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Acting

Alec McCowen

Career: Active from 1954 to 1995, with up to 3 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 17
top three billing

Average score: 65/100

Highest rated: Frenzy
82/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 37 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Alec McCowen Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.0, average 5.4
Fantasy
0.9, average 1.7
Physical Comedy
1.6, average 2.4
Adrenaline
4.1, average 4.8

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Historical Drama 4
Suspenseful 4
Intrigue 4
Social Commentary 3
Psychological Thriller 2
Murder Mystery 2
Slow-Burn Mystery 2
Witty Dialogue 2
Slow Burn 2
Melancholy 2
Moral Ambiguity 2
British Cinema 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

74

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

4 titles · average score 71

Gangs of New York

73

as Reverend Raleigh

David Copperfield

66

as Jorkins

Longitude

74

TV show · as Sir Frank Dyson

David Copperfield

70

TV show · as Jorkins

1990s

7 titles · average score 78

Midsomer Murders

80

TV show · as Sir Christian Aubrey

Cruel Train

as Supt. Fish

King Richard III

as Narrator (voice)

The Age of Innocence

81

as Sillerton Jackson

Maria's Child

as Father Eugene McCarthy

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

72

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

The War That Never Ends

as Thucydides

1980s

18 titles · average score 69

Henry V

82

as Bishop of Ely

Personal Services

67

as Wing Commander Morten

The Assam Garden

69

as Mr. Philpott

Mr. Palfrey of Westminster

67

TV show · as Mr. Palfrey

Squaring the Circle

as Rakowski

Never Say Never Again

61

as Q 'Algy' Algernon

The Secret Adversary

70

as Sir James Peel Edgerton

Forever Young

as Father Vincent

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

70

TV show · as Sir James Peele Edgerton

A Dedicated Man

as Silcox

Bergerac

69

TV show · as Trenchard

Twelfth Night

72

as Malvolio

1970s

18 titles · average score 64

Hanover Street

53

as Maj. Trumbo

Henry V

as Chorus

Stevie

70

as Freddy

The South Bank Show

63

TV show

BBC2 Play of the Week

TV show · as The Count

Private Lives

as Elyot Chase

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries

72

TV show · as James Addishaw

Travels with My Aunt

53

as Henry Pulling

Frenzy

82

as DCI Tim Oxford

Film '72

60

TV show

The Hawaiians

57

as Micah Hale

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Percy

1960s

12 titles · average score 65

Omnibus

72

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

The Witches

59

as Alan Bax

NET Playhouse

TV show · as Antipholus of Syracuse

BBC Play of the Month

61

TV show · as Philip / Martin Luther

Thirty-Minute Theatre

TV show · as Willie

The Agony and the Ecstasy

79

as Cardinal

The Wednesday Play

TV show · as Alfred Poole / Private Secretary

Theatre 625

TV show · as Harry

TV show · as Antipholus of Syracuse

In the Cool of the Day

43

as Dickie Bayliss

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

75

as Brown, House Master

TV show · as Tom O'Neill

1950s

15 titles · average score 68

The Doctor's Dilemma

61

as Redpenny

The Silent Enemy

62

as Able Seaman Morgan

A Night to Remember

90

as Wireless Operator Harold Thomas Cottam

Time Without Pity

68

as Alec Graham

Town on Trial

61

as Peter Crowley (as Alec Mc Cowen)

The One That Got Away

62

as Duty Officer, Hucknall

Armchair Theatre

68

TV show · as Maurice Bouillet

The Long Arm

72

as House Surgeon

The Deep Blue Sea

62

as Ken Thompson

The Divided Heart

68

as Reporter

The Cruel Sea

87

as Tonbridge

Sunday Night Theatre

51

TV show · as Quillary