Murray Melvin

Actor Nov 30 (died age 90) Hampstead, London, England, UK 1960–2023 (63 year career)

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Biography

Murray Melvin (10 August 1932-14 April 2023) was an English actor and writer. He won the 1962 Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award for his role in A Taste of Honey (1961).

Known For

Film

Barry Lyndon

Reverend Runt

Film

The Phantom of the Opera

Reyer

Film

The Lost City of Z

Lord James Bernard

Film

The Devils

Father-Canon Jean Mignon

Film

Alice in Wonderland

Chief Executioner

Film

Alfie

Nat

Film

A Taste of Honey

Geoffrey Ingham

Film

The Krays

Newsagent

Filmography

Acting (79)

Movies (56)

The Undertaker

2023

as Lenny

5.5

Set the Night on Fire: The Story of Ewan MacColl

2021

as Self

The Ghost of Peter Sellers

2018

as Himself

5.8

The Lost City of Z

2017

as Lord James Bernard

6.4

The Grey Mile

2012

as Professor Worth

The Village

2010

as Male Librarian

3.9

Bill Douglas: Intent on Getting the Image

2006

as Himself

8.8

The Phantom of the Opera

2004

as Reyer

7.3

Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils

2002

as Self

6.4

The Emperor's New Clothes

as Antommarchi

David Copperfield

as Dr Edward Chillip

Alice in Wonderland

as Chief Executioner

Stanley and Us

as Self

Princess Caraboo

as Lord Motley

Doomsday Gun

as Shop Manager

As You Like It

as Sir Oliver Martext

5.5

Let Him Have It

1991

as Secondary School Teacher

Sunday Pursuit

as Head waiter

The Krays

as Newsagent

The Fool

as Jeremy Ruttle

Slipstream

as Man on Stairs

Testimony

as Film Editor

Comrades

as Mr. Frampton's Clerk

Sacred Hearts

as Father Power

This Office Life

as Reporter

Nutcracker

1982

as Leopold

2.0

Stories from a Flying Trunk

1979

as Hans Christian Andersen

Gulliver's Travels

1977

as (voice)

5.5

The Prince and the Pauper

as Prince's Dresser

Joseph Andrews

as Beau Didapper

The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones

as Blifil

Shout at the Devil

as Lt. Phipps

Barry Lyndon

as Reverend Runt

Lisztomania

as Hector Berlioz

Ghost Story

as McFayden

Ghost in the Noonday Sun

1973

as Hamidos

4.1

The Adventures Of Don Quixote

1973

as Traveling Barber

Gawain and the Green Knight

1973

as Seneschal

4.6

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

1972

as Doctor

4.2

The Devils

1971

as Father-Canon Jean Mignon

7.5

The Boy Friend

1971

as Alphonse

6.5

Start the Revolution Without Me

as Blind Man

The Fixer

as Priest

Smashing Time

as 1st Exquisite

Alfie

as Nat

Kaleidoscope

as Aimes

Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World

1966

as Photographer

4.9

The Diary of a Nobody

as Lupin Pooter

The Ceremony

as Gendarme

Sparrows Can't Sing

as Georgie

H.M.S. Defiant

as Wagstaffe

Solo for Sparrow

as Larkin

A Taste of Honey

as Geoffrey Ingham

Petticoat Pirates

as Kenneth

Suspect

as Teddy Boy

The Criminal

as Antlers

Television (23)

Stanleyandus - a Kubrick odyssey

2022

as self

Starhunter ReduX

as Caravaggio

Torchwood

as Bilis

The Genius of Mozart

as Lorenzo da Ponte

Starhunter

2000

as Caravaggio AI

5.1

Midsomer Murders

1997

as Bentham DeQuetteville

Jonathan Creek

as Lionel Prekopp

Bugs

Oscar's Orchestra

Chillers

as Mr. Taylor

Crossbow

Super Gran

as Neville Mince

Bulman

Christopher Columbus

as Padre Linares

Clouds of Glory

as Robert Lovell

Ooh La La!

as Vladimir

The Tyrant King

1968

as Gerald Gould

6.5

The Informer

1966

as William Waterwell

BBC Play of the Month

as The Dauphin

Out of the Unknown

as Fred

Theatre 625

as Berthold

Six

The Avengers