Biography
John Neville, OBE, CM was an English theatre and film actor who moved to Canada with his family in 1972. He enjoyed a resurgence of international attention as a result of his starring role in Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen". He was appointed to the Order of Canada, that nation's highest civilian honor, in 2006. According to publicists at Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Neville died "peacefully surrounded by family" on 19 November 2011, aged 86. Neville suffered wi...
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen
2008
as Self - 'Baron Munchausen'
This is an all new feature length documentary, with interviews from almost everyone involved with the production of the film. Gilliam never shies away...

Hamlet {Solo}
2007
as Self
"Hamlet {Solo}" chronicles the six-year journey of actor Raoul Bhaneja as he mounts a one-man version of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The film includes a num...

Separate Lies
2005
as Lord Rawston
Following a traffic accident, things take a turn when the victim's identity is revealed.

Hollywood North
2004
as Henry Neville
The making of a serious, Canadian arthouse film descends into Hollywood farce when its producer is forced to compromise his vision to accommodate his ...
White Knuckles
2004
as Narrator
"White Knuckles" is acclaimed auteur Leo Scherman's first feature film. It's a darkly comic thriller about a young man who poisons his dimwitted broth...

The Statement
2003
as Old Man
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effective...

Control Factor
2003
as Director
An average everyman discovers he's the unwitting target of an ultra secret domestic black-op centering on mind control.

Moving Malcolm
2003
as Malcolm Woodward
Depressed after being dumped by his actress fiance', a man tries to win her back by agreeing to help her elderly British father move while she films a...

Spider
2002
as Terrence
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a k...

Between Strangers
2002
as Orson Stewart
Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.

Sea and Stars
2002
as Narrator (voice)
Life of an ordinary fisherman changes when a young mai-mai fish sees him and falls in love!... Set to original music by composer Gavin Bryars, the fil...

Crime and Punishment
2002
as Marmeladov, Sonia's alcoholic father
A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed.

Time of the Wolf
2002
as Preacher
A boy is orphaned and his only surviving relatives, an ageing aunt and uncle, somewhat reluctantly, take him in. The aunt, still traumatised by the de...

Trudeau
2002
as British High Commissioner
This docu-drama spans fifteen turbulent years in the political and personal life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of the most enigmatic and polarizing P...

The Stork Derby
2002
as Mr. Cummingham
The woman who birthed the most children in the City of Toronto within a certain time period would inherit a fortune in the midst of the Great Depressi...

Gahan Wilson's The Kid
2001
as Banquo
The stellar drawing style of illustrator Grahan Wilson – world renowned cartoonist for the New Yorker – comes to life in this off-beat story about gro...

Harvard Man
2001
as Dr. Reese
College has always been a time for experimentation, sexual, cultural and otherwise. "Harvard Man" plays out against a background of love, sex, basketb...

Custody of the Heart
2000
as Judge H. Chadwick
Claire's number one priority is her family. When her husband Dennis loses his stockbroker job, the couple's traditional family roles switch. As Dennis...

Sunshine
1999
as Gustave Sors
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

Water Damage
1999
as Jock Beale
One year after the drowning death of his young son, Paul Preedy (Daniel Baldwin) receives an invitation to a reunion at his prep school. Paul decides ...

Goodbye Lover
1999
as Bradley
Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.

The Duke
1999
as The Duke
When his nephew tries to wrest control of his estate from him, the Duke of Dingwall removes the boy from his will and leaves everything to his dog.

Urban Legend
1998
as Dean Adams
A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.

Johnny 2.0
1998
as Mr. Bosch
Awakening from a 15-year coma, scientist Johnny Dalton discovers that his life has been illusory and that he is merely a clone of the real Dr. Dalton....

The X-Files
1998
as The Well-Manicured Man
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about ...

Dinner at Fred's
1997
as Uncle Henrick
A young businessman with a skill for magic tricks breaks down en route to his fiancee's parents' house on Christmas and ends up spending the holiday w...

