Robert Flemyng
Date of birth: 1912-01-03
Place of birth: Liverpool, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Flemyng, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
The Four Feathers
1978-01-01
The fifth filming of the adventure classic about a British soldier in the 1880s who fights to regain
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969-03-10
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of th
Travels with My Aunt
1972-12-17
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentri
Battle of Britain
1969-09-15
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro
Cast a Dark Shadow
1955-09-20
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older w
Funny Face
1957-02-13
A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris
The Deadly Affair
1967-01-26
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office officia
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
1962-08-01
In late 19th century London, a woman weds a necrophiliac doctor whose first wife died under mysterio
Blind Date
1959-08-01
Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, soph
The Man Who Never Was
1956-04-03
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the
The Quiller Memorandum
1966-11-10
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi
Golden Rendezvous
1977-12-25
Action-packed suspense thriller finds innocuous-looking purser Carter (Harris) the unlikely hero whe
The Blue Lamp
1950-01-19
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new
Conspirator
1949-07-28
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
The Blood Beast Terror
1968-02-01
A scientist working with genetics creates a horrifying flying creature that feeds on human blood. Fo
A Touch of Larceny
1960-02-04
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, Briti
Sting of Death
1955-02-12
Horror legend Boris Karloff stars in this rarely-seen mystery tale, directed by Daniel Petrie (A Rai
The Body Stealers
1969-03-21
In Britain, bodies of NATO paratroopers are being snatched during routine jumps by a mysterious red-
Blackmailed
1951-01-30
A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication i
The Spy with a Cold Nose
1966-12-19
A dog with a spying device under its skin is sent to the Russian government as a present. When the R
Let's Be Happy
1957-05-07
On receiving an inheritance from her grandfather, Canadian Jeannie MacLean decides to visit the fami
Bond Street
1948-05-12
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Li
Head Over Heels
1937-02-12
Legendary British musical-comedy favorite Jessie Matthews chalks up another winner with Head Over He
Shadowlands
1993-12-25
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited
Miss Nightingale
1974-01-01
The life, background, motivation and struggles of Florence Nightingale.
Windom's Way
1957-12-07
A doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marri
Loyalties
1976-02-29
During a weekend at a country house in the 1920s, a Jewish outsider accuses a former officer of thef
Spider's Web
1982-12-26
Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. 'Supposing I were to come
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
1995-03-05
When Poppy Carew is faced with having to organize a funeral by herself, she finds new strength and l
The Firechasers
1971-01-01
Insurance investigator must find out who is setting fires. Along the way he meets and works with a b
Young Winston
1972-07-20
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, inclu
The Holly and the Ivy
1952-12-03
An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes
The Guinea Pig
1948-10-26
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experimen
The Thirty Nine Steps
1978-11-04
The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before
Paris by Night
1989-04-18
Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career - but on a t
Memento Mori
1992-04-19
Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious teleph
The Magic Box
1952-01-01
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a
Kafka
1991-11-15
After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are
The King's Breakfast
1963-01-01
A king misses the butter on his slice of bread.
Wuthering Heights
1958-05-09
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthe
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978-11-06
While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis
The Medusa Touch
1978-04-13
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries w
A Cotswold Death
1982-01-12
A village cricket match on the lawn of a great country house - a traditional setting for the perfect
The Darwin Adventure
1972-09-27
The story of Charles Darwin's journey on The Beagle.