Joss Ackland

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

1928-02-29

Place of Birth

North Kensington, London, England, UK

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joss Ackland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Midsomer Murders

Midsomer Murders

Wogan

Wogan

The One Show

The One Show

Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street

The Avengers

The Avengers

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes

Play for Today

Play for Today

Play for Today

Play for Today

Play for Today

Play for Today

Acting History

The Portrait as Henry Winter

Katherine of Alexandria as Rufus

Prisoners of the Sun as Professor Mendella

The Boy with Chocolate Fingers as Narrator

Peak Performers - The Mk3 Ford Cortina as Narrator

Pinocchio as Mastro Ciliegia

Pinocchio as Mastro Ciliegia

How About You... as Donald Vanston

Hogfather as Mustrum Ridcully

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

Flawless as Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft

Kingdom as Mr. John Narbutowicz

Hogfather as Mustrum Ridcully

Moscow Zero as Tolstoy

Above and Beyond

Above and Beyond as Winston Churchill

The One Show as Self

These Foolish Things as Albert

Asylum as Jack Straffen

Icon as General Nikolayev

Defining a Style as Self

A Different Loyalty as Randolph Cauffield

Henry VIII as Henry VII

I'll Be There 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

Tales from the Madhouse as Barabbas

Passion of Mind as Dr. Langer, the French Psychiatrist

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

Firelight as Lord Clare

My Giant as Monsignor Popesou

Heat of the Sun as Max Van Der vuurst

Swept from the Sea as Mr. Swaffer

Midsomer Murders as Sir Freddy Butler

To the Ends of Time as King Francis

Testament: The Bible in Animation as Samuel (voice)

Testament: The Bible in Animation as Noah (voice)

D3: The Mighty Ducks as Hans

Surviving Picasso as Henri Matisse

Hidden in Silence as German Factory Manager

Daisies in December as Gerald Carmody

A Kid in King Arthur's Court as King Arthur

Mad Dogs and Englishmen as Insp. Sam Stringer

Citizen X as Bondarchuk

OcchioPinocchio as Brando Della Valle

Julius Caesar as Caesar

Miracle on 34th Street as Victor Landbergh (uncredited)

Miracle on 34th Street as Victor Landbergh

Giorgino as Father Glaise

Citizen Locke as Lord Ashley

Joan Miró: Constellations - The Color of Poetry as Self

Simulacrum as The Chemist

Mother's Boys as Lansing, Jude's Attorney

The Thief and the Cobbler as Brigand (voice)

Voices in the Garden as Sir Charles Peverall

Nowhere to Run as Franklin Hale

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales as Caesar (voice)

The Mighty Ducks as Hans

Project: Shadowchaser as Kinderman

White Bear's Secret as Brown Bear (voice)

Once Upon a Crime as Hercules Popodopoulos

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as The Prussian

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls as King Edward

The Bridge as Smithson

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors as Lewis Serrocold

Brown Bear's Wedding as Brown Bear (voice)

A Woman Named Jackie as Aristotle Onassis

A Murder of Quality as Terence Fielding

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey as De Nomolos

The Princess and the Goblin as King Papa (voice)

The Object of Beauty as Mr. Mercer

The Sheltering Desert

Tre colonne in cronaca as Gaetano Leporino, il finanziere

The Secret Life of Ian Fleming as Gen. Gerhard Hellstein

The Hunt for Red October as Ambassador Andrei Lysenko

The Palermo Connection as il boss

Jekyll & Hyde as Dr. Charles Lanyon

First and Last as Alan Holly

Lethal Weapon 2 as Arjen Rudd

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz as Hermann Goering

To Kill a Priest as Colonel

It Couldn't Happen Here as Priest/Murderer

Codename: Kyril as 'C'

Codename: Kyril as 'C'

Olympus Force: The Key as George Grossopoulos

When We Are Married as Henry Ormonroyd

White Mischief as 'Jock' Delves Broughton

The Sicilian as Don Masino Croce

Queenie as Sir Burton Rumsey

A Killing on the Exchange as Sir Max Sillman

Lady Jane as Sir John Bridges

A Zed & Two Noughts as Van Hoyten

Shadowlands as CS Lewis

Sherlock Holmes as Jephro Rucastle

The Tragedy of Coriolanus as Menenius

Shroud for a Nightingale as Stephen Courtney-Briggs

The Leather Boys as Narrator

Natural World as Self - Narrator (voice)

Dalgliesh as Stephen Courtney-Briggs

The Barretts of Wimpole Street as Edward Moulton-Barrett

Findings on a Late Afternoon as Father

Elizabeth Alone as Major Orpen

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective as Chief Insp. Yardbird

The Apple as Mr. Topps / Hippie Leader

Rough Cut as Insp. Vanderveld

The Love Tapes as Narrator (voice)

The Gentle Touch as Ivor Stocker

A Question of Guilt

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square as Prison Warden

Closing Ranks as Victor Rogachev

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Saint Jack as Yardley

Turtle's Progress as Benny D-Day

Tales of the Unexpected as Colonel George Peregrine

Tales of the Unexpected as Jack Cutler

Watership Down as Black Rabbit (voice)

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? as Cantrell

Return of the Saint as Gunther

The Greek Tycoon as Naval officer (uncredited)

Enemy at the Door as Major General Laidlaw

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

Silver Bears as Henry Foreman

The Crezz as Charles Bronte

You Talk Too Much as Doctor

Operation: Daybreak as Janák

Royal Flash as Sapten

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

Heading For Glory as Self - Narrator (voice)

The Sweeney as Alan Ember

The Little Prince as The King

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

S*P*Y*S as Martinson

The Black Windmill as Chief Supt. Wray

Playhouse as Maj. Orpen

Playhouse as Father

Miss Nightingale as Lord Palmerston

Great Expectations as Joe Gargery

The Three Musketeers as D’Artagnan’s Father

Penny Gold as Jones

England Made Me as Haller

Hitler: The Last Ten Days as General Burgdorf

Access to the Children as Malcolmson

The Bankrupt as Ellis Cripper

The Protectors as Arthur Gordon

The Mind Snatchers as Dr. Frederick

King's Cross Lunch Hour as The Man

Shirley's World

Getting In as An Applicant

Justice as Sir Robert Beste

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes as Grubber

The Persuaders! as Felix Meadowes

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins as Head of Board

Villain as Edgar Lowis

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

The Lie as Albert

Play for Today as Albert

Play for Today as Ellis Cripper

Play for Today as Malcolmson

Crescendo as Carter

The Three Sisters as Chebutykin

The Further Adventures of the Musketeers as d'Artagnan

Rasputin: The Mad Monk as The Bishop

Mystery and Imagination

David Copperfield as Daniel Peggotty

Tomorrow, Just You Wait as Tom Gorbet

BBC Play of the Month as Chebutykin

BBC Play of the Month as Charley

The Troubleshooters as Considine

The Troubleshooters as Sam Jardine

The Troubleshooters as Mr. Gibbon

The Troubleshooters as Lewis

Londoners as Angus Grahame

The Wednesday Play as Cornelius

The Wednesday Play as Tom Gorbet

Sherlock Holmes as Hon. Philip Green

Theatre 625 as Hockey Jagger

Theatre 625 as Fred

Theatre 625 as John Hinks

Maggie as Norman

In Search of the Castaways as Yacht Seaman

The Avengers as Brigadier Hansing

No Hiding Place

Next to No Time as Turkish Bath Attendant

Armchair Theatre as Frank Penfold

Armchair Theatre as Mr Green

Ghost Ship as Ron, 2nd Fisherman

Seven Days to Noon as Station Policeman

Landfall as O'Neil