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Chronology Of Film Performances

Note: Dates are those of general release in the UK.


RELEASE DATE:
TITLE:
ROLE:
SCREENPLAY:
ADAPTED FROM:
DIRECTOR:
1962
A Kind Of Loving
Whymper
Keith Waterhouse
& Willis Hall
Novel by
Stan Barstow
John Schlesinger
1963
This Sporting Life
Phillips
David Storey
-
Lindsay Anderson
1963
Billy Liar
Emmanuel
Shadrack
Keith Waterhouse
& Willis Hall
Novel by
Willis Hall
John Schlesinger
1964
A Jolly Bad Fellow (U.S.: They All Died Laughing)
Dr. Fisher
Robert Hamer &
Donald Taylor
Novel 'Don Among The Dead Men' by C. E. Vulliamy
Robert Hamer
1965
King Rat
Colonel McCoy
Bryan Forbes
Novel by
James Clavell
Bryan Forbes
1966
Hotel Paradiso
Police Inspector
Peter Glenville &
Jean-Claude Carriere
Play by
Georges Feydeau
Peter Glenville
1966
The Wrong Box
Vyvyan Alastair Montague
Larry Gelbart
& Burt Shevelove
Novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
Bryan Forbes
1966
The Whisperers
National Assistance Officer
Bryan Forbes
Novel by
Robert Nicolson
Bryan Forbes
1966
The Witches (U.S.: The Devil's Own)
Dr. Wallis
Nigel Kneale
Novel 'The Devil's Own' by Peter Curtis
Cyril Frankel
1966
Deadlier Than The Male
Bridgenorth
Jimmy Sangster, 
David Osborn &
Liz Charles-Williams
-
Ralph Thomas
1967
Deadfall
Fillmore
Bryan Forbes
Novel by
Desmond Corey
Bryan Forbes
1968
Oliver!
Mr. Sowerberry
Vernon Harris
Musical by Lionel Bart,
novel by Charles Dickens
Carol Reed
1968
2001: 
A Space Odyssey
Andre Smyslov
Stanley Kubrick &
Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Story 'The Sentinel' by Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Stanley Kubrick
1968
Otley
Johnston
Dick Clement &
Ian La Frenais
Novel by
Martin Waddell
Dick Clement
1968
Diamonds For Breakfast
Inspector Dudley
N. F. Simpson, Pierre
Rouve & Ronald Harwood
-
Christopher Morahan
1973
Luther
Brother Weinard
Edward Anhalt
Play by
John Osborne 
Guy Green
1975
Barry Lyndon
Captain Quin
Stanley Kubrick
Novel by
Wiiliam Thackeray
Stanley Kubrick
1976
The Voyage Of The Damned
Commander Ugo von Bonin
Steve Shagan &
David Butler
True story, book by Gordon Thomas & Max Morgan
Stuart Rosenberg
1976
The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Inspector Quinlan
Frank Waldman &
Blake Edwards
Frank Waldman &
Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards
1978
Waterloo Bridge Handicap (TV film)
Charles Barker
Ross Cramer
-
Ross Cramer
1979
Le Petomane
Joseph Pujol
Ray Galton &
Alan Simpson
Life of M. Pujol
Ian McNaughton
1980
Rising Damp
Rupert Rigsby
Eric Chappell
Play 'The Banana Box'/ sitcom by Eric Chappell
Joe McGrath
1982
Britannia Hospital
Vincent Potter
David Sherwin
-
Lindsay Anderson
1982
Trail Of The
Pink Panther
Inspector Quinlan
Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards &
Geoffrey Edwards
Blake Edwards
1985
Water
Sir Malcolm Leveridge
Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais & Bill Persky
-
Dick Clement


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 Text (c) Paul Fisher