Acting
Robert Flemyng
EN, IT cinema · 45 credits
Born
3 January 1912
Died
22 May 1995 (aged 83)
Birthplace
Liverpool, England, UK
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.
Known for
Filmography
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
as Patient 2
Shadowlands
as Claude Bird
Memento Mori
as Ronald Sidebottome
Kafka
as The Keeper of the Files
Paris by Night
as Jack Sidmouth
Spider's Web
as Sir Rowland Delahaye
A Cotswold Death
as Sir Charles
The Four Feathers
as The Old Colonel
The Thirty Nine Steps
as Magistrate
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
as Sir Donald Somervell
The Medusa Touch
as Judge McKinley
Golden Rendezvous
as Capt. Bullen
Loyalties
1976
Loyalties
as Gen Canynge
Miss Nightingale
1974
Miss Nightingale
as W.E. Nightingale
Travels with My Aunt
as Crowder
Young Winston
as Dr. Buzzard
The Darwin Adventure
as Prof. Henslow
The Firechasers
as Carlton
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Staff Officer in Gassed Trench
Battle of Britain
as Wing Cmdr. Willoughby
The Body Stealers
as W.C. Baldwin
The Blood Beast Terror
as Dr. Carl Mallinger
The Deadly Affair
as Samuel Fennan
The Quiller Memorandum
as Rushington
The Spy with a Cold Nose
as M.I.5 Director
The King's Breakfast
as The Lord Chamberlain
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
as Prof. Bernard Hichcock
A Touch of Larceny
as Cmdr. John Larkin
Blind Date
as Sir Brian Lewis
Wuthering Heights
as Dr. Kenneth
Funny Face
as Paul Duval
Let's Be Happy
as Lord James MacNairn
Windom's Way
as Col. George Hasbrook
The Man Who Never Was
as Lt. George Acres
Cast a Dark Shadow
as Phillip Mortimer
The Magic Box
as Doctor
Blackmailed
as Dr. Giles Freeman
The Blue Lamp
as Police Sgt. Roberts
Conspirator
as Captain Hugh Ladholme
Bond Street
as Frank Moody
The Guinea Pig
as Nigel Lorraine
Head Over Heels
as Pierre