
Joss Ackland
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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
Filmography

Katherine of Alexandria
2014
as Rufus

The Portrait
2014
as Henry Winter

Prisoners of the Sun
2013
as Professor Mendella

The Boy with Chocolate Fingers
2011
as Narrator

Peak Performers - The Mk3 Ford Cortina
2010
as Narrator

Pinocchio
2009
as Mastro Ciliegia

Pinocchio
2009
as Mastro Ciliegia

Flawless
2007
as Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft

How About You...
2007
as Donald Vanston

In Search of the Great Beast 666: Aleister Crowley
2007
as Narrator

Hogfather
2007
as Mustrum Ridcully

Kingdom
2007
as Mr. John Narbutowicz

Moscow Zero
2006
as Tolstoy

These Foolish Things
2006
as Albert

The One Show
2006
as Self

Above and Beyond
2006
as Winston Churchill

Hogfather
2006
as Mustrum Ridcully

Asylum
2005
as Jack Straffen

Icon
2005
as General Nikolayev

Defining a Style
2005
as Self

A Different Loyalty
2004
as Randolph Cauffield

I'll Be There
2003
as Evil Edmonds

Henry VIII
2003
as Henry VII

No Good Deed
2002
as Mr. Quarre

K-19: The Widowmaker
2002
as Marshal Zelentsov

Othello
2001
as James Brabant
Lounge Act
2000

The Mumbo Jumbo
2000
as Mayor Smith

Passion of Mind
2000
as Dr. Langer, the French Psychiatrist

Easter Tales
2000
as Barabbas

Milk
1999
as Vicar

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999
as The Prussian

Swept from the Sea
1998
as Mr. Swaffer

My Giant
1998
as Monsignor Popesou

Firelight
1998
as Lord Clare

Heat of the Sun
1998
as Max Van Der vuurst

Midsomer Murders
1997
as Sir Freddy Butler

D3: The Mighty Ducks
1996
as Hans

Surviving Picasso
1996
as Henri Matisse

Deadly Voyage
1996

Hidden in Silence
1996
as German Factory Manager

To the Ends of Time
1996
as King Francis

Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996
as Samuel (voice)

Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996
as Noah (voice)

Citizen X
1995
as Bondarchuk

A Kid in King Arthur's Court
1995
as King Arthur

Mad Dogs and Englishmen
1995
as Insp. Sam Stringer

Daisies in December
1995
as Gerald Carmody

Jacob
1994
as Isaak

Giorgino
1994
as Father Glaise

Miracle on 34th Street
1994
as Victor Landbergh (uncredited)

OcchioPinocchio
1994
as Brando Della Valle

Joan Miró: Constellations - The Color of Poetry
1994
as Self
Citizen Locke
1994
as Lord Ashley

Miracle on 34th Street
1994
as Victor Landbergh

Julius Caesar
1994
as Caesar

Nowhere to Run
1993
as Franklin Hale

Mother's Boys
1993
as Lansing, Jude's Attorney

Voices in the Garden
1993
as Sir Charles Peverall

The Thief and the Cobbler
1993
as Brigand (voice)

Simulacrum
1993
as The Chemist

The Mighty Ducks
1992
as Hans

Once Upon a Crime
1992
as Hercules Popodopoulos

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
1992
as King Edward

The Bridge
1992
as Smithson

Project: Shadowchaser
1992
as Kinderman

White Bear's Secret
1992
as Brown Bear (voice)

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
as The Prussian

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
as Caesar (voice)

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
1991
as De Nomolos

A Murder of Quality
1991
as Terence Fielding

The Object of Beauty
1991
as Mr. Mercer

The Sheltering Desert
1991

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
1991
as Lewis Serrocold

The Princess and the Goblin
1991
as King Papa (voice)

Brown Bear's Wedding
1991
as Brown Bear (voice)
Ashenden
1991

A Woman Named Jackie
1991
as Aristotle Onassis

The Hunt for Red October
1990
as Ambassador Andrei Lysenko

Jekyll & Hyde
1990
as Dr. Charles Lanyon

The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
1990
as Gen. Gerhard Hellstein

The Palermo Connection
1990
as il boss

Tre colonne in cronaca
1990
as Gaetano Leporino, il finanziere

Lethal Weapon 2
1989
as Arjen Rudd

First and Last
1989
as Alan Holly
A Quiet Conspiracy
1989
as Theo Carter

It Couldn't Happen Here
1988
as Priest/Murderer

To Kill a Priest
1988
as Colonel

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
1988
as Hermann Goering

Olympus Force: The Key
1988
as George Grossopoulos

Codename: Kyril
1988
as 'C'

The Sicilian
1987
as Don Masino Croce

White Mischief
1987
as 'Jock' Delves Broughton

When We Are Married
1987
as Henry Ormonroyd

Queenie
1987
as Sir Burton Rumsey

A Killing on the Exchange
1987
as Sir Max Sillman

Lady Jane
1986
as Sir John Bridges

A Zed & Two Noughts
1985
as Van Hoyten

Shadowlands
1985
as CS Lewis

Screen Two
1985
as Sir Charles (Archie) Peverall

Screen Two
1985
as Captain

The Tragedy of Coriolanus
1984
as Menenius
The Leather Boys
1984
as Narrator

Shroud for a Nightingale
1984
as Stephen Courtney-Briggs

Sherlock Holmes
1984
as Jephro Rucastle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1984
as Jephro Rucastle

