Peter Sallis Filmography

Color Me Kubrick

Actors: John Malkovich, Jim Davidson, Richard E. Grant, Terence Rigby

Synopsis: In the mid-'90s, an Englishman by the name of Alan Conway (John Malkovich) conned many people into believing that he was the reclusive American director Stanley Kubrick, despite the fact that Conway was openly gay, bore no physical resemblance to Kubrick, and knew little about the director's work. Read More

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Actors: Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Kay, Nicholas Smith, Clement Nicholas Smith, Liz Smith

Synopsis: Eccentric inventor Wallace (voice of Peter Sallis) and his faithful if often perplexed dog Gromit are back in their first feature-length adventure from animator Nick Park. Wallace and Gromit have launched a new business venture just in time for a major gardening competition in their neighborhood Read More

Cracking Contraptions

Actors: Peter Sallis

A Close Shave

Actors: Peter Sallis

Synopsis: The third film to feature the claymation adventures of Wallace and Gromit, A Close Shave finds the inventor and his dog with a new business, new friends, and a new adversary. As the story begins, the team has decided to open a window-washing service, with Wallace providing clever gadgets while Read More

The Wrong Trousers

Actors: Peter Sallis

Synopsis: The second short film to feature the claymation antics of eccentric inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit, The Wrong Trousers sees the duo become unwitting accomplices to a jewel theft. The trouble begins when, struggling to make ends meet, Wallace decides to take in a boarder - a mysterious Read More

A Grand Day Out

Synopsis: It's another bank holiday in northern England, and eccentric inventor Wallace and his faithful dog, Gromit, are sitting around the house with nothing to do. While poring over stacks of travel magazines, Wallace suggests that the pair break for a hot cup of tea and some cheese. When he discovers Read More

Witness for the Prosecution

Actors: Beau Bridges, Deborah Kerr, Ralph Richardson, Diana Rigg

Synopsis: From its humble beginnings as a four-character short story, Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution matriculated into a long-running London and Broadway stage hit, as well as a masterful 1957 film version directed by Billy Wilder. The 1982 TV version of Witness was overseen by Briton Norman Rosemont Read More

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Actors: George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: Max (Robert Morley) is a wealthy, world-class conoisseur of fine food, who cannot stop himself from eating when the food is first-class. His doctor has given him stern warnings that he must lose over one hundred pounds, or he will die of heart failure. The presence of so many four-star chefs in Read More

Full Circle

Actors: Mia Farrow, Keir Dullea, Tom Conti, Jill Bennett, Robin Gammell

Synopsis: The British/Canadian Full Circle is better known by its American title, The Haunting of Julia. The eponymous Julia, played by Mia Farrow, is driven to near-madness by the death of her daughter. Things don't get much better when Julia and her husband move into a forbidding old mansion. The events Read More

Yanks Go Home [TV Series]

Actors: Freddie Earle, Jay Benedict, Stuart Damon, Lionel Murton, Davis Ross

Synopsis: The friction between British civilians and the American military during WWII was played for laughs in this 13-episode Granada Television series. The stories concerned a squadron of U.S. Air Force men who were billeted in Lancashire for the duration. Naturally, the men from "across the pond" had an Read More

The Incredible Sarah

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Daniel Massey, Yvonne Mitchell, Douglas Wilmer, David Langton

Synopsis: Every so often, an actor or actress will achieve a fame which transcends any memory of their work, and he or she becomes synonymous with the word "star." Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) was one such person. A commanding performance by Glenda Jackson towers over this episodic drama chronicling the Read More

The Night Digger

Actors: Patricia Neal, Pamela Brown, Nicholas Clay

Synopsis: Adapted by Roald Dahl from a novel by Joy Crowley, The Road Builder is better known by its American release title: The Night Digger. Patricia Neal, then Mrs. Dahl, stars as the repressed middle-aged adopted daughter of blind and elderly Pamela Brown. Both women are drawn to Nicholas Clay, a Read More

Wuthering Heights

Actors: Anna Calder-Marshall, Timothy Dalton, Julian Glover, Ian Ogilvy, Hilary Dwyer

Synopsis: This romantic drama concerns two star-crossed lovers who are half-brother and sister to each other. Catherine (Anna Calder-Marshall) is the daughter of the lord of the manor who falls for the brooding stable boy Heathcliff (Timothy Dalton). When Heathcliff leaves to seek his fortune, he returns to Read More

Scream and Scream Again

Actors: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Judy Huxtable, Alfred Marks

Synopsis: Strange and terrible things are afoot and the police are helpless to stop them in this taut, complicated thriller. First a heart attack victim goes to the hospital and awakens to find limbs missing, and later, the body of a rape victim is found with two strange puncture wounds upon her wrist. Read More

