Alex McCrindle
Birthday: 1911-08-03
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Biography: McCrindle began his acting career in 1937 starring in minor roles in UK Television. From 1946 to 1951 he played the role of Jock Anderson in Dick Barton – Special Agent. In 1951 he starred in his first film in the USA, The House in the Square. From there his acting career took off. He then did five more films: I Believe in You (1952), The Kidnappers (1953), Trouble in the Glen (1954), Geordie (1955) and Depth Charge (1960). From 1962 to 1974 he went to television acting. In 1976 he was cast as General Dodonna in the first Star Wars film. He went back to minor roles on TV, including the role of the eccentric veterinarian Ewan Ross on All Creatures Great and Small.
Movies
Star Wars
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over ...
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Sakharov
Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil ri...
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Normal Service
It's General Election day 1964, and the resources of Forth and Clyde Television are under stress. To...
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You Are My Heart's Delight
Two contrasting stories: one couple dream of leaving the city; another have left the countryside....
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The Ghost Train
A group of travellers stranded at a remote railway station are menaced by what appears to be a phant...
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Flying Into the Wind
The Wyatts wish to educate their children at home, but the education authorities have other ideas. M...
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The Peregrine Hunters
A group of kids try to stop the illegal capture of birds of prey....
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Depth Charge
A Scottish fishing trawler hauls in an unexploded depth charge and a bomb disposal veteran teams up ...
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The Man Who Saved the World
Two space cadets crash-land on a desert planet, where an evil wizard seeks the ultimate power to tak...
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Correction, Please: or, How We Got into the Pictures
Experimental essay in film history, associating very early archive material (circa 1909) and studio ...
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investig...
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Comrades
The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one ...
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Degree of Uncertainty
Mature student, divorcee and mother of three Josie finds the social pressures in and out of universi...
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Donal and Sally
Adolescent love can be difficult at the best of times, but Donal and Sally have special problems – p...
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Eye of the Needle
Great Britain, 1944, during World War II. Relentlessly pursued by several MI5 agents, Henry Faber th...
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I Believe in You
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950)...
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Leaving
A moving, comic tale of three boys about to leave a grim Catholic School in Greenock, Scotland, who ...
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Samson and Delilah
Based on the story from DH Lawrence set during the time of the Great War in Cornwall. When a dapper ...
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Trouble in the Glen
Major Jim "Lance" Lansing, an American ex-pilot of the U.S. Air Corps, returns to Scotland after the...
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