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Robert Flemyng OBE, MC (3 January 1912 β 22 May 1995) was a British film and stage actor.
Flemyng was born in Liverpool, the son of a doctor, and was educated at Haileybury. He began his career as a medical student before abandoning medicine to become an actor. Flemyng made his stage debut in the early 1930s, and worked steadily in both London and Broadway. His first film appearance was in 1937, but he didn't appear steadily in films until after he served in World War II. During the war he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with great distinction, reaching the rank of full colonel at the age of 33. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1941, mentioned in despatches, and was appointed OBE in 1944.
He played the idealistic schoolmaster in the 1948 Roy Boulting film, The Guinea Pig, starring Richard Attenborough, and the key role of Detective Sergeant Roberts in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp.
One memorable role was as a necrophiliac in the film The Horrible Dr. Hichcock in 1962. He ably played a sardonic British Secret Intelligence Service chief (his boss being George Sanders) in the 1966 film The Quiller Memorandum. The character actor worked in films and television until his death in 1995. Some of his later films include Kafka (1991) and Shadowlands (1993).
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Filmography
all 55
Movies 43
TV Shows 12
Director 1
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew (1995)
Shadowlands (1993)
Memento Mori (1992)
Kafka (1991)
Paris by Night (1989)
Spider's Web (1982)
A Cotswold Death (1982)
Lady Killers (1980)
Edward and Mrs Simpson (1978)
Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978)
The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
The Medusa Touch (1978)
Enemy at the Door (1978)
The Four Feathers (1978)
The Professionals (1977)
Golden Rendezvous (1977)
The New Avengers (1976)
The Venturers (1975)
Miss Nightingale (1974)
Travels with My Aunt (1972)
The Darwin Adventure (1972)
Young Winston (1972)
The Persuaders! (1971)
The Firechasers (1971)
Battle of Britain (1969)
The Body Stealers (1969)
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
The Blood Beast Terror (1968)
The Deadly Affair (1967)
The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966)
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
Public Eye (1965)
The King's Breakfast (1963)
Zero One (1962)
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962)
Compact (1962)
The Avengers (1961)
A Touch of Larceny (1960)
Blind Date (1959)
Wuthering Heights (1958)
Windom's Way (1957)
Suspicion (1957)
Let's Be Happy (1957)
Funny Face (1957)
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
The Sting of Death (1955)
The Holly and the Ivy (1952)
The Magic Box (1952)
Blackmailed (1951)
The Blue Lamp (1950)
Conspirator (1949)
The Guinea Pig (1948)
Bond Street (1948)
Head Over Heels (1937)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1912-01-03
Deathday1995-05-22 (83 years old)
Birth PlaceLiverpool, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
AwardsOfficer of the Order of the British Empire, Military Cross
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