1969
- The Valley of Gwangi as Professor Bromley
- Eye of the Cat as Dr. Mills
- The File on Devlin as Lord Pomeroy
- Run a Crooked Mile as Lord Dunnsfield
- The Bushbaby as Prof. 'Cranky' Crankshaw
1968
- The Name of the Game as Reddington
- Lancer
- The Admirable Crichton as Lord Loam
1967
- Mannix as Anton
- The Invaders as Professor Lindstrom
- Camelot as Merlyn
- Deadlier Than the Male as Sir John Bledlow
- Fitzwilly as Mr. Cotty (uncredited)
- The Long Duel as McDougal
- The Scorpio Letters as Burr
1966
- Sky West and Crooked as Edwin Dacres
1964
- 12 O'Clock High as Gilly Bright
- Profiles in Courage as John Adams
1963
- The Fugitive as Dr. Andrew Emmett McAllister
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre as Gordon Knight
- Cleopatra as Arachesilaus (uncredited)
- Jason and the Argonauts as Argos
- The Three Lives of Thomasina as Reverend Angus Paddie
- We Joined the Navy as Admiral Blake
1962
- The 300 Spartans as First Delegate
- The Prince and the Pauper as Earl of Hertford
- I Thank a Fool as O'Grady
- The Valiant as Admiral
1961
- The Defenders as Mr. Collins
- Sir Francis Drake as Sir Miles Burns
- The Singer Not the Song as Old Uncle
- Greyfriars Bobby as Mr. Traill
1960
- Danger Man as Spooner
- Village of the Damned as Dr. Willers
- Sink the Bismarck! as First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound
- The Trials of Oscar Wilde as Prince of Wales
- The World of Suzie Wong as O’Neill
- The Criminal as Mr. Town
- The Angry Silence as Martindale
1959
- Bonanza as Don Q. Hought
- The Third Man as Ostrow
- Solomon and Sheba as Hezrai
- Perilous Assignment as Self
- Third Man on the Mountain as Teo Zurbriggen
1958
- A Night to Remember as Capt. Edward John Smith
- The Two-Headed Spy as Gen. Hauser
- Gideon's Day as Arthur Sayer
- Tempest as Maj. Zurin
- I Accuse! as Judge at Esterhazy Trial
- The Gypsy and the Gentleman as Dr. Forrester
- The Naked Earth as Skin Trader
1957
- Seven Waves Away as Captain Paul Darrow
- Boy on a Dolphin as Dr. Hawkins
- Robbery Under Arms as Ben Marston
1956
- The Man Who Never Was as Adm. Cross
- Lust for Life as Dr. Bosman
- Tiger in the Smoke as Canon Avril
- The Extra Day as Kurt Vorn
- The Weapon as Jamison
1955
- The Adventures of Robin Hood as Sir William de Courcier
- The Dam Busters as Farmer
- Final Column
- Josephine and Men as Porter
1954
- Mark Saber
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Earl of Hertford
- The Million Pound Note as Walter Craddock
- The Black Knight as Major Domo
- Carrington V.C. as Major Panton
1953
- Mogambo as Skipper
- The Beggar's Opera as Matt of the Mint
- Time Bomb
- The Long Memory as Hasbury
- The Flanagan Boy as Boxing Booth Barker
- Cosh Boy as Inspector Donaldson
- Rough Shoot as Blossom
- Love in Pawn as Uncle Amos
1952
- Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard as Parker
- I Believe in You as Sergeant Braxton
- Mother Riley Meets the Vampire as Police Sergeant at Desk (uncredited)
- His Excellency as First Soldier
- Penny Princess as Louis the Jailkeeper (uncredited)
- A Killer Walks as Dr. James
- The Happy Family as Councillor
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Lord Loam
- Hell Is Sold Out as Doctor Monceau
- There Is Another Sun as Riley
- Pool of London as Commissionaire (uncredited)
- Calling Bulldog Drummond as Hardcastle (uncredited)
- High Treason as Reginald Gordon-Wells
- Chelsea Story as Sergeant Matthews
1950
- Sunday Night Theatre as Arthur Lawton
- The Happiest Days of Your Life as Dr. Collet
- Room to Let as Editor
1949
- Kind Hearts and Coronets as Warder in Jail (uncredited)
- Train of Events as Joe Hunt
- The Chiltern Hundreds as Reporter (uncredited)
- Badger's Green as Mr Butler
1948
- Trouble in the Air
- A Piece of Cake as Merlin Mound