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.
Acting (32 movies)

Sea of Sand
1958

In Search of the Castaways
1962

The Cherry Orchard
1962

The Year of the Sex Olympics
1968

The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964

The Assassination Bureau
1969

The Angry Silence
1960

There Was a Crooked Man
1960

A Walk with Love and Death
1969

Mafia Junction
1973

Pascali's Island
1988

Crossroads to Crime
1960

Don't Panic Chaps!
1959

Penelope Pulls It Off
1975

Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1975

Penny Gold
1973

Blood of the Vampire
1958

The Horsemen
1971

The Battle of the River Plate
1956

The Possessed
1969

The Heroes of Telemark
1965

Cutthroat Island
1995

The Naked Runner
1967

Sea Fury
1958

Campbell's Kingdom
1957

The Pursuers
1961

You Only Live Twice
1967

Hell Drivers
1957

Inside the Third Reich
1982

Year of the Gun
1991

Kaleidoscope
1966

A Dandy in Aspic
1968
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