| 词条 | George Murcell |
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| name = George Murcell | image = George Murcell.gif | caption = Murcell in The Champions | birth_name = Arthur George Murcell | birth_date = 30 October 1925 | birth_place = Naples, Campania, Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|1998|12|3|1925|10|30|df=yes}} | death_place = Isleworth, Middlesex, England, UK | occupation = Film, stage and television actor Theatre director | years_active = 1952–1996 | organization = Royal Shakespeare Company | spouse = {{Marriage|Josephine Tweedy|1953|1960}} (divorced) {{Marriage|Elvi Hale|1960|1998}} (his death)}} George Murcell (30 October 1925 – 3 December 1998) was a British character actor. Life and careerBorn in Italy as Arthur George Murcell,[1] he made his film debut in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Battle of the River Plate (1956), Murcell went on to develop a career playing snarling villains in both film and television. These could either be dumb henchmen, as in Hell Drivers and Campbell's Kingdom (both 1957), or sophisticated rogues, such as Needle in "You Have Just Been Murdered", an episode of The Avengers. He specialised in playing foreign characters, including Germans, Russians and South Americans. A number of these roles were in ITC adventure TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Danger Man, The Baron, The Saint, The Champions, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Persuaders! and Jason King. His film roles included Sea of Sand (1958), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), The Heroes of Telemark (1965), Kaleidoscope (1966), The Fixer (1968), A Dandy in Aspic (1968), The Assassination Bureau (1969), A Walk with Love and Death (1969), Penny Gold (1973), Penelope Pulls It Off (1975), Inside the Third Reich (1982, as Hermann Göring), Year of the Gun (1991) and Cutthroat Island (1995). He enjoyed a long stage career, which involved working with Tyrone Guthrie and Peter Brook, and was active in the Royal Shakespeare Company. In the 1970s, he acquired a Victorian church in North London, which he converted into an Elizabethan-style theatre in collaboration with director Adrian Brown. In 1973, he opened it as "St George's Theatre", intending that it present little-seen classical plays. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he continued to work at St George's Theatre as both an actor and a director, often with his wife, Elvi Hale. Personal lifeMurcell married his first wife, Josephine Tweedy, in 1953. His second wife was the British actress Elvi Hale, to whom he was married from 1961 until his death in 1998. A bench dedicated to him is placed near the bridge crossing the lake at Kew Gardens. Away from acting, Murcell was also an accomplished musician and linguist. He died on 3 December 1998, aged 73. Filmography{{Div col|colwidth=30em}}
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References1. ^Birth record transcript {{DEFAULTSORT:Murcell, George}}Registration event: Birth Name: MURCELL, Arthur G H Mother's name: Not available before 1966 Consulate: Naples Country: Italy Year: 1921-1925 Volume: 19 Page: 637 Record source: GRO Consular Birth Indices (1849 to 1965) 13 : 1925 births|1998 deaths|20th-century British male actors|20th-century British musicians|British male film actors|Linguists from the United Kingdom|British male musicians|British male stage actors|British male television actors|British theatre directors|People from Naples|Royal Shakespeare Company members|British male Shakespearean actors |
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