Joss Ackland

Biography

Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland CBE (29 February 1928 – 19 November 2023) was an English actor who appeared in more than 130 film and television roles. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying Jock Delves Broughton in White Mischief (1987). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joss Ackland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Midsomer Murders

The Avengers

Play for Today

Play for Today

Play for Today

The One Show

Sherlock Holmes

Tales of the Unexpected

All Movies (135)

• The Portrait2014 · as Henry Winter
• Katherine of Alexandria2014 · as Rufus
• Prisoners of the Sun2013 · as Professor Mendella
• The Boy with Chocolate Fingers2011 · as Narrator
• Peak Performers - The Mk3 Ford Cortina2010 · as Narrator
• Pinocchio2009 · as Mastro Ciliegia
• How About You...2007 · as Donald Vanston
• Hogfather2007 · as Mustrum Ridcully
• In Search of the Great Beast 666: Aleister Crowley2007 · as Narrator
• Flawless2007 · as Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft
• Moscow Zero2006 · as Tolstoy
• These Foolish Things2006 · as Albert
• Asylum2005 · as Jack Straffen
• Icon2005 · as General Nikolayev
• Defining a Style2005 · as Self
• A Different Loyalty2004 · as Randolph Cauffield
• I'll Be There2003 · as Evil Edmonds - The BeeLzeeBOPS
• K-19: The Widowmaker2002 · as Marshal Zelentsov
• No Good Deed2002 · as Mr. Quarre
• Othello2001 · as James Brabant
• The Mumbo Jumbo2000 · as Mayor Smith
• Passion of Mind2000 · as Dr. Langer, the French Psychiatrist
• Lounge Act2000
• The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service1999 · as The Prussian
• Milk1999 · as Vicar
• Firelight1998 · as Lord Clare
• My Giant1998 · as Monsignor Popesou
• Swept from the Sea1998 · as Mr. Swaffer
• To the Ends of Time1996 · as King Francis
• D3: The Mighty Ducks1996 · as Hans
• Surviving Picasso1996 · as Henri Matisse
• Deadly Voyage1996
• Hidden in Silence1996 · as German Factory Manager
• Daisies in December1995 · as Gerald Carmody
• A Kid in King Arthur's Court1995 · as King Arthur
• Mad Dogs and Englishmen1995 · as Insp. Sam Stringer
• Citizen X1995 · as Bondarchuk
• OcchioPinocchio1994 · as Brando Della Valle
• Jacob1994 · as Isaak
• Julius Caesar1994 · as Caesar
• Miracle on 34th Street1994 · as Victor Landbergh (uncredited)
• Miracle on 34th Street1994 · as Victor Landbergh
• Giorgino1994 · as Father Glaise
• Citizen Locke1994 · as Lord Ashley
• Joan Miró: Constellations - The Color of Poetry1994 · as Self
• Simulacrum1993 · as The Chemist
• Mother's Boys1993 · as Lansing, Jude's Attorney
• The Thief and the Cobbler1993 · as Brigand (voice)
• Voices in the Garden1993 · as Sir Charles Peverall
• Nowhere to Run1993 · as Franklin Hale
• The Mighty Ducks1992 · as Hans
• Project: Shadowchaser1992 · as Kinderman
• White Bear's Secret1992 · as Brown Bear (voice)
• Once Upon a Crime1992 · as Hercules Popodopoulos
• Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls1992 · as King Edward
• The Bridge1992 · as Smithson
• Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors1991 · as Lewis Serrocold
• Brown Bear's Wedding1991 · as Brown Bear (voice)
• A Murder of Quality1991 · as Terence Fielding
• Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey1991 · as De Nomolos
• The Princess and the Goblin1991 · as King Papa (voice)
• The Object of Beauty1991 · as Mr. Mercer
