Victor Maddern
Acting
Biography
Victor Jack Maddern was an English actor, described by The Telegraph as having "one of the most distinctive and eloquent faces in post-war British cinema."
Born: March 16, 1926
Place of Birth: Seven Kings, Ilford, Essex, England
Known For
Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep
When the TARDIS lands in the sea off the eastern coast of England, the Second Doctor, Jamie, and Victoria investigate a nearby beach, which seems to have an improbably large amount of sea foam as well as a major gas pipe marked “Euro Sea Gas” What is really happening at "Euro Sea Gas." Can the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria survive "The Fury from the Deep"!
Voice of the Heart
Mini-series based on the novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Lady Frances Cunningham, a writer of historical biographies, becomes heavily involved with the Hollywood movie set
The Frighteners
A horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale.
Talk of the Devil
Infelicitous Stephen Wallace falls in love with beautiful Wendy, who spurns his affections. He proceeds to make a pact with Satan to be able to marry the woman of his dreams, but he gets more than he bargained for.
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.
The Darling Buds of May
An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa Larkin, a man of a kind and mischievous nature with a penchant for getting into scrapes and talking his way out of them with equal equanimity; and his daughters, as they deal with growing up and discovering the joys and sorrows of young love.
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 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).
Perry Mason
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Filmography
as Old Gentleman Raven (voice)
as Fruity Pears
as Frankie
as The Poacher Spy
as Barney
as Sam Bentley
as P.C. Johnson
as Stanley
as Bluebird Johnny
as Man in Launderette
as Milchmann / Sergeant Major (archive footage)
as Todd
as Charlie
as Sir Osis
as Joe Fisk
as Harry
as Harry
as Chauffeur
as Eddy Plater
as Percy
as Dawson
as Junkman
as The Mate
as Robson
as Cinders
as Abel Baker
as Bandmaster
as Dicko
as Drunken Soldier
as Wagger
as Mason
as Cabbie
as Anxious O'Toole
as Charles Randle
as Sergeant-Major
as Milchmann
as Downing
as Robson
as Petrol Pump Attendant (uncredited)
as Jim Cowdry
as Camp Cook (uncredited)
as Tommy Finch
as Dawlish
as Brewer
as Ship's Cook
as CPO Nixon
as 1st Airman
as Removal Man
as First Sinister Passenger
as Sergeant
as Len
as Sailor fishing for bike
as Lance Bombardier Tomlinson
as Detective Sergeant Liddell
as Able Seaman Outside Admiralty (uncredited)
as Manager
as Knowles
as Bert
as Motor Pool Corporal (uncredited)
as Orderly Sergeant
as Vic
as Carl
as Supt. Harding
as Merchant Seaman
as Morris
as Shop Steward
as Figg
as Willie Fisher
as Gilbert Tyrell
as English Soldier
as Willy Hawkins
as Joe Biggs
as Pvt. Lindop
as Bert
as Bonaker
as Private George Blake
as Sgt. Craig
as Henry
as Jones
as The Engineer
as Charlie Mead
as Bombardier Owen
as Sailor (uncredited)
as Gus Westover
as Danny 'Limpy' Thomas
as Bookies Runner
as Signalman Willy Earnshaw
as Army Airfield Soldier
as Saboteur
as Radio Operator
as British N.C.O.
as Airman
as Second Soldier
as Anarchist (uncredited)
as First Tram Conductor (uncredited)
as Mechanic