Torin Thatcher

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Bombay, British India, India, 1905-01-15

Died: 1981-03-04

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1933	Red Wagon	Eddie Prince	0
2	1935	Drake of England		70
3	1936	The Common Round	Martin	0
4	1936	The Man Who Could Work Miracles	Observer	57
5	1936	Crime Over London		60
6	1937	Sabotage	Mr. Verloc's Visitor (uncredited)	67
7	1937	Young and Innocent	Nobby's Lodging House Caretaker (uncredited)	66
8	1938	Climbing High	Jim Castle	62
9	1939	The Spy in Black	Submarine Officer	64
10	1939	Old Mother Riley, MP	Jack Nelson	56
11	1939	The Kindled Flame	Festus	0
12	1939	The Lion Has Wings	Seaman Receiving Information About German Activity	62
13	1940	Contraband	Sailor	69
14	1940	Law and Disorder	Karl Bergsen	55
15	1940	Let George Do It!	U-Boat Commander	58
16	1940	Night Train to Munich		72
17	1940	The Case of the Frightened Lady	Jim Tilling, the Groundsman	63
18	1940	Saloon Bar	Mr. Garrod	65
19	1941	Gasbags	SS Man	55
20	1941	Major Barbara	Todger Fairmile	67
21	1942	Saboteur	Man (uncredited)	69
22	1942	The Next of Kin	German General	57
23	1946	The Captive Heart	Repatriation Official (uncredited)	64
24	1946	I See a Dark Stranger	Police Constable	63
25	1946	Great Expectations	Bentley Drummle	73
26	1947	The Man Within	Jailer	57
27	1947	Jassy	Bob Wicks	54
28	1947	When The Bough Breaks	Adams	63
29	1947	The End of the River	Lisboa	50
30	1948	The Fallen Idol	Policeman	72
31	1948	Bonnie Prince Charlie	Colonel Ker	47
32	1949	Now Barabbas	Customs Officer	65
33	1950	The Black Rose	Harry	65
34	1952	Affair in Trinidad	Inspector Smythe	63
35	1952	The Crimson Pirate	Humble Bellows	70
36	1952	The Snows of Kilimanjaro	Johnson	59
37	1952	Blackbeard, the Pirate	Sir Henry Morgan	59
38	1953	The Desert Rats	Col. Barney White	63
39	1953	Houdini	Otto	65
40	1953	The Robe	Sen. Gallio	68
41	1954	Knock on Wood	Godfrey Langston	66
42	1954	The Black Shield of Falworth	Sir James	62
43	1954	Bengal Brigade	Colonel Morrow	53
44	1955	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing	Humphrey Palmer-Jones	60
45	1955	Lady Godiva of Coventry	Lord Godwin	55
46	1956	Diane	Louis - Count de Breze	58
47	1956	Helen of Troy	Ulysses	63
48	1956	The Deadly Riddle	The Red Knight	0
49	1957	Istanbul	Douglas Fielding	60
50	1957	Band of Angels	Capt. Canavan	62
51	1957	Witness for the Prosecution	Mr. Myers	82
52	1958	Darby's Rangers	Sergeant McTavish	59
53	1958	The 7th Voyage of Sinbad	Sokurah the Magician	69
54	1960	The Citadel	Sir Robert Abbey	0
55	1961	The Canadians	Superintendent Walker	65
56	1962	Jack the Giant Killer	Pendragon	64
57	1962	Mutiny on the Bounty	Staines	70
58	1963	Drums of Africa	Jack Cuortemayn	23
59	1963	Decision at Midnight		60
60	1964	Hell of Borneo	Mr. Bellflower	50
61	1965	The Holy Terror	Dr. Poole	0
62	1965	The Sandpiper	le juge Thompson	64
63	1966	Hawaii	Reverend Thorn	63
64	1967	The King's Pirate	Captain Cullen	58
65	1968	The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Sir Turnbull	63

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
2	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse	Othello	63
3	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Dr. Poole	86
4	1954	Climax!	John Philippson	33
5	1954	Climax!	Fred Beresford	33
6	1955	The Millionaire	Max MacIntyre	50
7	1955	Gunsmoke	John Tyson	66
8	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Constable Johnson	77
9	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Felix Edward Manbridge	77
10	1955	The 20th Century Fox Hour		54
11	1956	Telephone Time		63
12	1956	Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre	Ab Richards	55
13	1957	Perry Mason	Walter Frazer	77
14	1957	DuPont Show of the Month	Rees Mathry	68
15	1958	Peter Gunn		65
16	1958	The Further Adventures of Ellery Queen	King Bendigo	0
17	1959	One Step Beyond	Earl of Culdane	56
18	1959	Adventures in Paradise	Michael Cameron	57
19	1960	Thriller	Jeremy Teal	64
20	1962	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	Alva Hardwicke	78
21	1963	The Great Adventure	General Howe	0
22	1963	The Great Adventure	Colonel Lewis Washington	0
23	1963	Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre		57
24	1964	Daniel Boone	President John Adams	69
25	1964	Daniel Boone	Cyrus Blake / Enoch Blake	69
26	1964	Profiles in Courage	Sewall	50
27	1964	Profiles in Courage	Cannon	50
28	1965	Lost in Space	The Space Trader	71
29	1965	Get Smart		79
30	1966	Star Trek	Marplon	80
31	1966	The Time Tunnel	Dr. Everett Holland	76
32	1966	Mission: Impossible	Archbishop Djelvas	76
33	1966	Mission: Impossible	General Rados Adolph Gollan	76
34	1967	The Guns of Will Sonnett		62
35	1968	Land of the Giants	Dr. Berger	67
36	1970	Night Gallery	Captain of the Lusitania (segment "Lone Survivor")	78
37	1972	Search		69
38	1974	Petrocelli		71

Torin Thatcher

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