Jon Rollason
Actor · 1931 – 2016 · Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
Jon Rollason (9 April 1931 – 20 February 2016) was an English television actor, broadcaster and writer. He is best remembered for the role of Dr. Martin King in The Avengers. He appeared in episodes of Doctor Who (as Harold Chorley in The Web of Fear), Z-Cars, Coronation Street, Softly, Softly, and the soap opera Crossroads. For the last of these, he also wrote the scripts for some episodes.[4]
Series4
TV7.8Action & AdventureCrimeA quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
The Avengers
1961 · 157 votes
- TV7.5Drama
Studio 4 is an anthology drama series utilising BBC Television Centre's Studio Four, and running for two series in 1962 on BBC One. It was envisaged as a sequel to Storyboard, a similar anthology series which had been transmitted the previous year.
Studio 4
1962 · 2 votes
- TV10.0Crime
A spin-off/rebranding of the previous 1965 series The Mask of Janus, The Spies is a more conventional espionage thriller than its predecessor, being explicitly concerned with the actual operations of British secret service agents stationed in the fictional European country of Amalia.
The Spies
1966 · 1 votes
TV10.0Thirteen Against Fate is a series of thirteen hour-long episodes based on the novels of Georges Simenon. Noted for the sound psychology of his characters, Simenon's stories deal with many nationalities and are set in numerous European cities and villages. There are sequences filmed in these locations integrated into the episodes. In each of the novels chosen for this series, Fate plays a leading role in the development of the story and the characters.
Thirteen Against Fate
1966 · 1 votes
Movies2
Movie6.8DocumentarySeminal piece of documentary filmmaking by New Wave director Karel Reisz following the daily activities of members of the Lambeth Youth club in late-1950s London.
We Are the Lambeth Boys
1959 · 13 votes
- Movie
Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."