Michael Sheard

Michael Sheard

Birthday: 1938-06-18

Place of Birth: Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK

Biography: Michael Sheard (18 June 1938 – 31 August 2005) was a Scottish actor who featured in a large number of films and television programmes and was best known for playing villains. His most prominent television role was as strict deputy headmaster Maurice Bronson in the British children's series Grange Hill which he played from 1985-89. His most prominent film role was that of Admiral Ozzel in The Empire Strikes Back (1980).

Movies

The Riddle of the Sands
The Riddle of the Sands

In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale)...

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Escape to Athena
Escape to Athena

During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They...

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In Sickness and in Health
In Sickness and in Health

A hard-working doctor must also carry the burden of a turbulent home life, due to the expectations o...

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The McKenzie Break
The McKenzie Break

A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland....

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The Hiding Place
The Hiding Place

Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-...

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Force 10 from Navarone
Force 10 from Navarone

World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Y...

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Holiday on the Buses
Holiday on the Buses

Due to a female passenger falling out of her top whilst running for the bus Stan is distracted and c...

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Mafia Junction
Mafia Junction

Cliff works as a narcotics investigator for the police and infiltrate a mafia gang. Soon it turns ou...

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Beasts: The Dummy
Beasts: The Dummy

A washed-up actor has a nervous breakdown and believes that he really is the movie monster that he h...

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The Dancing Years
The Dancing Years

The story of a young composer and his relationship with a fiery opera star over the course of severa...

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High Road to China
High Road to China

A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing fathe...

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The Empire Strikes Back
The Empire Strikes Back

The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns th...

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The Best of Enemies
The Best of Enemies

In Occupied France, a cultured civilised German ofi ccer is billeted out and stirs up conflicting em...

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The Death of Adolf Hitler
The Death of Adolf Hitler

The final days in the Bunker, with Hitler becoming more and more paranoid, plumbing the depths of hi...

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Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark

When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologis...

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Les Misérables
Les Misérables

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front

At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated wi...

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Rogue Male
Rogue Male

In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot miss...

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To Encourage the Others
To Encourage the Others

The true story of Derek Bentley, whose conviction and execution for a murder committed by someone el...

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Chronotrip
Chronotrip

Philosophical Time Travel...

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Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks

London, 1963: The Doctor returns to the place where it all began — alongside his latest companion, A...

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Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars
Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars

In a Victorian Gothic mansion, strange things are afoot. The master of the house, away in Egypt, has...

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Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy
Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy

A three-man rocket crew are nearly done with their mission to Titan Base until a course change puts ...

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Soft Beds, Hard Battles
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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England Made Me
England Made Me

A young, English, ne'er-do-well who goes to stay with his sister and her wealthy fiancé/benefactor i...

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A Hole in Babylon
A Hole in Babylon

Three black men rob a Knightsbridge Italian restaurant. But when the police are called and the robbe...

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Doombeach
Doombeach

A young boy dies after swimming at a seaside resort, and the local children, led by Gavin, investiga...

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Hitler of the Andes
Hitler of the Andes

Declassified FBI documents trace an 11-year investigation of rumors that Hitler survived Germany's d...

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Universal Soldier
Universal Soldier

A life-long mercenary commander and weapons expert is commissioned to train an army for an exiled Af...

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Lucky
Lucky

“Set in Liverpool in the early 70s, the film tells the story of Samuel 'Lucky' Ubooto, a half Africa...

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The Dark Side of the Sun
The Dark Side of the Sun

Supernatural thriller series dealing with a secret society on the Greek island of Rhodes....

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Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?

By her own admission, Katy Manning is ‘as blind as a bat’ and never knows where she’ll end up. When ...

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The Bunker
The Bunker

Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his undergrou...

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Green Ice
Green Ice

A down on his luck engineer gets involved in an adventure with a mysterious woman and an emerald mag...

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Another Life
Another Life

A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of...

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The World of George Orwell: 1984
The World of George Orwell: 1984

Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series....

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Stones
Stones

From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem...

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Doctor Who: The Ark
Doctor Who: The Ark

The Doctor and his companions Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet arrive some ten million years into the ...

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Doctor Who: Castrovalva
Doctor Who: Castrovalva

The Doctor needs somewhere peaceful to recover from his traumatic regeneration. But the sanctuary of...

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Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil

Professor Emil Keller has created a machine that can pacify even the most dangerous of criminals. Bu...

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search f...

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Murder Rap
Murder Rap

Wally, a caretaker in a block of flats, loses his job when the flats are used to rehouse Bhengali fa...

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The Darwin Adventure
The Darwin Adventure

The story of Charles Darwin's journey on The Beagle....

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Killer Exposed
Killer Exposed

Second in a trilogy of plays. Robin Fraser is attracted to an unusual female patient of his dentistr...

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Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final da...

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The Captain's Doll
The Captain's Doll

The wife of a British army officer discovers his affair with a Polish countess in Germany circa 1918...

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Frenzy
Frenzy

London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal sla...

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