John Merivale
Acting
Biography
No biography available for John Merivale.
Born: December 1, 1917
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Known For
A Night to Remember
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
The Invisible Man
After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.
King Rat
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
80,000 Suspects
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
House of Mystery
A young couple go to check out a house they're thinking of buying. A somewhat mysterious woman tells the couple several stories of the fates that befell the house's previous owners.
The List of Adrian Messenger
Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help him investigate the whereabouts of the people who appear on a list, without asking him the reason why he should do so.
Arabesque
When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock, a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is recruited to help expose the scheme. Pollock must find information believed to be in hieroglyphic code and must also contend with a mysterious man called Beshraavi. Meanwhile, Beshraavi's lover, Yasmin Azir, seems willing to aid Pollock -- but is she really on his side?
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
Academic researchers are chased by a nuclear-hot specimen of ancient Mayan blob.
Ivanov
A play by Chekhov, starring Vivien Leigh and John Gielgud, it marked Leigh’s final performance before her death in 1967
Filmography
as Maj. Sylvester Pennington Sloane
as Dr. Lvov
as Foster
as Mr. Bradley
as Adrian Messenger
as Clive
as Dr. John Fielding
as Robbie Lucas
as Constable (uncredited)