Robert Flemyng
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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).
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Acted in
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
1995
as Patient 2
Shadowlands
1993
as Claude Bird
Memento Mori
1992
as Ronald Sidebottome
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
Lady Killers
1980
as Mr. Justice Havers
Edward and Mrs Simpson
1978
as Sir Donald Somervell
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
1978
as Sir Donald Somervell
The Thirty Nine Steps
1978
as Magistrate
The Medusa Touch
1978
as Judge McKinley
Enemy at the Door
1978
as Sir James Prideaux
The Four Feathers
1978
as The Old Colonel
The Professionals
1977
as Sir John Terringham
Golden Rendezvous
1977
as Capt. Bullen
The New Avengers
1976
as Minister Quaintance
Loyalties
1976
as Gen Canynge
The Venturers
1975
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 Persuaders!
1971
as Sir George
The Firechasers
1971
as Carlton
Play for Today
1970
as Sir Charles
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
Public Eye
1965
as Maj-Gen. Felcourt
The King's Breakfast
1963
as The Lord Chamberlain
Zero One
1962
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
1962
as Prof. Bernard Hichcock
Compact
1962
The Avengers
1961
as Lord Maxted
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
Suspicion
1957
as Nigel Crossley
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
The Sting of Death
1955
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