Basil Dignam
Popularity:0.272
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1905-10-24
Place of Birth:Sheffield, Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
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Also Known As:Basil Martin Dignam

Corridors of Blood (1958)
Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.

Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959)
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king...

Naked Evil (1966)
Jamaican obi-man hexes student hostel manager, eventually causing the manager's death, before being killed himself by the manager's vengeful spirit.

The Court Martial of Major Keller (1961)
Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-martialled for the murder of his commanding officer...

Son of a Stranger (1958)
A young man searches for the father he never knew, who he believes to be a millionaire.

The Depraved (1957)
Fed up with her wealthy but abusive husband, Tom (Basil Dignam), young English homemaker Laura Wilton (Anne Heywood) conspires with her lover,...

Three Sundays to Live (1957)
Band leader Frank Martin is convicted and sentenced to death for murdering the owner of a club in which he had performed. Frank's innocent of the...

The Secret Partner (1961)
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.

The Jokers (1967)
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves...

The Nice Americans (1958)
American airman loves English girl whose father refuses permission for their marriage out of hatred for all Yankees.

80,000 Suspects (1963)
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.

Up the Creek (1958)
Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him...

I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing...

Seven Seas to Calais (1962)
Sir Francis Drake fights to take over Spain's treasure routes for Queen Elizabeth I.

Ring of Spies (1964)
The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research...

The Weapon (1956)
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder...

Suspect (1960)
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that...

Innocent Sinners (1958)
A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.

The Cuckoo Patrol (1967)
Freddie and the Dreamers play part of a Scout troupe that get caught up in a series of misadventures on their way to camp.

Victim (1961)
A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of...

I'm All Right Jack (1959)
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start...

Touch and Go (1955)
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to...

You Pay Your Money (1957)
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.

Further Up the Creek (1958)
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship...

Gorgo (1961)
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.

Assignment K (1968)
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents...

Room at the Top (1958)
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.

Number Ten (1968)
The Prime Minister heads a cabinet divided on the question of either using force against an African state, or referring the matter to the United...

Sentenced for Life (1960)
An engineer is wrongly convicted of selling secrets to enemy agents and is sentenced to life in prison. Convinced it was his former partner who...

I Spy a Stranger (1972)
Play set in the Home Counties during the Second World War. A Czech refugee arrives at her cousin's Mrs Hudson's, which create xenophobic problems in...

The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and...

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War....

The Counterfeit Plan (1957)
An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who...

Heavens Above! (1963)
A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and...

10 Rillington Place (1971)
The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of...

Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974)
In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always...

The Narrowing Circle (1956)
A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.

Twisted Nerve (1968)
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he...

Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957)
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore...

Smart Alec (1951)
A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.

The Spider's Web (1960)
Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie story.

Two on the Tiles (1951)
A married couple both face temptations while separated for a few days. The husband meets an attractive female fellow traveler in Paris while the wife...

Sapphire (1959)
Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of...

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes...

Where the Spies Are (1966)
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is...

Reach for the Sky (1956)
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing...

The Games (1970)
From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the...

Life for Ruth (1962)
John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for...

Brothers in Law (1957)
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end,...

The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (1960)
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the...

Fate Takes a Hand (1961)
When a mail bag full of post that was taken in a robbery is discovered fifteen years later, a Post Office employee and local reporter decide to...

Maytime in Mayfair (1949)
Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. His intention is to sell it as...

Hammer the Toff (1952)
A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.

The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young...

Rotten to the Core (1965)
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's...

They Can't Hang Me (1955)
A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.

A Touch of Larceny (1960)
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan...

Port of Escape (1956)
Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene,...

Appointment with Venus (1951)
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on...

Laughter in the Dark (1969)
Swinging London in the 1960's. Deals with the affection of a middle-aged man for a very young woman, resulting in a mutually parasitic relationship.

Rockets Galore (1958)
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world...

His Excellency (1952)
A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony

Carry On Sergeant (1958)
Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National...

Master Spy (1964)
Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an attempt to achieve a better life working for the...

Young Winston (1972)
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war...

Battle of Britain (1969)
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the...

The Prisoner (1967)
After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders...

Department S (1969)
Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in...

Elizabeth R (1971)
This historical mini-series documents the reign of Elizabeth I with each episode focusing on one dramatic period in the lengthy reign of the Virgin...

Gideon's Way (1965)
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at...

The Avengers (1961)
The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left...

War & Peace (1972)
The classic BBC dramatisation of Tolstoy's epic story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. Anthony Hopkins heads the...

The Sweeney (1975)
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.

The Persuaders! (1971)
An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.

UFO (1970)
A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.

Jason King (1971)
Jason King - a suavely sophisticated former secret agent turned novelist - travels the world searching for material to fill his books, encountering...

The Saint (1962)
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

The Champions (1968)
The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network...

Sherlock Holmes (1954)
The first American television series of Sherlock Holmes adventures aired in syndication in the fall of 1954. The 39 half-hour mostly original stories...

The New Avengers (1976)
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The...

Interpol Calling (1959)
The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955)
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the...

No Hiding Place (1959)
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16...

The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970)
Series of television plays written by six different authors. Each play is a lavish dramatization of the trials and tribulations surrounding Henry and...

Man in a Suitcase (1967)
Accused of treason, a former U.S. intelligence officer based in London tries to clear his name, taking on freelance jobs around Europe as he searches...

Sir Francis Drake (1961)
Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden...

United! (1965)
United! was a British television series which was produced by the BBC between 1965 and 1967, and was broadcast twice-weekly on BBC1. The series...

Life of Shakespeare (1978)
Biography of William Shakespeare.

The Adventurer (1972)
The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the...

The Main Chance (1969)
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden...

Justice (1971)
Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974....

The Stars Look Down (1975)
Mini series about a Northumberland mining village - the daily lives of the inhabitants and the tragedies and disasters that befell them.

Persuasion (1971)
British television adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the same name.

Department S (1969)
Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in...

Crown Court (1972)
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court...

The Protectors (1972)
The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as...