Michael Sheard
Michael Sheard (18 June 1938 – 31 August 2005) was a Scottish actor who featured in a large number of films and television programmes and was best known for playing villains. His most prominent television role was as strict deputy headmaster Maurice Bronson in the British children's series Grange Hill which he played from 1985-89. His most prominent film role was that of Admiral Ozzel in The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8459 |
| Birthday | 1938-06-18 |
| Place of Birth | Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK |
| Also Known As |
1979
The Riddle of the Sands
6.109/23
In the early years of the 20th Century, two British yachtsmen (Michael York and Simon MacCorkindale) stumble upon a German plot to invade the east coa...
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The Riddle of the Sands
1979
Escape to Athena
5.718/128
During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an ine...
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Escape to Athena
1975
In Sickness and in Health
0/0
A hard-working doctor must also carry the burden of a turbulent home life, due to the expectations of his demanding wife. Part of Thames Televison's A...
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In Sickness and in Health
1970
The McKenzie Break
5.919/31
A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.
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The McKenzie Break
1975
The Hiding Place
6.926/34
Corrie and Betsie ten Boom are middle-aged sisters working in their father's watchmaker shop in pre-World War II Holland. Their uneventful lives are d...
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The Hiding Place
1978
Force 10 from Navarone
6.223/341
World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.
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Force 10 from Navarone
1973
Holiday on the Buses
7.443/61
Due to a female passenger falling out of her top whilst running for the bus Stan is distracted and crashes the bus resulting in the depot managers car...
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Holiday on the Buses
1973
Mafia Junction
5.25/12
Cliff works as a narcotics investigator for the police and infiltrate a mafia gang. Soon it turns out that Cliff has bigger plans than just to bust ba...
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Mafia Junction
1976
Beasts: The Dummy
4/3
A washed-up actor has a nervous breakdown and believes that he really is the movie monster that he has been hired to play. Created as an episode of Ni...
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Beasts: The Dummy
1976
The Dancing Years
10/1
The story of a young composer and his relationship with a fiery opera star over the course of several decades.
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The Dancing Years
1983
High Road to China
5.922/103
A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a...
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High Road to China
1980
The Empire Strikes Back
8.392/18322
The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Dar...
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The Empire Strikes Back
1977
The Best of Enemies
0/0
In Occupied France, a cultured civilised German ofi ccer is billeted out and stirs up conflicting emotions in the household.
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The Best of Enemies
1973
The Death of Adolf Hitler
6.6/5
The final days in the Bunker, with Hitler becoming more and more paranoid, plumbing the depths of his madness and reaching his well deserved fate.
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The Death of Adolf Hitler
1981
Raiders of the Lost Ark
7.923/13573
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legen...
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
1978
Les Misérables
7.159/41
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
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Les Misérables
1979
All Quiet on the Western Front
6.664/228
At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerl...
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All Quiet on the Western Front
1976
Rogue Male
6.5/22
In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo...
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Rogue Male
1972
To Encourage the Others
5/2
The true story of Derek Bentley, whose conviction and execution for a murder committed by someone else provoked a public revulsion.
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To Encourage the Others
2002
Chronotrip
6/2
Philosophical Time Travel
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Chronotrip
1988
Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
9.25/12
London, 1963: The Doctor returns to the place where it all began — alongside his latest companion, Ace, with unfinished business. Not for the first ti...
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Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks
1975
Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars
8.6/10
In a Victorian Gothic mansion, strange things are afoot. The master of the house, away in Egypt, has been replaced by a sinister Egyptian. Cloth-wrapp...
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Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars
1977
Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy
7.2/5
A three-man rocket crew are nearly done with their mission to Titan Base until a course change puts the rocket in the path of a strange cloud in space...
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Doctor Who: The Invisible Enemy
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
1973
England Made Me
6.125/8
A young, English, ne'er-do-well who goes to stay with his sister and her wealthy fiancé/benefactor in 1930's Germany, just before the rise of the Nazi...
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England Made Me
1979
A Hole in Babylon
8/1
Three black men rob a Knightsbridge Italian restaurant. But when the police are called and the robbery becomes a siege, the men find themselves in a s...
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A Hole in Babylon
1989
Doombeach
7.5/2
A young boy dies after swimming at a seaside resort, and the local children, led by Gavin, investigate and are led to suspect that contamination from...
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Doombeach
2003
Hitler of the Andes
9/1
Declassified FBI documents trace an 11-year investigation of rumors that Hitler survived Germany's defeat in 1945, escaping via U-boat to Argentina.
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Hitler of the Andes
1972
Universal Soldier
6.667/3
A life-long mercenary commander and weapons expert is commissioned to train an army for an exiled African leader. But as his conscience finally catche...
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Universal Soldier
1974
Lucky
0/0
“Set in Liverpool in the early 70s, the film tells the story of Samuel 'Lucky' Ubooto, a half African, half Irish man in his 20s whose decidedly unluc...
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Lucky
1983
The Dark Side of the Sun
0/0
Supernatural thriller series dealing with a secret society on the Greek island of Rhodes.
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The Dark Side of the Sun
1998
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
8.5/2
By her own admission, Katy Manning is ‘as blind as a bat’ and never knows where she’ll end up. When she suddenly arrived in the UK, Katy was probably...
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Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
1981
The Bunker
6.218/55
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle f...
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The Bunker
1981
Green Ice
5.705/22
A down on his luck engineer gets involved in an adventure with a mysterious woman and an emerald magnate.
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Green Ice
2001
Another Life
5.9/10
A woman is wrongly accused of murdering her husband in Edwardian London. Just before the outbreak of World War I, Edith Graydon married her boyfriend...
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Another Life
1965
The World of George Orwell: 1984
7/1
Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.
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The World of George Orwell: 1984
1976
Stones
9/1
From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem to be connected to Stonehenge (Source: BBC).
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Stones
1966
Doctor Who: The Ark
6.8/5
The Doctor and his companions Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet arrive some ten million years into the future, on board a generation starship which is ca...
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Doctor Who: The Ark
1982
Doctor Who: Castrovalva
7.6/5
The Doctor needs somewhere peaceful to recover from his traumatic regeneration. But the sanctuary of Castrovalva is not all it seems, as the Master wi...
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Doctor Who: Castrovalva
1971
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
7.5/11
Professor Emil Keller has created a machine that can pacify even the most dangerous of criminals. But when the Doctor and Jo arrive at Stangmoor Priso...
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Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
1989
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
7.851/11011
In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval his...
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
1980
Murder Rap
0/0
Wally, a caretaker in a block of flats, loses his job when the flats are used to rehouse Bhengali families.
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Murder Rap
1972
The Darwin Adventure
7/1
The story of Charles Darwin's journey on The Beagle.
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The Darwin Adventure
1984
Killer Exposed
1/2
Second in a trilogy of plays. Robin Fraser is attracted to an unusual female patient of his dentistry practice. She bears a remarkable resemblance to...
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Killer Exposed
1973
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
6.192/39
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provide...
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1983
The Captain's Doll
7/0
The wife of a British army officer discovers his affair with a Polish countess in Germany circa 1918.
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The Captain's Doll
1972
Frenzy
7.099/1010
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blan...
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Frenzy
1985
The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
6.295/88
Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their...
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The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
1986
Blake's 7: Aftermath
0/0
The Intergalactic War is over. The Combined forces of Earth's galaxy have triumphed over the invasion force from Andromeda, but the price of victory h...
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Blake's 7: Aftermath
1980
An Enemy of the People
7/1
Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People as a direct response to the public's outcry over his earlier play Ghosts. Channeling his feelings into on Dr. Stock...
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