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Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
February 29, 1928
Place of Birth:
North Kensington, London, England, UK
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Joss Ackland
Biography
Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland CBE (29 February 1928 – 19 November 2023) was an English actor who appeared in more than 130 film and television roles. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying Jock Delves Broughton in White Mischief (1987).
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Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Katherine of Alexandria | Rufus |
| 2014 | The Portrait | Henry Winter |
| 2013 | Prisoners of the Sun | Professor Mendella |
| 2011 | The Boy with Chocolate Fingers | Narrator |
| 2010 | Peak Performers - The Mk3 Ford Cortina | Narrator |
| 2009 | Pinocchio | Mastro Ciliegia |
| 2007 | Flawless | Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft |
| 2007 | How About You... | Donald Vanston |
| 2007 | In Search of the Great Beast 666: Aleister Crowley | Narrator |
| 2007 | Hogfather | Mustrum Ridcully |
| 2006 | Above and Beyond | |
| 2006 | These Foolish Things | Albert |
| 2006 | Moscow Zero | Tolstoy |
| 2005 | Asylum | Jack Straffen |
| 2005 | Icon | General Nikolayev |
| 2005 | Defining a Style | Self |
| 2004 | A Different Loyalty | Randolph Cauffield |
| 2003 | I'll Be There | Evil Edmonds - The BeeLzeeBOPS |
| 2002 | No Good Deed | Mr. Quarre |
| 2002 | K-19: The Widowmaker | Marshal Zelentsov |
| 2001 | Othello | James Brabant |
| 2000 | Lounge Act | |
| 2000 | The Mumbo Jumbo | Mayor Smith |
| 2000 | Passion of Mind | Dr. Langer, the French Psychiatrist |
| 2000 | Tales from the Madhouse | Barabbas |
| 1999 | Milk | Vicar |
| 1999 | The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service | The Prussian |
| 1998 | Swept from the Sea | Mr. Swaffer |
| 1998 | Firelight | Lord Clare |
| 1998 | My Giant | Monsignor Popesou |
| 1996 | D3: The Mighty Ducks | Hans |
| 1996 | Surviving Picasso | Henri Matisse |
| 1996 | Deadly Voyage | |
| 1996 | Hidden in Silence | German Factory Manager |
| 1996 | To the Ends of Time | King Francis |
| 1995 | Citizen X | Bondarchuk |
| 1995 | A Kid in King Arthur's Court | King Arthur |
| 1995 | Mad Dogs and Englishmen | Insp. Sam Stringer |
| 1995 | Daisies in December | Gerald Carmody |
| 1994 | Jacob | Isaak |
| 1994 | Giorgino | Father Glaise |
| 1994 | Miracle on 34th Street | Victor Landbergh (uncredited) |
| 1994 | OcchioPinocchio | Brando Della Valle |
| 1994 | Joan Miró: Constellations - The Color of Poetry | Self |
| 1994 | Citizen Locke | Lord Ashley |
| 1994 | Miracle on 34th Street | Victor Landbergh |
| 1994 | Julius Caesar | Caesar |
| 1993 | Nowhere to Run | Franklin Hale |
| 1993 | Mother's Boys | Lansing, Jude's Attorney |
| 1993 | Voices in the Garden | Sir Charles Peverall |
| 1993 | The Thief and the Cobbler | Brigand (voice) |
| 1993 | Simulacrum | The Chemist |
| 1992 | The Mighty Ducks | Hans |
| 1992 | Once Upon a Crime | Hercules Popodopoulos |
| 1992 | Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls | King Edward |
| 1992 | The Bridge | Smithson |
| 1992 | Project: Shadowchaser | Kinderman |
| 1992 | White Bear's Secret | Brown Bear (voice) |
| 1991 | Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | De Nomolos |
| 1991 | A Murder of Quality | Terence Fielding |
| 1991 | The Object of Beauty | Mr. Mercer |
| 1991 | The Sheltering Desert | |
| 1991 | Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors | Lewis Serrocold |
| 1991 | The Princess and the Goblin | King Papa (voice) |
| 1991 | Brown Bear's Wedding | Brown Bear (voice) |
| 1990 | The Hunt for Red October | Ambassador Andrei Lysenko |
| 1990 | Jekyll & Hyde | Dr. Charles Lanyon |
| 1990 | The Secret Life of Ian Fleming | Gen. Gerhard Hellstein |
| 1990 | The Palermo Connection | il boss |
| 1990 | Tre colonne in cronaca | Gaetano Leporino, il finanziere |
| 1989 | Lethal Weapon 2 | Arjen Rudd |
| 1989 | First and Last | Alan Holly |
| 1988 | It Couldn't Happen Here | Priest/Murderer |
| 1988 | To Kill a Priest | Colonel |
| 1988 | The Man Who Lived at the Ritz | Hermann Goering |
| 1988 | Olympus Force: The Key | George Grossopoulos |
| 1988 | Codename: Kyril | 'C' |
| 1987 | The Sicilian | Don Masino Croce |
| 1987 | White Mischief | 'Jock' Delves Broughton |
| 1987 | When We Are Married | Henry Ormonroyd |
| 1986 | Lady Jane | Sir John Bridges |
| 1985 | A Zed & Two Noughts | Van Hoyten |
| 1985 | Shadowlands | CS Lewis |
| 1984 | The Tragedy of Coriolanus | Menenius |
| 1984 | The Leather Boys | Narrator |
| 1982 | The Barretts of Wimpole Street | Edward Moulton-Barrett |
| 1981 | Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective | Chief Insp. Yardbird |
| 1981 | Elizabeth Alone | Major Orpen |
| 1981 | Findings on a Late Afternoon | Father |
| 1980 | The Apple | Mr. Topps / Hippie Leader |
| 1980 | The Love Tapes | Narrator (voice) |
| 1980 | Rough Cut | Insp. Vanderveld |
