Torin Thatcher

Oyuncu Doğum: 1905-01-15 • Bombay, British India, India

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Torin Thatcher (15 January 1905 - 4 March 1981) was an English actor born in Bombay, British India, India), to English parents. He was an imposing, powerfully built figure noted for his flashy portrayals of screen villains. He was educated in England at Bedford School and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He worked as a schoolmaster before first appearing on the London stage in 1927 and then entering British films in 1934. He appeared in the 1937 Old Vic stage production of Hamlet, in which Laurence Olivier made his first appearance in the title role, opposite Vivien Leigh as Ophelia. During the Second World War, he served with the Royal Artillery and was demobilized with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Thatcher appeared in classic British films of the late 1930s and 1940s, including Major Barbara (1941) and Great Expectations (1946), in which he played Bentley Drummle. He moved to Hollywood in the 1950s. He was constantly in demand, invariably lending his looming figure and baleful countenance to sinister or stern roles in popular costume thrillers such as The Crimson Pirate (1952), Blackbeard the Pirate (1952), The Robe (1953) (as the disapproving father of Richard Burton's character), The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), Helen of Troy (1956), Darby's Rangers (1958), and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958). He also appeared in the Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard 1962 remake of Mutiny on the Bounty. He returned to the stage quite frequently, notably on Broadway, in such esteemed productions as Edward, My Son (1948), That Lady (1949) and Billy Budd (1951). In 1959, he portrayed Captain Keller in the award-winning play The Miracle Worker with Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. All of these plays were filmed, but Thatcher did not appear in the movie versions. Also a steady fixture on television, he appeared in such made-for-TV films as adaptations of A. J. Cronin's Beyond This Place (1957) and The Citadel (1960),Bonanza(1961), and Brenda Starr (1976). He also played the title role in a Philco Television Playhouse version of Othello and acted in a CBS production of Beyond This Place (1957). Thatcher died of cancer on March 4, 1981, in Thousand Oaks, California, in the Los Angeles area.

Torin Thatcher

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Filmografi (Rol Aldığı Yapımlar)

The Great Adventure

The Great Adventure

The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Beklenmeyen Şahit

Star Trek

Get Smart

Night Gallery

Alfred Hitchcock Saati

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Alfred Hitchcock Sunar

Alfred Hitchcock Sunar

The Time Tunnel

Perry Mason

Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible

Decision at Midnight

Profiles in Courage

Profiles in Courage

DuPont Show of the Month

Büyük Umutlar

Night Train to Munich

Lost in Space

Petrocelli

Meşum Kadın

Contraband

Climbing High

Search

Gemide İsyan

The Crimson Pirate

The Citadel

Red Wagon

The Canadians

The King's Pirate

Saloon Bar

Crime Over London

The Holy Terror

So Soon to Die

The Sweet and the Bitter

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone

Sinbad'ın 7. Yolculuğu

Zincirli Köle

The Man Within

When The Bough Breaks

Sabotajcı

Drake of England

Major Barbara

Land of the Giants

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Knock on Wood

Sabotage

Gunsmoke

Thriller

The Case of the Frightened Lady

Jack the Giant Killer

Houdini

Peter Gunn

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Philco Television Playhouse

Genç ve Masum

I See a Dark Stranger

Darby's Rangers

Now Barabbas

The Black Rose

The Guns of Will Sonnett

Telephone Time

The Black Shield of Falworth

The Sandpiper

The Captive Heart

The Spy in Black

The Lion Has Wings

Affair in Trinidad

Truvalı Helen

Band of Angels

The End of the River

Old Mother Riley, MP