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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Acting
Movie
Funny Face
as Paul Duval
1957
Movie
Battle of Britain
as Wing Cmdr. Willoughby
1969
Movie
Shadowlands
as Claude Bird
1993
Movie
The Medusa Touch
as Judge McKinley
1978
Movie
Kafka
as The Keeper of the Files
1991
TV
The Avengers
as Lord Maxted
1961
TV
The Persuaders!
as Sir George
1971
TV
The Storyteller: Greek Myths
as Aegeus
1991
Movie
The Deadly Affair
as Samuel Fennan
1967
Movie
The Man Who Never Was
as Lt. George Acres
1956
Movie
The Quiller Memorandum
as Rushington
1966
Movie
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
as Prof. Bernard Hichcock
1962
Movie
The Blue Lamp
as Police Sgt. Roberts
1950
Movie
The Blood Beast Terror
as Dr. Carl Mallinger
1968
Movie
Cast a Dark Shadow
as Phillip Mortimer
1955
Movie
Young Winston
as Dr. Buzzard
1972
Movie
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Staff Officer in Gassed Trench
1969
TV
The New Avengers
as Minister Quaintance
1976
TV
The Professionals
as Sir John Terringham
1977
Movie
The Thirty Nine Steps
as Magistrate
1978
Movie
Travels with My Aunt
as Crowder
1972
Movie
The Holly and the Ivy
as Major
1952
Movie
Blind Date
as Sir Brian Lewis
1959
Movie
Conspirator
as Captain Hugh Ladholme
1949