Joss Ackland

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Known Credits 175

Gender Male

Birthday February 29, 1928

Day of Death November 19, 2023 (95 years old)

Place of Birth North Kensington, London, England, UK

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Joss Ackland

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).

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Acting

2014		The Portrait as Henry Winter
2014		Katherine of Alexandria as Rufus

2013

as Professor Mendella

2011

as Narrator

2009		Pinocchio (2 episodes) as Mastro Ciliegia
2009		Pinocchio as Mastro Ciliegia

2007		How About You... as Donald Vanston
2007		Hogfather as Mustrum Ridcully
2007		In Search of the Great Beast 666: Aleister Crowley as Narrator
2007		Flawless as Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft
2007		Kingdom (1 episode) as Mr. John Narbutowicz

2006		Hogfather (2 episodes) as Mustrum Ridcully
2006		Moscow Zero as Tolstoy
2006		Above and Beyond (2 episodes) as Winston Churchill
2006		Above and Beyond
2006		The One Show (1 episode) as Self
2006		These Foolish Things as Albert

2005		Asylum as Jack Straffen
2005		Defining a Style as Self
2005		Icon as General Nikolayev

2004

as Randolph Cauffield

2003

as Evil Edmonds - The BeeLzeeBOPS

2002		K-19: The Widowmaker as Marshal Zelentsov
2002		No Good Deed as Mr. Quarre
2002		The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service as The Prussian

2001

as James Brabant

2000		The Mumbo Jumbo as Mayor Smith
2000		Tales from the Madhouse as Barabbas
2000		Passion of Mind as Dr. Langer, the French Psychiatrist
2000		Lounge Act

1999

as Vicar

1998		Firelight as Lord Clare
1998		My Giant as Monsignor Popesou
1998		Heat of the Sun (3 episodes) as Max Van Der vuurst
1998		Swept from the Sea as Mr. Swaffer

1997

(1 episode) as Sir Freddy Butler

1996		Testament: The Bible in Animation (1 episode) as Noah (voice) (1 episode) as Samuel (voice)
1996		To the Ends of Time as King Francis
1996		D3: The Mighty Ducks as Hans
1996		Surviving Picasso as Henri Matisse
1996		Deadly Voyage
1996		Hidden in Silence as German Factory Manager

1995		Daisies in December as Gerald Carmody
1995		A Kid in King Arthur's Court as King Arthur
1995		Mad Dogs and Englishmen as Insp. Sam Stringer
1995		Citizen X as Bondarchuk

1994		OcchioPinocchio as Brando Della Valle
1994		Jacob as Isaak
1994		Miracle on 34th Street as Victor Landbergh as Victor Landbergh (uncredited)
1994		Giorgino as Father Glaise
1994		Citizen Locke as Lord Ashley
1994		Joan Miró: Constellations - The Color of Poetry as Self

1993		Mother's Boys as Lansing, Jude's Attorney
1993		The Thief and the Cobbler as Brigand (voice)
1993		Voices in the Garden as Sir Charles Peverall
1993		Nowhere to Run as Franklin Hale

1992		Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (1 episode) as Caesar (voice)
1992		The Mighty Ducks as Hans
1992		Project: Shadowchaser as Kinderman
1992		White Bear's Secret as Brown Bear (voice)
1992		Once Upon a Crime as Hercules Popodopoulos
1992		The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1 episode) as The Prussian
1992		Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls as King Edward
1992		The Bridge as Smithson

1991		Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors as Lewis Serrocold
1991		Brown Bear's Wedding as Brown Bear (voice)
1991		Ashenden (4 episodes)
1991		A Woman Named Jackie (1 episode) as Aristotle Onassis
1991		A Murder of Quality as Terence Fielding
1991		Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey as De Nomolos
1991		The Princess and the Goblin as King Papa (voice) as King Papa
1991		The Object of Beauty as Mr. Mercer
1991		The Sheltering Desert

1990		Tre colonne in cronaca as Gaetano Leporino, il finanziere
1990		The Secret Life of Ian Fleming as Gen. Gerhard Hellstein
1990		The Hunt for Red October as Ambassador Andrei Lysenko
1990		The Palermo Connection as il boss
1990		Jekyll & Hyde as Dr. Charles Lanyon

1989		First and Last as Alan Holly
1989		Lethal Weapon 2 as Arjen Rudd

1988		The Man Who Lived at the Ritz as Hermann Goering
1988		To Kill a Priest as Colonel
1988		It Couldn't Happen Here as Priest / murderer
1988		Codename: Kyril as 'C'
1988		Olympus Force: The Key