• The Sheltering Desert1991
• Tre colonne in cronaca1990 · as Gaetano Leporino, il finanziere
• The Secret Life of Ian Fleming1990 · as Gen. Gerhard Hellstein
• The Hunt for Red October1990 · as Ambassador Andrei Lysenko
• The Palermo Connection1990 · as il boss
• Jekyll & Hyde1990 · as Dr. Charles Lanyon
• First and Last1989 · as Alan Holly
• Lethal Weapon 21989 · as Arjen Rudd
• The Man Who Lived at the Ritz1988 · as Hermann Goering
• To Kill a Priest1988 · as Colonel
• It Couldn't Happen Here1988 · as Priest/Murderer
• Codename: Kyril1988 · as 'C'
• Olympus Force: The Key1988 · as George Grossopoulos
• When We Are Married1987 · as Henry Ormonroyd
• White Mischief1987 · as 'Jock' Delves Broughton
• The Sicilian1987 · as Don Masino Croce
• Lady Jane1986 · as Sir John Bridges
• A Zed & Two Noughts1985 · as Van Hoyten
• Shadowlands1985 · as CS Lewis
• The Tragedy of Coriolanus1984 · as Menenius
• The Leather Boys1984 · as Narrator
• The Barretts of Wimpole Street1982 · as Edward Moulton-Barrett
• Findings on a Late Afternoon1981 · as Father
• Elizabeth Alone1981 · as Major Orpen
• Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective1981 · as Chief Insp. Yardbird
• The Apple1980 · as Mr. Topps / Hippie Leader
• Rough Cut1980 · as Insp. Vanderveld
• The Love Tapes1980 · as Narrator (voice)
• A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square1980 · as Prison Warden
• Closing Ranks1980 · as Victor Rogachev
• Saint Jack1979 · as Yardley
• Watership Down1978 · as Black Rabbit (voice)
• Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?1978 · as Cantrell
• The Greek Tycoon1978 · as Naval officer (uncredited)
• The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It1977 · as President
• Silver Bears1977 · as Henry Foreman
• You Talk Too Much1976 · as Doctor
• Operation: Daybreak1975 · as Janák
• Royal Flash1975 · as Sapten
• One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing1975 · as B.J. Spence
• Heading For Glory1975 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• The Magic Dream1975 · as Narrator
• The Little Prince1974 · as The King
• The Four Musketeers1974 · as D'Artagnan's Father (archive footage) (uncredited)
• S*P*Y*S1974 · as Martinson
• The Black Windmill1974 · as Chief Supt. Wray
• Great Expectations1974 · as Joe Gargery
• Miss Nightingale1974 · as Lord Palmerston
• The Three Musketeers1973 · as D’Artagnan’s Father
• Penny Gold1973 · as Jones
• England Made Me1973 · as Haller
• Hitler: The Last Ten Days1973 · as General Burgdorf
• Access to the Children1973 · as Malcolmson
• The Bankrupt1972 · as Ellis Cripper
• Crippled Bloom1972 · as Potter Jones
• The Mind Snatchers1972 · as Dr. Frederick
• King's Cross Lunch Hour1972 · as The Man
• Getting In1971 · as An Applicant
• Mr. Forbush and the Penguins1971 · as Head of Board
• Villain1971 · as Edgar Lowis
• The House That Dripped Blood1971 · as Neville Rogers (segment 2 "Waxworks")
• The Lie1970 · as Albert
• Crescendo1970 · as Carter
• The Three Sisters1970 · as Chebutykin
• Death of a Salesman1966 · as Charley
• Rasputin: The Mad Monk1966 · as The Bishop
• Tomorrow, Just You Wait1965 · as Tom Gorbet
• Maggie1964 · as Norman
• In Search of the Castaways1962 · as Yacht Seaman
• Next to No Time1958 · as Turkish Bath Attendant
• Ghost Ship1952 · as Ron, 2nd Fisherman
• Seven Days to Noon1950 · as Station Policeman
• Landfall1949 · as O'Neil

All TV Shows (79)