| 1980 | A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square | Prison Warden |
| 1980 | Closing Ranks | Victor Rogachev |
| 1979 | Saint Jack | Yardley |
| 1978 | Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? | Cantrell |
| 1978 | Watership Down | Black Rabbit (voice) |
| 1978 | The Greek Tycoon | Naval officer (uncredited) |
| 1977 | The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It | President |
| 1977 | Silver Bears | Henry Foreman |
| 1976 | You Talk Too Much | Doctor |
| 1975 | One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing | B.J. Spence |
| 1975 | Royal Flash | Sapten |
| 1975 | Operation: Daybreak | Janák |
| 1975 | Heading For Glory | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1974 | S*P*Y*S | Martinson |
| 1974 | The Little Prince | The King |
| 1974 | Great Expectations | Joe Gargery |
| 1974 | Miss Nightingale | Lord Palmerston |
| 1974 | The Black Windmill | Chief Supt. Wray |
| 1974 | The Four Musketeers | D'Artagnan's Father (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1973 | The Three Musketeers | D’Artagnan’s Father |
| 1973 | England Made Me | Haller |
| 1973 | Penny Gold | Jones |
| 1973 | Hitler: The Last Ten Days | General Burgdorf |
| 1973 | Access to the Children | Malcolmson |
| 1972 | The Mind Snatchers | Dr. Frederick |
| 1972 | The Bankrupt | Ellis Cripper |
| 1972 | King's Cross Lunch Hour | The Man |
| 1971 | Villain | Edgar Lowis |
| 1971 | The House That Dripped Blood | Neville Rogers (segment 2 "Waxworks") |
| 1971 | Mr. Forbush and the Penguins | Head of Board |
| 1971 | Getting In | An Applicant |
| 1970 | Crescendo | Carter |
| 1970 | The Lie | Albert |
| 1970 | The Three Sisters | Chebutykin |
| 1966 | Rasputin: The Mad Monk | The Bishop |
| 1965 | Tomorrow, Just You Wait | Tom Gorbet |
| 1964 | Maggie | Norman |
| 1962 | In Search of the Castaways | Yacht Seaman |
| 1958 | Next to No Time | Turkish Bath Attendant |
| 1952 | Ghost Ship | Ron, 2nd Fisherman |
| 1950 | Seven Days to Noon | Station Policeman |
| 1949 | Landfall | O'Neil |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Pinocchio | Mastro Ciliegia |
| 2007 | Kingdom | Mr. John Narbutowicz |
| 2006 | The One Show | Self |
| 2006 | Above and Beyond | Winston Churchill |
| 2006 | Hogfather | Mustrum Ridcully |
| 2003 | Henry VIII | Henry VII |
| 1998 | Heat of the Sun | Max Van Der vuurst |
| 1997 | Midsomer Murders | Sir Freddy Butler |
| 1996 | Testament: The Bible in Animation | Samuel (voice) |
| 1996 | Testament: The Bible in Animation | Noah (voice) |
| 1992 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | The Prussian |
| 1992 | Shakespeare: The Animated Tales | Caesar (voice) |
| 1991 | Ashenden | |
| 1991 | A Woman Named Jackie | Aristotle Onassis |
| 1988 | Codename: Kyril | 'C' |
| 1987 | A Killing on the Exchange | Sir Max Sillman |
| 1987 | Queenie | Sir Burton Rumsey |
| 1984 | Shroud for a Nightingale | Stephen Courtney-Briggs |
| 1984 | Sherlock Holmes | Jephro Rucastle |
| 1983 | Natural World | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1983 | Dalgliesh | Stephen Courtney-Briggs |
| 1982 | Wogan | Self |
| 1980 | The Gentle Touch | Ivor Stocker |
| 1980 | A Question of Guilt | |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Colonel George Peregrine |
| 1979 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | |
| 1979 | Turtle's Progress | Benny D-Day |
| 1979 | Tales of the Unexpected | Jack Cutler |
| 1978 | Return of the Saint | Gunther |
| 1978 | Enemy at the Door | Major General Laidlaw |
| 1976 | The Crezz | Charles Bronte |
| 1975 | The Sweeney | Alan Ember |
| 1974 | Playhouse | Maj. Orpen |
| 1974 | Playhouse | Father |
| 1972 | The Protectors | Arthur Gordon |
| 1972 | Shirley's World | |
| 1971 | The Persuaders! | Felix Meadowes |
| 1971 | Justice | Sir Robert Beste |
| 1971 | The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | Grubber |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Albert |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Ellis Cripper |
| 1970 | Play for Today | Malcolmson |
| 1967 | The Further Adventures of the Musketeers | d'Artagnan |
| 1966 | Mystery and Imagination | |
| 1966 | David Copperfield | Daniel Peggotty |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Chebutykin |
| 1965 | The Troubleshooters | Considine |
| 1965 | The Troubleshooters | Sam Jardine |
| 1965 | The Troubleshooters | Mr. Gibbon |
| 1965 | The Troubleshooters | Lewis |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Charley |
| 1965 | Londoners | Angus Grahame |
| 1964 | Sherlock Holmes | Hon. Philip Green |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play | Cornelius |
| 1964 | The Wednesday Play | Tom Gorbet |
| 1964 | Theatre 625 | Hockey Jagger |
| 1964 | Theatre 625 | Fred |
| 1964 | Theatre 625 | John Hinks |
| 1961 | The Avengers | Brigadier Hansing |
| 1959 | No Hiding Place | |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Frank Penfold |
| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Mr Green |