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Alan Wheatley

Actor | * 04/19/1907 († 84, 08/30/1991) | Tolworth (United Kingdom (UK))
Alan Wheatley (19 April 1907 – 30 August 1991) was an English actor. He was a well known stage actor in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, appeared in forty films between 1931 and 1965 and was a frequent broadcaster on radio from the 1930s to the 1990s, and on television from 1938 to 1964. His most prominent television role was the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1950s TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood, with Richard Greene as Robin Hood; Wheatley played the sheriff in 54 episodes between 1955 and 1959. Earlier, he had played Sherlock Holmes in the first television series featuring the great detective. In addition to acting, Wheatley was a radio announcer during the Second World War, broadcasting to occupied Europe, where he became a well known voice. Poetry was another of his interests: he translated the poetry of Federico García Lorca and was a frequent reader of poems on air. In his later years he worked mainly in radio, as a narrator, a verse-reader and an actor. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Crime | Thriller

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Movies with Alan Wheatley as Actor(33)

as Paul Skelton1964 Master Spy
as Temmosus1964 Doctor Who: The Daleks
as Epicene1963 A Jolly Bad Fellow
as Assistant Commissioner Bewley1962 Tomorrow at Ten
as Inspector Rowles1961 The Shadow of the Cat
as Harold Gaskin1960 Inn for Trouble
as King of Ritallia1958 The Duke Wore Jeans
as Sheriff of Nottingham1955 Robin Hood: The Movie
as Adrian Lee1955 Simon and Laura
as Thompson Blake1954 The Diamond Wizard
as Narrator1954 Elizabethan Express
as Mark Cruden1954 Delayed Action
as Inspector MacLennan1954 The House Across the Lake
as Nick Hammond1953 Small Town Story
as Dr. Smith1953 Spaceways
as Inspector Braddock1953 The Limping Man
as Hughes1951 Home to Danger
as Felix1949 It's Not Cricket
as uncredited1949 For Them That Trespass
as Edward Lathom1948 Calling Paul Temple
as M. W. Kennedy1948 Counterblast
as Edgar Orsen1948 Corridor of Mirrors
as Karl/Charles Poole1948 Sleeping Car To Trieste
as Fred Hale1948 Brighton Rock
as Sir Edward Walker1947 Jassy
as Noel Penn1946 Appointment with Crime
as Menelli1946 Spring Song
as Persian1945 Caesar and Cleopatra
as Edwards1945 The Rake's Progress
as Giovanni Alfonso Borelli1936 The Conquest of the Air

TV Shows/Series with Alan Wheatley as Actor(11)

as Carter1969 Department S
as Temmosus1963 Doctor Who
as Dangerfield1961 The Avengers
1960 Maigret
as Mr. Murdstone1956 Armchair Theatre
as Sheriff of Nottingham1955 The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Sherlock Holmes1951 Sherlock Holmes

Movies with Alan Wheatley as Crew(1)

Writing/Dialogue1972 Sex and the Other Woman

Full Name: Alan Wheatley
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Friday, 04/19 1907 (April) in Tolworth (United Kingdom (UK))
Died: Friday, 08/30 1991 (August) in City of Westminster (aged: 84)
Zodiac sign: Aries (Chinese zodiac sign: Goat)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Tiffin School
Employer: BBC
Other names for Alan Wheatley (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Алан Уитли"
Alan Wheatley frequently works together with these people:
Terry Walsh (39x, Actor)
Paul Eddington (33x, Actor)
Pat Gorman (16x, Actor)
Patrick Troughton (13x, Actor)
John Longden (13x, Actor)
Max Faulkner (13x, Actor)
John Scott Martin (13x, Actor)
Cy Town (11x, Actor)
Willoughby Gray (11x, Actor)
Anthony Ainley (10x, Actor)
Ronald Hines (10x, Actor)
Montgomery Tully (6x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:245822, Added: 08/07/2018, Last updated: 03/01/2024