Portrait of Joss Ackland

Joss Ackland

Acting

Biography

Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland CBE (29 February 1928 – 19 November 2023) was an English actor who appeared in more than 130 film and television roles. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying Jock Delves Broughton in White Mischief (1987). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joss Ackland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Born: February 29, 1928

Place of Birth: North Kensington, London, England, UK

Filmography

2014
The Portrait

as Henry Winter

2013
Prisoners of the Sun

as Professor Mendella

2009
Pinocchio

as Mastro Ciliegia

2009
Pinocchio

as Mastro Ciliegia

2007
How About You...

as Donald Vanston

2007
Hogfather

as Mustrum Ridcully

2007
Flawless

as Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft

2007
Kingdom

as Mr. John Narbutowicz

2006
Hogfather

as Mustrum Ridcully

2006
Moscow Zero

as Tolstoy

2006
Above and Beyond

as Winston Churchill

2006
2005
Asylum

as Jack Straffen

2005
Icon

as General Nikolayev

2005
2004
A Different Loyalty

as Randolph Cauffield

2003
Henry VIII

as Henry VII

2003
I'll Be There

as Evil Edmonds - The BeeLzeeBOPS

2002
K-19: The Widowmaker

as Marshal Zelentsov

2002
No Good Deed

as Mr. Quarre

2001
Othello

as James Brabant

2000
The Mumbo Jumbo

as Mayor Smith

2000
Passion of Mind

as Dr. Langer, the French Psychiatrist

1999
Milk

as Vicar

1998
Firelight

as Lord Clare

1998
My Giant

as Monsignor Popesou

1998
Heat of the Sun

as Max Van Der vuurst

1998
Swept from the Sea

as Mr. Swaffer

1997
Midsomer Murders

as Sir Freddy Butler

1996
To the Ends of Time

as King Francis

1996
Surviving Picasso

as Henri Matisse

1996
Hidden in Silence

as German Factory Manager

1995
Daisies in December

as Gerald Carmody

1995
Mad Dogs and Englishmen

as Insp. Sam Stringer

1995
Citizen X

as Bondarchuk

1994
OcchioPinocchio

as Brando Della Valle

1994
Jacob

as Isaak

1994
Julius Caesar

as Caesar

1994
Miracle on 34th Street

as Victor Landbergh (uncredited)

1994
Miracle on 34th Street

as Victor Landbergh

1994
Giorgino

as Father Glaise

1993
Simulacrum

as The Chemist

1993
Mother's Boys

as Lansing, Jude's Attorney

1993
The Thief and the Cobbler

as Brigand (voice)

1993
Voices in the Garden

as Sir Charles Peverall

1993
Nowhere to Run

as Franklin Hale

1992
1992
1992
1992
White Bear's Secret

as Brown Bear (voice)

1992
Once Upon a Crime

as Hercules Popodopoulos

1992
The Bridge

as Smithson

1991
Brown Bear's Wedding

as Brown Bear (voice)

1991
A Woman Named Jackie

as Aristotle Onassis

1991
A Murder of Quality

as Terence Fielding

1991
The Princess and the Goblin

as King Papa (voice)

1991
1990
Tre colonne in cronaca

as Gaetano Leporino, il finanziere

1990
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming

as Gen. Gerhard Hellstein

1990
The Hunt for Red October

as Ambassador Andrei Lysenko

1990
Jekyll & Hyde

as Dr. Charles Lanyon

1989
First and Last

as Alan Holly

1989
Lethal Weapon 2

as Arjen Rudd

1988
1988
1988
It Couldn't Happen Here

as Priest/Murderer

1988
1988
1988
Olympus Force: The Key

as George Grossopoulos

1987
When We Are Married

as Henry Ormonroyd

1987
White Mischief

as 'Jock' Delves Broughton

1987
The Sicilian

as Don Masino Croce

1987
Queenie

as Sir Burton Rumsey

1986
Lady Jane

as Sir John Bridges

1985
A Zed & Two Noughts

as Van Hoyten

1985
Shadowlands

as CS Lewis

1984
Sherlock Holmes

as Jephro Rucastle

1984
Shroud for a Nightingale

as Stephen Courtney-Briggs

1983
Natural World

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1983
Dalgliesh

as Stephen Courtney-Briggs

1982
The Barretts of Wimpole Street

as Edward Moulton-Barrett

1982
Wogan

as Self

1981
Elizabeth Alone

as Major Orpen

1981
1980
The Apple

as Mr. Topps / Hippie Leader

1980
Rough Cut

as Insp. Vanderveld

1980
The Love Tapes

as Narrator (voice)

1980
The Gentle Touch

as Ivor Stocker

1979
Saint Jack

as Yardley

1979
Turtle's Progress

as Benny D-Day

1979
Tales of the Unexpected

as Colonel George Peregrine

1979
1978
Watership Down

as Black Rabbit (voice)

1978
1978
The Greek Tycoon

as Naval officer (uncredited)

1978
Enemy at the Door

as Major General Laidlaw

1977
Silver Bears

as Henry Foreman

1976
The Crezz

as Charles Bronte

1976
1975
1975
Royal Flash

as Sapten

1975
Heading For Glory

as Self - Narrator (voice)

1975
The Sweeney

as Alan Ember

1974
1974
The Four Musketeers

as D'Artagnan's Father (archive footage) (uncredited)

1974
S*P*Y*S

as Martinson

1974
The Black Windmill

as Chief Supt. Wray

1974
Playhouse

as Maj. Orpen

1974
Playhouse

as Father

1974
Great Expectations

as Joe Gargery

1973
The Three Musketeers

as D’Artagnan’s Father

1973
Penny Gold

as Jones

1973
1973
Hitler: The Last Ten Days

as General Burgdorf

1973
1972
The Bankrupt

as Ellis Cripper

1972
The Protectors

as Arthur Gordon

1972
The Mind Snatchers

as Dr. Frederick

1971
Justice

as Sir Robert Beste

1971
The Persuaders!

as Felix Meadowes

1971
1971
Villain

as Edgar Lowis

1971
The House That Dripped Blood

as Neville Rogers (segment 2 "Waxworks")

1970
The Lie

as Albert

1970
1970
Play for Today

as Ellis Cripper

1970
Play for Today

as Malcolmson

1970
Crescendo

as Carter

1970
The Three Sisters

as Chebutykin

1966
1965
1965
1965
1965
The Troubleshooters

as Mr. Gibbon

1965
The Troubleshooters

as Sam Jardine

1965
1965
Londoners

as Angus Grahame

1964
The Wednesday Play

as Tom Gorbet

1964
The Wednesday Play

as Cornelius

1964
Sherlock Holmes

as Hon. Philip Green

1964
Theatre 625

as Hockey Jagger

1964
1964
Theatre 625

as John Hinks

1962
1961
The Avengers

as Brigadier Hansing

1958
Next to No Time

as Turkish Bath Attendant

1956
Armchair Theatre

as Frank Penfold

1956
Armchair Theatre

as Mr Green

1952
Ghost Ship

as Ron, 2nd Fisherman

1950
Seven Days to Noon

as Station Policeman

1949
Landfall

as O'Neil