Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. George Rose (19 February 1920 - 5 May 1988) was an English actor in theatre and film. Born in Bicester, Oxfordshire the son of a butcher, Rose studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. After graduation he briefly was a farmer and secretary. After wartime service and studies at Oxford, he made his Old Vic stage debut in 1946. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Rose, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedi...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Broadway's Lost Treasures II
2004
as Louis Greff (segment "Coco")
The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on ope...

The Saint in Manhattan
1987
as Woods
Simon Templar returns to New York via Concorde and is feeling restless, until a note from an old flame surfaces. This TV movie was an unsold pilot for...

You Can't Take it With You
1984
as Boris Kolenkhov
A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

The Pirates of Penzance
1983
as Maj. Gen. Stanley
In spite of being apprenticed to a Pirate King as a child, Frederic has led a very sheltered life. So when he arrives in Cornwall with his boisterous ...

Blake: The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell
1983
A portrayal of artist/poet William Blake's effort to capture "an eternal world of the permanent realities of everything we see reflected in the vegeta...

The Pirates of Penzance
1980
as Major-General Stanley
This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series. It presents, with some inevitable...

The American Woman: Portraits of Courage
1976
as Anthony Comstock
Developed from Anne Grant's book, Our North American Foremothers, this film recreates historical moments and women who fought for equality and freedom...

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1973
as Saxonburg
A precocious young girl and her younger brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Hogan's Goat
1971
as Quinn
A young Irish ward boss has a chance to be elected mayor, but the disgraced current mayor makes sure the candidate's wife learns about his affair with...

A New Leaf
1971
as Harold
After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.

The Littlest Angel
1969
as The Celestial Psychopomp
Adapted from the book by Charles Tazewell. Michael, a shepherd boy living in Biblical times, finds himself transported to Heaven on his eighth birthda...
The Tree
1969
as Stuey Morgan
A directionless and emotionally scarred young man kidnaps his niece, the daughter of his sister with whom he has a difficult past.

The Pink Jungle
1968
as Captain Stopes
A famous fashion photographer is trapped in a remote South American country with a beautiful model and together with some unscrupulous characters, bec...

Hawaii
1966
as Captain Janders
Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, ...
Eagle in a Cage
1965
as Cipriani
Recounts the events of the final years of Napoleon, culminating in his exile on the isle of St. Helena.

Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
1964
as First Gravedigger
A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York. It was deliberately staged in the style of a "dress rehearsal", but perf...

Pygmalion
1963
as Alfred Doolittle
Can Professor Higgins transform cockney flower girl Eliza Dolittle into a lady by teaching her to speak properly?

No Love for Johnnie
1961
as Edward Collins
Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional proble...
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
1960
as Drinkwater
A titled Englishwoman proves more than a match for the fearsome Captain Brassbound.

The Citadel
1960
The good doctor is on trial before the British Medical Association Council, if he is found guilty, he will no longer be allowed to practice medicine. ...

The Flesh and the Fiends
1960
as William Burke
Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Robert Knox requires cadavers for his research into the functioning of the human body; local ne'er-do-wells Burke and Hare find ...

Back to Back
1959
These dueling one-act comedies highlight the work of playwright John Mortimer. In "The Dock Brief," an ill-prepared attorney is put to the test when h...

Jet Storm
1959
as James Burlington Brock
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.

The Devil's Disciple
1959
as British 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...

The Heart of a Man
1959
as Charlie
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...

Jack the Ripper
1959
as Clarke
A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.

Cat & Mouse
1958
as Clothes Dealer
A GI deserter frames a girl for killing a blackmailer, and holds her captive while seeking gems.

A Night to Remember
1958
as Chief Baker Charles Joughin
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...

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

The Dock Brief
1957
This hilarious one-act play by John Mortimer (creator of Rumpole of the Bailey) is the story of a highly incompetent lawyer preparing to defend a man ...

The Shiralee
1957
as Donny
An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and...

The Good Companions
1957
as Theatre Manager
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

The Long Arm
1956
as Slob
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The fi...

Port of Escape
1956
as Publican
Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene, comm...

Track the Man Down
1955
as Rick Lambert
A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.

The Night My Number Came Up
1955
as Bennett
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 Sea Shall Not Have Them
1954
as Tebbitt
During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea....

The Good Die Young
1954
as Bunny
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.

The Beggar's Opera
1953
as 1st Turnkey
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.

The Square Ring
1953
as Whitey Johnson
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.