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
- 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
- London Conspiracy as Judge Fulton
1973
- The Persuaders! as Judge Fulton
- Oh, Father! as Father Harris
1972
- The Protectors as Prof. Alexander Schelpin
- Young Winston as Lord Salisbury
- The Amazing Mr. Blunden as Mr. Frederick Percival Blunden
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
- Run a Crooked Mile as Lord Dunnsfield
- Eye of the Cat as Dr. Mills
- The Bushbaby as Prof. 'Cranky' Crankshaw
- The File on Devlin as Lord Pomeroy
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
- The Long Duel as McDougal
- The Scorpio Letters as Burr
- Deadlier Than the Male as Sir John Bledlow
- Fitzwilly as Mr. Cotty (uncredited)
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 Valiant as Admiral
- The 300 Spartans as First Delegate
- The Prince and the Pauper as Earl of Hertford
- I Thank a Fool as O'Grady
1961
- The Defenders as Mr. Collins
- Greyfriars Bobby as Mr. Traill
- Sir Francis Drake as Sir Miles Burns
- The Singer Not the Song as Old Uncle
1960
- Danger Man as Spooner
- Village of the Damned as Dr. Willers
- Sink the Bismarck! as First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound
- The World of Suzie Wong as O’Neill
- The Trials of Oscar Wilde as Prince of Wales
- The Angry Silence as Martindale
- The Criminal as Mr. Town
1959
- Bonanza as Don Q. Hought
- Solomon and Sheba as Hezrai
- The Third Man as Ostrow
- Third Man on the Mountain as Teo Zurbriggen
- Perilous Assignment as Self
1958
- Gideon's Day as Arthur Sayer
- Tempest as Maj. Zurin
- The Two-Headed Spy as Gen. Hauser
- The Naked Earth as Skin Trader
- The Gypsy and the Gentleman as Dr. Forrester
- A Night to Remember as Capt. Edward John Smith
- I Accuse! as Judge at Esterhazy Trial
1957
- Abandon Ship as Captain Paul Darrow
- Robbery Under Arms as Ben Marston
- Boy on a Dolphin as Dr. Hawkins
1956
- The Man Who Never Was as Adm. Cross
- Lust for Life as Dr. Bosman
- The Extra Day as Kurt Vorn
- Tiger in the Smoke as Canon Avril
- The Weapon as Jamison
1955
- The Adventures of Robin Hood as Sir William de Courcier
- The Dam Busters as Farmer
- Josephine and Men as Porter
1954
- Carrington V.C. as Major Panton
- The Million Pound Note as Walter Craddock
- Mark Saber
- The Black Knight as Major Domo
- The Wonderful World of Disney as Earl of Hertford
1953
- The Flanagan Boy as Boxing Booth Barker
- Time Bomb
- Rough Shoot as Blossom
- The Long Memory as Hasbury
- Cosh Boy as Inspector Donaldson
- Love in Pawn as Uncle Amos
- The Beggar's Opera as Matt of the Mint
- Mogambo as Skipper
1952
- Penny Princess as Louis the Jailkeeper (uncredited)
- His Excellency as First Soldier
- Whispering Smith Hits London as Parker
- I Believe in You as Sergeant Braxton
- Mother Riley Meets the Vampire as Police Sergeant at Desk (uncredited)
- The Happy Family as Councillor
- A Killer Walks as Dr. James
1951
- Chelsea Story as Sergeant Matthews
- High Treason as Reginald Gordon-Wells
- Pool of London as Commissionaire (uncredited)
- Hell Is Sold Out as Doctor Monceau
- There Is Another Sun as Riley
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Lord Loam
- Calling Bulldog Drummond as Hardcastle (uncredited)
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