Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Percy Herbert (31 July 1920 - 6 December 1992) was an English character actor who often played soldiers, most notably in The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Geese and Tunes of Glory. However, he was equally at home in comedies (Barnacle Bill, Call Me Bwana, two Carry On films) and science fiction (One Million Years B.C., Mysterious Island). He also acted on television; he was a regular on the short-lived series Cimarron Strip, starring Stuart Whitman. H...
Known For
Complete Filmography

What's a Carry On?
1998
as Charlie, the Bartender (archive footage) (uncredited)
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the ca...

The Love Child
1988
as Maurice
When he was a little boy, Dillon's rock musician father and hippie mother died in a traffic accident. Now in his twenties, Dillon wants nothing more t...

The Sea Wolves
1980
as Dennison
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...

The London Connection
1979
as Ship's Captain
A missing formula, a defecting Eastern European scientist kidnapped, car chases, foot chases, air chases, the British secret service, and a couple of ...

The Wild Geese
1978
as Keith
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and s...

That's Carry On!
1977
as Various Characters
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood film s...

Valentino
1977
as Studio Guard
The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.

Hardcore
1977
as Hubert
Aka Hardcore, aka Frankly Fiona. The heavily fictionalised fantastical autobiography of the fantastic 70s sex superstar Fiona Richmond, played by Fion...

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
1975
as Mr Gibbons
Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese...

Craze
1974
as Detective Constable Russet
A demented art dealer and antique shop owner performs nightly rituals in honour of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimag...

The MacKintosh Man
1973
as Taafe
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate ...

Black Snake
1973
as Joxer Tierney
On a 19th century Caribbean island, slaves revolt against their beautiful and sadistic mistress.

The Fiend
1972
as Commissionaire Jim Hudson
Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, ...

Doomwatch
1972
as Hartwell
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.

Man in the Wilderness
1971
as Fogarty
In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to be...

Captain Apache
1971
as Moon
The title character is a US army Captain of Native American descent who is asked to investigate the murder of an Indian agent. His only clue is "April...

Too Late the Hero
1970
as Sgt. Johnstone
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a m...

One More Time
1970
as Mander
London nightclub buddies Salt and Pepper link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers.

The Royal Hunt of the Sun
1969
as Diego
The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds hi...

El juicio
1968
as MacGregor

The Hunted
1967
as MacGregor

Night of the Big Heat
1967
as Gerald Foster
While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea...

Casino Royale
1967
as 1st Piper
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be...

The Viking Queen
1967
as Catus
Set in ancient Britain, at a time when much of Europe was ruled with harsh tyranny by Rome, a tribe of Britons led by Selina, set out to defy the inva...

Tobruk
1967
as Dolan
In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which th...

Mister Ten Per Cent
1967
as Inspector Greet
Percy Pointer's passion in life is the theatre, and all his spare time is devoted to the play he is writing. When it's finished it arrives on the desk...

One Million Years B.C.
1966
as Sakana
As the Earth wrestles with its agonizing birth, the peoples of this barren and desolate world struggle to survive. Driven by animal instinct they comp...

Carry On Cowboy
1965
as Charlie, the Bartender
Stodge City is in the grip of the Rumpo Kid and his gang. Mistaken identity again takes a hand as a 'sanitary engineer' named Marshal P. Knutt is mist...

Bunny Lake Is Missing
1965
as Policeman at Station
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

Joey Boy
1965
as Mad George Long
While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. In a cellar beneath his East London fish s...

Carry On Cleo
1964
as Guard (uncredited)
Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their ...

Guns at Batasi
1964
as Parkin
An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d'etat must use his experience to defend those in his care.

The Counterfeit Constable
1964
as L'agent Baxter
An extremely funny film about a group of French rugby supporters who go to see a match at Twickenham and one of them inadvertently receives a blow in ...

Becket
1964
as Baron
Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of C...

Carry On Jack
1964
as Mr. Angel, the Bos'un
Tenth entry in the Carry On series. Able seaman Poop-Decker signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless. Those swabbing t...

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
1963
as Dover Castle Jailer
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.

Call Me Bwana
1963
as First Henchman
A returning moon capsule goes off course and lands in Africa where a little-known tribe finds it. Washington sends Matthew Merriwether to recover it—t...

The Cracksman
1963
as Nosher
Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable as...

Conquered City
1962
as Sgt. Maj. Reed
Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star World War II drama financed i...

Mutiny on the Bounty
1962
as Matthew Quintal
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as ...

Mysterious Island
1961
as Sgt. Pencroft
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They mus...

The Guns of Navarone
1961
as Sgt. Grogan
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range fiel...

Tunes of Glory
1960
as RSM Riddick
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, wit...

There Was a Crooked Man
1960
as Prison Warden
When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught and jailed. When he is released he goes straight a...

The Challenge
1960
as Shop Steward
Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.

Yesterday's Enemy
1959
as Wilkins
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enem...

The Devil's Disciple
1959
as Edict Sergeant
In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Re...

Serious Charge
1959
as Mr Thompson
Howard Phillips, a vicar who's new in the town of Bellington, wants to reach out to youth. The previous vicar's daughter, Hester Peters, who fears bei...

Idol on Parade
1959
as Sergeant Hebrides
A rock'n'roll idol is drafted into the wrong regiment.

Don't Panic Chaps!
1959
as Bolter
During World War II, four British soldiers are commissioned to set up an observation post on a seemingly deserted island in the Mediterranean. However...

Sea of Sand
1958
as White
A small British army team is sent deep behind enemy lines to destroy a German petrol dump as part of the preparation for a major attack in the North A...

Sea Fury
1958
as Walker
The captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement with a young girl at the behest of her father, in the ho...

Tank Force!
1958
as 1st English Soldier
During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.

The Safecracker
1958
as Sergeant Harper
Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.

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

Barnacle Bill
1957
as Tommy
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'

Night of the Demon
1957
as Farmer
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was ki...

The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
as Grogan
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence...

Quatermass 2
1957
as Paddy Gorman
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly...

Tiger in the Smoke
1956
as Copper
In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he ta...

A Hill in Korea
1956
as Pvt. Moon
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...

Child in the House
1956
as Det. Sgt. Taylor
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companion...

Lost
1956
as Police Constable in Phone Box
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London...

The Cockleshell Heroes
1955
as Marine Lomas
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.

The Gold Express
1955
as Garage Employee
Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks intent on stealing a gold shipment...

Confession
1955
as The Barman
A confession to a priest from a thief leads to the priest's life being threatened by his gang.

The Prisoner
1955
as Soldier (uncredited)
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his ...

The Night My Number Came Up
1955
British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small D...

The Green Buddha
1954
as Casey O'Rourke
Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a costly antique jade figure from an exhibit. He tr...

The Young Lovers
1954
as Richards (uncredited)
A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective coun...