George Murcell
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 30, 1925
- Died
- Dec 3, 1998 (aged 73)
- Place of birth
- Naples, Campania, Italy
- Credits
- 62
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
You Only Live Twice
1967Movie
Russian Diplomat (uncredited)
Cutthroat Island
1995Movie
Mordachai Fingers
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964Movie
Victorinus
The Heroes of Telemark
1965Movie
Sturmfuhrer
The Avengers
1961TV
Needle
The Saint
1962TV
Vogler, Abdul Graner
Filmography
Presented in Supercolorisation
2022TV
Professor Rudolph Popkiss / Black Morgan (voice), Professor Rudolph Popkiss (voice) (credit only)
The Ice Princess
1996Movie
Cutthroat Island
1995Movie
Mordachai Fingers
Year of the Gun
1991Movie
Pierre Bernier
Pascali's Island
1988Movie
Herr Gesing
Peter the Great
1986TV
Inside the Third Reich
1982TV
Herman Goering
Smuggler
1981TV
Silas Kemble
The Professionals
1977TV
Yashinkov
1990
1977TV
Tiny
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975Movie
Penelope Pulls It Off
1975Movie
Owen
Armchair Cinema
1974TV
Maître Rabut
The Prison
1974Movie
Maître Rabut
Penny Gold
1973Movie
Doctor Merrick
Mafia Junction
1973Movie
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971TV
Inspector Vandeleur
The Persuaders!
1971TV
Zorakin
Jason King
1971TV
The Horsemen
1971Movie
Mizrar
A Sound from the Sea
1970Movie
George
Manhunt
1970TV
Franco
A Walk with Love and Death
1969Movie
The Captain
The Possessed
1969Movie
Liputin
The Assassination Bureau
1969Movie
Zeppelin pilot
The Champions
1968TV
Nikko, El Gaudillo
The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968Movie
Grels
A Dandy in Aspic
1968Movie
Rogues' Gallery
1968TV
Sir Esmond Bellasize
The Naked Runner
1967Movie
You Only Live Twice
1967Movie
Russian Diplomat (uncredited)
The Informer
1966TV
Willie Cluff
Kaleidoscope
1966Movie
Johnny
The Heroes of Telemark
1965Movie
Sturmfuhrer
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965TV
Second Man
Gideon's Way
1965TV
Kautsky
Theatre 625
1964TV
Delamarche, Wensley Grafton, Grels
The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964Movie
Victorinus
In Search of the Castaways
1962Movie
Ayerton's Assistant
The Saint
1962TV
Vogler, Abdul Graner
The Cherry Orchard
1962Movie
Yermolai Alexeyevich Lopahin
The Pursuers
1961Movie
Freddy
Supercar
1961TV
The Avengers
1961TV
Needle
Crossroads to Crime
1960Movie
Diamond
Sunday-Night Play
1960TV
Gannerac
Danger Man
1960TV
Bruno
There Was a Crooked Man
1960Movie
Receptionist at 'The McKillup Arms'
The Angry Silence
1960Movie
Jones
Don't Panic Chaps
1959Movie
Meister
No Hiding Place
1959TV
Sea of Sand
1958Movie
Cpl. Simms
Sea Fury
1958Movie
Loudon
Blood of the Vampire
1958Movie
First Guard
Campbell's Kingdom
1957Movie
Max, a worker
Hell Drivers
1957Movie
Tub
The Battle of the River Plate
1956Movie
Chief Officer, Newton Beach
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
1956TV
Jaggyd
Armchair Theatre
1956TV
Beno
The Merry Christmas
1955Movie
Mr. Fezziwig
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955TV
Sheriff's Guard
Sunday Night Theatre
1950TV
M. Lafarge