George Murcell
Biography
Arthur George Murcell (30 October 1925 – 3 December 1998) was a British character actor. Born in Italy, he made his film debut in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Battle of the River Plate (1956), Murcell went on to develop a career playing snarling villains in both film and television. These could either be stupid, brutish henchmen, as in Hell Drivers and Campbell's Kingdom (both 1957), or sophisticated rogues, such as Needle in "You Have Just Been Murdered", an episode of The Avengers. He specialised in playing foreign characters, including Germans, Russians and South Americans. A number of these roles were in ITC adventure TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Danger Man, The Baron, The Saint, The Champions (Reply Box No.666 episode, 1967) Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Persuaders! and Jason King. His film roles included Sea of Sand (1958), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), The Heroes of Telemark (1965), Kaleidoscope (1966), The Fixer (1968), A Dandy in Aspic (1968), The Assassination Bureau (1969), A Walk with Love and Death (1969), Penny Gold (1973), Special Branch (1974), Inside the Third Reich (1982, as Hermann Göring), Year of the Gun (1991), and Cutthroat Island (1995). He enjoyed a long stage career, which involved working with Tyrone Guthrie and Peter Brook, and was active in the Royal Shakespeare Company.In the 1970s, he acquired a Victorian church in North London, which he converted into an Elizabethan-style theatre in collaboration with director Adrian Brown. In 1973, he opened it as "St George's Theatre", intending that it present little-seen classical plays. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he continued to work at St George's Theatre as both an actor and a director, often with his wife, Elvi Hale.
TV Shows(30)

Presented in Supercolorisation
Professor Rudolph Popkiss / Black Morgan (voice)

Presented in Supercolorisation
Professor Rudolph Popkiss (voice) (credit only)

Peter the Great

Inside the Third Reich
Herman Goering

Smuggler
Silas Kemble

1990
Tiny

The Professionals
Yashinkov

Armchair Cinema
Maître Rabut

The Persuaders!
Zorakin

Jason King

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Inspector Vandeleur

Manhunt
Franco

The Champions
Nikko

The Champions
El Gaudillo
Rogues' Gallery
Sir Esmond Bellasize

The Informer
Willie Cluff

Gideon's Way
Kautsky

Thirty-Minute Theatre
Second Man

Theatre 625
Delamarche

Theatre 625
Wensley Grafton