Rowan Atkinson?

Phil Daniels?

Paul Daniels?

No, it's one of these 50's-60's black and white sort of people...ngh unk argh.....

We need more info. What were his films?

Off the top of my head, any of this lot...

Thorley Walters? (Dracula Prince of Darkness)
Dennis Price? (Kind Hearts and Coronets)
Niall McGinnis? (Curse of the Demon)
Herbert Lom? (later Pink Panther films)
Donald Pleasance? (Dr Crippen)
James Mason? (Gainsborough thrillers...)
Michael Redgrave? (Dead of Night)
Claude Rains? (Invisible Man/Phantom Opera)
Dickie Attenborough? (10 Rillington Place)
Patrick Wymark? (Where Eagles Dare)
Robert Newton? (Obsession/Oliver Twist)
Charles Laughton? (Mutiny on the Bounty)
Alastair Sim? (The Green Man)

Bill Treacher?

>Bill Treacher?

...was in an episode of "Dad's Army", entitled "Menace from the Deep", in which Walmington on Sea's pier is menaced by a floating mine.... Treacher appears for about thirty seconds in the opening scene, as a member of the regular army, and says, "Welcome to Walmington on Sea... Blimey what a dump"

Is it anything like 'Warriors of the Deep', or 'Fury from the Deep'?

Was Bill Treacher in either of those?

>Is it anything like 'Warriors of the Deep', or 'Fury from the Deep'?
>
>Was Bill Treacher in either of those?


"Stop that, that's silly...."

Ah, better not go any further with that, I'll be sued for quoting Graham Chapman without first clearing it with Jim Yoakum...

But I'm compiling a book of all Bill Treacher's TV and film appearances.

"British character actor, in occasional films: tends to play lunatics and obsessives."

Oops.

"British character actor, in occasional films: tends to play lunatics and obsessives."

This is the least descriptive description of an actor possible, except for "That Guy Who Was In That Thing That Time" [for which the official answer is Michael McKean].

>Oops.
>
>"British character actor, in occasional films: tends to play lunatics and obsessives."
>
>This is the least descriptive description of an actor possible, except for "That Guy Who Was In That Thing That Time" [for which the official answer is Michael McKean].

Or "That Supporting Actor In That Film" [official answer is Denholm Elliott or Brian Dennehy]

>Or "That Supporting Actor In That Film" [official answer is Denholm Elliott or Brian Dennehy]

Ian Holm surely?

You're all forgetting Alan Rickman.

>Oops.
>
>"British character actor, in occasional films: tends to play lunatics and obsessives."
>
>This is the least descriptive description of an actor possible, except for "That Guy Who Was In That Thing That Time" [for which the official answer is Michael McKean].

Yes, I know, but please don't blame me! Blame Leslie Halliwell (no relation to the dreaded ex-Ginger Spunk) for not being specific enough in his gommo Filmgoers' Companion! If he had been, I might have been able to remember the guy's name in the first place....

Must be Keith Allen.

Is it Marty Feldman?

>Yes, I know, but please don't blame me! Blame Leslie Halliwell (no relation to the dreaded ex-Ginger Spunk) for not being specific enough in his gommo Filmgoers' Companion! If he had been, I might have been able to remember the guy's name in the first place....

Hi Jake - any clues about the film's title? Or the plot of the film? Or anyone else who's in it? Does Halliwell go into any detail? "In this fine Ealing production, starring alongside some British character actors who tend to play lunatics and obsessives are some large elderly eccentric British character actresses with distinctive vocal talents, some perky young British child stars who would later find fame in British situation comedies, and let us not forget those fine upcoming British matinee idols who would later abandon the country's film industry to the worst period in its history and fuck off to France to write very tedious and boring books"

Michael Ripper ( Dracula films as Scared Local Innkeeper ) or the Trinians films as the caretaker .... Other than that there's Donald ( I can see , I can see perfectly )Pleasance , Dennis Price , Vallentyne Dyall , Vincent 'Haywards' Price ....Probably more

A Different Mr Griffiths.......? Daddy?

Seriously, you don't come from Pen-y-ffordd do you?

How about Mervyn Johns? (Dead of Night)
Naunton Wayne?

I was trying to think of Mervyn Johns.
It was making me mad. THe thread had been dtarted by someone wanting to remember who this lunatic obsessive was, and it made me forget who Mervyn Johns was.
Perhaps the answer is Peter Sallis (due to his Night of the Demon(?) performance).

I think it was Patrick Magee thus described, even though he was actually from Northern Ireland. Many thanx for all the suggestions, though! A friend of mine once saw Peter Sallis walking away from the Oxford Playhouse...didn't ask for his autograph though. Not meaning to nitpick, but wasn't it Brian "Foggy Dewhurst" Wilde who was in Night of the Demon, as a possessed loon?

Oops. Sorry.
yes it was Wilde.
Sallis is in "The Werewolf" (or something).
Brian Wilde was fantastic as the crazy loon.
Thanks for pointing it out Jake.

>Oops. Sorry.
>yes it was Wilde.
>Sallis is in "The Werewolf" (or something).
>Brian Wilde was fantastic as the crazy loon.
>Thanks for pointing it out Jake.

Sorry to nitpick, but it was "Curse of the Demon". Brian Wilde hurls himself out of a tenth floor hospital window after recalling the demon's attack under hypnosis. The finale, in which Dana Andrews passes the runic parchment back to Niall McGinnis, who is then caught by the demon on the railway track, is absolutely SUPERB.

I think "Curse of the Demon" and "Dead of Night" are two of the best British horror films ever made.

Anyone ever see the film version of Vyvian Stanshall's "Sir Henry at Rawlinson End", starring Trevor Howard as the titular knight, and a superb supporting cast including Patrick Magee, Denise Coffey, Harry Fowler, Simon Jones, Gary Waldhorn and Ben Aris? Spooky and bizarre