John Rees (actor)

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John Morgan Rees (born March 6, 1927 in Port Talbot , Wales , † October 1994 in Spain ) was a British actor .

Life

Rees starred in numerous British movies since the 1960s ; he also had regular roles in British television series .

In 1961, he starred in the war film Seven Against Hell as Private TE "Taff" Evans, a young, friendly, pleasant, calm and carefree Welsh corporal who is killed by a sniper . Also in 1961 he had a leading role as an officer in the war drama The Oath of Soldier Pooley , produced by the East German DEFA for East German television , a factual story about a May 1940 near Dunkirk by German soldiers under the leadership of Fritz Knöchlein British officers massacre committed . In the following years, however , Rees was often only given secondary roles as a character actor . In the comedy Love You Can Just For Two , filmed in Swansea in the summer and autumn of 1961 , an adaptation of the original book That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis , with Peter Sellers in the leading role, he played a bus conductor. At the side of Stanley Baker he played a police sergeant in the detective film Das Netz (1962). In the late 1960s, he played the role of Cuthbert in the historical film Alfred the Great - Vanquisher of the Vikings alongside David Hemmings and Michael York .

In 1971 he was directed by Joseph Losey in the British film The Mediator in the role of Blunt. In the 1972 film adaptation of Unter dem Milchwald , he played the role of the shoemaker Jack Black, who in his midnight tantrums, Bible in hand, dreams of frightening young couples while making love and chastising them with a leather belt. In 1978 he played the head of the Reich Criminal Police Office Arthur Nebe in the US miniseries Holocaust - The History of the Weiss Family . In the horror film The Death Scream (director: Jerzy Skolimowski ) he was seen together with Alan Bates and Susannah York ; he played a police officer in it .

Rees had small roles in the late 1970s / early 1980s in the films The Deadly Triangle , Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Needle , in which he played various types of military, an SS officer, a non-commissioned officer and a naval engineer . In 1988 he played Baines in the love drama The Last Days in Kenya, directed by Michael Radford .

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961). In: Turner Classic Movies . Accessed April 22, 2019 .
  2. ^ Only Two Can Play (1962) Swansea Grand Theater
  3. ^ A Prize of Arms ( August 8, 2014 memento on the Internet Archive ) Britmovie.com
  4. ↑ Sharp cut: Harold Pinter's screenplays and the artistic process The Go-Between
  5. ↑ The Go-Between Aveleyman.com (with photo by John Rees)
  6. ↑ Under Milk Wood Ferdy on Films
  7. ↑ Holocaust. The Story of the Family Weiss. ( Memento from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Jeff Stafford: The Shout (1978). Turner Classic Movies , accessed April 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rees, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rees, John Morgan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Talbot , Wales
DATE OF DEATH October 1994
Place of death Spain