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The King's Pirate

as Captain Cullen

1967
The Sandpiper

as le juge Thompson

1965
Jack the Giant Killer

as Pendragon

1962
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

as Sokurah the Magician

1958
Darby's Rangers

as Sergeant McTavish

1958
Witness for the Prosecution

as Mr. Myers

1957
Band of Angels

as Capt. Canavan

1957
Helen of Troy

as Ulysses

1956
Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing

as Humphrey Palmer-Jones

1955
Lady Godiva of Coventry

as Lord Godwin

1955
Knock on Wood

as Godfrey Langston

1954
Bengal Brigade

as Colonel Morrow

1954
The Robe

as Sen. Gallio

1953
The Desert Rats

as Col. Barney White

1953
Houdini

as Otto

1953
The Snows of Kilimanjaro

as Johnson

1952
The Crimson Pirate

as Humble Bellows

1952
Affair in Trinidad

as Inspector Smythe

1952
Blackbeard, the Pirate

as Sir Henry Morgan

1952
Torin Thatcher Torin Thatcher

Birthday

1905-01-15

Place of Birth

Bombay, British India, India

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Torin Thatcher (15 January 1905 - 4 March 1981) was an English actor born in Bombay, British India, India), to English parents. He was an imposing, powerfully built figure noted for his flashy portrayals of screen villains. He was educated in England at Bedford School and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He worked as a schoolmaster before first appearing on the London stage in 1927 and then entering British films in 1934. He appeared in the 1937 Old Vic stage production of Hamlet, in which Laurence Olivier made his first appearance in the title role, opposite Vivien Leigh as Ophelia. During the Second World War, he served with the Royal Artillery and was demobilized with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Thatcher appeared in classic British films of the late 1930s and 1940s, including Major Barbara (1941) and Great Expectations (1946), in which he played Bentley Drummle. He moved to Hollywood in the 1950s. He was constantly in demand, invariably lending his looming figure and baleful countenance to sinister or stern roles in popular costume thrillers such as The Crimson Pirate (1952), Blackbeard the Pirate (1952), The Robe (1953) (as the disapproving father of Richard Burton's character), The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), Helen of Troy (1956), Darby's Rangers (1958), and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958). He also appeared in the Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard 1962 remake of Mutiny on the Bounty. He returned to the stage quite frequently, notably on Broadway, in such esteemed productions as Edward, My Son (1948), That Lady (1949) and Billy Budd (1951). In 1959, he portrayed Captain Keller in the award-winning play The Miracle Worker with Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. All of these plays were filmed, but Thatcher did not appear in the movie versions. Also a steady fixture on television, he appeared in such made-for-TV films as adaptations of A. J. Cronin's Beyond This Place (1957) and The Citadel (1960),Bonanza(1961), and Brenda Starr (1976). He also played the title role in a Philco Television Playhouse version of Othello and acted in a CBS production of Beyond This Place (1957). Thatcher died of cancer on March 4, 1981, in Thousand Oaks, California, in the Los Angeles area.
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