David Burke
Birthday: 1934-05-25
Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, UK
Biography: David Burke is an English actor, known for playing Dr. John Watson in the initial series of Granada Television's 1980s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, which starred Jeremy Brett in the title role. He also starred as Josef Stalin in the last two episodes of Reilly, Ace of Spies.
Movies
Run for the Lifeboat
When unmarried mother Maggie takes her son Terry on holiday to the Welsh fishing village of Gorbay, ...
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King Lear
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects hi...
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The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
Hosted by Orson Welles, this documentary utilizes a grab bag of dramatized scenes, stock footage, TV...
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The Woman in Black
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sor...
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Three Sisters
Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exil...
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Comedians
Comedians is a TV movie/play by Trevor Griffiths, set in a Manchester evening class for aspiring wor...
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Spaghetti House
Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befrie...
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Mesmer
A biography of the eighteenth century Viennese physician, Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox he...
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Harry Price: Ghost Hunter
When MP's wife Grace Goodwin is found naked on a London street, Harry Price is summoned to investiga...
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Bertie and Elizabeth
The life of England’s George VI, who was forced to become King following the abdication of his broth...
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The Rivals
Romantic havoc ensues in the town of Bath when Sir Anthony arrives to arrange the marriage of his so...
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The Winter's Tale
The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and sh...
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A View from a Hill
On holiday, a young man borrows a pair of binoculars when his own are broken. But they seem somehow ...
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Number 13
In order to authenticate some historical papers in a cathedral town, Oxbridge academic Anderson stay...
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Random Quest
Following a scientific experiment, a man wakes up in a parallel universe and begins living a life si...
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Love and Distrust
This collection of five short films artfully portrays desire's ability to both empower and destroy t...
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A Choice of Evils
Cardinal Volponi tries to save his old friend, a priest-turned-militant communist, from being execut...
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The Tragedy of Richard III
Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crow...
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The Summer House
A young girl flees to France to forget her boyfriend; first his letters pursue her, then he himself ...
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There Is Also Tomorrow
The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally ...
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Only the Lonely
When Elspeth Morris, 70, loses her beloved husband George, life becomes intolerable. Increasingly su...
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The Young Messiah
Tells the story of Jesus Christ at age seven as he and his family depart Egypt to return home to Naz...
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Twelfth Night
Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the ...
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Michael Regan
Under stress, Irish tenant farmer Michael Regan, suddenly snaps one day and locks himself in his hom...
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Rattle of a Simple Man
Percy Winthram is a naive young man who still lives at home with his mum. In London for the Cup Fina...
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Saturday Night Out
Five seamen and a passenger are intent on making the most of the 14 hours they will spend in London....
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Return Fare
' If he's been locked up all these years why is it all right to let him out now? ' ' New thinking.' ...
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Fair Tradin' on the Dancin' Ground
A man abducts a boy after his son is taken from him by social services....
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Quiet as a Nun
A reporter is asked to look into the mysterious death of a nun who died in a locked room at a conven...
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