Personal Info
George Murcell
Acting
Biography
Arthur George Murcell (30 October 1925 – 3 December 1998) was a British character actor.
Born in Italy, he made his film debut in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Battle of the River Plate (1956), Murcell went on to develop a career playing snarling villains in both film and television. These could either be stupid, brutish henchmen, as in Hell Drivers and Campbell's Kingdom (both 1957), or sophisticated rogues, such as Needle in "You Have Just Been Murdered", an episode of The Avengers.
He specialised in playing foreign characters, including Germans, Russians and South Americans.…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
The Ice Princess
Cutthroat Island
as Mordachai Fingers
Year of the Gun
as Pierre Bernier
Pascali's Island
as Herr Gesing
Penelope Pulls It Off
as Owen
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Prison
as Maître Rabut
Penny Gold
as Doctor Merrick
Mafia Junction
The Horsemen
as Mizrar
TV Shows
Presented in Supercolorisation
as Professor Rudolph Popkiss (voice) (credit only) · 1 ep.
Peter the Great
4 ep.
Inside the Third Reich
as Herman Goering · 2 ep.
Smuggler
as Silas Kemble · 13 ep.
The Professionals
as Yashinkov · 1 ep.
1990
as Tiny · 8 ep.
Armchair Cinema
as Maître Rabut · 1 ep.
The Persuaders!
as Zorakin · 1 ep.
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
as Inspector Vandeleur · 1 ep.
Jason King
1 ep.
