Ian Abercrombie

Ian Abercrombie

1934-09-11 Grays, Essex, England, UK 71 Credits

Biography

Ian Abercrombie (11 September 1934 – 26 January 2012) was an English actor, best known for playing Alfred Pennyworth in Birds of Prey. He appeared as Elaine Benes' boss Justin Pitt during the sixth season of Seinfeld, and as a fastidious butler on Desperate Housewives. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Abercrombie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Rango

Rango

2011

as Ambrose (voice)

6.9
Acting

When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stand...

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Nightsisters Trilogy

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Nightsisters Trilogy

2010

as Darth Sidious / Pirate #2 (voice)

9.3
Acting

For the first time ever, Sith training will be explored, and with it, truths about the very nature of the dark side itself! A warrior forged by a dark...

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

2008

as Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious (voice)

6.1
Acting

As the Clone Wars sweep through the galaxy, the heroic Jedi Knights struggle to maintain order and restore peace. More and more systems are falling pr...

Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School

Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School

2008

as Headmaster Crumbs

8.7
Acting

When Alex is caught using magic to clean her room she is forced to go to wizard school with Justin. Max and Jerry camp out on the terrace to prove the...

Hard Four

Hard Four

2007

as Jack Ermine

4.4
Acting

When legendary gambler Golden Hands Segal suffers a fatal heart attack at the craps table in Las Vegas, his grandson Freddy Meingold and boyhood pal S...

Trust Me

Trust Me

2007

as Teitelbaum

5.0
Acting

Danny Marrs, a young huckster from small town America, arrives in Hollywood with a line of patter and a wannabe actress girlfriend. Things turn intere...

Inland Empire

Inland Empire

2006

as Henry the Butler

7.0
Acting

As a Hollywood actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

2006

as Smithee

5.6
Acting

Jon and Garfield visit the United Kingdom, where a case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle. His reign is soon jeopardized by...

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

2006

as Ervin Sezgin

5.8
Acting

Frank Keane, a baker by trade, has been consumed by grief over his wife's untimely death. But everything changes when he pulls his bread truck over on...

When Puppets and Dolls Attack!

When Puppets and Dolls Attack!

2005

as Dr. Hess (archive footage)

6.0
Acting

A compilation film containing scenes from Full Moon's Puppets and Dolls movie franchise.

The L.A. Riot Spectacular

The L.A. Riot Spectacular

2005

as Auctioneer

2.6
Acting

The controversial satire The LA Riot Spectacular plays for mordent laughs the events that consumed L.A. in 1992, after the police officers on trial fo...

Blasphemy the Movie

Blasphemy the Movie

2005

as Zues

Acting

Martian Garcia announces to his parents that not only is he proud to have converted to Atheism, but he intends to tell his whole family on Christmas. ...

Puppet Master: The Legacy

Puppet Master: The Legacy

2003

as Dr. Hess (archive footage)

3.6
Acting

A rogue agent named Maclain breaks into the lab of Eric Weiss, who has spent his entire life fascinated by Andre Toulon's supernatural ability to brea...

Gypsy Love

Gypsy Love

2002

as Sir George

Acting

A feature compilation comprised of three episodes of Zalman King's ChromiumBlue.com. Gypsy Love: When Ellen falls in love with two gorgeous gypsy brot...

Cover Me Girls

Cover Me Girls

2002

as Sir George

Acting

A feature compilation comprised of three episodes of Zalman King's ChromiumBlue.com. Cover Me Girls: Sid has had every cowboy in the wild west and is ...

The Eternal

The Eternal

2002

as Sir George

Acting

A feature compilation comprised of two episodes of Zalman King's ChromiumBlue.com. The Eternal and The Eternal II: Maria has been searching in vain fo...

ChromiumBlue.com

ChromiumBlue.com

2002

as Sir George

3.0
Acting

Vivian Vadim is a successful fashion stylist in complete charge of her life. Then she meets Henry. He's handsome, charming and very, very rich. Women ...

Shrek

Shrek

2001

ADR & Dubbing

7.8

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the cl...

Jack Frost 2: The Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman

Jack Frost 2: The Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman

2000

as Psychiatrist

4.3
Acting

The sheriff and his deputies from the first movie decide to take a vacation in the Caribbean. Their holiday will be short-lived, however, as the thawe...

Wild Wild West

Wild Wild West

1999

as British Dignitary

5.3
Acting

Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President Ulysses S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: ...

Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard

Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard

1997

as Merlin

5.0
Acting

In this light-hearted fantasy, a talented young magician stumbles across an unusual ring and ends up in Camelot before King Arthur. It turns out the r...

MouseHunt

MouseHunt

1997

as Auctioneer

6.5
Acting

Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren't happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit... until they discover the estate is wort...

Bimbo Movie Bash

Bimbo Movie Bash

1997

as Dr. Dorn

3.0
Acting

This movie is a great compilation of the very silliest clips from some of the most awful "bimbo movies" of the past twenty years. It is laughably chea...

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

1997

as Butler

6.6
Acting

Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing tha...

A Face to Die For

A Face to Die For

1996

as Mr. Sturetsky

6.3
Acting

A scarred, unattractive young woman is conned into helping with a robbery of her employer. As a result, she is sent to prison, gets plastic surgery, a...

Rattled

Rattled

1996

as Dr. Remsen

6.5
Acting

A horde of rattlesnakes inexplicably descends into Eden Valley, terrorizing an isolated family and forcing them to fight for their lives.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

1995

as Parks

7.0
Acting

Two runaway kids hide in a museum. Once they are locked inside overnight, they try to solve a mystery about a statue supposedly carved by Michaelangel...

Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000

Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000

1994

as Professor Dorn

4.1
Acting

In the future, corporations have taken over the world and banned sex. A group of rebellious high school students devise a way to go back in time to th...

Grief

Grief

1994

as Stanley

4.3
Acting

A campy chronicle of the lusts and loves of the men and women who work on a low-rent TV show called, "The Love Judge."

Clean Slate

Clean Slate

1994

as Leader

5.8
Acting

Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle...

Addams Family Values

Addams Family Values

1993

as Driver

7.0
Acting

Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from...

The Flash III: Deadly Nightshade

The Flash III: Deadly Nightshade

1992

as Skip

6.8
Acting

The Scarlet Speedster teams up with the city's previous superhero, The Nightshade, in two adventures.

Army of Darkness

Army of Darkness

1992

as Wiseman

7.3
Acting

Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty ...

The Public Eye

The Public Eye

1992

as Mr. Brown

6.2
Acting

A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.

Puppet Master III

Puppet Master III

1992

as Dr. Hess

6.3
Acting

After hearing that mystical toymaker Andre Toulon has managed to create a troupe of sentient, living puppets, Nazi underling Dr. Hess sets his sights ...

Zandalee

Zandalee

1991

as Louis Medina

4.4
Acting

Bored with her marriage to burnt out poet turned corporate executive Thierry, Zandalee falls prey to an old friend of her husband, the manipulative an...

Rolling Thunder

Rolling Thunder

1991

5.0
Acting

In the year 2040, after the world's oceans have been poisoned by mankind's industrial pollution, an old man who lives in a cave tells a group of child...

Repossessed

Repossessed

1990

as Ice Tea Waiter (uncredited)

5.2
Acting

It's been some time since Father Jebedaiah Mayii exorcised the Devil from little Nancy Aglet, who is now grown up with a husband and two children of h...

Warlock

Warlock

1989

as Magistrate #1

6.2
Acting

In 17th century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne captures an evil warlock, but the conjurer eludes death with supernatural help. Flung into th...

Dark Holiday

Dark Holiday

1989

as Captain

Acting

American tourist Gene LePere (Lee Remick), on vacation in Turkey, is hounded by a street vendor into buying a carved head she doesn't want. Then she i...

Catacombs

Catacombs

1988

as Brother Orsini

4.9
Acting

In the 17th century, an order of monks in Italy capture and entomb a demon that has possessed a member of their group. 400 years later, school teacher...

The Dancing Princesses

The Dancing Princesses

1987

as Royal Cobbler

6.0
Acting

A king with six daughters who is extremely over protective locks them in their room at night. But for some reason they order shoes from the cobbler pr...

Frog

Frog

1987

as Dr. Fritsky

5.0
Acting

Arlo Anderson loves his reptiles, and so when he decides to buy a rare breed of frog with his date money he winds up with more than he bargained for! ...

Firewalker

Firewalker

1986

as Boggs

5.3
Acting

A pair of adventurers try to track down an ancient Aztec/Mayan/Egyptian/Apache horde of gold.

