
Joss Ackland
Known for Acting · 190 credits
- Born
- 1928-02-29
- Died
- 2023-11-19
- Place of birth
- North Kensington, London, England, UK
- Also known as
- جاس آکلند · Джосс Экленд · Sidney Edmond Jocelyn 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
TV Shows (56)

Midsomer Murders
1997
as Sir Freddy Butler

The Avengers
1961
as Brigadier Hansing

The One Show
2006
as Self

Play for Today
1970
as Malcolmson / Ellis Cripper / Albert

Wogan
1982
as Self

Natural World
1983
as Self - Narrator (voice)

BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Chebutykin / Charley

Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Colonel George Peregrine / Jack Cutler

The Wednesday Play
1964
as Cornelius / Tom Gorbet

Sherlock Holmes
1984
as Jephro Rucastle

Playhouse
1974
as Maj. Orpen / Father

The Sweeney
1975
as Alan Ember

Screen Two
1985
as Sir Charles (Archie) Peverall / Captain

Theatre 625
1964
as Hockey Jagger / Fred / John Hinks

No Hiding Place
1959

The Persuaders!
1971
as Felix Meadowes

ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Councillor Horne

The Protectors
1972
as Arthur Gordon

Justice
1971
as Sir Robert Beste

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
as The Prussian

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
as Grubber

Return of the Saint
1978
as Gunther

The Troubleshooters
1965
as Sam Jardine / Mr. Gibbon / Considine / Lewis

Mystery and Imagination
1966
as Herr Scavenius / Mr Smedhurst

Kingdom
2007
as Mr. John Narbutowicz

Enemy at the Door
1978
as Major General Laidlaw

Dalgliesh
1983
as Stephen Courtney-Briggs

Centre Play
1973
as Doctor

Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
as Detective Inspector Hud

The Gentle Touch
1980
as Ivor Stocker

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
as Caesar (voice)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979
as Jerry Westerby

Sherlock Holmes
1964
as Hon. Philip Green

Henry VIII
2003
as Henry VII

Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996
as Samuel (voice) / Noah (voice)

Shirley's World
1972

Hogfather
2006
as Mustrum Ridcully

A Woman Named Jackie
1991
as Aristotle Onassis

Queenie
1987
as Sir Burton Rumsey

Londoners
1965
as Angus Grahame

Country Matters
1972
as Potter-Jones
David Copperfield
1966
as Daniel Peggotty

Armchair Theatre
1956
as Frank Penfold / Mr Green
Ashenden
1991

The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
1967
as d'Artagnan

Heat of the Sun
1998
as Max Van Der vuurst

Above and Beyond
2006
as Winston Churchill

Pinocchio
2009
as Mastro Ciliegia

A Killing on the Exchange
1987
as Sir Max Sillman
A Question of Guilt
1980

One Pair of Eyes
1967

The Crezz
1976
as Charles Bronte

Codename: Kyril
1988
as 'C'

Turtle's Progress
1979
as Benny D-Day

Shroud for a Nightingale
1984
as Stephen Courtney-Briggs

Easter Tales
2000
as Barabbas
Movies (134)

The Hunt for Red October
1990
as Ambassador Andrei Lysenko

Lethal Weapon 2
1989
as Arjen Rudd

Flawless
2007
as Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft

K-19: The Widowmaker
2002
as Marshal Zelentsov

The Mighty Ducks
1992
as Hans

Nowhere to Run
1993
as Franklin Hale

The Three Musketeers
1973
as D’Artagnan’s Father

Miracle on 34th Street
1994
as Victor Landbergh (uncredited)

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
1991
as De Nomolos

Citizen X
1995
as Bondarchuk

Asylum
2005
as Jack Straffen

Watership Down
1978
as Black Rabbit (voice)

D3: The Mighty Ducks
1996
as Hans

Firelight
1998
as Lord Clare

The Sicilian
1987
as Don Masino Croce

The Four Musketeers
1974
as D'Artagnan's Father (archive footage) (uncredited)

White Mischief
1987
as 'Jock' Delves Broughton

Lady Jane
1986
as Sir John Bridges

Once Upon a Crime
1992
as Hercules Popodopoulos

The Thief and the Cobbler
1993
as Brigand (voice)

The Little Prince
1974
as The King

Jacob
1994
as Isaak

Surviving Picasso
1996
as Henri Matisse

The Bridge
1992
as Smithson

Hogfather
2007
as Mustrum Ridcully

The Black Windmill
1974
as Chief Supt. Wray

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999
as The Prussian

The Apple
1980
as Mr. Topps / Hippie Leader

Operation: Daybreak
1975
as Janák

No Good Deed
2002
as Mr. Quarre

Swept from the Sea
1998
as Mr. Swaffer

A Kid in King Arthur's Court
1995
as King Arthur

Prisoners of the Sun
2013
as Professor Mendella
Maggie
1964
as Norman

The Princess and the Goblin
1991
as King Papa (voice)