Natural World
1983
as Self - Narrator (voice)

Dalgliesh
1983
as Stephen Courtney-Briggs

The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1982
as Edward Moulton-Barrett

Wogan
1982
as Self

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
1981
as Chief Insp. Yardbird

Elizabeth Alone
1981
as Major Orpen

Findings on a Late Afternoon
1981
as Father

The Apple
1980
as Mr. Topps / Hippie Leader

The Love Tapes
1980
as Narrator (voice)

Rough Cut
1980
as Insp. Vanderveld

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
1980
as Prison Warden
Closing Ranks
1980
as Victor Rogachev

The Gentle Touch
1980
as Ivor Stocker
A Question of Guilt
1980
as Samuel Kent

Saint Jack
1979
as Yardley

Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Colonel George Peregrine

Turtle's Progress
1979
as Benny D-Day

Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Jack Cutler

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979
as Jerry Westerby

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978
as Cantrell

Watership Down
1978
as Black Rabbit (voice)

The Greek Tycoon
1978
as Naval officer (uncredited)

Return of the Saint
1978
as Gunther

Enemy at the Door
1978
as Major General Laidlaw

The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
as Menenius

The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
1977
as President

Silver Bears
1977
as Henry Foreman

You Talk Too Much
1976
as Doctor

The Crezz
1976
as Charles Bronte

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
1975
as B.J. Spence

Royal Flash
1975
as Sapten

Operation: Daybreak
1975
as Janák

Heading For Glory
1975
as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Magic Dream
1975
as Narrator

The Sweeney
1975
as Alan Ember

S*P*Y*S
1974
as Martinson

The Little Prince
1974
as The King

Great Expectations
1974
as Joe Gargery
Miss Nightingale
1974
as Lord Palmerston

The Black Windmill
1974
as Chief Supt. Wray

The Four Musketeers
1974
as D'Artagnan's Father (archive footage) (uncredited)

Playhouse
1974
as Maj. Orpen

Playhouse
1974
as Father

The Three Musketeers
1973
as D’Artagnan’s Father

England Made Me
1973
as Haller

Penny Gold
1973
as Jones

Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
as General Burgdorf

Access to the Children
1973
as Malcolmson

Centre Play
1973
as Doctor

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
as Detective Inspector Hud

The Mind Snatchers
1972
as Dr. Frederick

The Bankrupt
1972
as Ellis Cripper
King's Cross Lunch Hour
1972
as The Man
Crippled Bloom
1972
as Potter Jones

The Protectors
1972
as Arthur Gordon

Shirley's World
1972

Country Matters
1972
as Potter-Jones
Late Night Theatre
1972
as Martens

Villain
1971
as Edgar Lowis

The House That Dripped Blood
1971
as Neville Rogers (segment 2 "Waxworks")

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
1971
as Head of Board
Getting In
1971
as An Applicant

The Persuaders!
1971
as Felix Meadowes

Justice
1971
as Sir Robert Beste

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
as Grubber

Crescendo
1970
as Carter

The Lie
1970
as Albert

The Three Sisters
1970
as Chebutykin

Play for Today
1970
as Albert

Play for Today
1970
as Ellis Cripper

Play for Today
1970
as Malcolmson

ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Councillor Horne
W. Somerset Maugham
1969
as Harold Bannon
Canterbury Tales
1969
as Host

The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
1967
as d'Artagnan

One Pair of Eyes
1967
Trapped
1967
as Pritchy

Rasputin: The Mad Monk
1966
as The Bishop

Death of a Salesman
1966
as Charley
David Copperfield
1966
as Daniel Peggotty

Mystery and Imagination
1966
as Herr Scavenius

Mystery and Imagination
1966
as Mr Smedhurst
Lord Raingo
1966
as Tom Hogarth

Tomorrow, Just You Wait
1965
as Tom Gorbet

BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Chebutykin

The Troubleshooters
1965
as Considine

The Troubleshooters
1965
as Sam Jardine

The Troubleshooters
1965
as Mr. Gibbon

The Troubleshooters
1965
as Lewis

BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Charley

Londoners
1965
as Angus Grahame

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as The Applicant

Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as The Man
Blackmail
1965
as Charles Lorrimer
Maggie
1964
as Norman

Sherlock Holmes
1964
as Hon. Philip Green

The Wednesday Play
1964
as Cornelius

The Wednesday Play
1964
as Tom Gorbet

Theatre 625
1964
as Hockey Jagger

Theatre 625
1964
as Fred

Theatre 625
1964
as John Hinks
The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling
1964
as William Stevens

In Search of the Castaways
1962
as Yacht Seaman

The Avengers
1961
as Brigadier Hansing

No Hiding Place
1959

Next to No Time
1958
as Turkish Bath Attendant

Armchair Theatre
1956
as Frank Penfold

Armchair Theatre
1956
as Mr Green

Ghost Ship
1952
as Ron, 2nd Fisherman

Seven Days to Noon
1950
as Station Policeman

Landfall
1949
as O'Neil