Russell Napier
Russell Napier was born in Perth, Western Australia. Originally a lawyer, Napier was active as an actor on the stage as early as 1936; on the screen, from 1947 to 1974, playing both comedic and dramatic roles in both cinema and television. Notably, he starred in a liveBBC television production of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine in 1949; still photographs of this production exist, but no actual footage.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.416 |
Birthday | 1910-11-28 |
Place of Birth | Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
Also Known As | Russell Gordon Napier, |
1958
Tread Softly Stranger
7.5/11
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.
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Tread Softly Stranger
1955
Little Red Monkey
5.8/3
Several murders of nuclear scientists, that baffles Scotland Yard, occur in London about the same time that Bill Locklin, a special officer from the U...
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Little Red Monkey
1955
The Blue Peter
6/1
A Merchant Navy hero of the Korean War returns to England after three years of captivity in Communist hands, his mind confused by brain-washing and in...
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The Blue Peter
1955
A Time to Kill
6.5/2
A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper jour...
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A Time to Kill
1968
Nobody Runs Forever
6/20
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But wh...
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Nobody Runs Forever
1961
The Mark
6.2/18
A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
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The Mark
1960
The Angry Silence
7.1/29
When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.
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The Angry Silence
1968
The Blood Beast Terror
5.5/55
A Scotland Yard Detective must investigate a series of murders perpetrated by a giant blood-sucking moth that can take human form.
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The Blood Beast Terror
1962
H.M.S. Defiant
6.5/43
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sa...
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H.M.S. Defiant
1955
The Brain Machine
5.5/4
A British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.
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The Brain Machine
1961
Francis of Assisi
7.6/31
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his...
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Francis of Assisi
1954
A Stranger Came Home
5.5/9
Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners,...
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A Stranger Came Home
1956
The Man in the Road
6.3/3
A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret formula.
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The Man in the Road
1954
The Dark Stairway
0/0
A blind man, George Benson, witnesses the murder of Harry Carpenter by Joe Lloyd, but finds himself accused of the murder
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The Dark Stairway
1952
Blind Man's Bluff
0/0
Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results in...
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Blind Man's Bluff
1957
Robbery Under Arms
5.4/7
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief...
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Robbery Under Arms
1958
Son of Robin Hood
4.4/4
Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize t...
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Son of Robin Hood
1957
Deep Dig
0/0
Pit sinkers prepare the coal mines of tomorrow. An account of shaft sinking techniques.
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Deep Dig
1952
Death of an Angel
6/1
The angel of the title is Jane Baxter, the wife of country physician Patrick Barr. Everybody in the small British village where she lives thinks the w...
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Death of an Angel
1949
The Time Machine
6/1
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The Time Machine
1953
Black Orchid
4.9/8
Caught in a loveless marriage, Dr. John Winnington (Ronald Howard) can't stop himself from falling for his wife's (Mary Laura Wood) younger sister, Ch...
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Black Orchid
1957
The Shiralee
5.1/14
An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and...
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The Shiralee
1962
The Hole In The Ground
0/0
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation, who's duties included...
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The Hole In The Ground
1956
The Narrowing Circle
5.5/4
A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.
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The Narrowing Circle
1968
Twisted Nerve
6.8/50
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he re...
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Twisted Nerve
1952
Stolen Face
5.6/26
A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict b...
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Stolen Face
1956
The Last Man to Hang
5.5/4
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
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The Last Man to Hang
1960
Sink the Bismarck!
6.8/100
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bi...
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Sink the Bismarck!
1958
A Night to Remember
7.6/244
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspect...
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A Night to Remember
1960
Hell Is a City
6.7/28
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starli...
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Hell Is a City
1964
Man in the Middle
6.4/19
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood....
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Man in the Middle
1956
Guilty?
6/1
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching f...
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Guilty?
1957
The Case of The Smiling Widow
0/0
From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger.
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The Case of The Smiling Widow
1954
Conflict of Wings
6.3/3
In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved...
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Conflict of Wings
1953
The Saint's Return
5.6/26
A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.
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The Saint's Return
1956
A Town Like Alice
6.3/32
In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no...
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A Town Like Alice
1953
36 Hours
5.9/13
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is...
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