
Roger Livesey
Biography
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Roger Livesey (25 June 1906 – 4 February 1976) was a British stage and film actor. He is most often remembered for the three Powell & Pressburger films in which he starred: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going! and A Matter of Life and Death. Tall and broad with a mop of chestnut hair, Livesey used his highly distinctive husky voice, gentle manner and athletic physique to create many notable roles in his theatre and film work.
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Acting History
2024
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger as (archive footage)
1974The Pallisers as Duke of St Bungay
1971Justice as George Mallow
1970Futtocks End as The Artist
1969Hamlet as First Player / Gravedigger
1968The Man in the Iron Mask as Porthos
1968Oedipus the King as Shepherd
1964Of Human Bondage as Thorpe Athelny
1964Theatre 625 as PM Collard
1964Theatre 625 as 'Einstein'
1963The Human Jungle as Sir William Bridley
1961No, My Darling Daughter as General Henry Barclay
1960The Entertainer as Billy Rice
1960Toff and Fingers as Toff Mulligan Hayes
1960Armchair Mystery Theatre as Toff Mulligan Hayes
1960The League of Gentlemen as Mycroft
1958The Stowaway as Major Owens
1956The Intimate Stranger as Ben Case
1955Quay South as Captain Daniel Thwaite
1953The Master of Ballantrae as Col. Francis Burke
1951Green Grow the Rushes as Capt. Cedric Biddle
1949That Dangerous Age as Sir Brian Brooke
1948Vice Versa as Paul Bultitude
1946A Matter of Life and Death as Doctor Reeves
1945I Know Where I'm Going! as Torquil MacNeil
1943The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp as Major General Clive Wynne-Candy
1940Girl in the News as Bill Maher
1939Spies of the Air as Charles Houghton
1938The Drum as Capt. Carruthers
1938The Rebel Son as Peter Bulba
1938Keep Smiling as Bert Wattle
1936Rembrandt as Beggar Saul
1935Midshipman Easy as Captain Wilson
1935The Price of Wisdom as Peter North
1935Blind Justice as Gilbert Jackson
1934Lorna Doone as Tom Faggus
1933A Cuckoo in the Nest as Alfred
1933The Veteran of Waterloo as Sergeant MacDonald
1931East Lynne on the Western Front as Sandy
1923Married Love as Henry
1921The Four Feathers as Harry as a child







