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Acting

John Alderton

Career: Active from 1968 to 2006, with up to 2 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 16
top three billing

Average score: 60/100

Highest rated: It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
72/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 21 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

John Alderton Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Adrenaline
3.3, average 4.8
Scare
1.2, average 2.6
Violence
3.0, average 4.1
Uncanny
1.4, average 2.5

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 4
Witty Dialogue 3
Social Commentary 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

50

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

5 titles · average score 72

Little Dorrit

85

TV show · as Mr. Casby

Brandmand Sam - I En God Sags Tjeneste

as Fireman Sam

He Knew He Was Right

72

TV show · as Mr Outhouse

Calendar Girls

67

as John Clarke

Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War

63

as Hawksmor

1990s

10 titles · average score 67

The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

75

TV show · as Alastair Bing

Dalziel and Pascoe

69

TV show · as Sgt Ted Lock

Testament: The Bible in Animation

TV show · as Jonah / God (voice)

Clockwork Mice

50

as Swaney

Character Building

as Narrator (voice)

Albert the Fifth Musketeer

62

TV show

Peak Practice

65

TV show · as Harry Capper

Heartbeat

80

TV show · as Jim Ryan

Tonight at 8.30

TV show · as Christian Faber / Burrows

Keeping Tom Nice

as Doug

1980s

6 titles

Forever Green

TV show

ScreenPlay

TV show · as Doug

ITV Christmas Comedy

TV show

Little Miss

TV show · as Narrator/Male Voices

TV show

A Walk in the Forest

as Paul Clements

1970s

14 titles · average score 68

Thomas & Sarah

TV show · as Thomas Watkins

Tales of the Unexpected

72

TV show · as Robert Sandy / Rev George Duckworth

The Upchat Line

TV show · as Mike Upchat

It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet

72

as James Herriot

No, Honestly

TV show · as Charles 'C.D.' Danby

Zardoz

52

as Friend

Wodehouse Playhouse

TV show · as George Mulliner

My Wife Next Door

TV show

Please Sir!

62

as Bernard Hedges

Upstairs, Downstairs

81

TV show · as Thomas Watkins

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Paul Clements

as Bob Acres

1960s

13 titles · average score 63

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

TV show · as Ben Spray

Hannibal Brooks

70

as Bernard

Duffy

51

as Antony Calvert

Please Sir!

70

TV show · as Bernard Hedges

Assignment K

59

as George Innes

Boy Meets Girl

TV show · as Gerald

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Lydia Languish / Malcolm

Thirty-Minute Theatre

TV show · as Geoffrey Bell / Richard Fox

The Wednesday Play

TV show · as Charley / Mike

The System

63

as Nidge

Cleopatra

64

as 1st Officer (uncredited)

Drama 61-67

TV show · as Peter Harris

1950s

2 titles · average score 68

Emergency: Ward 10

TV show

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Peter