Wilfrid Lawson
Acting
Biography
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Born: January 13, 1900
Place of Birth: Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Known For
Pastor Hall
The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
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.
The Prisoner
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.
The Likely Lads
Terry Collier and Bob Ferris are good friends. Terry was working class and secure in his life, whereas Bob was more aspirational, determined to work his way to a better place. Both viewed the others' worldview with disdain, but they were united by events, generally revolving around the pursuit of women. Although 20 total episodes were filmed, only 10 are currently known to survive. There is one missing from the first season, three from the second, and six from the final run.
Theatre 625
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
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'.
Becket
Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.
Pygmalion
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Turn of the Tide
Turn of the Tide is a 1935 British film directed by Norman Walker. It was the first feature film made by J. Arthur Rank. It is set in a North Yorkshire fishing village, and relates the rivalry between two fishing families. The actors included John Garrick, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson speak in the local accent. The work is based on the novel Three Fevers by Leo Walmsley.
Now and Forever
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope.
Filmography
as Dormouse (archive footage) (uncredited)
as King Priam
as Dormouse
as Peacock
as Mr Bourne
as Grandad
as Mr Bourne
as Old Soldier (uncredited)
as Black George
as Scrap Dealer
as Postman
as Willie Summers
as Albert
as Mr. Pom
as Mr Rudge
as Uncle Nat (uncredited)
as Holroyd
as Walter - Contestant in T.V. Show (uncredited)
as Ed, Hawlett Mechanic
as Mr Morgan
as Dustman with Cyst (uncredited)
as Gossage
as Prince Bolkonsky (as Wilfred Lawson)
as Irishman (uncredited)
as Old Man
as The Jailer
as Charlie's Father
as Flambeau
as Chunks
as Frank Wilson
as George Frideric Handel
as Jim Sturrock
as Wolfe Kristan
as James McLean
as Newton
as Churdles Ash
as Captain
as Pastor Frederick Hall
as Lucien Sarrou
as MacDougall
as Thomas E. Lawrence
as Maurice Meister
as Alfred Doolittle
as Mr. Goodman
as Police Sergeant
as Michael Varek
as Luke Fosdyck
as Raikes
as Dick Webb / Carlyle