Basil Dignam
Basil Dignam (24 October 1905 - 31 January 1979) was an English character actor.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.462 |
| Birthday | 1905-10-24 |
| Place of Birth | Sheffield, Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Basil Martin Dignam, |
1958
Corridors of Blood
6.2/49
In 1840s London, Dr. Thomas Bolton [Boris Karloff] dares to dream the unthinkable: experimenting with anesthesia gases to make surgery pain-free. Whil...
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Corridors of Blood
1959
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
6.2/8
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king...
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Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
1966
Naked Evil
6.333/3
Jamaican obi-man hexes student hostel manager, eventually causing the manager's death, before being killed himself by the manager's vengeful spirit.
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Naked Evil
1961
The Court Martial of Major Keller
7/1
Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-martialled for the murder of his commanding officer Co...
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The Court Martial of Major Keller
1958
Son of a Stranger
7/1
A young man searches for the father he never knew, who he believes to be a millionaire.
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Son of a Stranger
1957
The Depraved
4.55/10
Fed up with her wealthy but abusive husband, Tom (Basil Dignam), young English homemaker Laura Wilton (Anne Heywood) conspires with her lover, America...
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The Depraved
1957
Three Sundays to Live
6.5/2
Band leader Frank Martin is convicted and sentenced to death for murdering the owner of a club in which he had performed. Frank's innocent of the crim...
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Three Sundays to Live
1961
The Secret Partner
5.844/16
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
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The Secret Partner
1967
The Jokers
6.25/18
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famou...
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The Jokers
1958
The Nice Americans
10/1
American airman loves English girl whose father refuses permission for their marriage out of hatred for all Yankees.
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The Nice Americans
1963
80,000 Suspects
7.2/10
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
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80,000 Suspects
1958
Up the Creek
6/7
Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him out...
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Up the Creek
1967
I'll Never Forget What's'isname
5.4/15
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for...
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname
1962
Seven Seas to Calais
5.5/12
Sir Francis Drake fights to take over Spain's treasure routes for Queen Elizabeth I.
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Seven Seas to Calais
1964
Ring of Spies
7.033/15
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establi...
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Ring of Spies
1956
The Weapon
6.026/19
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder...
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The Weapon
1960
Suspect
6.9/11
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he...
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Suspect
1958
Innocent Sinners
7.5/4
A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
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Innocent Sinners
1967
The Cuckoo Patrol
4.563/8
Freddie and the Dreamers play part of a Scout troupe that get caught up in a series of misadventures on their way to camp.
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The Cuckoo Patrol
1961
Victim
7.447/160
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of suc...
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Victim
1959
I'm All Right Jack
6.59/83
Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from th...
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I'm All Right Jack
1955
Touch and Go
6.591/11
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to u...
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Touch and Go
1957
You Pay Your Money
5.3/5
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
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You Pay Your Money
1958
Further Up the Creek
6.571/7
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship...
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Further Up the Creek
1961
Gorgo
5.33/112
When an underwater volcanic eruption tears up the sea bed off the coast of Ireland, two treasure hunters make the discovery of a lifetime when they en...
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Gorgo
1968
Assignment K
6.3/9
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap...
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Assignment K
1958
Room at the Top
6.897/145
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
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Room at the Top
1968
Number Ten
7/1
The Prime Minister heads a cabinet divided on the question of either using force against an African state, or referring the matter to the United Natio...
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Number Ten
1960
Sentenced for Life
7.5/2
An engineer is wrongly convicted of selling secrets to enemy agents and is sentenced to life in prison. Convinced it was his former partner who framed...
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Sentenced for Life
1972
I Spy a Stranger
0/0
Play set in the Home Counties during the Second World War. A Czech refugee arrives at her cousin's Mrs Hudson's, which create xenophobic problems in t...
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I Spy a Stranger
1955
The Quatermass Xperiment
6.53/233
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is lost from radar before roaring back to Earth and crashing in a farmer's field. The ro...
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The Quatermass Xperiment
1962
Lawrence of Arabia
8/3493
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turk...
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Lawrence of Arabia
1957
The Counterfeit Plan
6.167/3
An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who...
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The Counterfeit Plan
1963
Heavens Above!
6.571/28
A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby parishioner...
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Heavens Above!
1971
10 Rillington Place
7.276/219
The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justic...
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10 Rillington Place
1974
Soft Beds, Hard Battles
4.559/17
In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumblin...
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Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1956
The Narrowing Circle
5.8/5
A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.
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The Narrowing Circle
1968
Twisted Nerve
6.8/60
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he re...
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Twisted Nerve
1957
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
7.273/11
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batter...
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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
1951
Smart Alec
9/3
A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.
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Smart Alec
1960
The Spider's Web
6.563/16
Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie play. An ambassador's wife must hide the corpse of her stepdaughter's unlikeable stepfather from her husband,...
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The Spider's Web
1951
Two on the Tiles
6.667/3
A married couple both face temptations while separated for a few days. The husband meets an attractive female fellow traveler in Paris while the wife...
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Two on the Tiles
1959
Sapphire
7/51
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspec...
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Sapphire
1971
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
6.495/184
Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up...
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
1966
Where the Spies Are
5.4/11
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is co...
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Where the Spies Are
1956
Reach for the Sky
6.91/39
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing lead...
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Reach for the Sky
1970
The Games
7.389/9
From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the wor...
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The Games
1962
Life for Ruth
6.958/12
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for...
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Life for Ruth
1957
Brothers in Law
7.056/9
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with...
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Brothers in Law
1960
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
6.525/20
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best yet – they have burned down the school! As the girls stand trial, police breathe a sigh of relief...
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The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
1961
Fate Takes a Hand
6.8/5
When a mail bag full of post that was taken in a robbery is discovered fifteen years later, a Post Office employee and local reporter decide to delive...
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Fate Takes a Hand
1949
Maytime in Mayfair
6.5/4
Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. His intention is to sell it as q...
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Maytime in Mayfair
1952
Hammer the Toff
6.429/7
A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.
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Hammer the Toff
1951
The Lady with a Lamp
6.643/7
Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19...
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The Lady with a Lamp
1965
Rotten to the Core
6.5/11
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl...
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Rotten to the Core
1955
They Can't Hang Me
6.9/7
A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.
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They Can't Hang Me
1960
A Touch of Larceny
5.971/17
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that...
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A Touch of Larceny
1956
Port of Escape
6/6
Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene, comm...
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Port of Escape
1951
Appointment with Venus
5.667/9
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on t...
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Appointment with Venus
1969
Laughter in the Dark
4.286/7
Swinging London in the 1960s. Deals with the affection of a middle-aged man for a very young woman, resulting in a mutually parasitic relationship.
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Laughter in the Dark
1958
Rockets Galore
6.429/7
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world...
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Rockets Galore
1952
His Excellency
7/4
A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony.
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His Excellency
1958
Carry On Sergeant
6.407/75
Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Serv...
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Carry On Sergeant
1964
Master Spy
6.333/3
Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an attempt to achieve a better life working for the Britis...
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Master Spy
1972
Young Winston
6.208/53
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war corres...
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Young Winston
1969
Battle of Britain
6.827/355
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing an at...
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Battle of Britain
1954
Carrington V.C.
6.095/21
Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces two other charges that could finish his distingui...
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Carrington V.C.
1961
The Fourth Square
0/0
The Police investigate the theft of emerald jewellery which had led to murder.
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The Fourth Square
1975
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
0/0
Peg Woffington and David Garrick have an affair while appearing in stage in Drury Lane.
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