George Murcell
Acting
Born October 30, 1925 · Naples, Campania, Italy
Biography
Arthur George Murcell (30 October 1925 – 3 December 1998) was a British character actor. Born in Italy, he made his film debut in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Battle of the River Plate (1956), Murcell went on to develop a career playing snarling villains in both film and television. These could either be stupid, brutish henchmen, as in Hell Drivers and Campbell's Kingdom (both 1957), or sophisticated rogues, such as Needle in "You Have Just Been Murdered", an episode of The Avengers. He specialised in playing foreign characters, including Germans, Russians and South Americans.…
Known For · 40 titles
The Avengers
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Theatre 625
The Saint
Thirty-Minute Theatre
Gideon's Way
The Professionals
No Hiding Place
The Persuaders!
Sunday-Night Play
Sunday Night Theatre
The Champions
Danger Man
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
You Only Live Twice
Manhunt
Jason King
The Informer
Supercar
Cutthroat Island
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Peter the Great
Smuggler
1990
Armchair Theatre
Inside the Third Reich
Armchair Cinema
The Heroes of Telemark
Presented in Supercolorisation
The Assassination Bureau
The Battle of the River Plate
Rogues' Gallery
Pascali's Island
Kaleidoscope
In Search of the Castaways
Hell Drivers
Year of the Gun
A Walk with Love and Death
The Year of the Sex Olympics