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Acting

Sam Kydd

Career: Active from 1948 to 1980, busiest in 1956 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 15
top three billing

Average score: 61/100

Highest rated: The Long Arm
72/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 89 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Sam Kydd Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
2.0, average 5.4
Coming of Age
1.4, average 3.0
Pop Culture
0.9, average 2.2
Fantasy
0.8, average 1.7

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 3
60s Aesthetic 2
Nostalgic Appeal 2
Historical Setting 2
Suspenseful 2
Tense Atmosphere 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

193

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

1980s

6 titles · average score 64

Eye of the Needle

72

as Lock Keeper

The Shillingbury Blowers

68

as Reggie

The Mirror Crack'd

51

as Film Technician (uncredited)

Nobody's Perfect

TV show · as Mr Beasley

Danger on Dartmoor

as Sam

High Rise Donkey

as High Rise Resident

1970s

31 titles · average score 58

TV show · as Pike

Minder

75

TV show · as Sid

Terry and June

64

TV show · as Louis

Return of the Saint

68

TV show · as Charlie Stewart

Churchill's People

TV show · as George Campsie

Carson Country

as Tom Brannigan

Sykes

70

TV show · as Fire Chief / Mr. Bickershaw

New Scotland Yard

TV show · as Sammy Cutler

The Persuaders!

78

TV show · as Dwyer

10 Rillington Place

70

as Furniture Dealer

Play for Today

72

TV show · as Tom Brannigan

Too Late the Hero

62

as C/Sgt.

1960s

40 titles · average score 62

Curry and Chips

TV show

Gold Is Where You Find It

as Pader Murphy

Dad's Army

52

TV show · as The Yokel

Island of Terror

59

as Constable John Harris

Take a Pair of Private Eyes

TV show · as Hector Frayne

Orlando

TV show · as Orlando O'Connor

The Midas Plague

as Fred

TV show · as Orlando O'Connor

Z-Cars

72

TV show

The Secret of Monte Cristo

as Albert

Arthur's Treasured Volumes

TV show

The House in Marsh Road

53

as Morris Lumley

1950s

96 titles · average score 63

No Hiding Place

TV show

The Tony Hancock Show

TV show

The Long Arm

72

as Police Constable in Information Room

The Hide-Out

as Tim Bowers

Hancock's Half Hour

79

TV show

The Adventures of Robin Hood

46

TV show · as Pick

The Ladykillers

86

as Second Cab Driver (uncredited)

Final Appointment

61

as Alfred Vickery

They Who Dare

42

as Marine Boyd

Radio Cab Murder

58

as Spencer

The Voice of Merrill

65

as Sgt. Baker

Treasure Island

81

as Cady

1940s

20 titles · average score 70

Vengeance Is Mine

as Stacy

The Small Back Room

81

as Crowhurst

Passport to Pimlico

83

as Sapper

Obsession

75

as Club steward

Forbidden

68

as Joe

The Hasty Heart

73

as Driver (uncredited)

Floodtide

as Barman (uncredited)

Once a Jolly Swagman

61

as Johnny Briggs (uncredited)

To the Public Danger

as Police Driver

Scott of the Antarctic

70

as Leading Stoker E. McKenzie R.N.

They Made Me a Fugitive

73

as Eddie (uncredited)

The Captive Heart

67

as POW in Top Bunk (uncredited)