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James Hayter (23 April 1907 – 27 March 1983) was a British actor.
He was born in Lonavala, India, brought up in Scotland and died in Spain. His best remembered film roles include Friar Tuck in the 1952 film The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men and Samuel Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers of the same year. His rotund appearance and fruity voice made him a natural choice for such roles.
A pupil of Dollar Academy, he became a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, his film career began in 1936 in Sensation, but was interrupted by World War II during which he served in the Royal Armoured Corps. His later career included roles in TV series such as The Forsyte Saga (1967), The Onedin Line and Are You Being Served?. His 1946 television series Pinwright's Progress, shown on the BBC, is recognised as the first real example of the half-hour situation comedy format in the history of British television. He was also the original narrator of the UK television advertisements for Mr. Kipling cakes. In fact, these ads led to his departure from Are You Being Served?; the cake company paid him a significant bonus to withdraw from the series, as they felt his reputation lent an air of dignity to their snack advertisements.
In the film Oliver!, he played Mr Jessop the book shop owner. He appeared in scenes when Dodger steals a gentleman's wallet outside the book shop and also when Oliver is in court charged with the robbery.
Hayter used to have a tree house in his back garden where he would retire of an evening to learn and practise his lines from his current script.
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01 February 1949
A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II.
01 July 1952
When his grandfather dies, George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) returns home from India to collect his inheritance -- only to find that the will has mysteriously gone missing.
11 December 1962
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.
25 April 1949
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's partner and son offers Nat a position as editor in return for his financial backing.
06 March 1951
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
25 August 1953
A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up.
21 February 1950
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
10 November 1953
A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.
07 August 1949
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
12 August 1953
Set against the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera, this comedy follows the misadventures of a father and daughter con artist team (Ronald Squire and Peggy Cummins) who pose as a married couple and swindle wealthy clients at the region's swankiest resorts.
23 March 1940
A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
01 July 1967
After being falsely accused of murder, Sir Robin of Loxley takes refuge in the untamed wilderness of Sherwood Forest where he stumbles across a group of outlaws.
23 December 1946
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe.
14 May 1957
Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship.
19 January 1937
Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!
01 December 1969
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
16 November 1954
Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress.
26 October 1948
Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the German House of Hanover, ruler of Great Britain.
01 March 1949
In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly old sailor.
28 January 1948
Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again.
26 September 1968
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
26 July 1950
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure.
28 August 1956
Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius.
01 November 1957
In this adventure, an American is forced by smugglers to sail his boat from Barcelona to Tangiers. The ruthless fugitives then kill his son, and harm his shipmate, sending the pilot, himself an ex-smuggler into such a rage that he kills two gang members and helps police capture the survivors and bring them to justice.
09 June 1958
Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number.
05 February 1948
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country.
24 July 1955
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
13 October 1948
An English lord who dislikes women meets a French movie star who dislikes men.
23 September 1971
A lonely 'Stay-at-Home' Housewife is being watched every night through the bathroom window by a 'Peeping Tom', who is being put up to it by his friend.
12 March 1957
After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers.
06 January 1959
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties his new position involves, not least the way he in which becomes the target for all the unattached women on board.
19 July 1949
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor.
08 November 1970
Brilliant but arrogant scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts, only for the monster to come alive and wreak havoc.
27 September 1952
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s.
30 September 1948
Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His perception of the man changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.
15 March 1957
"Tomorrow ..." (mañana...) is the easy exit to deceive themselves of those who feel the impotence and the cowardice to confront face to face their circumstances in life.
13 March 1959
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
28 December 1938
Television broadcast of The Moon in the Yellow River by Denis Johnston.
26 October 1949
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory.
03 March 2005
Movie with some of the greatest brittish comedians such as Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese.
03 February 1972
Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
16 October 1946
A musical set during the French Revolution.
01 September 1962
Scotland Yard is thrown into an uproar when a mad killer begins knocking off beautiful young blondes.
26 October 1948
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady.
28 January 1971
After a landsman in 18th century England discovers a corpse covered in fur buried in a field, the town becomes infected by "the devil's skin," leading the local children to engage in demonic rituals and criminal behavior.
21 October 1958
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
15 June 1950
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
23 May 1967
John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him.
24 December 1978
Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
10 October 1950
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
21 April 1949
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand.
26 May 1952
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace.
01 December 1949
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people.
01 December 1939
George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse.
02 July 1951
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
14 December 1940
Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious.
20 June 1954
In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.
04 November 1970
Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music.
01 January 1953
Survey of the Royal Highlights of June in Coronation year; the Coronation, the Derby, Queen's visits to Guildhall and Edinburgh.
01 December 1947
A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder.
