Known For
Acting
Born
Oct 30, 1925
Died
Dec 03, 1998
Place of Birth
Naples, Campania, Italy
Credits
62 titles
George Murcell
Biography
Arthur George Murcell (30 October 1925 – 3 December 1998) was a British character actor. Born in Italy, he made his film debut in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Battle of the River Plate (1956), Murcell went on to develop a career playing snarling villains in both film and television. These could either be stupid, brutish henchmen, as in Hell Drivers and Campbell's Kingdom (both 1957), or sophisticated rogues, such as Needle in "You Have Just Been Murdered", an episode of The Avengers. He specialised in playing foreign characters, including Germans, Russians and South Americans. A number of these roles were in ITC adventure TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Danger Man, The Baron, The Saint, The Champions (Reply Box No.666 episode, 1967) Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Persuaders! and Jason King. His film roles included Sea of Sand (1958), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), The Heroes of Telemark (1965), Kaleidoscope (1966), The Fixer (1968), A Dandy in Aspic (1968), The Assassination Bureau (1969), A Walk with Love and Death (1969), Penny Gold (1973), Special Branch (1974), Inside the Third Reich (1982, as Hermann Göring), Year of the Gun (1991), and Cutthroat Island (1995). He enjoyed a long stage career, which involved working with Tyrone Guthrie and Peter Brook, and was active in the Royal Shakespeare Company.In the 1970s, he acquired a Victorian church in North London, which he converted into an Elizabethan-style theatre in collaboration with director Adrian Brown. In 1973, he opened it as "St George's Theatre", intending that it present little-seen classical plays. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he continued to work at St George's Theatre as both an actor and a director, often with his wife, Elvi Hale.
Known For
Filmography
Presented in Supercolorisation
Professor Rudolph Popkiss / Black Morgan (voice)
The Ice Princess
Cutthroat Island
Mordachai Fingers
Year of the Gun
Pierre Bernier
Pascali's Island
Herr Gesing
Peter the Great
Inside the Third Reich
Herman Goering
Smuggler
Silas Kemble
The Professionals
Yashinkov
1990
Tiny
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Penelope Pulls It Off
Owen
Armchair Cinema
Maître Rabut
The Prison
Maître Rabut
Penny Gold
Doctor Merrick
Mafia Junction
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Inspector Vandeleur
The Persuaders!
Zorakin
Jason King
The Horsemen
Mizrar
A Sound from the Sea
George
Manhunt
Franco
A Walk with Love and Death
The Captain
The Possessed
Liputin
The Assassination Bureau
Zeppelin pilot
The Champions
Nikko
The Year of the Sex Olympics
Grels
A Dandy in Aspic
Rogues' Gallery
Sir Esmond Bellasize
The Naked Runner
You Only Live Twice
Russian Diplomat (uncredited)
The Informer
Willie Cluff
Kaleidoscope
Johnny
The Heroes of Telemark
Sturmfuhrer
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Second Man
Gideon's Way
Kautsky
Theatre 625
Delamarche
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Victorinus
In Search of the Castaways
Ayerton's Assistant
The Saint
Vogler
The Cherry Orchard
Yermolai Alexeyevich Lopahin
The Pursuers
Freddy
Supercar
The Avengers
Needle
Crossroads to Crime
Diamond
Sunday-Night Play
Gannerac
Danger Man
Bruno
There Was a Crooked Man
Receptionist at 'The McKillup Arms'
The Angry Silence
Jones
Don't Panic Chaps
Meister