
William Mervyn
Oyuncu · 1912 – 1976 · Nairobi, Kenya
William Mervyn Pickwoad (3 January 1912 – 6 August 1976) was an English actor best known for his portrayal of the bishop in the clerical comedy All Gas and Gaiters, the old gentleman in The Railway Children and Inspector Charles Rose in The Odd Man and its sequels. Mervyn was born in Nairobi, British East Africa, but educated in Britain at Forest School, Snaresbrook, before embarking on a stage career, spending five years in provincial theatre. He made his West End debut in The Guinea Pig at the Criterion Theatre in 1946, before parts in plays such as Lend Me Robin at the Embassy Theatre, the comedy Ring Round the Moon, The Mortimer Touch, A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde at the Savoy Theatre in 1953 and Charley's Aunt. Mervyn's later stage roles included those of O'Trigger in The Rivals, Lord Greenham in the comedy Aren't We All? and Sir Patrick Cullen in The Doctor's Dilemma. Although he was admired in the theatre, it was with television that he became really well known. One of his first major small screen roles was Sir Hector in the 1962 series Saki. Four years later, he played the Bishop of St. Ogg's in the comedy series All Gas and Gaiters. It was, at that time, breaking with tradition, allowing a laugh at the expense of the established church. He also played the police chief inspector Charles Rose in the Granada TV series The Odd Man and its spin-offs It's Dark Outside and Mr Rose. He played the Hon. Mr. Justice Campbell in the Granada TV series Crown Court. Having taken the part of a Chief Inspector in the 1949 Ealing Studios film The Blue Lamp, in which PC George Dixon first appears (only to be shot dead by a young Dirk Bogarde), he then reappeared in a 1960 Dixon of Dock Green episode "The Hot Seat". He was in the 1966 Doctor Who story The War Machines and several Carry On films in the late 1960s, and also appeared as Mr. Whitty in the Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) episode "A Disturbing Case" in 1969. Usually cast as a wealthy upper class gentleman, he also appeared in The Railway Children (1970), as the children's train passenger friend, and The Ruling Class (1972). Around the same time, he appeared as Sir Hector Drummond, Bt., in the British TV series The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, in an episode entitled "The Superfluous Finger" (1973). Mervyn was married to Anne Margaret Payne-Cook, a theatre designer and architect who survived him with their three sons - Michael Pickwoad, who in 2010 became the production designer on Doctor Who, Richard, television director and aerial cameraman and Nicholas (Pickwoad), expert on bookbinding. Mervyn's granddaughter Amy Pickwoad became an art director and standby art director for Doctor Who. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Mervyn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Hot Enough for June
1964 · 25 votes
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No Love for Johnnie
1961 · 9 votes
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Deadlier Than the Male
1967 · 55 votes
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The Battle of the Sexes
1960 · 33 votes
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1972 · 102 votes
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Operation Crossbow
1965 · 125 votes
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Film6.0DramSavaşLondon, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.
Carve Her Name with Pride
1958 · 28 votes
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The Blue Lamp
1950 · 64 votes
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Circus of Horrors
1960 · 79 votes
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The Long Arm
1956 · 24 votes
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Film3.5KomediAnother stab at Henry Fielding's hilarious novel about the amorous misadventures of a dashing young man in 18th century England. The brilliant 1963 version, starring Albert Finney as the lusty hero, won four Oscars. Joan Collins does a great job as a Wicked Lady style highwaywoman.
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
1976 · 6 votes
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Salt & Pepper
1968 · 26 votes
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The Best House in London
1969 · 9 votes
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Carry On Again Doctor
1969 · 64 votes
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A Touch of Larceny
1960 · 17 votes
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Barnacle Bill
1957 · 24 votes
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Carry On Henry
1971 · 70 votes
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A comedy about the celebrated 18th century comedienne, Kitty Clive.
Kitty Clive
1956
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1966 · 9 votes
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Follow That Camel
1967 · 57 votes
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BBC Play of the Month
1965 · 8 votes
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Crown Court
1972 · 6 votes
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955 · 19 votes
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Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965 · 8 votes
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No Hiding Place
1959 · 4 votes
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The Persuaders!
1971 · 135 votes
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Maigret
1960 · 15 votes
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The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971 · 11 votes
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Gideon's Way
1965 · 5 votes
Dizi7.4KomediHancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
Hancock's Half Hour
1956 · 9 votes
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The Ghosts of Motley Hall
1976 · 6 votes
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Raffles
1977 · 5 votes
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Bleak House
1959 · 1 votes
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Armchair Theatre
1956 · 6 votes
Dizi6.2KomediAll Gas and Gaiters is a British television ecclesiastical sitcom which aired on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971. It was written by Pauline Devaney and Edwin Apps, a husband-and-wife team who used the pseudonym of "John Wraith" when writing the pilot. At St Oggs Cathedral is a carefree bishop, an old tippling archdeacon, and an accident-prone chaplain, who all wish to live a quiet bachelor life, but this is continually threatened by the dean, who tries to bring by-the-book rule to the cathedral.
All Gas and Gaiters
1967 · 4 votes
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The Odd Man
1960 · 1 votes
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DiziSuçDramA series of real trials from British history, famous and notorious, dramatised from the court records.
On Trial
1960
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Follows a group of liars, outrageous liars in fact, who try to outdo each other with the most fanciful lies they can dream up.
The Liars
1966 · 1 votes
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Charlesworth is a British crime television series which first aired on BBC in 1959. A police procedural, it starred Wensley Pithey as Detective Superintendent Charlesworth, with Tony Church as Detective Sergeant Spence. It followed on from the previous year's Charlesworth at Large.
Charlesworth
1959 · 1 votes
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Persuasion
1960 · 1 votes
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A British officer who served in Sicily during the Second World War returns to find himself embroiled in Mafia activities.
Reluctant Bandit
1965 · 1 votes
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Mr. Rose
1967 · 2 votes