Acting
Alec McCowen
- Titles
- 47movies28TV shows
- Career
Active from 1954 to 1995, with up to 3 main titles a year.
- Leading roles
- 17top three billing
- Average score
65/100
- Highest rated
Frenzy82/100
What stands out
Compared with the average well-known movie, over 36 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.
- Historical6.1average 2.6
- Nostalgia5.3average 3.7
- Politics4.2average 2.6
- Crime5.0average 3.7
- Mystery5.1average 4.1
- Wit & Wordplay4.7average 3.7
- Class & Capitalism4.3average 3.3
- Social Commentary5.5average 4.9
Rarely in their work
- Contemporary Realism3.0, average 5.4
- Adrenaline4.1, average 4.9
- Pop Culture1.4, average 2.2
- Physical Comedy1.7, average 2.4
Main genres
Select a genre to see those titles.
Recurring tags
- Historical Drama 4
- Suspenseful 4
- Intrigue 4
- Social Commentary 3
- British Cinema 2
- Slow Burn 2
- Melancholy 2
- Murder Mystery 2
Works often with
People in at least two of their main titles.
Duncan LamontActorThe Witches, When the Actors Come
James GroutActorKing Richard III, A Man of Morality
Michael RedgraveActorThe Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Time Without Pity
Tristram CaryComposerTime Without Pity, Town on Trial- MMax BenedictEditorTime Without Pity, Town on Trial
- AAlan OsbistonEditorTime Without Pity, The Silent Enemy
- JJoseph HorovitzComposerTwelfth Night, The Secret Adversary
- JJohn GorrieDirectorTwelfth Night, Private Lives
- HHugh WhitemoreWriterA Dedicated Man, Stevie
Douglas SlocombeCinematographerNever Say Never Again, Travels with My Aunt
Movies and TV shows
742000s
4 titles · average score 71
as Reverend Raleigh
as Jorkins
TV show · as Sir Frank Dyson
TV show · as Jorkins
1990s
7 titles · average score 78
TV show · as Sir Christian Aubrey
as Supt. Fish
as Narrator (voice)
as Sillerton Jackson
as Father Eugene McCarthy
TV show · as Narrator (voice)
as Thucydides
1980s
19 titles · average score 69
as Bishop of Ely
as Wing Commander Morten
as Mr. Philpott
TV show · as Mr. Palfrey
as Rakowski
as Q 'Algy' Algernon
as Sir James Peel Edgerton
as Father Vincent
TV show · as Sir James Peele Edgerton
as Silcox
TV show · as Trenchard
as Malvolio
1970s
17 titles · average score 65
as Maj. Trumbo
as Chorus
as Freddy
TV show · as The Count
as Elyot Chase
TV show · as James Addishaw
TV show · as Finn
as Henry Pulling
as DCI Tim Oxford
TV show
as Micah Hale
TV show · as Percy
1960s
12 titles · average score 65
TV show · as Narrator (voice)
as Alan Bax
TV show · as Antipholus of Syracuse
TV show · as Martin Luther / Philip
TV show · as Willie
as Cardinal
TV show · as Private Secretary / Alfred Poole
TV show · as Harry
as Dickie Bayliss
TV show · as Antipholus of Syracuse
as Brown, House Master
TV show · as Tom O'Neill
1950s
15 titles · average score 68
as Redpenny
as Able Seaman Morgan
as Wireless Operator Harold Thomas Cottam
as Alec Graham
as Peter Crowley (as Alec Mc Cowen)
as Duty Officer, Hucknall
as House Surgeon
TV show · as Maurice Bouillet
as Ken Thompson
as Reporter
as Tonbridge
TV show · as Quillary