Biography
Alan Tilvern (5 November 1918 – 17 December 2003) was a British film and television actor with a tough-guy image. He is possibly best known for his role as R.K. Maroon in the film Who framed Roger Rabbit. He was born in Whitechapel, in the East End of London, to Jewish Lithuanian parents, who changed their name from Tilovitch. After leaving school he became a barrow boy in Brick Lane. In the Second World War he served in the Army but was invalided out in 1945
Known For
Complete Filmography
Porgy and Bess
1993
as Detective
The story of a disabled beggar in Charleston,S.C. who falls in love with a prostitute, this is the first filmed version of Gershwin's opera which uses...
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988
as R.K. Maroon
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her....
Tropic of Ice – Jään kääntöpiiri
1987
A Finnish businessman finds himself at the center of an international corruption scandal.
Little Shop of Horrors
1986
as 'Downtown' Bum #2
Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's; a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker, Audrey Fulquard, and...
Nineteen Nineteen
1985
as Sophie's Father
Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier.
Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues
1984
as William Alexander
Firefox
1982
as Air Marshal Kutuzov
The Soviets have developed a revolutionary new jet fighter, called 'Firefox'. Worried that the jet will be used as a first-strike weapon—as there are ...
Invasion
1980
as Bilak
Docu-drama surrounding the events leading to the Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.
High Rise Donkey
1980
as Donkey Derby Official
The efforts of three children, who live in high rise flats, to save a donkey from two small-time crooks who want to sell it as horsemeat, by providing...
Brass Target
1978
as Frank Ferraro
General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. But was his death actually a murder. Is he targeted by Nazis angered by Germany's defeat? Or...
Superman
1978
as 2nd Controller
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the ne...
One Bummer News Day
1978
as Richard Devizes
What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?
The Lord of the Rings
1978
as Innkeeper (voice)
The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle-earth.
The Stick Up
1977
as Richie
Duke Turnbeau (David Soul) has come to England, in the 1930s, as a way to improve his fortunes. For some reason, he believes that his larcenous ways w...
Love and Death
1975
as Sergeant
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
Percy's Progress
1974
as General Dodds
Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.
The Revolutionary
1970
as Sid
"A", a member of a student protest organization, becomes disenchanted by his group's inability to effect real change. Emboldened to pursue more radica...
The Frozen Dead
1966
as Karl Essen
A crazed scientist keeps the heads of Nazi war criminals alive until he can find appropriate bodies on which to attach them so he can revive the Third...
Khartoum
1966
as Awaan
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from...
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
1966
as Patron
Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand of one of the drinkers. As the bitter locals plan...
No Place Like Earth
1965
as Blane
Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals of Mars, is possessed by a restlessness for a hom...
Doctor Who: Planet of Giants
1964
as Forester
When the TARDIS malfunctions, it and its travellers land on Earth at the size of insects. They uncover a murderous plot involving a new insecticide, b...
Hot Enough for June
1964
as Simenova's Assistant
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
Shadow of Fear
1963
as Warner
An American returning home from Baghdad and seeing his girl in Britain on the way agrees to take a message to the secret service. Once in London he is...
Danger by My Side
1962
as Nicky Venning
A girl tracks down the gang who had her detective brother killed.
Anna Karenina
1961
as Makhotin
Anna, the wife of government minister Alexei Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexei Vronsky falls in love...
Adventure Story
1961
The story of Alexander the Great.
The Malpas Mystery
1960
as Gordon Seagar
After Audrey leaves prison after being framed for jewel theft, she gets a job offer from the mysterious Mr. Malpas, triggering a plot involving a miss...
Sands of the Desert
1960
as Mustafa
In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to open up a desert resort i...
The Siege of Pinchgut
1959
as Superintendent Hanna
An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.
Tank Force!
1958
as Silverio
During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.
A Tale of Two Cities
1958
as Grave Robber
Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment...
Chase a Crooked Shadow
1958
as Carlos
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.
House of Secrets
1956
as Brandelli
Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.
Bhowani Junction
1956
as Ted Dunphy
Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
The Bespoke Overcoat
1955
as Mr. Ranting
A humble clerk yearns for an overcoat, but his employer's refusal and his subsequent death lead him to return as a ghost, determined to claim the garm...
The Master Plan
1955
as Otto Szimek
Following WW II, a U.S. army officer stationed in West Germany is assigned with keeping classified information away from the Communists. Unfortunately...
Knights of the Round Table
1953
as Steward (uncredited)
In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's...
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
1951
as Hernandez
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship a...
Cairo Road
1950
as Photographer
In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs operating along the notorious Cairo Road.
Night and the City
1950
as Beggar (uncredited)
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed...