Alan Tilvern
Date of birth: 1918-11-05
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
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Biography
Alan Tilvern (5 November 1918 – 17 December 2003) was a British film and television actor with a tough-guy image. He is possibly best known for his role as R.K. Maroon in the film Who framed Roger Rabbit. He was born in Whitechapel, in the East End of London, to Jewish Lithuanian parents, who changed their name from Tilovitch. After leaving school he became a barrow boy in Brick Lane. In the Second World War he served in the Army but was invalided out in 1945
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988-06-22
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the stu
A Tale of Two Cities
1958-02-07
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto
Chase a Crooked Shadow
1958-01-16
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dea
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
1966-03-06
Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand
Khartoum
1966-06-09
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the
Percy's Progress
1974-08-01
Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the wo
Night and the City
1950-06-15
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with
Knights of the Round Table
1953-12-22
In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one
Bhowani Junction
1956-05-01
Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from In
The Stick Up
1977-04-10
Duke Turnbeau (David Soul) has come to England, in the 1930s, as a way to improve his fortunes. For
The Frozen Dead
1966-10-15
A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies
House of Secrets
1956-10-23
Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joi
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
1984-04-23
Deafblind Helen Keller learned to communicate with the world through her teacher Annie Sullivan. The
Nineteen Nineteen
1985-11-14
Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years ear
The Bespoke Overcoat
1955-11-01
A humble clerk yearns for an overcoat, but his employer's refusal and his subsequent death lead him
Danger by My Side
1962-09-01
A girl tracks down the gang who had her detective brother killed.
Cairo Road
1950-06-21
In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs opera
Love and Death
1975-06-10
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951-04-10
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which
Tropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiri
1987-01-23
A Finnish businessman finds himself at the center of an international corruption scandal.
The Master Plan
1955-09-08
Following WW II, a U.S. army officer stationed in West Germany is assigned with keeping classified i
Little Shop of Horrors
1986-12-19
Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's; a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors
No Place Like Earth
1965-10-04
Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals
Superman
1978-12-14
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Cla
Tank Force!
1958-04-22
During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisone
The Lord of the Rings
1978-11-15
The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over M
Anna Karenina
1961-11-03
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w
Firefox
1982-06-18
The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet w
Shadow of Fear
1963-07-01
An American returning home from Baghdad and seeing his girl in Britain on the way agrees to take a m
Hot Enough for June
1964-01-01
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionag
Brass Target
1978-12-22
General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he
The Revolutionary
1970-07-15
"A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to ef
Doctor Who: Planet of Giants
1964-11-14
When the TARDIS malfunctions, it and its travellers land on Earth at the size of insects. They uncov
One Bummer News Day
1978-12-12
What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fil
The Siege of Pinchgut
1959-08-01
An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.
Adventure Story
1961-06-12
The story of Alexander the Great.
Invasion
1980-08-19
Docu-drama surrounding the events leading to the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
The Malpas Mystery
1960-12-01
After Audrey leaves prison after being framed for jewel theft, she gets a job offer from the mysteri
Porgy and Bess
1993-10-06
The story of a disabled beggar in Charleston,S.C. who falls in love with a prostitute, this is the f
High Rise Donkey
1980-01-01
The efforts of three children, who live in high rise flats, to save a donkey from two small-time cro
Sands of the Desert
1960-09-08
In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it wou
Desert Mice
1959-01-05
A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association)
Reunion at Fairborough
1985-05-12
World War II vets travel to England for a reunion at their old base. Stars Judi Trott, Barry Morse,