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Torin Thatcher

Torin Thatcher

Oyuncu · 1905 – 1981 · Bombay, British India, India

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Torin Thatcher (15 January 1905 - 4 March 1981) was an English actor born in Bombay, British India, India), to English parents. He was an imposing, powerfully built figure noted for his flashy portrayals of screen villains. He was educated in England at Bedford School and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He worked as a schoolmaster before first appearing on the London stage in 1927 and then entering British films in 1934. He appeared in the 1937 Old Vic stage production of Hamlet, in which Laurence Olivier made his first appearance in the title role, opposite Vivien Leigh as Ophelia. During the Second World War, he served with the Royal Artillery and was demobilized with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Thatcher appeared in classic British films of the late 1930s and 1940s, including Major Barbara (1941) and Great Expectations (1946), in which he played Bentley Drummle. He moved to Hollywood in the 1950s. He was constantly in demand, invariably lending his looming figure and baleful countenance to sinister or stern roles in popular costume thrillers such as The Crimson Pirate (1952), Blackbeard the Pirate (1952), The Robe (1953) (as the disapproving father of Richard Burton's character), The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), Helen of Troy (1956), Darby's Rangers (1958), and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958). He also appeared in the Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard 1962 remake of Mutiny on the Bounty. He returned to the stage quite frequently, notably on Broadway, in such esteemed productions as Edward, My Son (1948), That Lady (1949) and Billy Budd (1951). In 1959, he portrayed Captain Keller in the award-winning play The Miracle Worker with Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. All of these plays were filmed, but Thatcher did not appear in the movie versions. Also a steady fixture on television, he appeared in such made-for-TV films as adaptations of A. J. Cronin's Beyond This Place (1957) and The Citadel (1960),Bonanza(1961), and Brenda Starr (1976). He also played the title role in a Philco Television Playhouse version of Othello and acted in a CBS production of Beyond This Place (1957). Thatcher died of cancer on March 4, 1981, in Thousand Oaks, California, in the Los Angeles area.

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    Witness for the Prosecution

    Beklenmeyen Şahit

    1957 · 1.8K votes

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    1955 · 22 votes

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    Mutiny on the Bounty

    Gemide İsyan

    1962 · 360 votes

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    The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

    Sinbad'ın 7. Yolculuğu

    1958 · 331 votes

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    The Robe

    Zincirli Köle

    1953 · 297 votes

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    Truvalı Helen

    1956 · 66 votes

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    Great Expectations

    Büyük Umutlar

    1946 · 389 votes

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    Saboteur

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    1942 · 564 votes

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    The Snows of Kilimanjaro

    1952 · 105 votes

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    1952 · 166 votes

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    Night Train to Munich

    1940 · 97 votes

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    The Sandpiper

    1965 · 56 votes

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    1962 · 56 votes

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    1953 · 81 votes

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    1936 · 383 votes

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    The Spy in Black

    1939 · 67 votes

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    Genç ve Masum

    1937 · 261 votes

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    The Desert Rats

    1953 · 103 votes

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    Hawaii

    1966 · 56 votes

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    1957 · 48 votes

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    1963 · 2 votes

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    1965 · 448 votes

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    1954 · 12 votes

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    1964 · 34 votes

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    1965 · 138 votes

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    1955 · 119 votes

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    1955 · 267 votes

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    1959 · 15 votes

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    1967 · 10 votes

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    1960 · 20 votes

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    1970 · 112 votes

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    1958 · 26 votes

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    1959 · 7 votes

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    1968 · 50 votes

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    1966 · 201 votes

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