Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 03, 1912
Died
May 22, 1995
Place of Birth
Liverpool, England, UK
Credits
68 titles
Robert Flemyng
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Flemyng OBE, MC (3 January 1912 – 22 May 1995) was a British film and stage actor. Flemyng was born in Liverpool, the son of a doctor, and was educated at Haileybury. He began his career as a medical student before abandoning medicine to become an actor. Flemyng made his stage debut in the early 1930s, and worked steadily in both London and Broadway. His first film appearance was in 1937, but he didn't appear steadily in films until after he served in World War II. During the war he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with great distinction, reaching the rank of full colonel at the age of 33. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1941, mentioned in despatches, and was appointed OBE in 1944. He played the idealistic schoolmaster in the 1948 Roy Boulting film, The Guinea Pig, starring Richard Attenborough, and the key role of Detective Sergeant Roberts in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp. One memorable role was as a necrophiliac in the film The Horrible Dr. Hichcock in 1962. He ably played a sardonic British Secret Intelligence Service chief (his boss being George Sanders) in the 1966 film The Quiller Memorandum. The character actor worked in films and television until his death in 1995. Some of his later films include Kafka (1991) and Shadowlands (1993). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Flemyng, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
Patient 2
Shadowlands
Claude Bird
Memento Mori
Ronald Sidebottome
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
Aegeus
Kafka
The Keeper of the Files
Paris by Night
Jack Sidmouth
Spider's Web
Sir Rowland Delahaye
A Cotswold Death
Sir Charles
Fame Is the Spur
Lord Lostwithiel
Lady Killers
Mr. Justice Havers
Rebecca
Colonel Julyan
Edward and Mrs Simpson
Sir Donald Somervell
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Sir Donald Somervell
The Thirty Nine Steps
Magistrate
The Medusa Touch
Judge McKinley
Enemy at the Door
Sir James Prideaux
The Four Feathers
The Old Colonel
The Professionals
Sir John Terringham
Golden Rendezvous
Capt. Bullen
The New Avengers
Minister Quaintance
Loyalties
Gen Canynge
Miss Nightingale
W.E. Nightingale
Travels with My Aunt
Crowder
The Darwin Adventure
Prof. Henslow
Young Winston
Dr. Buzzard
Late Night Theatre
Rivers
The Persuaders!
Sir George
The Firechasers
Carlton
Play for Today
Sir Charles
Battle of Britain
Wing Cmdr. Willoughby
The Body Stealers
W.C. Baldwin
Oh! What a Lovely War
Staff Officer in Gassed Trench
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Major Lavender
The Blood Beast Terror
Dr. Carl Mallinger
Half Hour Story
Martin
The Deadly Affair
Samuel Fennan
The Spy with a Cold Nose
M.I.5 Director
The Quiller Memorandum
Rushington
BBC Play of the Month
Gen. Canynge
Public Eye
Maj-Gen. Felcourt
Thursday Theatre
Julian Anson
The King's Breakfast
The Lord Chamberlain
Zero One
Man of the World
O'Connor
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
Prof. Bernard Hichcock
Compact
Family Solicitor
Anthony Freeman
The Avengers
Lord Maxted
Danger Man
Logan
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
Sir Percival Glyde