Martin Potter
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Martin Potter (born 4 October 1944) is a British actor. After the National Youth Theatre and repertory theatre in Guildford and Hampstead, Potter received his first role in British television at the age of 24 in the television drama The Bonegrinder (1968) written by Dennis Potter. In the same year he had another small part alongside Brian Cox in the futuristic drama The Year of the Sex Olympics. One year later Potter's career took off with a much larger role. The Italian director Federico Fellini chose him for the main role of Encolpius in his film Satyricon. Terence Stamp, Fellini's original choice for the main role, was not available, and Fellini was looking for someone of a similar appearance. After this star role, Potter's career tended back to smaller roles again: mostly B-movies and television productions like the film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's Olive. Among his more well-known parts are the history film Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) and the film The Big Sleep (with Robert Mitchum as private detective Philip Marlowe). He also appeared in horror films, including Craze with Jack Palance, and television series such as Doctor Who. In 1975 he achieved some popularity with the title part of Robin Hood in a TV mini-series The Legend of Robin Hood. In 1985 he again took a part in a production concerning Ancient Rome: the American mini-series A.D. in which he portrayed the Roman politician and opponent of Nero, Gaius Calpurnius Piso.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.039 |
Birthday | 1944-10-04 |
Place of Birth | Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK |
Also Known As | Martin A. Potter, |
1969
Fellini Satyricon
6.7/328
After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a...
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Fellini Satyricon
1976
Satan's Slave
5.2/42
A young girl is caught up in a devil cult run by her evil uncle and cousin. She can trust no one and even people she thought were dead comes back to h...
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Satan's Slave
1968
The Year of the Sex Olympics
5.3/3
Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the f...
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The Year of the Sex Olympics
1970
Goodbye Gemini
4.4/10
Unnaturally close, jet-setting twins become enmeshed in the Swinging London scene, where their relationship is strained after they befriend a predator...
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Goodbye Gemini
1970
The Only Way
5.9/8
In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark's Jews re...
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The Only Way
1974
Craze
5.281/16
A demented art dealer and antique shop owner performs nightly rituals in honour of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimag...
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Craze
1986
Gunpowder
0/0
Dr. Vache (Miller) has a plan to destroy the world's economy by flooding it with gold. Two spies, Gunn and Powder (Potter and Gilliam) are on a missio...
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Gunpowder
1972
All Coppers Are...
6.8/6
A young policeman and a small-time crook are both involved with the same girl.
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All Coppers Are...
1977
Cruel Passion
3.9/11
Justine is a nubile young virgin cast out of a French orphanage and thrust into a depraved world of prostitution, predatory lesbians, a fugitive murde...
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Cruel Passion
1979
Lady Oscar
5.4/30
Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at...
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Lady Oscar
1983
Summer School
0/0
A motley band of suburbanites arrives at a summer school to simulate life in an Iron Age village. However, the village is right in the middle of a mod...
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Summer School
1978
The Big Sleep
5.9/84
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.
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The Big Sleep
1968
The Bone Grinder
0/0
George, an ineffectual and inoffensive clerk, and his prim wife Gladys reserve their greatest efforts for preserving their respectibility. Sam, a roug...
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The Bone Grinder
1983
Doctor Who: Terminus
7.2/2
The TARDIS attaches itself to a space liner after Turlough, still under the Black Guardian's influence, damages its controls. The Doctor and Nyssa mee...
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Doctor Who: Terminus
1971
Nicholas and Alexandra
6.9/68
Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
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Nicholas and Alexandra
2006
The Outsiders
4/2
The mysterious Nathan Hyde is lured out of hiding by the glamorous Erica, a reluctant employee of a global organisation known as The Establishment. Hy...
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The Outsiders
1970
Ciao, Federico!
6.6/7
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
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