Name
Robert Flemyng
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1912-01-03
Deathday
1995-05-22 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Liverpool, England, UK
Biography
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Robert Flemyng OBE, MC (3 January 1912 – 22 May 1995) was a British film and stage actor.
Flemyng was born in Liverpool, the son of a doctor, and was educated at Haileybury. He began his career as a medical student before abandoning medicine to become an actor. Flemyng made his stage debut in the early 1930s, and worked steadily in both London and Broadway. His first film appearance was in 1937, but he didn't appear steadily in films until after he served in World War II. During the war he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with great distinction, reaching the rank of full colonel at the age of 33. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1941, mentioned in despatches, and was appointed OBE in 1944.
He played the idealistic schoolmaster in the 1948 Roy Boulting film, The Guinea Pig, starring Richard Attenborough, and the key role of Detective Sergeant Roberts in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp.
One memorable role was as a necrophiliac in the film The Horrible Dr. Hichcock in 1962. He ably played a sardonic British Secret Intelligence Service chief (his boss being George Sanders) in the 1966 film The Quiller Memorandum. The character actor worked in films and television until his death in 1995. Some of his later films include Kafka (1991) and Shadowlands (1993).
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- 1978 The Four Feathers as The Old Colonel
- 1969 Oh! What a Lovely War as Staff Officer in Gassed Trench
- 1972 Travels with My Aunt as Crowder
- 1969 Battle of Britain as Wing Cmdr. Willoughby
- 1955 Cast a Dark Shadow as Phillip Mortimer
- 1957 Funny Face as Paul Duval
- 1967 The Deadly Affair as Samuel Fennan
- 1962 The Horrible Dr. Hichcock as Prof. Bernard Hichcock
- 1959 Blind Date as Sir Brian Lewis
- 1956 The Man Who Never Was as Lt. George Acres
- 1966 The Quiller Memorandum as Rushington
- 1977 Golden Rendezvous as Capt. Bullen
- 1950 The Blue Lamp as Police Sgt. Roberts
- 1949 Conspirator as Captain Hugh Ladholme
- 1968 The Blood Beast Terror as Dr. Carl Mallinger
- 1960 A Touch of Larceny as Cmdr. John Larkin
- 1955 Sting of Death
- 1969 The Body Stealers as W.C. Baldwin
- 1951 Blackmailed as Dr. Giles Freeman
- 1966 The Spy with a Cold Nose as M.I.5 Director
- 1957 Let's Be Happy as Lord James MacNairn
- 1948 Bond Street as Frank Moody
- 1937 Head Over Heels as Pierre
- 1993 Shadowlands as Claude Bird
- 1974 Miss Nightingale as W.E. Nightingale
- 1957 Windom's Way as Col. George Hasbrook
- 1976 Loyalties as Gen Canynge
- 1982 Spider's Web as Sir Rowland Delahaye
- 1995 The Vacillations of Poppy Carew as Patient 2
- 1971 The Firechasers as Carlton
- 1972 Young Winston as Dr. Buzzard
- 1952 The Holly and the Ivy as Major
- 1948 The Guinea Pig as Nigel Lorraine
- 1978 The Thirty Nine Steps as Magistrate
- 1989 Paris by Night as Jack Sidmouth
- 1992 Memento Mori as Ronald Sidebottome
- 1952 The Magic Box as Doctor
- 1991 Kafka as The Keeper of the Files
- 1963 The King's Breakfast as The Lord Chamberlain
- 1958 Wuthering Heights as Dr. Kenneth
- 1978 Edward & Mrs. Simpson as Sir Donald Somervell
- 1978 The Medusa Touch as Judge McKinley
- 1982 A Cotswold Death as Sir Charles
- 1972 The Darwin Adventure as Prof. Henslow
- 1977 The Professionals ( 1 episode ) as Sir John Terringham
- 1961 The Avengers ( 1 episode ) as Lord Maxted
- 1971 The Persuaders! ( 1 episode ) as Sir George
- 1978 Edward and Mrs Simpson ( 2 episodes ) as Sir Donald Somervell
- 1962 Compact ( 374 episodes )
- 1976 The New Avengers ( 1 episode ) as Minister Quaintance
- 1962 Zero One ( 1 episode )
- 1965 Public Eye ( 1 episode ) as Maj-Gen. Felcourt
- 1970 Play for Today ( 1 episode ) as Sir Charles
- 1980 Lady Killers ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Justice Havers
- 1957 Suspicion ( 1 episode ) as Nigel Crossley
- 1978 Enemy at the Door ( 1 episode ) as Sir James Prideaux
- 1991 The Storyteller: Greek Myths ( 1 episode ) as Aegeus
- 1965 BBC Play of the Month ( 1 episode ) as Gen. Canynge
- 1962 Man of the World ( 1 episode ) as O'Connor
- 1979 Rebecca ( 1 episode ) as Colonel Julyan
- 1960 Danger Man ( 1 episode ) as Logan
- 1969 ITV Saturday Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Major Lavender
- 1967 Half Hour Story ( 1 episode ) as Martin
- 1964 Thursday Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Julian Anson
- 1961 Family Solicitor ( 24 episodes ) as Anthony Freeman
- 1960 The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries ( 1 episode ) as Sir Percival Glyde
- 1960 The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries ( 1 episode ) as Lawrence
- 1972 Late Night Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Rivers
- 1982 Fame Is the Spur ( 2 episodes ) as Lord Lostwithiel
