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Acting

Roger Livesey

Career: Active from 1923 to 2024, with a break from 1971 to 2023, busiest in 1960 with 3 main titles.

Leading roles: 16
top three billing

Average score: 68/100

Highest rated: A Matter of Life and Death
90/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 14 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Roger Livesey Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
0.3, average 5.4
Pop Culture
0.4, average 2.2
Tech & Humanity
0.3, average 1.6
Coming of Age
2.0, average 3.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character Study 4
British Cinema Classic 2
Period Piece 2
Post-War Britain 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

44

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title · average score 86

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

86

as (archive footage)

1970s

4 titles · average score 66

The Pallisers

73

TV show · as Duke of St Bungay

New Scotland Yard

TV show · as Sir Giles Wentworth

Justice

TV show · as George Mallow

Futtocks End

60

as The Artist

1960s

14 titles · average score 65

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

TV show · as Gen. Sir Benedict Sankey

Hamlet

63

as First Player / Gravedigger

Oedipus the King

62

as Shepherd

Of Human Bondage

55

as Thorpe Athelny

Theatre 625

TV show · as 'Einstein' / PM Collard

The Human Jungle

80

TV show · as Sir William Bridley

Espionage

TV show · as Dr Samuel Johnson

No, My Darling Daughter

58

as General Henry Barclay

The League of Gentlemen

79

as Mycroft

The Entertainer

57

as Billy Rice

Toff and Fingers

as Toff Mulligan Hayes

Armchair Mystery Theatre

TV show · as Toff Mulligan Hayes

1950s

5 titles · average score 66

The Stowaway

as Major Owens

The Intimate Stranger

61

as Ben Case

Quay South

as Captain Daniel Thwaite

The Master of Ballantrae

78

as Col. Francis Burke

Green Grow the Rushes

60

as Capt. Cedric Biddle

1940s

6 titles · average score 73

That Dangerous Age

as Sir Brian Brooke

Vice Versa

42

as Paul Bultitude

A Matter of Life and Death

90

as Doctor Reeves

I Know Where I'm Going!

83

as Torquil MacNeil

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

87

as Major General Clive Wynne-Candy

Girl in the News

66

as Bill Maher

1930s

12 titles · average score 66

Spies of the Air

as Charles Houghton

The Drum

71

as Capt. Carruthers

Keep Smiling

as Bert Wattle

The Rebel Son

as Peter Bulba

Rembrandt

69

as Beggar Saul

The Price of Wisdom

as Peter North

Midshipman Easy

60

as Captain Wilson

as Gilbert Jackson

Lorna Doone

as Tom Faggus

The Veteran of Waterloo

as Sergeant MacDonald

A Cuckoo in the Nest

as Alfred

East Lynne on the Western Front

as Sandy

1920s

2 titles

Married Love

as Henry

The Four Feathers

as Harry as a child