Joss Ackland

Actor Feb 29 (died age 95) North Kensington, London, England, UK 1949–2014 (65 year career)

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Biography

Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland CBE (29 February 1928 – 19 November 2023) was an English actor who appeared in more than 130 film and television roles. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying Jock Delves Broughton in White Mischief (1987). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joss Ackland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Film

The Hunt for Red October

Ambassador Andrei Lysenko

Film

Lethal Weapon 2

Arjen Rudd

Film

Miracle on 34th Street

Victor Landbergh

Film

Watership Down

Black Rabbit (voice)

Film

K-19: The Widowmaker

Marshal Zelentsov

Film

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

De Nomolos

Film

The Mighty Ducks

Hans

Film

Flawless

Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft

Filmography

Acting (188)

Movies (133)

Katherine of Alexandria

2014

as Rufus

2.7

The Portrait

2014

as Henry Winter

Prisoners of the Sun

2013

as Professor Mendella

3.9

The Boy with Chocolate Fingers

2011

as Narrator

5.0

Peak Performers - The Mk3 Ford Cortina

2010

as Narrator

Pinocchio

as Mastro Ciliegia

Hogfather

as Mustrum Ridcully

Flawless

as Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft

6.8

In Search of the Great Beast 666: Aleister Crowley

as Narrator

How About You...

as Donald Vanston

Moscow Zero

as Tolstoy

These Foolish Things

as Albert

Above and Beyond

Icon

as General Nikolayev

Asylum

as Jack Straffen

Defining a Style

as Self

A Different Loyalty

2004

as Randolph Cauffield

4.6

I'll Be There

2003

as Evil Edmonds - The BeeLzeeBOPS

K-19: The Widowmaker

as Marshal Zelentsov

No Good Deed

as Mr. Quarre

Othello

as James Brabant

The Mumbo Jumbo

as Mayor Smith

Lounge Act

2000

Passion of Mind

2000

as Dr. Langer, the French Psychiatrist

5.7

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service

as The Prussian

Milk

as Vicar

Firelight

as Lord Clare

My Giant

as Monsignor Popesou

Swept from the Sea

as Mr. Swaffer

To the Ends of Time

as King Francis

Surviving Picasso

as Henri Matisse

D3: The Mighty Ducks

as Hans

Deadly Voyage

Hidden in Silence

as German Factory Manager

7.1

Citizen X

1995

as Bondarchuk

7.2

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

1995

as Insp. Sam Stringer

3.4

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

as King Arthur

Daisies in December

as Gerald Carmody

Miracle on 34th Street

as Victor Landbergh

Giorgino

as Father Glaise

Jacob

as Isaak

Joan Miró: Constellations - The Color of Poetry

1994

as Self

Citizen Locke

1994

as Lord Ashley

OcchioPinocchio

1994

as Brando Della Valle

4.1

Julius Caesar

1994

as Caesar

Voices in the Garden

1993

as Sir Charles Peverall

Nowhere to Run

1993

as Franklin Hale

6.4

The Thief and the Cobbler

1993

as Brigand (voice)

7.1

Mother's Boys

1993

as Lansing, Jude's Attorney

5.3

Simulacrum

1993

as The Chemist

The Mighty Ducks

1992

as Hans

6.6

White Bear's Secret

1992

as Brown Bear (voice)

Project: Shadowchaser

1992

as Kinderman

4.2

Once Upon a Crime

1992

as Hercules Popodopoulos

5.7

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls

as King Edward

The Bridge

as Smithson

The Sheltering Desert

1991

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

1991

as De Nomolos

6.3

Brown Bear's Wedding

1991

as Brown Bear (voice)

A Murder of Quality

1991

as Terence Fielding

5.4

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

1991

as Lewis Serrocold

6.8

The Princess and the Goblin

as King Papa (voice)

The Object of Beauty

as Mr. Mercer

The Hunt for Red October

1990

as Ambassador Andrei Lysenko

7.4

The Palermo Connection

1990

as il boss

6.2

Jekyll & Hyde

1990

as Dr. Charles Lanyon

5.8

Tre colonne in cronaca

1990

as Gaetano Leporino, il finanziere

5.9

The Secret Life of Ian Fleming

1990

as Gen. Gerhard Hellstein

Lethal Weapon 2

as Arjen Rudd

First and Last

as Alan Holly

Codename: Kyril

as 'C'

It Couldn't Happen Here

as Priest/Murderer

To Kill a Priest

as Colonel

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

1988

as Hermann Goering

3.3

Olympus Force: The Key

1988

as George Grossopoulos

2.5

White Mischief

1987

as 'Jock' Delves Broughton

The Sicilian

as Don Masino Croce

When We Are Married

as Henry Ormonroyd

Lady Jane

as Sir John Bridges

A Zed & Two Noughts

as Van Hoyten

Shadowlands

as CS Lewis

The Tragedy of Coriolanus

1984

as Menenius

8.0

The Leather Boys

1984

as Narrator

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

1982

as Edward Moulton-Barrett

Findings on a Late Afternoon

1981

as Father

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective

1981

as Chief Insp. Yardbird

5.9

Elizabeth Alone

1981

as Major Orpen

The Love Tapes

1980

as Narrator (voice)

