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Acting

Joss Ackland

Career: Active from 1964 to 2014, busiest in 1991 and 1992 with 6 main titles each.

Leading roles: 58
top three billing

Average score: 56/100

Highest rated: Citizen X
80/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 106 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Joss Ackland Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.2, average 5.4
Coming of Age
2.1, average 3.0
Pop Culture
1.4, average 2.2
Showbiz
0.5, average 1.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 16
Historical Drama 7
Political Intrigue 7
Character Study 7
Historical Setting 6
Psychological Thriller 5
Melancholy 4
Social Commentary 4
Period Piece 4
Political Thriller 4
Complex Characters 3
London Setting 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

191

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

5 titles · average score 29

Katherine of Alexandria

29

as Rufus

The Portrait

as Henry Winter

Prisoners of the Sun

30

as Professor Mendella

The Boy with Chocolate Fingers

as Narrator

Peak Performers - The Mk3 Ford Cortina

as Narrator

2000s

22 titles · average score 57

Pinocchio

58

as Mastro Ciliegia

Flawless

61

as Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft

How About You...

51

as Donald Vanston

Kingdom

81

TV show · as Mr. John Narbutowicz

In Search of the Great Beast 666: Aleister Crowley

as Narrator

Moscow Zero

30

as Tolstoy

Above and Beyond

66

TV show · as Winston Churchill

Asylum

45

as Jack Straffen

Icon

56

as General Nikolayev

K-19: The Widowmaker

61

as Marshal Zelentsov

No Good Deed

34

as Mr. Quarre

Passion of Mind

39

as Dr. Langer, the French Psychiatrist

1990s

49 titles · average score 58

D3: The Mighty Ducks

37

as Hans

To the Ends of Time

55

as King Francis

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

30

as King Arthur

Citizen X

80

as Bondarchuk

The Mighty Ducks

51

as Hans

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

70

as Lewis Serrocold

The Princess and the Goblin

67

as King Papa (voice)

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

60

as De Nomolos

A Murder of Quality

60

as Terence Fielding

The Hunt for Red October

75

as Ambassador Andrei Lysenko

Jekyll & Hyde

58

as Dr. Charles Lanyon

The Palermo Connection

59

as il boss

1980s

34 titles · average score 64

Lethal Weapon 2

75

as Arjen Rudd

To Kill a Priest

64

as Colonel

Codename: Kyril

TV show · as 'C'

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

as Hermann Goering

White Mischief

70

as 'Jock' Delves Broughton

The Sicilian

29

as Don Masino Croce

Lady Jane

58

as Sir John Bridges

A Zed & Two Noughts

76

as Van Hoyten

Shadowlands

74

as CS Lewis

Shroud for a Nightingale

69

TV show · as Stephen Courtney-Briggs

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective

66

as Chief Insp. Yardbird

as Victor Rogachev

1970s

52 titles · average score 63

Saint Jack

60

as Yardley

The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It

67

as President

The Crezz

TV show · as Charles Bronte

Operation: Daybreak

72

as Janák

Royal Flash

55

as Sapten

The Little Prince

67

as The King

The Black Windmill

47

as Chief Supt. Wray

S*P*Y*S

38

as Martinson

The Mind Snatchers

52

as Dr. Frederick

The House That Dripped Blood

67

as Neville Rogers (segment 2 "Waxworks")

Villain

62

as Edgar Lowis

Crescendo

41

as Carter

1960s

23 titles · average score 67

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

TV show · as Councillor Horne

The Further Adventures of the Musketeers

TV show · as d'Artagnan

Mystery and Imagination

TV show · as Herr Scavenius / Mr Smedhurst

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Charley / Chebutykin

Thirty-Minute Theatre

TV show · as The Applicant / The Man

The Troubleshooters

TV show · as Sam Jardine / Lewis

as Norman

The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling

TV show · as William Stevens

The Wednesday Play

TV show · as Tom Gorbet / Cornelius

Sherlock Holmes

72

TV show · as Hon. Philip Green

Theatre 625

TV show · as Fred / John Hinks

The Avengers

83

TV show · as Brigadier Hansing

1950s

5 titles · average score 65

No Hiding Place

TV show

Next to No Time

67

as Turkish Bath Attendant

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Frank Penfold / Mr Green

Ghost Ship

44

as Ron, 2nd Fisherman

Seven Days to Noon

84

as Station Policeman

1940s

1 title · average score 71

Landfall

71

as O'Neil