Anthony Hopkins
Born December 31, 1937 (Age: 88)
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Margam, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Biography
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a Welsh actor, film director, and film producer. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Television Award. He has also received an honorary Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts, and in 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in the motion picture industry. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, Hopkins trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre in 1965. Productions at the National included King Lear, his favourite Shakespeare play. His last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989. In 1968, Hopkins achieved recognition in film, playing Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter. In the mid-1970s, Richard Attenborough, who directed five Hopkins films, called him "the greatest actor of his generation." In 1991, he portrayed Hannibal Lecter in the psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in its sequel Hannibal and the prequel Red Dragon. Other notable films include The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Howards End (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Shadowlands (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Meet Joe Black (1998), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He received four more Academy Award nominations for The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997) and The Two Popes (2019) before winning a fourth BAFTA Award and a second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an elderly man diagnosed with dementia in The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner to date. Since making his television debut with the BBC in 1967, Hopkins has continued to appear on television. In 1973 he received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in War and Peace. In 2015, he starred in the BBC film The Dresser alongside Ian McKellen. In 2018, he starred in King Lear opposite Emma Thompson. In 2016 and 2018, he starred in the HBO television series Westworld, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a Welsh actor, film director, and film producer. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Television Award. He has also received an honorary Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts, and in 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in the motion picture industry.
After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, Hopkins trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre in 1965. Productions at the National included King Lear, his favourite Shakespeare play. His last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989.
In 1968, Hopkins achieved recognition in film, playing Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter. In the mid-1970s, Richard Attenborough, who directed five Hopkins films, called him "the greatest actor of his generation." In 1991, he portrayed Hannibal Lecter in the psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in its sequel Hannibal and the prequel Red Dragon. Other notable films include The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Howards End (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Shadowlands (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Meet Joe Black (1998), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He received four more Academy Award nominations for The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997) and The Two Popes (2019) before winning a fourth BAFTA Award and a second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an elderly man diagnosed with dementia in The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner to date.
Since making his television debut with the BBC in 1967, Hopkins has continued to appear on television. In 1973 he received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in War and Peace. In 2015, he starred in the BBC film The Dresser alongside Ian McKellen. In 2018, he starred in King Lear opposite Emma Thompson. In 2016 and 2018, he starred in the HBO television series Westworld, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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Filmography
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as Self
Locked
2025
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as William
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Age: 87
Freud's Last Session
2023
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as Sigmund Freud
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Age: 85
One Life
2023
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as Nicholas Winton
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Age: 85
The Son
2022
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as Anthony
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Age: 84
Armageddon Time
2022
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as Aaron Rabinowitz
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Age: 84
The Father
2020
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as Anthony
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Age: 82
The Two Popes
2019
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as Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI
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Age: 81
Love, Antosha
2019
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as Self (voice)
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Age: 81
Thor: Ragnarok
2017
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as Odin
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Age: 79
Transformers: The Last Knight
2017
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as Sir Edmund Burton
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Age: 79
Collide
2016
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as Hagen Kahl
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Age: 78
Misconduct
2016
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as Arthur Denning
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Age: 78
Blackway
2015
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as Lester
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Age: 77
Solace
2015
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as John Clancy
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Age: 77
Kidnapping Mr. Heineken
2015
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as Freddy Heineken
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Age: 77
Noah
2014
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as Methuselah
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Age: 76
Thor: The Dark World
2013
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as Odin
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Age: 75
RED 2
2013
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as Bailey
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Age: 75
Hitchcock
2012
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as Alfred Hitchcock
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Age: 74
Marvel Studios: Building a Cinematic Universe
2012
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as Self
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Age: 74
360
2012
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as John
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Age: 74
Thor
2011
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as Odin
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Age: 73
The Rite
2011
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as Father Lucas Trevant
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Age: 73
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010
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as Alfie
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Age: 72
Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
2010
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as Self
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Age: 72
The Wolfman
2010
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as Sir John Talbot
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Age: 72
Beowulf
2007
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as Hrothgar
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Age: 69
Fracture
2007
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as Theodore Crawford
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Age: 69
Slipstream
2007
