Donald Pleasence
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Beachcomber, The (1954) 
- Dir. Muriel Box
Feat. Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Donald Sinden… 
- Entertaining and deeply silly romantic yarn with prim missionary Johns falling for slovenly Newton as they team up to fight a cholera outbreak on a…
 
Armchair Theatre (TV Series) (1956-1974) 
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff, Charles Jarrott, Alan Cooke
Feat. Tom Bell, Billie Whitelaw, Richard Beckinsale… 
- a British television anthology of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by ABC Weekend TV. Its…
 
Tale of Two Cities, A (1958) 
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence… 
- An intrepid Dirk Bogarde negotiates the rough and tumble of the French Revolution, in this, the version most faithful to the Charles Dickens novel.…
 
Twilight Zone, The (Original TV Series) (1959-1964)
 
- Dir. Robert Parrish, Jack Smight, John Brahm
Feat. Agnes Moorehead, Ed Wynn, Jack Warden… 
- Iconic and influential cult TV series with self–contained episodes telling sci–fi tinged tales of the unexpected and mysterious,…
 
Mania (The Flesh and the Fiends) (1959) 
- Dir. John Gilling
Feat. Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, George Rose… 
- An old–fashioned but sometimes ghoulishly nasty horror film in which an experimenting doctor in Edinburgh must harvest fresh corpses to…
 
Circus of Horrors (1960) 
- Dir. Sidney Hayers
Feat. Anton Diffring, Donald Pleasence, Jane Hylton… 
- After horribly botching a face–job, plastic surgeon Anton Diffring hides out in a travelling circus with some of his 'beauties', who begin to…
 
Sons and Lovers (1960) 
- Dir. Jack Cardiff
Feat. Dean Stockwell, Trevor Howard, Dame Wendy Hiller… 
- Richly photographed rendition of D.H. Lawrence's classic novel, in which the son of a coal–miner (Stockwell) struggles to find his path in the…
 
No Love for Johnnie (1961) 
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Donald Pleasence… 
- Peter Finch excels as a British MP whose desire for career advancement threatens his personal life.
 
Dr. Crippen (1962) 
- Dir. Robert Lynn
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Coral Browne, Samantha Eggar 
- This well paced drama centered around Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen's murder of his wife was originally billed as a horror, but is actually a rather…
 
Great Escape, The (1963)
 
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough… 
- McQueen heads a star–studded international cast in this superb drama based on a true account of an escape from a German POW camp by a group of…