My Lover, My Son

Actors: Romy Schneider, Donald Houston, Dennis Waterman, Patricia Blake, William Dexter

Synopsis: The British/American co-production My Lover, My Son stars Romy Schneider as Frances, the unhappy wife of businessman Robert (Donald Houston). When her lover is accidentally drowned, Frances turns to her teenaged son James (Dennis Waterman) for comfort. Her husband doesn't like this set-up and Read More

Taste the Blood of Dracula

Actors: Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford, Linda Hayden, Peter Sallis

Synopsis: One of the more accomplished entries in Hammer's Dracula series (which would soon lapse into creative anemia during the 1970s), this fourth installment finds Christopher Lee in top form as the Count, who returns to menacing life after three middle-aged swingers decide to dabble in black magic to Read More

The Reckoning

Actors: Nicol Williamson, Ann Bell, Rachel Roberts, Lilita de Barros, Tom Kempinski, Kenneth Hendel

Synopsis: Nicol Williamson stars as a Liverpool/Irish layabout who inherits a business from his father. Even in his executive togs, Williamson remains out of step with society. Already a surly sort, Williamson becomes even less likeable as the film progresses, especially when seeking to avenge a long-ago Read More

Inadmissible Evidence

Actors: Nicol Williamson, Eleanor Fazan, Jill Bennett, Peter Sallis, David Valla

Synopsis: Based on a play by John Osborne, this is one of those movies where the audience pulls for the protagonist but has a hard time actually saying that he IS a protagonist. A highly unlikeable fellow, this protagonist is an attorney in all the ways that make this more an epithet than a profession. He's Read More

Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors, Episode 1

Actors: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling, Wendy Gifford, Peter Barkworth

Synopsis: The six-episode Doctor Who adventure "The Ice Warriors" is set in 3000 A.D., when the earth is in the midst of a new Ice Age. The Doctor (Patrick Troughton) joins a team of scientists headquartered in an emergency base, all of whom are dedicated to preventing an ice barrier from consuming the Read More

Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors, Episode 2

Actors: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling, Bernard Bresslaw, Peter Barkworth

Synopsis: In the second episode of the six-part story "The Ice Warriors," a team of 31st century scientists has inadvertently revived an ancient Ice Warrior named Varga (Bernard Bresslaw). Revealing himself to be from the planet Mars, Varga demands that his space ship, and his fellow Ice Warriors, also be Read More

Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors, Episode 3

Actors: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling, Peter Sallis, Peter Barkworth

Synopsis: In the third episode of the six-part story "The Ice Warriors," the Doctor (Patrick Troughton) is forced to revive the comrades and recover the spaceship of hostile Martian Ice Warrior Varga (Patrick Troughton). Meanwhile, Dr. Clent (Peter Barkworth), leader of a team of 31st century scientists Read More

Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors, Episode 6

Actors: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling, Peter Sallis, Peter Barkworth

Synopsis: In the conclusion of the six-part story "The Ice Warriors," the Doctor (Patrick Troughton) is still figuratively frozen in the earth's "New Ice Age" of the 31st century. Faced with an invasion of Martian Ice Warriors led by the villainous Varga (Bernard Bresslaw), the Doctor persuades scientist Read More

Charlie Bubbles

Actors: Albert Finney, Colin Blakely, Billie Whitelaw, Liza Minnelli, Timothy Garland

Synopsis: Albert Finney both directs and stars in the "alienation" comedy-drama Charlie Bubbles. The eponymous Bubbles (Finney) is a trendy and fabulously wealthy novelist. Indulged at every turn, and able to indulge in his wildest fancies, Charlie is bored by his privileged existence. He staves off ennui Read More

Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors, Episode 4

Actors: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling, Peter Sallis, Peter Barkworth

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of the six-part story "The Ice Warriors," Martian invader Varga (Bernard Bresslaw) and his companions intend to use the earth's 31st Century "New Ice Age" to their advantage. The Doctor (Patrick Troughton) hopes to prevent this by utilizing a super computer -- but a team of Read More

Doctor Who: The Ice Warriors, Episode 5

Actors: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling, Peter Sallis, Peter Barkworth

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of the six-part story "The Ice Warriors," the Doctor (Patrick Troughton) realizes that the computer he hoped to use to defeat Varga (Bernard Bresslaw) and the Martian Ice Warriors is useless. As an alternate plan, the Doctor intends to deploy a powerful ionizer against the Read More

Rapture

Actors: Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell, Gunnel Lindblom, Leslie Sands

