Cast: Cyril Luckham

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


Billy Budd

1962 · Movie · 112 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Ustinov

Cast Robert Ryan · Peter Ustinov · Terence Stamp · Melvyn Douglas

Synopsis H.M.S. Avenger is headed into battle against the French fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, and the dark shadow of two recent mutinies in the English fleet concern Captain Vere. He relies on his cruel and often sadistic Master-at-Arms John Claggert...

7.6

1K votes

7.6

1K votes

A Man for All Seasons

1966 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Fred Zinnemann

Cast Paul Scofield · Wendy Hiller · Leo McKern · Robert Shaw

Synopsis A Man for All Seasons (1966) tells the story of Sir Thomas More, a devout Catholic and respected statesman in 16th-century England. When King Henry VIII seeks to divorce his wife and break from the Catholic Church, More refuses to...

7.5

8K votes

7.5

8K votes

The Great War (TV Series)

1964 · Documentary · 40 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Essex · Gordon Watkins

Cast Michael Redgrave · Ralph Richardson · Emlyn Williams · Marius Goring

Synopsis The Great War is a 26 episode documentary series from 1964 on World War I. It was a co-production involving the resources of the Imperial War Museum, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation....

6.4

21 votes

6.4

21 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 Naked Runner

1967 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Sidney J. Furie

Cast Frank Sinatra · Peter Vaughan · Nadia Gray · Edward Fox

Synopsis Frank Sinatra stars as an American businessman who gets involved in an assassination plot while on a business trip to Germany. Set during a time in our history ridden with political paranoia, the plot reveals the treachery of the governments...

5.4

107 votes

5.4

107 votes

Return of the Saint (TV Series)

1978 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Norman · Peter Sasdy · Jeremy Summers · Charles Crichton

Cast Ian Ogilvy · Norman Eshley · Edward Brayshaw · John Hallam

Synopsis Simon Templar is a modern day Robin Hood of sorts. He steals from rich criminals and keeps the loot for himself (usually in such a way as to put the rich criminals behind bars). He's dashing, suave, charming, and he's...

5.2

52 votes

5.2

52 votes

Wodehouse Playhouse (TV Series)

1974 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Askey · Gareth Gwenlan · Michael Mills

Cast John Alderton · P.G. Wodehouse · Pauline Collins · William Mervyn

Synopsis (1974-1978). 21 episodes. A series of dramatisations of some of P.G. Wodehouse's comic short stories - in which P.G. Wodehouse, himself, introduced some of the early episodes.

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Invasion Quartet

1961 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jay Lewis

Cast Bill Travers · Spike Milligan · Grégoire Aslan · John Le Mesurier

Synopsis Spike Milligan and his friends decide to go to occupied France to silence a large German gun that is firing across the channel. They bumble though encounters with Germans and the French resistance fighters, travelling around by train and bicycle.

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Direction Gareth Davies

Cast Keith Barron · John Bailey · Valerie Gearon · Cyril Luckham

Synopsis After "Stand Up, Nigel Barton", Nigel has graduated from Oxford and has a beautiful wife, a good job as a journalist and his political idealism untouched. When a Tory MP falls from his horse during a foxhunt, Nigel sets himself...

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Direction Cyril Frankel

Cast Ian Ogilvy · Gayle Hunnicutt · Stratford Johns · Derren Nesbitt

Synopsis Simon Templar competes in a speedboat race and witnesses one of his fellow competitors, Oscar West, in trouble. West's speedboat subsequently explodes. The coroner rules that it has been an accidental death, although no bodies were recovered. West's widow, Annabel,...

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Out of the Clouds

1955 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Anthony Steel · Robert Beatty · David Knight · Margo Lorenz

Synopsis A busy day at London Airport. Follow the lives and loves of the crew and passengers.

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Doctor Who: Enlightenment (TV)

1983 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Fiona Cumming

Cast Peter Davison · Janet Fielding · Mark Strickson · Keith Barron

Synopsis In the conclusion of the Black Guardian trilogy, the TARDIS materialises on what appears to be an Edwardian racing yacht. It is soon revealed to be a disguised spacecraft, competing in an deep space race. The competitors are Eternals, immortal...

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Direction Ronald Wilson · Peter Jefferies

Cast John Duttine · Frank Middlemass · Alan MacNaughton · Patricia Lawrence

Synopsis 13 episodes. David Powlett-Jones has just returned to England from the trenches of WWI. He was injured and shell-shocked and, after a spell in hospital he gets a job teaching in a boys boarding school in S.W. England.

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How to Murder a Rich Uncle

1957 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Nigel Patrick

Cast Nigel Patrick · Charles Coburn · Wendy Hiller · Kate Johnson

Synopsis The impoverished Clitterburn family live on a grand English estate but times are hard and the head of the household, Sir Henry, seizes upon news of the impending arrival of their rich Canadian Uncle George as the solution to their...

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Direction George Spenton-Foster

Cast Tom Baker · Mary Tamm · Cyril Luckham · Iain Cuthbertson

Synopsis The White Guardian gives the Doctor a quest to find the six disguised segments of the Key to Time which, when assembled, will be used to restore the balance of the cosmos. To aid him he is given a new...

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Mr. Forbush and the Penguins

1971 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfred Viola · Roy Boulting

Cast John Hurt · Hayley Mills · Dudley Sutton · Tony Britton

Synopsis A young london biologist spends most of his time pursuing girls rather than pursuing science. When the opportunity to go to the Antarctic to study a colony of penguins presents itself he agrees to go, not so much for the...

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The Birthday Present

1957 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pat Jackson

Cast Tony Britton · Sylvia Syms · Jack Watling · Walter Fitzgerald

Synopsis A top salesman with a U.K. toy firm foolishly brings an expensive watch back from a German trip for his wife's birthday. This is illegal in 1950's Britain and when Customs discover the watch he is charged and, unusually, given...

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Happy Deathday

1968 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Henry Cass

Cast Cyril Luckham · Harry Baird · Clement McCallin · Yvonne Antrobus

Synopsis An old man has his birthday. On this occasion he is given a present by his grand daughter who is fond of him. On the other hand, she hates her parents and the atmosphere in the family is quite tense.

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Direction Roger Singleton-Turner

Cast Jeremy Dimmick · Lucinda Edmonds · Simon Hill · Pauline Quirke

Synopsis E. Nesbit, adapted for television in six parts by Julia Jones. 'This is the story of how we looked for treasure. We are the Bastables, and there are six of us besides Father.' So says Oswald - but he had...

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Stranger from Venus

1954 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Burt Balaban

Cast Patricia Neal · Helmut Dantine · Derek Bond · Cyril Luckham

Synopsis Tonight, first contact will be made! A beautifully-crafted tale of a superior being from Venus who has the power of life and death at his touch. Academy Award-winning actress Patricia Neal's glowing and sensitive performance as a woman caught up...

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