1987		When We Are Married as Henry Ormonroyd
1987		White Mischief as 'Jock' Delves Broughton
1987		The Sicilian as Don Masino Croce
1987		Queenie (2 episodes) as Sir Burton Rumsey
1987		Queenie as Sir Burton Rumsey
1987		A Killing on the Exchange (2 episodes) as Sir Max Sillman

1986

as Sir John Bridges

1985		A Zed & Two Noughts as Van Hoyten
1985		Shadowlands as CS Lewis

1984		Miss Marple (1 episode) as Lewis Serrocold
1984		Sherlock Holmes (1 episode) as Jephro Rucastle
1984		The Tragedy of Coriolanus as Menenius
1984		Shroud for a Nightingale (5 episodes) as Stephen Courtney-Briggs

1983		Natural World (1 episode) as Self - Narrator (voice)
1983		Dalgliesh (5 episodes) as Stephen Courtney-Briggs

1982		The Barretts of Wimpole Street as Edward Moulton-Barrett
1982		Wogan (1 episode) as Self

1981		Findings on a Late Afternoon as Father
1981		Elizabeth Alone as Major Orpen
1981		Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective as Chief Insp. Yardbird

1980		The Apple as Mr. Topps / Hippie Leader
1980		Rough Cut as Insp. Vanderveld
1980		The Love Tapes as Narrator (voice)
1980		The Gentle Touch (1 episode) as Ivor Stocker
1980		A Question of Guilt (22 episodes)
1980		A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square as Prison Warden

1979		Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1 episode)
1979		Saint Jack as Yardley
1979		Turtle's Progress (1 episode) as Benny D-Day
1979		Tales of the Unexpected (1 episode) as Jack Cutler (1 episode) as Colonel George Peregrine

1978		The BBC Television Shakespeare (1 episode)
1978		Watership Down as Black Rabbit (voice)
1978		Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? as Cantrell
1978		Return of the Saint (1 episode) as Gunther
1978		The Greek Tycoon as Naval officer (uncredited)
1978		Enemy at the Door (1 episode) as Major General Laidlaw

1977		The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It as President
1977		Silver Bears as Henry Foreman

1976		The Crezz (12 episodes) as Charles Bronte
1976		You Talk Too Much as Doctor

1975		Operation: Daybreak as Janák
1975		Royal Flash as Sapten
1975		One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing as B.J. Spence
1975		Heading For Glory as Self - Narrator (voice)
1975		The Sweeney (1 episode) as Alan Ember

1974		The Little Prince as The King
1974		The Four Musketeers as D'Artagnan's Father (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974		SPY*S as Martinson
1974		The Black Windmill as Chief Supt. Wray
1974		Playhouse (1 episode) as Major Orpen
1974		Miss Nightingale as Lord Palmerston
1974		Great Expectations as Joe Gargery

1973		The Three Musketeers as D’Artagnan’s Father
1973		Penny Gold as Jones
1973		England Made Me as Haller
1973		Hitler: The Last Ten Days as General Burgdorf
1973		Access to the Children as Malcolmson

1972		The Bankrupt as Ellis Cripper
1972		The Protectors (1 episode) as Arthur Gordon
1972		The Mind Snatchers as Dr. Frederick
1972		Shirley's World (1 episode)

1971		Justice (1 episode) as Sir Robert Beste
1971		The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1 episode) as Grubber
1971		The Persuaders! (1 episode) as Felix Meadowes
1971		Mr. Forbush and the Penguins as Head of Board
1971		Villain as Edgar Lowis
1971		The House That Dripped Blood as Neville Rogers (segment 2 "Waxworks")

1970		The Lie as Albert
1970		Play for Today (1 episode) as Malcolmson (1 episode) as Ellis Cripper (1 episode) as Albert
1970		Crescendo as Carter
1970		The Three Sisters as Chebutykin

1967

(16 episodes) as D'Artagnan

1966		Rasputin: The Mad Monk as The Bishop
1966		Mystery and Imagination (2 episodes)
1966		David Copperfield (5 episodes)

1965		Tomorrow, Just You Wait as Tom Gorbet
1965		BBC Play of the Month (1 episode) as Chebutykin
1965		The Troubleshooters (1 episode) as Lewis (1 episode) as Mr. Gibbon (2 episodes) as Sam Jardine (1 episode) as Considine

1964		The Wednesday Play (1 episode) as Tom Gorbet (1 episode) as Cornelius
1964		Sherlock Holmes (1 episode) as Hon. Philip Green
1964		Horizon (3 episodes) as Narrator (voice)
1964		Maggie as Norman

1962

as Yacht Seaman

1961

(1 episode) as Brigadier Hansing

1959

(1 episode)

1958

as Turkish Bath Attendant

1956

(1 episode) as Mr Green (1 episode) as Frank Penfold

1952

as Ron, 2nd Fisherman

1950

as Station Policeman

1949

as O'Neil

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