George Merritt
Acting
Biography
No biography available for George Merritt.
Born: December 10, 1890
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
The Avengers
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
The Prisoner
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
The Persuaders!
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.
The Rat
Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.
Windbag the Sailor
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
Tread Softly Stranger
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.
Dracula
After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.
The Gaunt Stranger
A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.
The W Plan
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
Filmography
as Old Man
as Ketterl
as Old Knight
as Poole
as Chivers
as William
as Civilian (uncredited)
as Postman
as Mr. Dykes
as Mr. Scruple
as Old Man
as The Janitor
as Maxwell
as Smudge (uncredited)
as James
as 2nd Member
as 2nd Member (uncredited)
as Mr. Manfield
as Timekeeper
as Policeman (uncredited)
as Super
as Lerminier
as Lloyd
as Timekeeper
as Michael Collins
as Sergeant Frost
as Captain of Dunbar (uncredited)
as Police Inspector
as Mr. Lumley
as Gazette Editor (uncredited)
as Prison Officer (segment "The Kite")
as James Hartley Pepperfield
as Constable
as Police Sergeant
as Constable
as Policeman (uncredited)
as Hilliard
as Landlord
as Police Sergeant
as T.P. O'Connor
as Police Constable Blundell
as Telephone Engineer
as Landlord
as Ned Horton
as James Bentley
as Sergeant Major (uncredited)
as Works Manager
as Hancock
as A Yugoslav General
as Police Sergeant
as Reporter
as German Trawler Captain
as Professor Beaver
as Uncle
as Station Master
as Gibson
as Surgeon Comdr.
as Inspector
as German General
as Brewster
as Det. Inspector Tanner
as Manager
as Mr. Lewis
as Inspector Metcalfe
as Fred Perkins
as Insp. Cornell
as Park Constable (uncredited)
as Inspector Falmouth
as Mr. Barrett
as Detective (Uncredited)
as Police Station Sergeant
as Patrolman
as Bert Stevens, club porter
as Pierre Verdier
as Chief of Police
as Mipps the Coffin Maker
as Det. Sgt. Miller
as Officer on Yacht
as Police constable
as Church Warden (uncredited)
as Webber
as Det. Insp. Mallory
as Goldring
as Pat O'Connor
as Detective Inspector Cardby
as Harley
as Tom Moore
as William Brown
as Otto Newberg
as Sonners
as Insp. Wolf
as Captain Reichman
as Lubin
as Police Detective
as Commissioner
as M. Duval
as Émile Zola
as Director
as Butters
as Ulrich Muller