Biography
Alan Wheatley (19 April 1907 – 30 August 1991) was an English actor. He was a well known stage actor in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, appeared in forty films between 1931 and 1965 and was a frequent broadcaster on radio from the 1930s to the 1990s, and on television from 1938 to 1964. His most prominent television role was the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1950s TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood, with Richard Greene as Robin Hood; Wheatley played the sheriff in 54 episodes between 1955 and 1959. Earlier, he had played Sherlock Holmes in the first television series featuring the great detective.
In addition to acting, Wheatley was a radio announcer during the Second World War, broadcasting to occupied Europe, where he became a well known voice. Poetry was another of his interests: he translated the poetry of Federico García Lorca and was a frequent reader of poems on air. In his later years he worked mainly in radio, as a narrator, a verse-reader and an actor.
Filmography
all 52
Movies 38
TV Shows 14
Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour (2023)
Sex and the Other Woman (1972)
Department S (1969)
You Can't Win (1966)
Clash by Night (1964)
Master Spy (1964)
The Protectors (1964)
A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)
Doctor Who: The Daleks (1964)
Doctor Who (1963)
Tomorrow at Ten (1962)
The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
The Avengers (1961)
Maigret (1960)
Danger Man (1960)
Inn for Trouble (1960)
No Hiding Place (1959)
The Duke Wore Jeans (1958)
The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (1957)
Armchair Theatre (1956)
Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1956)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1956)
Robin Hood: The Movie (1955)
Simon and Laura (1955)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955)
Delayed Action (1954)
The House Across the Lake (1954)
The Diamond Wizard (1954)
Elizabethan Express (1954)
Small Town Story (1953)
The Limping Man (1953)
Spaceways (1953)
The Pickwick Papers (1952)
Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard (1952)
Sherlock Holmes (1951)
Home to Danger (1951)
For Them That Trespass (1949)
It's Not Cricket (1949)
Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948)
Counterblast (1948)
Calling Paul Temple (1948)
Corridor of Mirrors (1948)
Brighton Rock (1948)
The End of the River (1947)
Jassy (1947)
Spring Song (1946)
Appointment with Crime (1946)
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
The Rake's Progress (1945)
The Circle (1939)
Julius Caesar (1938)
The Conquest of the Air (1936)
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GenderMale
Birthday1907-04-19
Deathday1991-08-30 (84 years old)
Birth PlaceTolworth, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
Also Known AsАлан Уитли
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