Michael Medwin
Date of birth: 1923-07-18
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Michael Hugh Medwin
Biography
Michael Hugh Medwin, OBE (18 July 1923 – 26 February 2020) was an English actor and film producer.
Movie Credits
A Countess from Hong Kong
1967-01-05
A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.
Malta Story
1953-06-01
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a B
An Ideal Husband
1947-11-14
A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested
Scrooge
1970-11-05
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.
Above Us the Waves
1955-03-29
In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anc
The Wind Cannot Read
1958-06-10
A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They sta
Doctor at Sea
1955-07-12
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 a
Forbidden
1949-02-28
Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in bu
Night Must Fall
1964-03-18
A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the
The Queen of Spades
1949-03-16
A czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul
Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance
1963-11-06
At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a number
The Steel Bayonet
1958-02-01
Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. T
A Hill in Korea
1956-09-18
Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers servi
Shadow of the Past
1950-09-04
A man catches sight of a woman believed by everyone to be dead.
View from the Loft
1974-07-08
Young Linda Channing visits her fiancé Ian Faulkner at an old aristocratic residence near London. H
The Teckman Mystery
1954-10-27
A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a
Black Memory
1947-07-01
Cockney Danny Cruff is the son of a man wrongly accused of murder. Danny decides to solve the myster
Look Before You Love
1948-01-06
Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff.
Love's a Luxury
1952-10-01
A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their effort
Someone at the Door
1950-04-30
A man and his sister live in a country home, not knowing that there is stolen loot hidden there. A g
I Only Arsked
1958-11-11
A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wran
The Lady Craved Excitement
1950-08-01
A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of
Bang! You're Dead
1954-03-15
Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the
Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
1965-03-08
When a jet airliner with engine trouble lands in Beirut for a twenty-four hour stopover, purser 'Jon
Rattle of a Simple Man
1964-12-20
Percy Winthram is a naive young man who still lives at home with his mum. In London for the Cup Fina
The Intruder
1953-10-18
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the t
Top Secret
1952-11-10
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he ha
Carry On Nurse
1959-01-30
In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. Th
The Heart of a Man
1959-08-06
Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a hun
Curtain Up
1952-03-12
In a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the fol
It's All Happening
1963-08-01
Tommy Steele stars as a talent-spotter at a recording company who determines to organize a concert f
Nightbeat
1947-12-22
After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty crimin
For Them That Trespass
1949-04-21
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examini
The Girl in the Picture
1957-01-01
A crime reporter investigating a murder discovers the case hinges on a mysterious woman he had photo
The Jigsaw Man
1983-11-11
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plas
Charley Moon
1956-05-01
A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a uni
Trottie True
1949-09-29
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to
Invasion
2005-10-06
A soldier lands on an island and storms it. Only finding it defended by sheep and one old shepherd h
The Fool
1990-12-07
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper
Doctor at Large
1957-03-26
Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a memb
Sleepwalker
1984-07-05
Saxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with
I've Gotta Horse
1965-04-25
A fast-moving comedy with Billy Fury, who plays himself in the film. The story reveals his great lov
William Comes to Town
1948-12-31
William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys.
Staggered
1994-07-08
Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a S
Spaceways
1953-08-07
A rocket engineer, responsible for sending a satellite into space, is accused of committing the most
Just Ask for Diamond
1988-09-01
Thirteen-year-old Nick and his slightly dense older brother Herbert run the Diamond Private Detectiv
Street Corner
1953-03-17
A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around th
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998-12-26
A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continu
The Endless Game
1989-08-20
A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his for
Boys in Brown
1949-12-01
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a ro
Never Say Never Again
1983-10-07
James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat
The Sandwich Man
1966-07-15
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
Cast & Crew: If....
2004-06-12
Episode of the BBC Scotland television series focusing on Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film "If...", feat
The Sea Wolves
1980-07-03
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of G
Paradise Hotel
1986-04-15
A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives i
Trio
1950-10-10
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Hindle Wakes
1952-11-10
During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to ke
Piccadilly Incident
1946-08-24
A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical
The Oracle
1953-06-01
An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national
Fanny & Elvis
1999-11-19
Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband l
The Courtneys of Curzon Street
1947-04-11
On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, mu
The Long Dark Hall
1951-02-06
A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the
Miss Robin Hood
1952-11-12
In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls finds hi
The Duchess
2008-09-05
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled
The Duke Wore Jeans
1958-03-30
A Cockney lad pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess.
A Man on the Beach
1955-10-21
This weird short manages to pack in fraud, murder, alcoholism and transvestitism, with two somewhat
Crooks Anonymous
1962-03-31
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as
Genevieve
1953-05-28
Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the fir
Another Shore
1948-11-24
A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the E
Helter Skelter
1949-08-07
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Checkpoint
1956-12-25
Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ens
The Longest Day
1962-09-25
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the
Just William's Luck
1947-12-17
Comic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals.
Woman Hater
1948-10-13
An English lord who dislikes women meets a French movie star who dislikes men.
Britannia Hospital
1982-05-27
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by
O Lucky Man!
1973-03-25
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to
Four in a Jeep
1951-03-30
Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.
Anna Karenina
1948-01-22
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w
Law and Disorder
1974-10-09
In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into
Alice Through the Looking Box
1960-12-25
A Christmas TV special in which Alice does not go through a looking glass, but through a TV set.
Cinderella
2000-01-01
Zezolla and her family live mid 20th century, where fashion is practically everything. As her father