Victor Maddern

Victor Maddern

Birthday: 1926-03-16

Place of Birth: Seven Kings, Ilford, Essex, England

Biography: Victor Jack Maddern was an English actor, described by The Telegraph as having "one of the most distinctive and eloquent faces in post-war British cinema."

Movies

Carry On Cleo
Carry On Cleo

Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved b...

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The Lost Continent
The Lost Continent

An eclectic group of characters set sail on Captain Lansen’s leaky cargo ship in an attempt to escap...

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Malta Story
Malta Story

Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a B...

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Carry On Spying
Carry On Spying

Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movi...

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Carry On Emmannuelle
Carry On Emmannuelle

The beautiful and sex-starved Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot inflame her husband's ardour. In frust...

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I'm All Right Jack
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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Circus of Fear
Circus of Fear

A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder....

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Barnacle Bill
Barnacle Bill

A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as '...

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Happy Is the Bride
Happy Is the Bride

In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the kno...

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Another Day, Another Dollar
Another Day, Another Dollar

A new steward on a large passenger liner finds himself subject to "charges" levied by the senior bar...

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The Cockleshell Heroes
The Cockleshell Heroes

During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kay...

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Raising the Wind
Raising the Wind

'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Rober...

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The Man in the Sky
The Man in the Sky

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two childr...

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That's Carry On!
That's Carry On!

Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Will...

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Footsteps in the Fog
Footsteps in the Fog

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed ...

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Please Turn Over
Please Turn Over

The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter ...

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Blood of the Vampire
Blood of the Vampire

A man and wife are terrorized by Mad Scientist Dr. Callistratus who was executed but has returned to...

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Son of a Stranger
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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Strangers' Meeting
Strangers' Meeting

A fateful Stranger's Meeting leads to a maelstrom of crime, deception and murder in this 64-minute B...

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Watch Your Stern
Watch Your Stern

When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship ra...

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Abandon Ship
Abandon Ship

After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboa...

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Street of Shadows
Street of Shadows

A saloon owner falls in love with the abused wife of a heavy gambler. He is snared into a web of in...

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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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Defrosting the Fridge
Defrosting the Fridge

The Lowesthorpe Trawlers, an English American football team, hire American coach Hunter McCall and p...

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Crossroads to Crime
Crossroads to Crime

Crossroads to Crime is about the investigations of a police constable (Anthony Oliver) who, working ...

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The Cuckoo Patrol
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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Cat & Mouse
Cat & Mouse

A GI deserter frames a girl for killing a blackmailer, and holds her captive while seeking gems....

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The Good Beginning
The Good Beginning

After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the ...

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Top Secret
Top Secret

A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he ha...

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

A hapless inventor finally finds success with a flying car, which a dictator from a foreign governme...

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Sweet Nothing
Sweet Nothing

A youth abandoned by his family joins a group of homeless people....

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Private's Progress
Private's Progress

Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of t...

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Pool of London
Pool of London

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London....

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Angels One Five
Angels One Five

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front ...

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High Treason
High Treason

Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring....

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It's a Great Day
It's a Great Day

Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera...

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A Hole Lot of Trouble
A Hole Lot of Trouble

Three workmen assigned to dig a hole in a road for an electrical cable run into problems with local ...

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A Hill in Korea
A Hill in Korea

Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers servi...

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Bunny Lake Is Missing
Bunny Lake Is Missing

A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever ...

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Time Bomb
Time Bomb

When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bo...

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On the Fiddle
On the Fiddle

Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chanc...

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A Fluid Arrangement
A Fluid Arrangement

Ernie decides to pack up and go to sea, however he had not taken into account the repercussions that...

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Carry On Constable
Carry On Constable

With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police...

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Carry On Regardless
Carry On Regardless

After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series o...

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H.M.S. Defiant
H.M.S. Defiant

Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty...

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Dunkirk
Dunkirk

A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer i...

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Morning Departure
Morning Departure

The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before th...

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Let's Get Married
Let's Get Married

A medical student who is thrown out of his university, ends up working in a laundry and rebuilds his...

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Child in the House
Child in the House

A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estr...

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Carrington V.C.
Carrington V.C.

Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces...

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Light Up the Sky!
Light Up the Sky!

Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II....

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The Young Lovers
The Young Lovers

A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian di...

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The Magnificent Two
The Magnificent Two

Two salesmen travel to a small South American Country to peddle their wares. However the country is ...

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The Safecracker
The Safecracker

Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occup...

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The Night My Number Came Up
The Night My Number Came Up

British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pil...

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Sailor of the King
Sailor of the King

A British naval officer has a brief affair with a woman in England and never knows that she bears hi...

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The Last Man to Hang
The Last Man to Hang

A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose....

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The Planter's Wife
The Planter's Wife

The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forc...

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Exodus
Exodus

Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport ...

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Talk of the Devil
Talk of the Devil

Infelicitous Stephen Wallace falls in love with beautiful Wendy, who spurns his affections. He proce...

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Saint Joan
Saint Joan

In 1456, French King Charles VII recalls the story of how he met the 17-year-old peasant girl Joan o...

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Sink the Bismarck!
Sink the Bismarck!

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz E...

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Steptoe & Son
Steptoe & Son

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the nei...

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Josephine and Men
Josephine and Men

The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch f...

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I Was Monty's Double
I Was Monty's Double

The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery...

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Rotten to the Core
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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The Longest Day
The Longest Day

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the...

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The Best Of Dick Emery
The Best Of Dick Emery

Compilation of classic clips, featuring the best performances from across the much-loved comedian's ...

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Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep
Doctor Who: Fury from the Deep

When the TARDIS lands in the sea off the eastern coast of England, the Second Doctor, Jamie, and Vic...

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Run Like a Thief
Run Like a Thief

The theft of a fortune in diamonds and the attempt by soldier of fortune Johnny Dent to outwit his p...

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The Franchise Affair
The Franchise Affair

An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women....

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Petticoat Pirates
Petticoat Pirates

Undistinguished British farce (in Technicolor and CinemaScope). Stoker Charlie (the diminutive Drake...

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The Sea Shall Not Have Them
The Sea Shall Not Have Them

During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret infor...

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His Excellency
His Excellency

A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony....

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Freddie As F.R.O.7.
Freddie As F.R.O.7.

Frederick is a young medieval French prince with magical powers, turned into a frog by his evil sorc...

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The Bushbaby
The Bushbaby

The young daughter of a park ranger in Tanzania is distressed to learn that she and her father must ...

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Fabian of the Yard
Fabian of the Yard

A feature length compilation of crimes solved by Superintendent Fabian. Based on a real Scotland Yar...

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Voice of the Heart
Voice of the Heart

Mini-series based on the novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Lady Frances Cunningham, a writer of hist...

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The Square Peg
The Square Peg

Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they c...

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The Disappearing Man
The Disappearing Man

Episode of The Frighteners: A tired and worried man fails to see his reflection in a train window. H...

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The Fast Lady
The Fast Lady

A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father...

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