Rough Cut
1980
as Insp. Vanderveld

Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
as General Burgdorf

The House That Dripped Blood
1971
as Neville Rogers (segment 2 "Waxworks")

Jekyll & Hyde
1990
as Dr. Charles Lanyon

Passion of Mind
2000
as Dr. Langer, the French Psychiatrist

The Greek Tycoon
1978
as Naval officer (uncredited)

Villain
1971
as Edgar Lowis

Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
1991
as Lewis Serrocold

A Different Loyalty
2004
as Randolph Cauffield

Mother's Boys
1993
as Lansing, Jude's Attorney

The Object of Beauty
1991
as Mr. Mercer

A Murder of Quality
1991
as Terence Fielding

The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
1977
as President

Icon
2005
as General Nikolayev

Saint Jack
1979
as Yardley

Royal Flash
1975
as Sapten

My Giant
1998
as Monsignor Popesou

Silver Bears
1977
as Henry Foreman

Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978
as Cantrell

Pinocchio
2009
as Mastro Ciliegia

Ghost Ship
1952
as Ron, 2nd Fisherman

In Search of the Castaways
1962
as Yacht Seaman

Project: Shadowchaser
1992
as Kinderman

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
1980
as Prison Warden

Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
1992
as King Edward

Rasputin: The Mad Monk
1966
as The Bishop

Codename: Kyril
1988
as 'C'

A Zed & Two Noughts
1985
as Van Hoyten

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
1975
as B.J. Spence

Hidden in Silence
1996
as German Factory Manager

Moscow Zero
2006
as Tolstoy

The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
1990
as Gen. Gerhard Hellstein

To Kill a Priest
1988
as Colonel

Landfall
1949
as O'Neil

Deadly Voyage
1996

Seven Days to Noon
1950
as Station Policeman

Katherine of Alexandria
2014
as Rufus

S*P*Y*S
1974
as Martinson

Great Expectations
1974
as Joe Gargery

The Palermo Connection
1990
as il boss

How About You...
2007
as Donald Vanston

Simulacrum
1993
as The Chemist

These Foolish Things
2006
as Albert

Elizabeth Alone
1981
as Major Orpen

I'll Be There
2003
as Evil Edmonds - The BeeLzeeBOPS

When We Are Married
1987
as Henry Ormonroyd

Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
1971
as Head of Board

The Lie
1970
as Albert

Penny Gold
1973
as Jones

Mad Dogs and Englishmen
1995
as Insp. Sam Stringer

Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
1981
as Chief Insp. Yardbird

Milk
1999
as Vicar

The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
1988
as Hermann Goering

The Three Sisters
1970
as Chebutykin

Tre colonne in cronaca
1990
as Gaetano Leporino, il finanziere

To the Ends of Time
1996
as King Francis

The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1982
as Edward Moulton-Barrett

Giorgino
1994
as Father Glaise

Shadowlands
1985
as CS Lewis

England Made Me
1973
as Haller

First and Last
1989
as Alan Holly
Lounge Act
2000

The Mumbo Jumbo
2000
as Mayor Smith

The Mind Snatchers
1972
as Dr. Frederick

Daisies in December
1995
as Gerald Carmody

Othello
2001
as James Brabant

OcchioPinocchio
1994
as Brando Della Valle

The Tragedy of Coriolanus
1984
as Menenius

It Couldn't Happen Here
1988
as Priest/Murderer

The Bankrupt
1972
as Ellis Cripper

Crescendo
1970
as Carter
Closing Ranks
1980
as Victor Rogachev

The Sheltering Desert
1991

In Search of the Great Beast 666: Aleister Crowley
2007
as Narrator

Next to No Time
1958
as Turkish Bath Attendant

The Love Tapes
1980
as Narrator (voice)

Findings on a Late Afternoon
1981
as Father

You Talk Too Much
1976
as Doctor

Heading For Glory
1975
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Citizen Locke
1994
as Lord Ashley

Voices in the Garden
1993
as Sir Charles Peverall

Access to the Children
1973
as Malcolmson
Miss Nightingale
1974
as Lord Palmerston

Tomorrow, Just You Wait
1965
as Tom Gorbet

Julius Caesar
1994
as Caesar
About Joss Ackland
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. With 190 credits spanning from 1949 to 2014, Joss Ackland has appeared in 134 films and 56 TV shows.
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- The Hunt for Red October (1990) — as Ambassador Andrei Lysenko
- Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) — as Arjen Rudd
- Flawless (2007) — as Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft
- K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) — as Marshal Zelentsov
- The Mighty Ducks (1992) — as Hans
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