Dinsdale Landen Filmography

Born:: September 4, 1932 in Margate, Kent, England
Occupation:: Actor

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Catherine Cookson's The Wingless Bird

Actors: Claire Skinner, Dale Meeks, Edward Atterton, Shaun Mechen, Julian Wadham

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Catherine Cookson, this made-for-TV drama, set in England shortly before the outbreak of World War I, concerns Agnes Conway (Claire Skinner), a beautiful young woman who works in her family's confectioner's shop. Agnes' natural beauty and spirited nature lead her into Read More

1997
The Buccaneers

Actors: Carla Gugino, Alison Elliott, Mira Sorvino

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Edith Wharton, The Buccaneers follows four wealthy young women -- Nan (Carla Gugino), Virginia St. George (Alison Eliott), Conchita Closson (Mira Sorvino), and Lizzy Elmsworth (Rya Kihlstedt) -- throughout their eventful journey from America to London. Though they set off Read More

1995
The Steal

Actors: Alfred Molina, Helen Slater, Peter Bowles, Dinsdale Landen, Heathcote Williams

Synopsis: In this comic British caper film, an LA computer whiz finds herself recruited by an eccentric British lawyer who wants her to use her skills to defraud a powerful London bank that has been using its money to exploit a Third World country for tourism. She accepts his offer and mayhem ensues. Read More

1995
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric, Episode 2

Actors: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Peter Czajkowski, Marek Anton, Dinsdale Landen

Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "The Curse of Fenric," the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred) have arrived at a Northumberland secret naval base in the waning days of WWII. The ongoing efforts of a group of Russian commandos to steal a British code-breaking device has Read More

1989
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric, Episode 1

Actors: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Peter Czajkowski, Tomek Bork, Mark Conrad

Synopsis: The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred) materialize at a secret British naval base off the Yorkshire coast during the final months of WWII. Almost immediately, the two time-travelers are plunged into intrigue involving a revolutionary code-breaking device. As if this were not enough Read More

1989
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric, Episode 3

Actors: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Alfred Lynch, Dinsdale Landen, Nicholas Parsons

Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "The Curse of Fenric," the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) learns that an act of espionage at a British naval base in the final months of WWII has reactivated an ancient Viking curse. Using a 2,000-year-old Norse vessel as its headquarters, the spirit of Fenric Read More

1989
Doctor Who: The Curse of Fenric, Episode 4

Actors: Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Anne Reid, Dinsdale Landen, Alfred Lynch

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "The Curse of Fenric," the spirit of the ancient evil entity Fenric has risen from the sea, determined to summon the Great One and destroy all mankind. It is up to the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy), who had originally imprisoned Fenric some 17 centuries earlier Read More

1989
Morons from Outer Space

Actors: Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, Paul Bown, Joanne Pearce, Jimmy Nail, Dinsdale Landen

Synopsis: In this partially successful Brit sci-fi comedy, four invading aliens cannot really think their way out of a paper bag, much less conquer Earth with their superior knowledge (apparently also non-existent). Of the aliens, Desmond (Jimmy Nail) is particularly thick-headed and leaves Bernard (Mel Smith Read More

1985
International Velvet

Actors: Tatum O'Neal, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Hopkins, Nanette Newman, Peter Barkworth

Synopsis: Thirty-four years after the release of National Velvet, MGM came up with this attractively filmed sequel. Tatum O'Neal stars as the niece of Velvet Brown, Elizabeth Taylor's character from the first film (the Taylor role is played herein by Nanette Newman, the wife of director Bryan Forbes). Like Read More

1978
The New Avengers: Angels of Death

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley

Synopsis: Fifty secret agents and civil servants, all apparently healthy and robust, have died of unknown causes over a two-year period. Steed (Patrick MacNee), Gambit (Gareth Hunt) and Purdey (Gareth Hunt) investigate the health farm where all of the victims had worked out before their untimely demises. Read More

1977
Not Guilty

1974
Anatomy of Terror

Synopsis: In Anatomy of Terror, a made-for-TV spy mystery thriller, a Korean war vet (Paul Burke) discovers that he is the victim of brainwashing and must depend on the help of his girlfriend (Polly Bergen) to learn the truth. The plot has some interesting twists, but the cast gives uniformly lackluster Read More