Time to Say Goodbye?
1997
as Michigan Judge
A doctor suffering from Alzheimer's wishes to end his life, causing a severe rift in the family, with each side convinced they have the father's best ...

Regeneration
1997
as Dr. Yealland
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest hom...

The Fifth Element
1997
as General Staedert
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.

Swann
1997
as Cruzzi
Rose Hindmarsh finds herself at the centre of a controversy when she meets author Sarah Maloney as she investigates the life of Mary Swann, an obscure...

Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework
1997
as Shopkeeper
Thirteen-year-old Jesse is a typical teenager who hates his teacher, Mrs. Fink. While visiting a vintage clothing shop, Jesse sees a doll that looks e...

High School High
1996
as Thaddeus Clark
Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students...

Sabotage
1996
as Professor Follenfant
Former special services agent plays an intricate game of chess involving several federal agencies. Queen takes pawn.

The Song Spinner
1995
as Frilo, The Magnificent
In an isolated, snow-covered country known as the Water Land, the town of Shandrilan remains the quietest place in the world because its "Hush Law" pr...

Dangerous Minds
1995
as Waiter
Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After...

Little Women
1994
as Mr. Laurence
With their father away as a chaplain in the Civil War, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a c...

The Road to Wellville
1994
as Endymion Hart-Jones
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business an...

Message for Posterity
1994
as Sir David Browning
A version of Dennis Potter's play for television, remade shortly before his death as the original 1960s version had been wiped.

Baby's Day Out
1994
as Mr. Andrews
Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the soci...

Dieppe
1993
as Gen. Sir Alan Brooke
A dramatization of the failed World War II raid which became the most serious defeat of Canadian forces in the war.

Journey to the Center of the Earth
1993
as Dr. Cecil Chambers
This made-for-TV film version uses the title and general premise of Jules Verne's novel, but had its heroes carry out the journey in an earth-penetrat...

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Descent
1993
as Isaac Newton
The Enterprise is diverted to Ohniaka Three, when the colony signals that it is under attack. Arriving at the outpost, the Starfleet Officers discover...

Johann's Gift to Christmas
1992
as Viktor (voice)
A mouse from the streets and a church mouse try to help a priest and an organist save Christmas by composing a Christmas carol.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1988
as Hieronymus Karl Frederick Baron von Munchausen
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988
as Self
Tony Palmer's award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton.

Paradise Restored
1974
as John Milton
A fictionalised biography of the latter years of the poet, John Milton. Now an old man, blind and out of favour, Milton seeks to leave a plague-ravage...

The Adventures of Gerard
1970
as Duke of Wellington
Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic ...
Gareth
1968
as Gareth Owen MP
A film by Alan Clarke for the 'The Company of Five' anthology series.
Stand by Your Screen
1968
as Christopher Gritter
A film by Alan Clarke for the 'The Company of Five' anthology series.

Shaggy Dog
1968
as Wilkie
A no-nonsense businessman, Mr. Wilkie, is interviewed for a position with a top-of-the-line hotel chain corporation. During the interview, Wilkie atte...

George's Room
1967
as The Man
A man is interviewed by a young widow as a potential lodger, and learns some disturbing facts about the woman's relationship with her dead husband.

A Study in Terror
1965
as Sherlock Holmes
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediate...

Unearthly Stranger
1963
as Dr. Mark Davidson
A series of scientists working on a new techology to facilitate man's conquest of space are killed in mysterious circumstances. Suspicion falls on the...

Billy Budd
1962
as Julian Ratcliffe, 2nd Lieutenant
Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.

Mr. Topaze
1961
as Roger
Mr. Topaze is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing...

Oscar Wilde
1960
as Lord Alfred Douglas
England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate re...

H.C. Andersens sagor
1952
It's evening and mother Alice read bedtime stories for her three children.