Bruce Purchase
Acting
Biography
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Born: October 2, 1938
Place of Birth: Thames, New Zealand
Known For
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
Henry IV Part 2
The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth.
Doctor Who
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
Doctor Who
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
I, Claudius
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.
Other Halves
A Polynesian street-kid and a much older middle-class housewife are both incarcerated in the same mental hospital - she for attempted suicide and he for habitual crime. A friendship grows between them such that she offers him a place to stay upon his release. However, difficulties arise with his continued criminal activities and dependence on her for support - then his gang moves in with them. The film is based upon Sue McCauley's award winning autobiographical novel.
Blake's 7
A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.
The Tripods
In the year 2089, an alien race stalks the land in towering machines known as Tripods. They have taken over the earth and enslaved mankind with a mind-controlling device, ceremoniously implanted at adolescence. Will Parker, desperate to escape this ritual, leaves the village with his cousin, Henry and attempts to link up with the human resistance movement.
Macbeth
Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.
Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
The Doctor and Romana learn the second segment of the Key to Time is on the planet Calufrax. Yet they arrive on a planet called Zanak, which has been hollowed out and fitted with hyperspace engines, allowing its insane, half-robot Captain to materialise it around smaller planets and plunder their resources.
Filmography
as Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett
as Hauptmann der Wache
as Oldberg
as Pathologist
as Isai
as City Gentleman
as Additional voices (voice)
as Simon Nerra
as Fredrick
as Irwin
as Professor Nothnagel
as Moishe
as Jerzy Loparicz
as Goff
as The Captain (archive footage)
as Earl of Northumberland
as Henry Percy
as Cook (uncredited)
as Jake
as Tommy Roach
as Tommy Roach
as Father Maxim
as Cumberland
as The Pirate Captain
as Parson Augustus Bull
as Gola
as Ernest Hemingway
as Ernest
as Herr Steekebeck
as Provost
as Prof. Lopez
as Sabinus
as Big James
as Leslie Delgado
as Von Plehve
as Colonel Meinertzhagen
as Policeman
as Father
as Morton
as Caithness
as Jake
as Goff
as Norman Sylvester
as Det. Sgt. Lynn
as Senators-Soldiers-Cypriots
as Taffy
as Captain
as Cook