RECENT CREDITS
How About You (FILM)  Nov. 14, 2008
Flawless (FILM)  Mar. 28, 2008
Asylum (FILM)  Aug. 12, 2005
A Different Loyalty (FILM)  Jan. 1, 2004
No Good Deed (FILM)  Jan. 1, 2003


HIGHLIGHTS
Made his stage debut in 1945 in The Hasty Heart.
Met wife Rosemary Kirkcaldy at a theatre in Pitlochry in 1951 when they were both in J.M. Barrie's Mary Rose.
Worked on a tea plantation in Africa while striving to make a living as an actor.
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All Credits

Film Name / TV Show Name (Episode Name)
Role
Category

How About You  2008 -Donald
Actor
Film


Flawless  2008 -MKA (Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft)
Actor
Film


Asylum  2005 -Dr. Jack Straffen
Actor
Film


No Good Deed  2003 -Mr. Quarre
Actor
Film


K-19: The Widowmaker  2002 -Marshal Zelentstov
Actor
Film


Passion of Mind  2000 -Dr. Langer
Actor
Film


Firelight  1998 -Lord Clare
Actor
Film


The Mighty Ducks  1992 -Hans
Actor
Film


Once Upon a Crime  1992 -Hercules Popodopoulos
Actor
Film


Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey  1991 -DeNomolos
Actor
Film


The Object of Beauty  1991 -Mr. Mercer
Actor
Film


The Hunt for Red October  1990 -Andrei Lysenko
Actor
Film


To Kill a Priest  1989 -Colonel
Actor
Film


Lethal Weapon 2  1989 -Arjen Rudd
Actor
Film


A Zed & Two Noughts  1988 -Van Hoyten
Actor
Film


White Mischief  1988 -Sir John "Jock" Delves Broughton
Actor
Film


The Sicilian  1987 -Don Masino Croce
Actor
Film


Lady Jane  1986 -Sir John Bridges
Actor
Film


Hitler: The Last Ten Days  1973 -Gen. Burgdorf
Actor
Film


A Woman Named Jackie   -Aristotle Onassis
Actor
TV


Citizen X   -Bondarchuk
Actor
TV


Actor
TV


Daisies in December   -Gerald Carmody
Actor
TV


Deadly Voyage   -Captain
Actor
TV


Jacob   -Isaac
Actor
TV


Actor
TV


Shroud for a Nightingale   -Courtney-Briggs
Actor
TV


The Man Who Lived at the Ritz   -Hermann Goering
Actor
TV


Actor
Film


Milk  2001 -The Vicar
Actor
Film


Swept From The Sea  1998 -Mr. Swaffer
Actor
Film


D3: The Mighty Ducks  1996 -Hans
Actor
Film


Surviving Picasso  1996 -Henri Matisse
Actor
Film


A Kid in King Arthur's Court  1995 -King Arthur
Actor
Film


OcchioPinocchio  1995 -Brando
Actor
Film


Miracle on 34th Street  1994 -Victor Landbergh
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Dimenticare Palermo  1990 -Uomo di Potere
Actor
Film


Rough Cut  1980 -Inspector Vanderveld
Actor
Film


Saint Jack  1979 -Yardley
Actor
Film


Watership Down  1978 -Black Rabbit
Voice
Film


Actor
Film


One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing  1975 -B.J. Spence
Actor
Film


England Made Me  1973 -Haller
Actor
Film


The Mind Snatchers  1972 -Dr. Frederick
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Shadowlands   -C.S. Lewis
Actor
Film


Shameless   -Inspector Sam Stringer
Actor
Film


Silver Bears   -Henry Forman
Actor
Film


Terry Pratchett's Hogfather   -Mustrum Ridcully
Actor
Film


The Apple   -Mr. Topps
Actor
Film


The Big Scam   -Prison Warden (uncredited)
Actor
Film


The Black Windmill   -Chief Superintendent Wray
Actor
Film


The Bridge   -Smithson
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


The House That Dripped Blood   -Jonas Rogers
Actor
Film


Operation Daybreak   -Janak
Actor
Film


Othello  
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Project: Shadowchaser   -"Kinderman"
Actor
Film


Queenie   -Sir Burton Rumsey
Actor
Film


Rasputin, the Mad Monk   -The Bishop
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Mother's Boys   -Lansing
Actor
Film


New World   -Lyford
Actor
Film


Nowhere to Run   -Franklin Hale
Actor
Film


Above and Beyond   -Winston Churchill
Actor
Film


Ghost Ship   -Ron
Actor
Film


Giorgino   -Father Glaise
Actor
Film


Great Expectations   -Joe Gargery
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


First and Last   -Alan Holly
Actor
Film


I'll Be There   -Evil Edmonds
Actor
Film


Icon   -Gen. Nikolayev
Actor
Film


It Couldn't Happen Here   -Priest/Murderer
Actor
Film


Jacob   -Isaac
Actor
Film


Jekyll and Hyde   -Doctor Lanyon
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


A Murder of Quality   -Terence Fielding
Actor
Film


Daisies in December   -Gerald Carmody
Actor
Film


Dangerous Davies - The Last Detective   -Chief Inspector Yardbird
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Citizen X   -Bondarchuk
Actor
Film


Codename: Kyril   -'C'
Actor
Film


Crescendo   -Carter
Actor
Film


Cry of the Penguins   -Head of Board
Actor
Film


Royal Flash   -Sapten
Actor
Film


S*P*Y*S   -Mailinson
Actor
Film


The Little Prince   -The King
Actor
Film


The Three Musketeers   -D'Artagnan's Father
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy   -Jerry Westerby
Actor
Film


To the Ends of Time   -King Francis
Actor
Film


Villain   -Edgar Lowis
Actor
Film


Actor
Film


Actor
Film




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Highlights

Made his stage debut in 1945 in The Hasty Heart.
Met wife Rosemary Kirkcaldy at a theatre in Pitlochry in 1951 when they were both in J.M. Barrie's Mary Rose.
Worked on a tea plantation in Africa while striving to make a living as an actor.
House caught on fire in 1963 while Ackland was away working; Rosemary saved their children, but broke her back jumping to safety (while pregnant with their sixth child).


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