1974
Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World

Actors: Clovissa Newcombe

Synopsis: The exploits of the title sheepdog provide the basis of this family-oriented comedy fantasy. Digby started out as an ordinary puppy but then one day got in to a bowl full of Project X, a special formula meant to grow larger vegetables. As he galumphs along in the countryside causing all kinds of Read More

1973
Young Winston

Actors: Michael Audreson, Robert Lankesheer, Simon Ward, Robert Shaw, Anne Bancroft, John Mills, Jack Hawkins, Ian Holm

Synopsis: This historical drama is an account of the early life of Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament. ~ Linda Rasmussen, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
Mosquito Squadron

Actors: David McCallum, Suzanne Neve, David Dundas, David Buck, Dinsdale Landen, Charles Gray

Synopsis: The Mosquito bomber was one of the more extraordinary developments of the Royal Air Force during World War II. A twin-engine plane made largely of wood, it flew faster than almost any fighter on the German side, carrying a maximum load of two bombs, and was employed on specialized missions that Read More

1970
Think Dirty

Actors: Marty Feldman, Shelley Berman, Judy Cornwell, Julie Ege, Patrick Cargill

Synopsis: This offbeat comedy finds Teddy (Marty Feldman) as a television advertising man given a seemingly meaningless project. Slated to make frozen porridge commercials, he comes up with the idea to find an erotic Goldilocks to sell the product. Soon a nationwide search is launched for the female Read More

1970
Avengers: All Done With Mirrors

Actors: Patrick Macnee, Linda Thorson, Dinsdale Landen, Peter Copley, Edwin Richfield

Synopsis: Steed is held on suspicion when several secrets are smuggled out of a tightly secured communications facility. While Steed is under "house arrest" at the luxurious digs of his superior Mother (Patrick Newell, making his series debut), Tara tries to trap the real traitor. She is "assisted" by an Read More

1969
World in Ferment [TV Series]

Actors: Angela Thorne, Jack Shepherd, Dinsdale Landen, John Bird, Irene Handl

Synopsis: This wickedly hilarious British comedy series was a dead-on spoof of World in Action, a popular BBC investigative-reporting series. On each half-hour episode, the series' "correspondents" promised to tear the lid off a recent scandal, but generally found themselves struggling to make exciting Read More

1969
A Jolly Bad Fellow

Actors: Leo McKern, Janet Munro, Maxine Audley, Duncan MacRae, Dennis Price

Synopsis: They All Died Laughing plays for satire what any other film might have played for suspense. Leo McKern plays a college professor, of the addlepated rather than absentminded variety. McKern has come to the conclusion that certain people are leeching off society, and the world would be well rid of Read More

1964
The Valiant

Actors: John Mills, Ettore Manni, Robert Shaw, Liam Redmond

Synopsis: In this suspenseful WW II thriller, the hard-bitten commander of a British battleship stationed in Alexandria Harbor early in the war must force two captured Italian frogmen to tell him whether or not they planted time-bombs upon the ship's hull. The captives are uncooperative and the captain has Read More

1962
We Are in the Navy Now

Actors: Kenneth More, Lloyd Nolan, Joan O'Brien, Mischa Auer, Jeremy Lloyd

Synopsis: This was the last film for British director Wendy Toye whose special interests were always comedies and fantasies. In this light farce, the talented Kenneth More is Lt. Commander Bodger, a man with a penchant for honesty in moments when silence is much more diplomatic. Bodger offends the Navy Read More

1962
Operation Snatch

Synopsis: A British officer must save the Barbary apes on Gibralter at all costs in this WW II farce. He does this, because it is believed that if the apes leave the rock, Britain will fall. The trouble begins when the only male ape dies. To save the rest, the officer and his side-kick sneak in to Zurich Read More

1962
Playback

Synopsis: In this mystery, based on an Edgar Wallace story, a wicked seductress uses her wiles on a weak-willed cop and persuades him to kill her husband so they can collect the insurance. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1962