Barry Foster
Birthday: 1927-08-21
Place of Birth: Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Biography: Barry Foster was an English actor who had an extensive career in film, radio, stage and television over almost 50 years. He was best known for playing Kaiser Wilhelm II in Fall of Eagles (1974), Order Wingate (1976), the title character in the British crime series Van der Valk (1972–1992) and Bob Rusk in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972).
Movies
Frenzy
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal sla...
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Joseph Losey: The Man with Four Names
Documentary about director Joseph Losey featuring many of his collaborators....
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Sea of Sand
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of...
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Battle of Britain
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...
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The Wild Geese
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a ...
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The Whistle Blower
A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for...
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Maurice
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restric...
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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the ...
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The Interior Decorator
An interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home....
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Ryan's Daughter
In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married schoolteacher in a small Irish village has an affai...
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The Family Way
Young newlyweds Arthur and Jenny Fitton want nothing more than to get their marriage started on the ...
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Robbery
In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an auda...
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Twisted Nerve
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutiona...
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Sweeney!
When one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squ...
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Rancid Aluminium
Pete Thompson thinks he has it all. However, following the death of his father his close friend and ...
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King and Country
During World War I, Army Private Arthur James Hamp is accused of desertion during battle. The office...
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The Guru
Britain's top pop artiste, Tom Pickle, travels to Bombay, India, circa 1960s to learn to play the si...
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The Wind in the Willows
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved To...
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Worm in the Bud
An elderly man living on his own in Belfast rouses the suspicions of his neighbors....
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After Pilkington
The quiet life of Oxford professor James Westgate is shattered when he is introduced to Penny, the w...
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To Catch a King
Robert Wagner plays an American who owns a Lisbon nightclub and Teri Garr is a slightly dippy chante...
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Succubus
A family settles in an old castle with plans to, among other things, turn its former cemetery into a...
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Sea Fury
The captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement with a...
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King of the Wind
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil a...
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Playback
A young policeman becomes involved with a glamorous German woman in London, to his cost....
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A Woman Called Golda
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in ...
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Random Moments in a May Garden
A middle-aged couple give a dinner party to their friends. In the room is a photograph of another gr...
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Where the Difference Begins
A family gather together as their mother lies dying. Death brings conflicts into sharp focus - not l...
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Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization
Nirad C. Chaudhuri expounds his views on culture, history, religion and society from a comparative p...
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Beyond the Next Mountain
The story of how the Gospel of John changed the course of history for a tribe of headhunters....
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Heat and Dust
Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with...
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Dunkirk
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer i...
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Danger on Dartmoor
The adventures of children lost in fog on Dartmoor, who encounter a wild dog, an escaped convict, an...
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The Three Hostages
Retired British solider Richard Hannay is recruited by British intelligence in an attempt to recover...
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The Last Word
Leo, the owner of the stocking product "Discrete", has driven his company into the wall; the company...
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Hotel du Lac
Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swis...
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Three Kinds of Heat
Three friends persecute a gang of criminals from Harlem to the parties of the High Society of London...
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A Quiet Day in Belfast
Andrew Angus Dalrymple's realistic portrait of a British soldier, his Irish lover and her twin siste...
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Old Times
Kate and Deeley are married and live in the country. They are joined by Kate's friend, Anna, and tal...
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How Many Miles to Babylon?
Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and in 1914 find themsel...
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Party Time
At a posh cocktail party, various plans are made, and a missing guest turns up late....
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The Battle of the River Plate
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the At...
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Orde Wingate
The story of the military career of Orde Wingate, one of the most controversial and unorthodox Allie...
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Rabbit Pie Day
As World War II draws to a close thousands of Russian soldiers overtaken by the Allied advance in Eu...
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Practical Experience
'I'm unusual. I really want to be an architect. Always have done. Always wanted to build fine buildi...
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Surprise Package
Comic crime caper, set on a Greek island, starring Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gaynor....
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Inspector Clouseau
Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland ...
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The Baby and the Battleship
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds hims...
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