Alan Tilvern

Alan Tilvern

Birthday: 1918-11-05

Place of Birth: London, England, UK

Biography: Alan Tilvern (5 November 1918 – 17 December 2003) was a British film and television actor with a tough-guy image. He is possibly best known for his role as R.K. Maroon in the film Who framed Roger Rabbit. He was born in Whitechapel, in the East End of London, to Jewish Lithuanian parents, who changed their name from Tilovitch. After leaving school he became a barrow boy in Brick Lane. In the Second World War he served in the Army but was invalided out in 1945

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the stu...

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A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...

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Chase a Crooked Shadow
Chase a Crooked Shadow

A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dea...

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Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Rasputin: The Mad Monk

Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand...

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Khartoum
Khartoum

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Percy's Progress
Percy's Progress

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Night and the City
Night and the City

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with ...

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Knights of the Round Table
Knights of the Round Table

In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one ...

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Bhowani Junction
Bhowani Junction

Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from In...

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The Stick Up
The Stick Up

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The Frozen Dead
The Frozen Dead

A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies ...

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House of Secrets
House of Secrets

Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joi...

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Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues

Deafblind Helen Keller learned to communicate with the world through her teacher Annie Sullivan. The...

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Nineteen Nineteen
Nineteen Nineteen

Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years ear...

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The Bespoke Overcoat
The Bespoke Overcoat

A humble clerk yearns for an overcoat, but his employer's refusal and his subsequent death lead him ...

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Danger by My Side
Danger by My Side

A girl tracks down the gang who had her detective brother killed....

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Cairo Road
Cairo Road

In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs opera...

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Love and Death
Love and Death

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo...

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Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which...

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Tropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiri
Tropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiri

A Finnish businessman finds himself at the center of an international corruption scandal....

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The Master Plan
The Master Plan

Following WW II, a U.S. army officer stationed in West Germany is assigned with keeping classified i...

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Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors

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No Place Like Earth
No Place Like Earth

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Superman
Superman

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Tank Force!
Tank Force!

During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisone...

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The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings

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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...

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Firefox
Firefox

The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet w...

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Shadow of Fear
Shadow of Fear

An American returning home from Baghdad and seeing his girl in Britain on the way agrees to take a m...

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Hot Enough for June
Hot Enough for June

A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionag...

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Brass Target
Brass Target

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The Revolutionary
The Revolutionary

"A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to ef...

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Doctor Who: Planet of Giants
Doctor Who: Planet of Giants

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One Bummer News Day
One Bummer News Day

What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fil...

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The Siege of Pinchgut
The Siege of Pinchgut

An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name....

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Adventure Story
Adventure Story

The story of Alexander the Great....

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Invasion
Invasion

Docu-drama surrounding the events leading to the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968....

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The Malpas Mystery
The Malpas Mystery

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Porgy and Bess
Porgy and Bess

The story of a disabled beggar in Charleston,S.C. who falls in love with a prostitute, this is the f...

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High Rise Donkey
High Rise Donkey

The efforts of three children, who live in high rise flats, to save a donkey from two small-time cro...

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Sands of the Desert
Sands of the Desert

In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it wou...

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Desert Mice
Desert Mice

A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association)...

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Reunion at Fairborough
Reunion at Fairborough

World War II vets travel to England for a reunion at their old base. Stars Judi Trott, Barry Morse, ...

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