Synopsis: Raised in the country with only her world-weary, cynical father, a former judge, for company, a young woman grows up believing that she too is angry at the world. Other than her reclusive father, her only human contact comes from her personal maid and a scarecrow that the girl mistakenly believes Read More

Escape by Night

Actors: Terence Longdon, Jennifer Jayne, Harry Fowler, Peter Sallis, Alan Wheatley

Synopsis: Escape by Night was originally released in Great Britain as Clash by Night, which was also the title of the Rupert Croft-Brooke novel on which it was based. Gangster boss Tom Bowman has been arrested and is being transported to prison in a bus containing several innocent "civilians." Bowman's old Read More

The Third Secret

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Diane Cilento, Pamela Franklin

Synopsis: TV commentator Stephen Boyd doesn't believe the official verdict of suicide in the death of a famed London psychiatrist. Boyd tries to get to the truth by studying a list of the shrink's patients. While interviewing three of these worthies (Jack Hawkins, Diane Cilento and Richard Attenborough) Read More

Avengers: The Wringer

Synopsis: Assigned to investigate the disappearance of five fellow agents, Steed ends up being accused of their murders. Alas, the only person able to prove his innocence has completely lost his memory. Acting on her own volition, Cathy tries to get to the truth herself and learns a few unpleasant facts Read More

The Mouse on the Moon

Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Cribbins, Ron Moody, David Kossoff, Terry-Thomas

Synopsis: From Richard Lester, the director of 1980's Superman II and the 1964 A Hard Day's Night, comes this less-successful sequel to the The Mouse that Roared. The Prime Minister of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick (Ron Moody) is in a bind because he has no money to renovate his castle and there is a serious Read More

The V.I.P.'s

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Elsa Martinelli, Margaret Rutherford, Maggie Smith

Synopsis: Terrence Rattigan, the playwright who brought us the multicharactered, multistoried Separate Tables, again offers us an episodic cross-section of humanity in The V.I.P.'s. When a heavy London fog paralyzes all air traffic, the lives of several people are profoundly affected. As indicated by the Read More

I Thank a Fool

Actors: Susan Hayward, Peter Finch, Diane Cilento, Cyril Cusack, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: Dr. Susan Hayward makes a tragic mistake when she leaves her Canadian practice to follow her ailing, married lover to England. Dying slowly and in great pain, her love begs her to help him die quickly. With great compassion, she does so with a large morphine injection. Unfortunately, her mercy Read More

The Curse of the Werewolf

Actors: Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain, Catherine Feller, Anthony Dawson

Synopsis: After injecting new life into classic movie monsters Dracula and Frankenstein, Hammer Studios apply their Gothic touch to another monster genre with this excellent, stylish piece -- probably the best of the old school (i.e. pre-Rick Baker) man-to-wolf transformation films in the mold of Read More

The Scapegoat

Actors: Alec Guinness, Nicole Maurey, Bette Davis, Irene Worth, Pamela Brown, Peter Bull

Synopsis: In this uneven but well-acted mystery story with a few gaps in the plot here and there, Alec Guiness plays a double role. He is John Barratt, a British teacher on vacation in France who is conned into taking on another identity. The identity he assumes is that of his double, Count Jacques de Gue Read More

The Doctor's Dilemma

Actors: Leslie Caron, Dirk Bogarde, Alastair Sim, Robert Morley, Felix Aylmer

Synopsis: This film adaptation of Bernard Shaw's 1903 comedy/drama stars Dirk Bogarde, which might have led some impressionable viewers to assume that Doctor's Dilemma was merely the latest installment in Bogarde's "Doctor in the House" series. Bogarde plays a rakish artist who falls victim to consumption. Leslie Caron Read More

The Invisible Man: Crisis in the Desert

Synopsis: While still seeking a method to reverse his invisiblity, Peter Brady takes on a top-secret mission for the British government. Col. Warren (Eric Pohlman) asks Peter to parachute (presumably naked!) into a hostile Middle Eastern country, there to rescue intelligence agent Jack Howard (Howard Pays) Read More

Anastasia

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: Anastasia is adapted from the popular stage play by Marcelle Maurette. The scene is Paris in the early 1920s. Ingrid Bergman plays a would-be suicide who is rescued by Russian expatriate Yul Brynner. Brynner's motives are far from altruistic; together with a group of Russian cohorts, he hopes to Read More

Quay South

Actors: Miriam Karlin, Richard Pearson, Allan Cuthbertson, Frederick Piper

Synopsis: This hour-long episode of the ITV network's anthology series Television Playhouse (which ran from 1955 through 1964 in the UK) originally aired December 10, 1955. It constitutes an adaptation of Howard Clewes's play Quay South, about a seafarer, Captain Daniel Thwaite (here played by Roger Read More

A Midsummer Night's Dream