• Pinocchio2009 · as Mastro Ciliegia
• Kingdom2007 · as Mr. John Narbutowicz
• Hogfather2006 · as Mustrum Ridcully
• Above and Beyond2006 · as Winston Churchill
• The One Show2006 · as Self
• Henry VIII2003 · as Henry VII
• Easter Tales2000 · as Barabbas
• Heat of the Sun1998 · as Max Van Der vuurst
• Midsomer Murders1997 · as Sir Freddy Butler
• Testament: The Bible in Animation1996 · as Samuel (voice)
• Testament: The Bible in Animation1996 · as Noah (voice)
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales1992 · as Caesar (voice)
• The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles1992 · as The Prussian
• Ashenden1991
• A Woman Named Jackie1991 · as Aristotle Onassis
• A Quiet Conspiracy1989 · as Theo Carter
• Codename: Kyril1988 · as 'C'
• Queenie1987 · as Sir Burton Rumsey
• A Killing on the Exchange1987 · as Sir Max Sillman
• Screen Two1985 · as Sir Charles (Archie) Peverall
• Screen Two1985 · as Captain
• Sherlock Holmes1984 · as Jephro Rucastle
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes1984 · as Jephro Rucastle
• Shroud for a Nightingale1984 · as Stephen Courtney-Briggs
• Natural World1983 · as Self - Narrator (voice)
• Dalgliesh1983 · as Stephen Courtney-Briggs
• Wogan1982 · as Self
• The Gentle Touch1980 · as Ivor Stocker
• A Question of Guilt1980 · as Samuel Kent
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy1979 · as Jerry Westerby
• Turtle's Progress1979 · as Benny D-Day
• Tales of the Unexpected1979 · as Colonel George Peregrine
• Tales of the Unexpected1979 · as Jack Cutler
• The BBC Television Shakespeare1978 · as Menenius
• Return of the Saint1978 · as Gunther
• Enemy at the Door1978 · as Major General Laidlaw
• The Crezz1976 · as Charles Bronte
• The Sweeney1975 · as Alan Ember
• Playhouse1974 · as Maj. Orpen
• Playhouse1974 · as Father
• Orson Welles' Great Mysteries1973 · as Detective Inspector Hud
• Centre Play1973 · as Doctor
• The Protectors1972 · as Arthur Gordon
• Country Matters1972 · as Potter-Jones
• Shirley's World1972
• Justice1971 · as Sir Robert Beste
• The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes1971 · as Grubber
• The Persuaders!1971 · as Felix Meadowes
• Play for Today1970 · as Albert
• Play for Today1970 · as Ellis Cripper
• Play for Today1970 · as Malcolmson
• Canterbury Tales1969 · as Host
• W. Somerset Maugham1969 · as Harold Bannon
• ITV Saturday Night Theatre1969 · as Councillor Horne
• Trapped1967 · as Pritchy
• The Further Adventures of the Musketeers1967 · as d'Artagnan
• One Pair of Eyes1967
• Lord Raingo1966 · as Tom Hogarth
• Mystery and Imagination1966 · as Herr Scavenius
• Mystery and Imagination1966 · as Mr Smedhurst
• David Copperfield1966 · as Daniel Peggotty
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Chebutykin
• BBC Play of the Month1965 · as Charley
• The Troubleshooters1965 · as Considine
• The Troubleshooters1965 · as Sam Jardine
• The Troubleshooters1965 · as Mr. Gibbon
• The Troubleshooters1965 · as Lewis
• Londoners1965 · as Angus Grahame
• The Wednesday Play1964 · as Cornelius
• The Wednesday Play1964 · as Tom Gorbet
• The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling1964 · as William Stevens
• Sherlock Holmes1964 · as Hon. Philip Green
• Theatre 6251964 · as Hockey Jagger
• Theatre 6251964 · as Fred
• Theatre 6251964 · as John Hinks
• The Avengers1961 · as Brigadier Hansing
• No Hiding Place1959
• Armchair Theatre1956 · as Frank Penfold
• Armchair Theatre1956 · as Mr Green