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as Felix Bonhoeffer
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Age: 69
All the King's Men
2006
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as Judge Irwin
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Age: 68
The World's Fastest Indian
2005
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as Burt Munro
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Age: 67
Proof
2005
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as Robert Llewellyn
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Age: 67
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
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as Self (archive footage)
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Age: 67
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The True Story of Hannibal
2005
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as Self
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Age: 67
Alexander
2004
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as Old Ptolemy
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Age: 66
The Human Stain
2003
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as Coleman Silk
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Age: 65
Red Dragon
2002
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as Hannibal Lecter
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Age: 64
Bad Company
2002
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as Oakes
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Age: 64
Hearts in Atlantis
2001
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as Ted Brautigan
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Age: 63
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2001
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as Self
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Age: 63
Hannibal
2001
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as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
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Age: 63
The Many Faces of Zorro
2000
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as Self
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Age: 62
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
2000
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 62
Mission: Impossible II
2000
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as Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
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Age: 62
Titus
1999
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as Titus Andronicus
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Age: 61
Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box
1999
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as Narrator
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Age: 61
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Little Secret
1999
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as Narrator
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Age: 61
Instinct
1999
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as Dr. Ethan Powell
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Age: 61
Meet Joe Black
1998
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as William Parrish
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Age: 60
Junket Whore
1998
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as Self
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Age: 60
The Mask of Zorro
1998
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as Don Diego de la Vega / Zorro
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Age: 60
Amistad
1997
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as John Quincy Adams
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Age: 59
The Edge
1997
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as Charles Morse
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Age: 59
Surviving Picasso
1996
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as Pablo Picasso
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Age: 58
Shirley Maclaine: Kicking Up Her Heels
1996
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as Self
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Age: 58
Nixon
1995
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as Richard Nixon
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Age: 57
Legends of the Fall
1994
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as Col. William Ludlow
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Age: 56
The Road to Wellville
1994
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as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg
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Age: 56
Shadowlands
1993
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as C. S. 'Jack' Lewis
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Age: 55
The Remains of the Day
1993
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as James Stevens
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Age: 55
The Trial
1993
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as The Priest
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Age: 55
Chaplin
1992
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as George Hayden
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Age: 54
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992
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as Professor Abraham Van Helsing
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Age: 54
Howards End
1992
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as Henry J. Wilcox
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Age: 54
Spotswood
1992
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as Errol Wallace
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Age: 54
Freejack
1992
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as Ian McCandless
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Age: 54
The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
1991
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as Self
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Age: 53
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
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as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
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Age: 53
Desperate Hours
1990
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as Tim Cornell
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Age: 52
A Chorus of Disapproval
1989
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as Dafydd Ap Llewellyn
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Age: 51
84 Charing Cross Road
1987
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as Frank P. Doel
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Age: 49
The Bounty
1984
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as Lieutenant William Bligh
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Age: 46
The Elephant Man
1980
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as Frederick Treves
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Age: 42
Magic
1978
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as Corky Withers/Fats (voice)
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Age: 40
A Bridge Too Far
1977
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as Lt. Col. John D. Frost
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Age: 39
Juggernaut
1974
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as Supt. John McCleod
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Age: 36
The Arcata Promise
1974
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as Theo Gunge
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Age: 36
The Childhood Friend
1974
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as Alexander Tashkov
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Age: 36
When Eight Bells Toll
1971
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as Philip Calvert
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Age: 33
No Image
The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens
1970
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as Charles Dickens
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Age: 32
Medieval England: The Peasants' Revolt
1969
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as Wat Tyler
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Age: 31
Red, White, and Zero
1968
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as Brechtian
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Age: 30