Robert Flemyng
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 3, 1912
- Died
- May 22, 1995
- Birthplace
- Liverpool, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Flemyng OBE, MC (3 January 1912 – 22 May 1995) was a British film and stage actor. Flemyng was born in Liverpool, the son of a doctor, and was educated at Haileybury. He began his career as a medical student before abandoning medicine to become an actor. Flemyng made his stage debut in the early 1930s, and worked steadily in both London and Broadway. His first film appearance was in 1937, but he didn't appear steadily in films until after he served in World War II. During the war he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with great distinction, reaching the rank of full colonel at the age of 33. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1941, mentioned in despatches, and was appointed OBE in 1944. He played the idealistic schoolmaster in the 1948 Roy Boulting film, The Guinea Pig, starring Richard Attenborough, and the key role of Detective Sergeant Roberts in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp. One memorable role was as a necrophiliac in the film The Horrible Dr. Hichcock in 1962. He ably played a sardonic British Secret Intelligence Service chief (his boss being George Sanders) in the 1966 film The Quiller Memorandum. The character actor worked in films and television until his death in 1995. Some of his later films include Kafka (1991) and Shadowlands (1993). Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Flemyng, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew 1995
as Patient 2
Shadowlands 1993
as Claude Bird
Memento Mori 1992
as Ronald Sidebottome
The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Theseus & the Minotaur 1991
as Aegeus
Kafka 1991
as The Keeper of the Files
Paris by Night 1989
as Jack Sidmouth
Spider's Web 1982
as Sir Rowland Delahaye
A Cotswold Death 1982
as Sir Charles
Edward & Mrs. Simpson 1978
as Sir Donald Somervell
The Thirty Nine Steps 1978
as Magistrate
The Medusa Touch 1978
as Judge McKinley
The Four Feathers 1978
as The Old Colonel
Golden Rendezvous 1977
as Capt. Bullen
- Loyalties
Loyalties 1976
as Gen Canynge
- Miss Nightingale
Miss Nightingale 1974
as W.E. Nightingale
Travels with My Aunt 1972
as Crowder
The Darwin Adventure 1972
as Prof. Henslow
Young Winston 1972
as Dr. Buzzard
The Firechasers 1971
as Carlton
Battle of Britain 1969
as Wing Cmdr. Willoughby
The Body Stealers 1969
as W.C. Baldwin
Oh! What a Lovely War 1969
as Staff Officer in Gassed Trench
The Blood Beast Terror 1968
as Dr. Carl Mallinger
The Deadly Affair 1967
as Samuel Fennan
The Spy with a Cold Nose 1966
as M.I.5 Director
The Quiller Memorandum 1966
as Rushington
The King's Breakfast 1963
as The Lord Chamberlain
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock 1962
as Prof. Bernard Hichcock
A Touch of Larceny 1960
as Cmdr. John Larkin
Blind Date 1959
as Sir Brian Lewis
Wuthering Heights 1958
as Dr. Kenneth
Windom's Way 1957
as Col. George Hasbrook
Let's Be Happy 1957
as Lord James MacNairn
Funny Face 1957
as Paul Duval
The Man Who Never Was 1956
as Lt. George Acres
Cast a Dark Shadow 1955
as Phillip Mortimer
Sting of Death 1955
Actor
The Holly and the Ivy 1952
as Major
The Magic Box 1952
as Doctor
Blackmailed 1951
as Dr. Giles Freeman
The Blue Lamp 1950
as Police Sgt. Roberts
Conspirator 1949
as Captain Hugh Ladholme
The Guinea Pig 1948
as Nigel Lorraine
Bond Street 1948
as Frank Moody
Head Over Heels 1937
as Pierre
Credits from TMDB.