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.
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| Organization | Category | Movie |
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Smuggler
as Silas Kemble
Episodes: 13
First Aired: Apr 05, 1981
1990
as Tiny
Episodes: 8
First Aired: Sep 18, 1977
The Avengers
as Needle
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Jan 07, 1961
The Saint
as Vogler
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Oct 04, 1962
Gideon's Way
as Kautsky
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 18, 1965
The Persuaders!
as Zorakin
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 17, 1971
The Champions
as Nikko
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 25, 1968
The Champions
as El Gaudillo
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 25, 1968
The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Sheriff's Guard
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 26, 1955
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Inspector Vandeleur
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1971
The Saint
as Abdul Graner
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 04, 1962
Rogues' Gallery
as Sir Esmond Bellasize
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 01, 1968
Manhunt
as Franco
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 02, 1970
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
as Jaggyd
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 15, 1956
The Professionals
as Yashinkov
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 30, 1977
Supercar
Episodes: 39
First Aired: Jan 28, 1961
Peter the Great
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Feb 02, 1986
Jason King
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 15, 1971
No Hiding Place
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 16, 1959
Suspense
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Apr 30, 1962
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