Last Resort

Last Resort

1986

as Maitre d'

3.2
Acting

George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers everywhe...

Hostage Flight

Hostage Flight

1985

as Scotland Yard Inspector

5.9
Acting

A plane is hijacked and bound for London. Once the terrorists begin killing hostages, the passengers take matters into their own hands.

Kicks

Kicks

1985

as Barnes

6.0
Acting

A wealthy man with a penchant for living on the edge and engaging in dangerous, life-threatening activities becomes romantically involved with a femal...

First The Egg

First The Egg

1985

as Mr. Hanna

Acting

A group of high school students take part in a parenting class where their first assignment is to 'parent' an egg.

The Ice Pirates

The Ice Pirates

1984

as Hymie

5.6
Acting

In the not too distant future, where by far the most precious commodity in the galaxy is water. The last surviving water planet was somehow removed to...

Flicks

Flicks

1983

as Inspector

5.0
Acting

A parody of Saturday afternoon matinees, including coming attractions and a cartoon.

Marian Rose White

Marian Rose White

1982

as Lord Bates

Acting

Marian Rose White is placed in a State Home for the feeble-minded by her uncaring mother when her father dies. She is a young teenager and there is no...

Blood Beach

Blood Beach

1980

as Man in Mayor's Office

4.9
Acting

Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing ...

The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood

The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood

1980

as Denis

3.5
Acting

Xaviera Hollander has to navigate some sleazy studio politics to see the production of the film version of her memoirs.

S.O.S. Titanic

S.O.S. Titanic

1980

as Deck Steward (uncredited)

5.9
Acting

The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.

The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda

1979

as Johann

5.6
Acting

Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new Ki...

Little Mo

Little Mo

1978

as Dr. Noyes

7.5
Acting

Biopic about tennis great Maureen Connolly who, as a teenager, was the first woman to win the Grand Slam of Tennis, became world-renowned as "Little M...

The Bastard

The Bastard

1978

as Deserter (uncredited)

5.0
Acting

Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath o...

Keefer

Keefer

1978

as Rudy

Acting

An U.S. Army colonel leads a crack group of secret agents operating behind enemy lines in occupied France during World War II.

Sextette

Sextette

1978

as Frederick Ambrose (BBC Announcer)

3.9
Acting

Glamorous silver screen sex symbol Marlo Manners is enjoying her honeymoon with Sir Michael Barrington, husband number six. As luck would have it, an ...

The San Pedro Bums

The San Pedro Bums

1977

as Crazed Shopper (uncredited)

Acting

Pilot for the short-lived TV series centers on five rough-and-tumble guys living on a leaky boat where they try to collar a gang of waterfront toughs ...

Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

1977

as Whiting (uncredited)

5.1
Acting

The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.

Fantasy Island

Fantasy Island

1977

as Bartender

6.8
Acting

Mr. Roarke and his assistant Tattoo greet a former reporter in World War II who wants to relive a brief romance that took place in London 30 years ago...

High Risk

High Risk

1976

as Major Domo

4.0
Acting

A troupe of former circus performers plot to steel a valuable artifact from an embassy in Washington, DC.

The Island at the Top of the World

The Island at the Top of the World

1974

as Train Conductor (uncredited)

6.4
Acting

A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished while searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere i...

Young Frankenstein

Young Frankenstein

1974

as Second Villager

7.9
Acting

A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a prett...

The Questor Tapes

The Questor Tapes

1974

as Charlie

5.7
Acting

Project Questor is brainchild of the genius Dr. Vaslovik: he developed plans to build an android super-human. Although he's disappeared and half of hi...

Wicked, Wicked

Wicked, Wicked

1973

as Eddie (uncredited)

4.8
Acting

Simmons, the manager of a seaside hotel in California, has a problem: Guests are turning up dead, and Sgt. Ramsey, the hotel's detective, has no infor...

Sole Survivor

Sole Survivor

1970

as British co-pilot

6.4
Acting

In 1960, the ruins of an American bomber were found in the Libyan desert, but the remains of the crew were never located. In Guerdon Trueblood's telep...

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

1969

as Male Dancer #74 (Uncredited)

7.6
Acting

In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a...

Star!

Star!

1968

as Man in Brixton Music Hall (uncredited)

6.9
Acting

Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.

Von Ryan's Express

Von Ryan's Express

1965

as English POW

7.1
Acting

Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win ov...