John Rees (actor)
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
- 1961: The Story of Private Pooley
- 1961: Seven Against Hell (The Long and the Short and the Tall)
- 1962: You can only love as a couple (Only Two Can Play)
- 1962: The Net (A Prize of Arms)
- 1963: Lucie and the Angler from Paris (TV movie)
- 1965: Simon Templar ( The Saint , TV series, episode 3x18)
- 1966: The Quiller Memorandum - Risk from the darkness (The Quiller Memorandum)
- 1966,1968: Softly, Softly (TV series, 4 episodes)
- 1969: Alfred the Great - Vanquisher of the Vikings (Alfred the Great)
- 1967,1971: Task Force Police ( Z-Cars , TV series, 6 episodes)
- 1971: The Mediator (The Go-Between)
- 1972: Under Milk Wood (Under Milk Wood)
- 1972: Van der Valk (TV series, episode 1x03)
- 1973: A Case for Scotland Yard ( New Scotland Yard , TV series, episode 2x06)
- 1973: Doctor Who (TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1974: Crown Court (TV series, episode 3x133)
- 1975: The Doctor and the Dear Cattle ( All Creatures Great and Small , TV movie)
- 1978: Holocaust - The History of the Weiss Family ( Holocaust , Miniseries, Episode 3)
- 1978: The Shout (The Shout)
- 1979: The Deadly Triangle (Hanover Street)
- 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
- 1981: The needle (Eye of the Needle)
- 1982: Devilish Signals (The Sender)
- 1984: Redwing - Escape from the Black Droid (Starship)
- 1985: Button - In the swamp of the atomic mafia (Defense of the Realm)
- 1985: A Demancipated Woman (Plenty)
- 1986: Sky Bandits
- 1988: The Last Days in Kenya (White Mischief)
- 1988: The Bill (TV series, episode 4x26)
- 1989: Saracen (TV series, episode 1x06)
Web links
- John Rees in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- John Rees British Film Institute Role Directory
- John Rees at Turner Classic Movies (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961). In: Turner Classic Movies . Accessed April 22, 2019 .
- ^ Only Two Can Play (1962) Swansea Grand Theater
- ^ A Prize of Arms ( August 8, 2014 memento on the Internet Archive ) Britmovie.com
- ↑ Sharp cut: Harold Pinter's screenplays and the artistic process The Go-Between
- ↑ The Go-Between Aveleyman.com (with photo by John Rees)
- ↑ Under Milk Wood Ferdy on Films
- ↑ Holocaust. The Story of the Family Weiss. ( Memento from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Jeff Stafford: The Shout (1978). Turner Classic Movies , accessed April 22, 2019 .
personal data | |
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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 |