Basil Dignam
Birthday: 1905-10-24
Place of Birth: Sheffield, Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
Biography: Basil Dignam (24 October 1905 - 31 January 1979) was an English character actor.
Movies
Corridors of Blood
In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton [Boris Karloff] dares to dream the unthinkable: experimenting wit...
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Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. ...
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Naked Evil
Jamaican obi-man hexes student hostel manager, eventually causing the manager's death, before being ...
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The Court Martial of Major Keller
Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-mart...
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Son of a Stranger
A young man searches for the father he never knew, who he believes to be a millionaire....
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The Depraved
Fed up with her wealthy but abusive husband, Tom (Basil Dignam), young English homemaker Laura Wilto...
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Three Sundays to Live
Band leader Frank Martin is convicted and sentenced to death for murdering the owner of a club in wh...
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The Secret Partner
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault....
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The Jokers
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not f...
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The Nice Americans
American airman loves English girl whose father refuses permission for their marriage out of hatred ...
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80,000 Suspects
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a ...
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Up the Creek
Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkel...
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic ...
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Seven Seas to Calais
Sir Francis Drake fights to take over Spain's treasure routes for Queen Elizabeth I....
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Ring of Spies
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy...
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The Weapon
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gu...
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Suspect
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. ...
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Innocent Sinners
A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny gard...
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The Cuckoo Patrol
Freddie and the Dreamers play part of a Scout troupe that get caught up in a series of misadventure...
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Victim
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, t...
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I'm All Right Jack
Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at...
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Touch and Go
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the fir...
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You Pay Your Money
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer....
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Further Up the Creek
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey...
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Gorgo
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then ...
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Assignment K
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. S...
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Room at the Top
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in ...
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Number Ten
The Prime Minister heads a cabinet divided on the question of either using force against an African ...
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Sentenced for Life
An engineer is wrongly convicted of selling secrets to enemy agents and is sentenced to life in pris...
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I Spy a Stranger
Play set in the Home Counties during the Second World War. A Czech refugee arrives at her cousin's M...
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The Quatermass Xperiment
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars b...
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Lawrence of Arabia
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the div...
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The Counterfeit Plan
An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a repu...
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Heavens Above!
A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, whe...
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10 Rillington Place
The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the tit...
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Soft Beds, Hard Battles
In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts,...
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The Narrowing Circle
A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost....
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Twisted Nerve
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutiona...
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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the ...
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Smart Alec
A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune....
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The Spider's Web
Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie play. An ambassador's wife must hide the corpse of her step...
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Two on the Tiles
A married couple both face temptations while separated for a few days. The husband meets an attracti...
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Sapphire
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been pass...
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dre...
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Where the Spies Are
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Midd...
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Reach for the Sky
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident ...
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The Games
From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They ar...
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Life for Ruth
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His ...
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Brothers in Law
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wro...
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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s schoo...
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Fate Takes a Hand
When a mail bag full of post that was taken in a robbery is discovered fifteen years later, a Post O...
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Maytime in Mayfair
Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfa...
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Hammer the Toff
A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula....
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The Lady with a Lamp
Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of th...
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Rotten to the Core
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have th...
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They Can't Hang Me
A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring....
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A Touch of Larceny
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, Briti...
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Port of Escape
Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during...
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Appointment with Venus
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. ...
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Laughter in the Dark
Swinging London in the 1960s. Deals with the affection of a middle-aged man for a very young woman, ...
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Rockets Galore
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the go...
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Carry On Sergeant
Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his ...
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Master Spy
Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an attem...
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Young Winston
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, inclu...
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Battle of Britain
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...
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Carrington V.C.
Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces...
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The Fourth Square
The Police investigate the theft of emerald jewellery which had led to murder....
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Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
Peg Woffington and David Garrick have an affair while appearing in stage in Drury Lane....
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