3.0

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

as Prison Warden

Rough Cut

as Insp. Vanderveld

The Apple

as Mr. Topps / Hippie Leader

4.4

Closing Ranks

1980

as Victor Rogachev

Saint Jack

1979

as Yardley

6.5

Watership Down

1978

as Black Rabbit (voice)

7.2

The Greek Tycoon

1978

as Naval officer (uncredited)

5.4

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

as Cantrell

Silver Bears

as Henry Foreman

The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It

1977

as President

6.2

You Talk Too Much

1976

as Doctor

Operation: Daybreak

as Janák

Royal Flash

as Sapten

Heading For Glory

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.0

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

as B.J. Spence

The Black Windmill

as Chief Supt. Wray

The Four Musketeers

as D'Artagnan's Father (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Little Prince

as The King

S*P*Y*S

as Martinson

Great Expectations

as Joe Gargery

Miss Nightingale

as Lord Palmerston

Access to the Children

1973

as Malcolmson

7.0

The Three Musketeers

1973

as D’Artagnan’s Father

6.7

Penny Gold

1973

as Jones

5.7

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

as General Burgdorf

England Made Me

as Haller

King's Cross Lunch Hour

1972

as The Man

The Mind Snatchers

1972

as Dr. Frederick

5.8

The Bankrupt

1972

as Ellis Cripper

Crippled Bloom

1972

as Potter Jones

Villain

1971

as Edgar Lowis

6.1

The House That Dripped Blood

1971

as Neville Rogers (segment 2 "Waxworks")

6.4

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins

1971

as Head of Board

4.6

Getting In

1971

as An Applicant

The Lie

as Albert

The Three Sisters

as Chebutykin

Crescendo

as Carter

Rasputin: The Mad Monk

1966

as The Bishop

5.8

Tomorrow, Just You Wait

1965

as Tom Gorbet

2.0

Maggie

1964

as Norman

In Search of the Castaways

1962

as Yacht Seaman

6.5

Next to No Time

1958

as Turkish Bath Attendant

8.0

Ghost Ship

1952

as Ron, 2nd Fisherman

Seven Days to Noon

as Station Policeman

Landfall

as O'Neil

Television (55)

Pinocchio

2009

as Mastro Ciliegia

Kingdom

2007

as Mr. John Narbutowicz

The One Show

as Self

Hogfather

as Mustrum Ridcully

Above and Beyond

as Winston Churchill

Henry VIII

as Henry VII

Easter Tales

as Barabbas

Heat of the Sun

1998

as Max Van Der vuurst

5.9

Midsomer Murders

1997

as Sir Freddy Butler

7.5

Testament: The Bible in Animation

1996

as Noah (voice)

6.4

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

1992

as The Prussian

6.5

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

as Caesar (voice)

A Woman Named Jackie

as Aristotle Onassis

Ashenden

Codename: Kyril

as 'C'

Queenie

as Sir Burton Rumsey

A Killing on the Exchange

1987

as Sir Max Sillman

5.0

A Killing on the Exchange

as Sir Max Sillman

Sherlock Holmes

as Jephro Rucastle

Shroud for a Nightingale

1984

as Stephen Courtney-Briggs

6.4

Natural World

1983

as Self - Narrator (voice)

7.4

Dalgliesh

1983

as Stephen Courtney-Briggs

Wogan

as Self

The Gentle Touch

as Ivor Stocker

A Question of Guilt

Tales of the Unexpected

1979

as Jack Cutler

6.7

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Turtle's Progress

as Benny D-Day

Return of the Saint

as Gunther

Enemy at the Door

as Major General Laidlaw

7.8

The Crezz

1976

as Charles Bronte

The Sweeney

as Alan Ember

Playhouse

as Maj. Orpen

Centre Play

as Doctor

The Protectors

as Arthur Gordon

Country Matters

as Potter Jones

Shirley's World

The Persuaders!

as Felix Meadowes

Justice

as Sir Robert Beste

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

as Grubber

Play for Today

as Albert

The Further Adventures of the Musketeers

as d'Artagnan

One Pair of Eyes

Mystery and Imagination

as Herr Scavenius

David Copperfield

as Daniel Peggotty

BBC Play of the Month

as Charley

The Troubleshooters

as Mr. Gibbon

Londoners

as Angus Grahame

Horizon

as Narrator (voice)

The Wednesday Play

as Tom Gorbet

Theatre 625

as Hockey Jagger

Sherlock Holmes

as Hon. Philip Green

The Avengers

as Brigadier Hansing

No Hiding Place

Armchair Theatre

as Frank Penfold