Roger Livesey
Born: 1906-06-25 in Barry, Wales, UK
Died: 1976-02-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roger Livesey (25 June 1906 – 4 February 1976) was a British stage and film actor. He is most often remembered for the three Powell & Pressburger films in which he starred: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going! and A Matter of Life and Death. Tall and broad with a mop of chestnut hair, Livesey used his highly distinctive husky voice, gentle manner and athletic physique to create many notable roles in his theatre and film work. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Livesey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2024
- Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger as (archive footage)
1974
- The Pallisers as Duke of St Bungay
1972
- New Scotland Yard as Sir Giles Wentworth
1971
- Justice as George Mallow
1970
- Futtocks End as The Artist
1969
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre as Gen. Sir Benedict Sankey
- Hamlet as First Player / Gravedigger
1968
- Oedipus the King as Shepherd
- The Man in the Iron Mask as Porthos
1964
- Theatre 625 as PM Collard
- Of Human Bondage as Thorpe Athelny
1963
- The Human Jungle as Sir William Bridley
- Espionage as Dr Samuel Johnson
1961
- No, My Darling Daughter as General Henry Barclay
1960
- Armchair Mystery Theatre as Toff Mulligan Hayes
- The League of Gentlemen as Mycroft
- The Entertainer as Billy Rice
- Toff and Fingers as Toff Mulligan Hayes
1958
- The Stowaway as Major Owens
1956
- The Intimate Stranger as Ben Case
1955
- Quay South as Captain Daniel Thwaite
1953
- The Master of Ballantrae as Col. Francis Burke
1951
- Green Grow the Rushes as Capt. Cedric Biddle
1949
- That Dangerous Age as Sir Brian Brooke
1948
- Vice Versa as Paul Bultitude
1946
- A Matter of Life and Death as Doctor Reeves
1945
- I Know Where I'm Going! as Torquil MacNeil
1943
- The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp as Major General Clive Wynne-Candy
1940
- Girl in the News as Bill Maher
1939
- Spies of the Air as Charles Houghton
1938
- The Drum as Capt. Carruthers
- Keep Smiling as Bert Wattle
- The Rebel Son as Peter Bulba
1936
- Rembrandt as Beggar Saul
1935
- The Price of Wisdom as Peter North
- Blind Justice as Gilbert Jackson
- Midshipman Easy as Captain Wilson
1934
- Lorna Doone as Tom Faggus
1933
- The Veteran of Waterloo as Sergeant MacDonald
- A Cuckoo in the Nest as Alfred
1931
- East Lynne on the Western Front as Sandy
1923
- Married Love as Henry
1921
- The Four Feathers as Harry as a child