Alec Clunes
Acting
Biography
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Born: May 17, 1912
Place of Birth: Brixton, London, England, UK
Known For
Hamlet at Elsinore
The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. An historic BBC production taped on location in and around Kronborg castle in Elsinore (Denmark), in which the play is set.
Sailors Three
Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland, where they're aided by Dutch civilians.
Tiger in the Smoke
In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden there. Several years later, the members of that group are still together as a street band living in a cellar. The last of the gang, who was chosen for his skills as a ruthless killer, escapes from prison in a rampage of killing and, obsessed with the treasure, takes the gang to France to recover it.
Now Barabbas
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
Saloon Bar
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
Let George Do It!
Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
Tomorrow at Ten
A British policeman (John Gregson) tries to find a rich man's (Alec Clunes) son before a kidnapper's (Robert Shaw) time bomb blows.
Quentin Durward
During the 15th century reign of France's King Louis XI, a young Scottish man is sent by his English Lord to woo a French lady on his behalf. The plan goes awry when the young man falls in love with her. Based on the classic novel by Sir Walter Scott.
The Buccaneers
The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.
Filmography
as Sir Lewis Eliot
as Narrator
as Polonius
as Robert Manders
as Anthony Chester
as Narrator (voice)
as Asst. Commissioner Oates
as Gov. Woodes Rogers
as Lieutenant-Colonel John Eld / Narrator
as Charles, Duke of Burgandy
as Gale
as The Organist
as British Pilot
as Eddie Graves
as Commentator
as Bit Part
as Officer (uncredited)
as Minor Role
as Commentator
as Harry