Robert Flemyng
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1912-01-03
Day of Death
1995-05-22 (83 years old)
Place of Birth
Liverpool, England, UK
Robert Flemyng
Biography
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).
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Acting
(1995)
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
as Patient 2
(1993)
Shadowlands
as Claude Bird
(1992)
Memento Mori
as Ronald Sidebottome
(1991)
Kafka
as The Keeper of the Files
(1989)
Paris by Night
as Jack Sidmouth
(1982)
Spider's Web
as Sir Rowland Delahaye
(1982)
A Cotswold Death
as Sir Charles
(1978)
The Medusa Touch
as Judge McKinley
(1978)
The Thirty Nine Steps
as Magistrate
(1978)
Edward & Mrs. Simpson
as Sir Donald Somervell
(1978)
The Four Feathers
as The Old Colonel
(1977)
Golden Rendezvous
as Capt. Bullen
(1976)
Loyalties
as Gen Canynge
(1974)
Miss Nightingale
as W.E. Nightingale
(1972)
Young Winston
as Dr. Buzzard
(1972)
Travels with My Aunt
as Crowder
(1972)
The Darwin Adventure
as Prof. Henslow
(1971)
The Firechasers
as Carlton
(1969)
Battle of Britain
as Wing Cmdr. Willoughby
(1969)
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Staff Officer in Gassed Trench
(1969)
The Body Stealers
as W.C. Baldwin
(1968)
The Blood Beast Terror
as Dr. Carl Mallinger
(1967)
The Deadly Affair
as Samuel Fennan
(1966)
The Quiller Memorandum
as Rushington
(1966)
The Spy with a Cold Nose
as M.I.5 Director
(1963)
The King's Breakfast
as The Lord Chamberlain
(1962)
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
as Prof. Bernard Hichcock
(1960)
A Touch of Larceny
as Cmdr. John Larkin
(1959)
Blind Date
as Sir Brian Lewis
(1958)
Wuthering Heights
as Dr. Kenneth
(1957)
Funny Face
as Paul Duval
(1957)
Let's Be Happy
as Lord James MacNairn
(1957)
Windom's Way
as Col. George Hasbrook
(1956)
The Man Who Never Was
as Lt. George Acres
(1955)
Cast a Dark Shadow
as Phillip Mortimer
(1955)
(1952)
The Magic Box
as Doctor
(1952)
The Holly and the Ivy
as Major
(1951)
Blackmailed
as Dr. Giles Freeman
(1950)
The Blue Lamp
as Police Sgt. Roberts
(1949)
Conspirator
as Captain Hugh Ladholme
(1948)
Bond Street
as Frank Moody
(1948)
The Guinea Pig
as Nigel Lorraine
(1937)
Head Over Heels
as Pierre