Cast: John Carson

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring John Carson. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Thriller (TV Series)

1973 · Series · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Hays · John Cooper · Peter Jefferies · Robert Tronson

Cast Barbara Feldon · Robert Powell · Linda Thorson · Mary Wimbush

Synopsis It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.

7.2

95 votes

7.2

95 votes

Direction Maurice Phillips

Cast David Suchet · Philip Anthony · Robert Bathurst · Anna Calder-Marshall

Synopsis When a man disinherits his sole beneficiary and bequeaths his wealth to others just prior to his death, Poirot is called in to investigate.

6.8

164 votes

6.8

164 votes

Hammer House of Horror (TV Series)

1980 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Don Leaver · Peter Sasdy · Francis Megahy · Tom Clegg

Cast Nicholas Bal · Christopher Cazenove · Peter Cushing · Barbara Kellerman

Synopsis This British anthology series, which was produced by England's leading exporters of horror films, told tales of haunted houses, demons, ghosts and other supernatural wonders. Episodes: - Witching Time - The Thirteenth Reunion - Rude Awakening - Growing Pains -...

6.7

158 votes

6.7

158 votes

Quentin Durward

1955 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Robert Taylor · Kay Kendall · Robert Morley · George Cole

Synopsis In 1465 Quentin Durwood travels to France to meet Isabelle, Countess of Marcroy, on behalf of his elderly Scottish uncle whom, for political reasons, the Duke of Burgundy intends she marry. A man of honour who may have sworn too...

6.3

527 votes

6.3

527 votes

Direction Edward Bennett

Cast David Suchet · Hugh Fraser · Philip Jackson · Pauline Moran

Synopsis A wealthy industrialist's plan to snare a Nazi sympathizer goes awry when the secret plans for a new fighter plane inexplicably go missing.

6.3

132 votes

6.3

132 votes

Famous Five (TV Series)

1978 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Duffell · Sidney Hayers · Don Leaver · James Gatward

Cast Marcus Harris · Gary Russell · Jennifer Thanisch · Michelle Gallagher

Synopsis The Famous Five is a British television series based on the children's books of the same name by Enid Blyton.

5.9

45 votes

5.9

45 votes

The Man Who Haunted Himself

1970 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Roger Moore · Hildegarde Neil · Alastair Mackenzie · Hugh Mackenzie

Synopsis Harold Pelham encounters a duplicate of himself in the aftermath of a car crash. After that moment his life was upsetted.

5.9

314 votes

5.9

314 votes

The Plague of the Zombies

1966 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast André Morell · Louis Mahoney · Roy Royston · Diane Clare

Synopsis Young workers are dying because of a mysterious epidemic in a little village in Cornwall. Doctor Thompson is helpless and asks professor James Forbes for help. The professor and his daughter Sylvia travel to Thomson. Terrible things happen soon, beyond...

5.7

465 votes

5.7

465 votes

Taste the Blood of Dracula

1970 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Sasdy

Cast Christopher Lee · Geoffrey Keen · Gwen Watford · Linda Hayden

Synopsis Three Victorian men who lead upstanding and moralistic lives, sneak out to a brothel on the pretext of conducting charity work. Their pleasure is interrupted by the libertine Lord Courtley who offers to show them greater pleasures. He takes them...

5.6

852 votes

5.6

852 votes

Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter

1973 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Brian Clemens

Cast Horst Janson · John Carson · Shane Briant · Caroline Munro

Synopsis Hard-faced Horst Janson is the brooding Kronos, a rangy, sword-wielding soldier who hunts the vampire scourge with his jovial hunchbacked partner, Grost (John Cater), and his earthy peasant girl lover, hazelnut eyed beauty Caroline Munro. Director-writer Brian Clemens, who so...

5.6

458 votes

5.6

458 votes

The Deal

2008 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Steven Schachter

Cast William H. Macy · Meg Ryan · Elliott Gould · LL Cool J

Synopsis A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew's film about 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli, but can only get financing if he casts a well-known action star. Production is halted however, when the lead actor is kidnapped from...

4.6

162 votes

4.6

162 votes

Smokescreen

1964 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom

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Emma (TV) (TV Miniseries)

1972 · Series · 240 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Glenister

Cast Doran Godwin · John Carson · Donald Eccles · Constance Chapman

Synopsis This BBC production, set in the small town of Highbury depicts the often hilarious attempts of Miss Emma Woodhouse to make proper marital matches for all of her friends. Though often mistaken in her judgement, she is counseled and criticised...

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The Sheltering Desert

1992 · Movie · 105 min. · South Africa

Direction Regardt van den Bergh

Cast Jason Connery · Rupert Graves · Joss Ackland · Kate Normington

Synopsis In 1935 two German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, leave Nazi Germany for South-West Africa (Namibia) to conduct field research. At the outbreak of the Second World War, many male Germans living in South-West Africa are interned in local...

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Ramsbottom Rides Again

1956 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Baxter

Cast Arthur Askey · Glenn Melvyn · Sid James · Shani Wallis

Synopsis A Yorkshire publican comes into an inheritance, but when he goes to Canada to claim it, he runs into trouble.

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Oppenheimer (TV Miniseries)

1980 · Movie · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Barry Davis

Cast Sam Waterston · John Carson · Christopher Muncke · Jana Shelden

Synopsis 7 episodes. Biography of the American physicist who led the U.S. effort to develop the atomic bomb during World War II, only to find himself suspected as a security risk in the 1950s because of his increasing ambivalence about the...

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Mogul (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 50 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Elliot · Roger Jenkins · James Gatward · Lennie Mayne

Cast Ray Barrett · Geoffrey Keen · Philip Latham · Robert Hardy

Synopsis 136 Episodes (1965-1972). Adventure drama series based around the fictitious Mogul Oil Company and the exploits of its chief "troubleshooter", Peter Thornton (Ray Barrett).

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Doctor Who: Snakedance (TV)

1983 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Fiona Cumming

Cast Peter Davison · Janet Fielding · Sarah Sutton · John Carson

Synopsis Tegan falls once more under the influence of the Mara and directs the TARDIS to the planet Manussa. There the Federator's son Lon and his mother Tanha are preparing for a ceremony to celebrate the banishment of the Mara five...

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1990 (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 55 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alan Gibson · David Sullivan Proudfoot · Kenneth Ives · Peter Sasdy

Cast Edward Woodward · Robert Lang · Tony Doyle · Paul Hardwick

Synopsis TV Series (1977-1978). 2 Seasons. 16 Episodes. In a dystopian future, Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Public Control Department (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties.

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