Paul Brooke
Acting
Biography
Paul Brooke is a retired English actor. He made his film debut in 1972 in the Hammer film Straight on till Morning, followed by performances in For Your Eyes Only (1981), Return of the Jedi (1983), Scandal (1989), Saving Grace (2000), Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Alfie (2004), The Phantom of the Opera (2004) and Oliver Twist (2005). Brooke is the father of actor Tom Brooke. – Wikipedia
Born: November 22, 1944
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
Blott on the Landscape
Bawdy adaption of Tom Sharpe's comic tale. A landowning MP attempts to have a motorway built through the grounds of his wife's ancestral home.
The Comedy of Errors
The Royal Shakespeare Company act (and sing and dance!) Shakespeare's play about two sets of identical twins, separated at birth and brought together by circumstance.
The Storyteller
The Storyteller aided by his cynical dog, narrates classic folk tales, fables, and legends.
Dandelion Dead
This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.
Blackadder
Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of the First World War.
Return of the Jedi
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, the Emperor prepares to crush the Rebellion with a more powerful Death Star, and the Rebel fleet mounts a massive attack on the space station. Luke Skywalker confronts Darth Vader in a final climactic duel before the evil Emperor.
Foyle's War
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
All Creatures Great and Small
The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.
Agatha Christie's Marple
The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.
Hustle
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
Filmography
as H H Turner
as Mr. Justice Singleton
as Godfrey
as Mr Grimwig
as Billingsley
as Auctioneer
as Flower Shop Proprietor
as Benny
as Ian Gow
as Charley
as Dr. Marsden
as Arthur Ellis
as Tommy Lascelles
as Monsieur Bohmer
as Mr. Fitzherbert
as Charley
as Magistrate
as Captain Campbell
as Charlie
as Policeman #1
as Domremy's Priest
as Chef Gerald La Grange
as Maclintick
as Nigel Anderson
as Max
as Capt. Mitchell
as Dr. Candy
as Vernon Du Chine
as Richard Dynevor
as Arthur
as Chuck Purvis
as Interior Minister
as Deputy Bank Manager
as Tour Guide
as Simon
as Friar
as Doctor
as Humphrey Morris
as Martin Poyser
as Ballister
as Feature Writer
as Lilliwhite
as Dr Herzog
as Detective Sergeant
as Mr. Parrott
as Karmel
as P.C. Erny
as Chancellor
as Chancellor
as Dr. Hofrat Behrens
as Paul
as Gently Bentley
as Lord Darling
as Lawrence
as Gen. Josef Biegler, SA
as Hoskins
as Deputy Bank Manager
as Les Toms
as Rev Stimson
as Granier
as Bob Nicol
as Friar Bellows
as Malakili - Rancor Keeper (uncredited)
as Inspector
as Doctor Thrush
as Bunky
as Lavache
as Henry Beamish
as Mornington
as Hamster
as John Foster
as Angelo
as Captain Crawford
as Uneasy Man (uncredited)
as Mornington
as Farquhar