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Laurence Naismith (14 December 1908 – 5 June 1992) was an English actor.
Naismith appeared in films such as Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Richard III (1955), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Carrington VC (1954) and as Captain Edward Smith of the RMS Titanic in A Night to Remember (1958). He appeared on Broadway in the musical Here's Love in 1963 and played the non-singing role of Merlin in the 1967 film version of the musical Camelot.
In 1965 he guest-starred as barber Gilly Bright in episode 25, "The Threat" of 12 O-Clock High (TV series). He was Judge Fulton in the TV series The Persuaders! (1971), with Tony Curtis and Roger Moore. He also starred in a children's ghost film The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972). He portrayed Emperor of Austria Franz Joseph in the BBC production Fall of Eagles (1974). Naismith played the Prince of Verona in the BBC Television Shakespeare version of Romeo & Juliet.
Outside of acting he was the landlord of the Rowbarge pub at Woolhampton, Berkshire and a keen cricket fan. Naismith married, in 1939, Vera Bocca of Horden, County Durham.
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27 September 1949
Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations.
05 March 1958
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism.
23 January 1953
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.
13 November 1951
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
07 January 1954
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds.
12 June 1963
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
16 May 1955
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.
06 August 1993
A sixty-minute documentary featuring William MacQuitty’s rare behind-the-scenes footage
27 November 1956
In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother.
14 December 1971
Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty.
25 October 1967
The plot of his illegitimate son Mordred to gain the throne, and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threatens to topple King Arthur and destroy his "round table" of knights.
01 August 1962
The 300 Spartans is an account of the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, in which the Greek Spartan King Leonidis, played by Richard Egan, led a remarkably small number of Greek Sparta to victory over an invading Persian army led by evil King Xerxes that was thought to number over 25,000.
13 June 1963
Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne.
01 April 1973
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde, investigate crimes along the French Riviera.
14 September 1962
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison.
10 November 1959
Famous British mountaineer Winter wants to climb a difficult summit, the Citadel. He goes to a small village but no guide wants to accompany him.
11 February 1960
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II.
30 March 1953
An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hotbed of spies and secret agents.
01 October 1952
Psychological thriller about an odd family with Harvey playing the older domineering son, who resents both his overbearing grandmother and his younger brother.
10 January 1957
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief Captain Starlight.
23 September 1953
On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.
15 January 1958
A lusty Gypsy gold digger marries a Regency aristocrat, then learns he has no money.
03 July 1958
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller.
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.
20 December 1967
When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam, leads the household staff to rob from various businesses by charging goods to various wealthy people and misdirecting the shipments, all to keep Miss Vicki's standard of living.
27 October 1959
Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah.
21 June 1949
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family.
17 May 1963
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the right thing at entirely the wrong time! When untimely remarks to some new recruits are splashed across the tabloids, the rush is on to find him a new posting somewhere far away.
15 September 1956
An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure.
19 April 1957
Phaedra is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving, she discovers an ancient brass and gold statue of a boy riding a dolphin, which is said to have the magical power to grant wishes.
05 March 1952
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) .
16 June 1960
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant.
10 March 1960
When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.
01 November 1948
A radio commentator is sent to a village to broadcast a bell-ringing team. Meanwhile a property speculator tries to buy a plot of land for less than it is worth.
11 March 1962
In the London of 1537, two boys resembling each other exactly meet accidentally and exchange "roles" for a short while.
14 April 1982
Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson's remarkable naval career and troubled personal affairs are brought to life in this miniseries, which tells his famous story through the narratives of those who knew him best.
02 May 1968
A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs aground on a South Pacific island. The usual hierarchy in an upper-class British family breaks down quickly when it becomes apparent that only the servant, Crichton, is capable of surviving on his own and he becomes the community's leader.
28 May 1960
England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputation and cause his fall from grace.
20 February 1951
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
03 December 1978
Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
17 July 1961
In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the Greyfriars kirkyard, despite a caretaker with a "no dogs" rule.
05 November 1970
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.
11 June 1977
Two jet-setting playboys, Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde, investigate crimes. Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie.
19 July 1969
A turn of the century wild west show struggling to make a living in Mexico comes into the possession of a tiny prehistoric horse.
01 February 1953
Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things get increasingly dangerous when their behavior escalates to larger crimes.
06 June 1971
After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself trapped in an alternate reality that bears some similarities to our own, but also has some striking differences.
05 February 1958
Africa, early 20th century, an Englishman marries the girlfriend of a late friend and faces natives and adventures, on the banks of a river infested with crocodiles.
25 March 1958
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer.
09 November 1955
The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men.
12 February 1967
British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.
03 April 1956
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack.
10 November 1960
A Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her.
15 May 1950
In 1904 London, neighbors begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may indeed be the famous Jack the Ripper.
11 December 1963
Thomasina the cat brings a family together through her mysterious death and reappearance.
18 January 1949
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
20 July 1972
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
01 June 1951
A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname.
07 December 1972
Mysterious old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in their squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse.
10 April 1953
Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter.
13 September 1960
When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stashed the loot leading to violent consequences.
