Maurice Evans
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Maurice Herbert Evans (June 3, 1901 – March 12, 1989) was an English-born British-American actor of Welsh descent, noted for his interpretations of Shakespearean characters. His best-known screen roles are Dr. Zaius in the 1968 film Planet of the Apes and as Samantha Stephens's father, Maurice in TV series Bewitched.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8081 |
| Birthday | 1901-06-03 |
| Place of Birth | Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Морис Эвенс, Морис Эванс, Maurice Herbert Evans, |
1968
Planet of the Apes
7.649/3927
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds him...
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Planet of the Apes
1968
Rosemary's Baby
7.818/4341
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the pur...
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Rosemary's Baby
1970
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
6.1/1458
The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission lands on the planet of the apes, and uncovers a horrible secret beneath the surface.
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1979
The Jerk
6.893/896
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him...
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The Jerk
1983
A Caribbean Mystery
6.1/19
Aging Major Palgrave, an idiosyncratic but charming mystery writer, reveals to Miss Jane Marple that one of the guests at a luxurious Caribbean resort...
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A Caribbean Mystery
1935
Scrooge
6/50
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of h...
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Scrooge
1965
The War Lord
6.2/74
A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the...
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The War Lord
1952
Androcles and the Lion
5.8/15
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared...
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Androcles and the Lion
1932
Wedding Rehearsal
4.6/5
The grandmother of a British nobleman, reluctant to marry, plays matchmaker. He outmaneuvers her by getting all of the matches married off.
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Wedding Rehearsal
1969
The Body Stealers
4.7/20
In Britain, bodies of NATO paratroopers are being snatched during routine jumps by a mysterious red-beam of otherworldly origin.
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The Body Stealers
1980
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything
5.1/12
After inheriting a magical gold watch from his multimillionaire uncle's estate, Robert Hays and his girlfriend, Pam Dawber, soon discover not only tha...
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The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything
1960
The Tempest
6/1
Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who lives in exile on a remote island as a sorcerer, uses his powers to shipwreck his usurper brother on the isla...
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The Tempest
1967
Jack of Diamonds
4.2/5
The protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous jewels from a seemi...
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Jack of Diamonds
1966
One of Our Spies Is Missing
5.3/14
A biochemist develops a process that reverses ageing but, when he disappears, it's up to Napoleon Solo and Ilya Kuryakin to recover or destroy the pro...
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One of Our Spies Is Missing
1973
Terror in the Wax Museum
5.1/24
Terrifying wax figures of renowned personalities, such as Attila the Hun and Jack the Ripper, surround the sale of a London museum.
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Terror in the Wax Museum
1951
Kind Lady
6.9/11
Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One d...
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Kind Lady
1953
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
4/2
The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together...
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
1969
Operation Heartbeat
0/0
Lawsuits fly when a widow believes a gifted surgeon allowed her husband to die so his heart could be transplanted into the doctor's ailing mentor and...
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Operation Heartbeat
1957
Twelfth Night
0/0
Twins Viola and Sebastian are separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself as a man and enters the service of Duke Or...
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Twelfth Night
1965
Enter Hamlet
3.5/1
Enter Hamlet is a collage of images in cartoon form of a word put in balloon in each jump-cut scene as that word is said by the narrator Maurice Evans...
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Enter Hamlet
1935
Checkmate
4.8/4
A fence for a gang of jewel thieves comes under suspicion from the police.
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Checkmate
1933
The Only Girl
0/0
English-language version of Ich und die Kaiserin. 'Germany, 1890. Duke falls in love with voice which is not that of empress, but of hairdresser.' (B...
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The Only Girl
1964
Macbeth
6/2
Hallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and the same director as its first version, but a differ...
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Macbeth
1951
Daphni: Virgin of the Golden Laurels
0/0
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Daphni: Virgin of the Golden Laurels
1967
Los traidores de San Ángel
5.8/4
Henchmen of the dictator from a South American country blackmail Nick Thomas into being a government spy. The former smuggler is to pose as a priest a...
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Los traidores de San Ángel
1934
The Path of Glory
0/0
Comedy about two Ruritanian countries who declare war on each other with the mutual intention of losing. Political satire that might have been Britain...
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The Path of Glory
1970
The Brotherhood of the Bell
5.708/12
A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past — in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now...
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The Brotherhood of the Bell
1930
Raise the Roof
0/0
The wealthy Rodney Langford, who dreams of going on the stage, hopes to fulfil his ambitions by buying a failing revue called 'Raise the Roof', starri...
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Raise the Roof
1930
Should a Doctor Tell?
0/0
A doctor agonises over whether to tell his son that the woman he is marrying is pregnant by another man, although this would mean breaking the hypocra...
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Should a Doctor Tell?
1932
Marry Me
0/0
A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele
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Marry Me
1974
The Canterville Ghost
6/3
The ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a descendant who will release him from the Canterville curse by p...
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The Canterville Ghost
1955
Alice in Wonderland
4.5/4
A young girl named Alice goes through a looking glass and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.
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Alice in Wonderland
1958
The Christmas Tree
0/0
The Christmas Tree is a 1958 Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television film that was broadcast on NBC on December 14, 1958. It is based on the short s...
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The Christmas Tree
1973
The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping
6.6/15
A criminal organization known as OSO specializes in kidnapping high ranking U.S. representatives. Although Steve Austin has already thwarted one of th...
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The Six Million Dollar Man: The Solid Gold Kidnapping
1929
White Cargo
0/0
The manager of a rubber plantation marries a native and she tries to poison him.
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White Cargo
1931
Cupboard Love
0/0
A young woman locks an intruding blackmailer in her bedroom closet overnight, in order to prove her innocence in the morning.
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Cupboard Love
1968
Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army
0/0
Tarzan has to deal with slave traders who are making raids into African villages to get slaves.
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Tarzan and the Four O'Clock Army
2023
Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
0/0
"Bewitched" remains beloved nearly 60 years after its debut. The series lead, Elizabeth Montgomery, was a complex, strong-willed woman whose life and...
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Elizabeth Montgomery: A Bewitched Life
1954
Macbeth
7/2
Macbeth (Maurice Evans), the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by amb...
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Macbeth
1967
Lionpower from MGM
4.5/2
"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's releases for the 1967-68 film season under a "five se...
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