Biography
Michael Hugh Medwin, OBE (18 July 1923 – 26 February 2020) was an English actor and film producer.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Duchess
2008
as Speechmaker
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.

Invasion
2005
A soldier lands on an island and storms it. Only finding it defended by sheep and one old shepherd he claims it on behalf of his king and country. The...

Cast & Crew: If....
2004
as Self - Interviewee
Episode of the BBC Scotland television series focusing on Lindsay Anderson's 1968 film "If...", featuring interviews with star Malcolm McDowell, cinem...

Fanny & Elvis
1999
as Registrar
Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband leaves her. To get over the financial crisis this c...

Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998
as Red King
A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland' story...

Staggered
1994
as Sarah's father
Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil enco...
The Fool
1990
as Mr. Wells
A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working c...

The Endless Game
1989
as Bayldon
A British agent comes back from retirement after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events fr...

Just Ask for Diamond
1988
as The Professor
Thirteen-year-old Nick and his slightly dense older brother Herbert run the Diamond Private Detective Agency above Camden Town Tube Station in north-c...

Paradise Hotel
1986
as English Producer
A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando...

Sleepwalker
1984
as Waiter
Saxon Logan's extraordinary 49 minute featurette pitches four people into a class war situation with a vicious sting in the tale.

The Jigsaw Man
1983
as Milroy
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to...

Never Say Never Again
1983
as Doctor at Shrublands
James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuc...

Britannia Hospital
1982
as Theatre Surgeon
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative ...

The Sea Wolves
1980
as Langley
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to un...

Law and Disorder
1974
as Man In Cab
In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous...

Law and Disorder
1974
Executive Producer
In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous...

View from the Loft
1974
as Ian Faulkner
Young Linda Channing visits her fiancé Ian Faulkner at an old aristocratic residence near London. Here he witnesses several mysterious murders. There...

O Lucky Man!
1973
as Army Captain/Power Station Technician/Duke of Belminster
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.

O Lucky Man!
1973
Producer
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.

Gumshoe
1971
Producer
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

Scrooge
1970
as Nephew Fred
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.

Spring and Port Wine
1970
Producer
A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton, England.

if....
1968
Producer
In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callousl...

Charlie Bubbles
1968
Producer
Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a...

A Countess from Hong Kong
1967
as John Felix
A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.

The Sandwich Man
1966
as Sewer Man
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.

I've Gotta Horse
1965
as Hymie Campbell
A fast-moving comedy with Billy Fury, who plays himself in the film. The story reveals his great love of animals, and it features his own racehorse, A...

Twenty-Four Hours to Kill
1965
as Tommy
When a jet airliner with engine trouble lands in Beirut for a twenty-four hour stopover, purser 'Jonesey' fears his life is in danger from a gold-smug...

Rattle of a Simple Man
1964
as Ginger
Percy Winthram is a naive young man who still lives at home with his mum. In London for the Cup Final with his friends, he finds himself in a Soho str...

Night Must Fall
1964
as Derek
A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with unpleas...

Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance
1963
At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a number of murders, among which the man who was conducting...

It's All Happening
1963
as Max Catlin
Tommy Steele stars as a talent-spotter at a recording company who determines to organize a concert featuring all the most up-to-date singers and bands...

The Longest Day
1962
as Pvt. Watney
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the d...

Crooks Anonymous
1962
as Ronnie Bassett
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a depart...

The Heart of a Man
1959
as Sid
Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a hundred pounds in a week by honest means. Frankie tri...

Carry On Nurse
1959
as Ginger
In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. The formidable Matron's debut gives everyone a chill...

The Wind Cannot Read
1958
as Officer Lamb
A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy and...

The Duke Wore Jeans
1958
as Cooper
A Cockney lad pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess.

The Steel Bayonet
1958
as Lt. Vernon
Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post...

I Only Arsked
1958
as Cpl. Springer
A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protector...

Doctor at Large
1957
as Dr. Charles Bingham
Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bog...

The Girl in the Picture
1957
as Car Mechanic (uncredited)
A crime reporter investigating a murder discovers the case hinges on a mysterious woman he had photographed earlier.

Checkpoint
1956
as Ginger
Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, wh...

A Hill in Korea
1956
as Pvt. Docker
Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the...

Charley Moon
1956
as Alf Higgins
A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with H...

A Man on the Beach
1955
This weird short manages to pack in fraud, murder, alcoholism and transvestitism, with two somewhat obvious plot twists but a acertain amount of inter...

Doctor at Sea
1955
as Sub-lieutenant Trail
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape t...

Above Us the Waves
1955
as Smart
In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to at...

The Teckman Mystery
1954
as Martin Teckman
A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a ser...

Bang! You're Dead
1954
as Bob Carter
Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays 'highwayma...

The Intruder
1953
as Ginger Edwards
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. W...

Spaceways
1953
as Dr. Toby Andrews
A rocket engineer, responsible for sending a satellite into space, is accused of committing the most extraordinary crime.

Malta Story
1953
as Ramsey
Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese gi...

The Oracle
1953
as Timothy Blake
An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.

Genevieve
1953
as Father To Be (Uncredited)
Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.

Street Corner
1953
as Chick
A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.

Miss Robin Hood
1952
as Ernest
In this delightful fantasy adventure, a mild-mannered writer of adventure stories for girls finds himself presented with an intriguing proposition fro...

Top Secret
1952
as Smedley
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyon...

Hindle Wakes
1952
as George Ackroyd
During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help ...

Love's a Luxury
1952
as Dick Pentwick
A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their efforts turn into comic disaster as a variety of wives,...

Curtain Up
1952
as Jerry Winterton
In a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing writte...

Four in a Jeep
1951
as Sgt. Harry Stuart
Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna.

The Long Dark Hall
1951
as Leslie Scott
A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.

Trio
1950
as Steward
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

Shadow of the Past
1950
as Dick Stevens
A man catches sight of a woman believed by everyone to be dead.
The Lady Craved Excitement
1950
as Johnny
A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.
Someone at the Door
1950
as Ronnie Martin
A man and his sister live in a country home, not knowing that there is stolen loot hidden there. A gang of criminals attempts to get them to move so t...

Boys in Brown
1949
as Alf "Sparrow" Thompson
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Bo...
Children of Chance
1949
Writer
In Ischia, a priest uses the money a young woman has made on the black market toward a home for illegitimate children.

Trottie True
1949
as Monty, Marquis of Maidenhead
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true b...

For Them That Trespass
1949
as Len, Herbie's bar pal
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begi...

The Queen of Spades
1949
as Hovaisky
An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fan...

Forbidden
1949
as Cabby
Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic...

Helter Skelter
1949
as Man Giving BBC Boxing Talk
A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.

William Comes to Town
1948
as Reporter
William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys.

Another Shore
1948
as Yellow
A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.

Woman Hater
1948
as Harris
A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.

My Sister and I
1948
Writer
A family is in need of a new house help so they employ a mysterious young woman. They soon realise all is not as it seems as the past comes back to ha...

Anna Karenina
1948
as Kitty's Doctor
Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's compani...

Look Before You Love
1948
as Emile Garat
Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff.

Nightbeat
1947
as Rocky
After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.

Just William's Luck
1947
as Spiv
Comic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals.

An Ideal Husband
1947
as Duke of Nonesuch
A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover...

Black Memory
1947
as Johnnie Fletcher
Cockney Danny Cruff is the son of a man wrongly accused of murder. Danny decides to solve the mystery himself by hobnobbing with London's underworld. ...

The Courtneys of Curzon Street
1947
as Edward Courtney
On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film then...

Piccadilly Incident
1946
as Radio Operator
A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her hus...