Biography
Derren Nesbitt (born Derren Michael Horwitz; 19 June 1935) is a British actor. Nesbitt's film career began in the late 1950s, and he also appeared in many television series in the late 1960s into the 1970s. He is known for his role as Major von Hapen in the 1968 film Where Eagles Dare. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Haunting of Margam Castle
2020
as Hugh Morgan
A team of American parapsychologists travel to Wales to conduct a study of Margam Castle, one of the UK's most haunted buildings.
Tucked
2019
as Jackie
An aging 80 year old drag queen forms an unlikely friendship with a younger queen, both struggling with their own issues of gender identity and mortal...
Home for Christmas
2014
as Grandad
Beth Prince has always loved fairytales and now she feels like she's finally on the verge of her own happily ever after; a dream job in a charming ind...
Flawless
2007
as Sinclair
A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
1993
as Prime Minister
A craft full of Space Rats,glamorous extra-terrestrials from the planet Sex,arrive on Earth desperate to find men with whom they can procreate in orde...
Double X: The Name of the Game
1992
as The Minister
Expert safecracker Arthur Clutten masterminds heists for a criminal syndicate he belongs to. But after witnessing the brutal methods of persuasion bei...
Project Alien
1990
as Arthur Corbin
In Norway a military plane crashes under mysterious circumstances: in his last message the pilot reported many lights falling from the sky. NATO wants...
Bullseye!
1990
as Inspector Grosse
Spies force two British con men to pose as look-alike scientists peddling cheap-energy fusion.
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
as General Galtieri
In the conclusion of this special two-part story, Stan has somehow managed to make it to the Falklands, which have indeed been taken over by the Argen...
GLC: The Carnage Continues
1990
as Aide/Neil Kinnock
The Greater London Council fight to save the capital against the wicked Ice Maiden.
The Strike
1988
as Chauffeur/McGregor
Paul, a former miner, writes a hard-hitting screenplay about his own experiences of the 1984 miners' strike. However, the Hollywood production company...
Eat the Rich
1987
as Manager
Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class...
The Guns and the Fury
1983
Two turn of the Century fortune hunters (Peter Graves and Cameron Mitchell) discover oil in Persia and attempt to claim it. Serious resistance is met.
Funny Money
1982
as Jake Sanderson
Crime, drama. In Las Vegas, young Barry Nichols inadvertently steals a fortune from the Mob and is slashed to death by a limping hood. Later, his girl...
The House on Garibaldi Street
1979
as Arthur Lubinsky
When Israeli officials learn that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
The Saint and the Brave Goose
1979
as Lebec
A two-part episode of the 1978 TV series "The Return of the Saint," edited together and released as a feature.
Give Us Tomorrow
1978
as Ron
Masked intruders take the family of a bank manager hostage in order to rob his bank.
The Playbirds
1978
as Jeremy
In order to unmask a pathological killer who is targeting the beautiful centrefolds of Playbirds magazine, a sexy policewoman Lucy Sheridan puts her l...
Spy Story
1976
as Colonel Stok
A nuclear war specialist returns from a mission gathering data on Soviet communications and electronic warfare techniques in the Arctic Ocean to find ...
The Amorous Milkman
1975
as Replacement Milkman (uncredited)
Davey's milk delivery job offers him scant excitement. But when a few of the lonely housewives, including the alluring Rita, want him to deliver a lit...
The Amorous Milkman
1975
Director, Screenplay
Davey's milk delivery job offers him scant excitement. But when a few of the lonely housewives, including the alluring Rita, want him to deliver a lit...
Ooh...You Are Awful
1972
as Sid Sabbath
Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000, but during their flight out, Charlie is arrested for scamming an Ameri...
Innocent Bystanders
1972
as Andrew Joyce
Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run. Cross and double-cross is the name ...
Burke & Hare
1972
as Burke
Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
Berlin Affair
1970
as Galt
Spy suspense drama set in 1960's Berlin. Intrigue and double-cross lead Killian on a twisting path through love and loss.
Where Eagles Dare
1968
as Von Hapen
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impo...
Nobody Runs Forever
1968
as Pallain
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But wh...
The Naked Runner
1967
as Colonel Hartmann
Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to ...
The Blue Max
1966
as Fabian
A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.
Operation Third Form
1966
as Skinner
Operation Third Form, features a fresh-faced John Moulder-Brown (Deep End) in a sparkling performance as the schoolboy out to foil a pair of north Lon...
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965
as der jüngere Bruder
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.
Doctor Who: Marco Polo
1964
as Tegana
The TARDIS crew lands in the Himalayas of Cathay in 1289, their ship badly damaged, and are picked up by Marco Polo's caravan on its way along the fab...
The Informers
1963
as Bertie Hoyle
When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to wa...
A Matter of Choice
1963
Story
A philandering woman finds herself in deep trouble when her diabetic lover is accidentally killed by a gang of youths.
Kill or Cure
1962
as Roger Forrester
A private eye is hired to go undercover at a health farm, but before he can find out why his client is murdered.
Term of Trial
1962
as Lodger
A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including...
Strongroom
1962
as Griff
During a bank robbery, the manager and a cashier are locked in the strongroom, while the crooks escape. Later, when the gang realise that their plan t...
Victim
1961
as Sandy
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of suc...
The Man in the Back Seat
1961
as Tony
The haunting story of two incompetent crooks and an unwanted passenger which obviously has its roots in the Banquo’s ghost segment of Macbeth.
Honeymoon Postponed
1961
as Geoffrey Fitton
Lancashire newlyweds Violet and Arthur Fitton are forced to postpone their honeymoon and move in temporarily with his parents.
Caroline of Rijeka
1961
The movie Karolina Rijecka is loosely based on the legendary story of young Karolina Belinic. When the English fleet began firing cannons on the Adria...
Sword of Sherwood Forest
1960
as Martin of Eastwood (uncredited)
Robin of Loxley and his men stumble on a plot to overthrow Hubert Walter, King's Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury. The plotters, the Sheriff of...
In the Nick
1960
as Mick
A gang of small-time criminals are sent to an experimental prison where inmates are to be reformed, not punished.
The Giant Behemoth
1959
as The Radar Operator, at the radar room (uncredited)
Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which ...
Life in Danger
1959
as The Man
Panic and fear overtake a small British farming community after a homicidal child-killer escapes from a local mental hospital.
Room at the Top
1958
as Thug in Fight On Tow Path
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
A Night to Remember
1958
as Stoker Holding Oar on Upturned Lifeboat (uncredited)
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspect...
The Silent Enemy
1958
as Patrol Boat Officer
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to c...