Wensley Pithey

Wensley Pithey

Wensley Ivan William Frederick Pithey (21 June 1914 - 10 November 1993) was a South African-born character actor.

  • Title: Wensley Pithey
  • Popularity: 6.017
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1914-01-20
  • Place of Birth: Cape Town, South Africa
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  • Also Known As: Winsley Pithy, Wensley Ivan William Frederick Pithey
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Wensley Pithey Movies

  • 1960
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    The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

    The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

    6.3 1960 HD

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

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Cecil Parker

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  • 1956
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    Tiger in the Smoke

    Tiger in the Smoke

    7.1 1956 HD

    In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he...

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Donald Sinden

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  • 1957
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    Kill Me Tomorrow

    Kill Me Tomorrow

    5.2 1957 HD

    A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Pat O’Brien

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  • 1954
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    The Men of Sherwood Forest

    The Men of Sherwood Forest

    6.7 1954 HD

    Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Don Taylor

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  • 1949
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    Cardboard Cavalier

    Cardboard Cavalier

    5.7 1949 HD

    Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Margaret Lockwood

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  • 1965
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    The Knack... and How to Get It

    The Knack... and How to Get It

    5.817 1965 HD

    A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Rita Tushingham

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  • 1988
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    The Diamond Trap

    The Diamond Trap

    5 1988 HD

    When streetwise Manhattan police detectives Rawlings (Howard Hesseman) and Brendan Thomas (Ed Marinaro) discover a major diamond heist is about to go...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Howard Hesseman

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  • 1962
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    The Boys

    The Boys

    8 1962 HD

    A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Richard Todd

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  • 1987
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    White Mischief

    White Mischief

    6 1987 HD

    A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Greta Scacchi

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  • 1972
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    To Encourage the Others

    To Encourage the Others

    5 1972 HD

    The true story of Derek Bentley, whose conviction and execution for a murder committed by someone else provoked a public revulsion.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Charles Bolton

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  • 1959
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    Serious Charge

    Serious Charge

    6.4 1959 HD

    Howard Phillips, a vicar who's new in the town of Bellington, wants to reach out to youth. The previous vicar's daughter, Hester Peters, who fears...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Anthony Quayle

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  • 1969
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    Oh! What a Lovely War

    Oh! What a Lovely War

    6.5 1969 HD

    The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Laurence Olivier

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  • 1983
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    Red Monarch

    Red Monarch

    4.667 1983 HD

    British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Colin Blakely

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  • 1968
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    Oliver!

    Oliver!

    6.971 1968 HD

    Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ron Moody

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  • 1957
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    The Long Haul

    The Long Haul

    5.8 1957 HD

    An American ex-GI takes a job as a truck driver to support his British war bride Connie. It isn't long, however, before Harry is blackmailed into...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Victor Mature

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  • 1950
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    Guilt Is My Shadow

    Guilt Is My Shadow

    5.2 1950 HD

    A woman is haunted by her conscience after she murders a man and then hides the body. Based on the novel 'You're Best Alone' by Norah Lofts.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Elizabeth Sellars

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  • 1963
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    The Barber of Stamford Hill

    The Barber of Stamford Hill

    1 1963 HD

    Mr. Figg, the barber, is fond of telling customers about his family, but he hasn’t really got one – he’s a bachelor quite alone in...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Bennett

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  • 1950
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    Your Witness

    Your Witness

    5.714 1950 HD

    Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Montgomery

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  • 1952
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    Father's Doing Fine

    Father's Doing Fine

    6.3 1952 HD

    Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. The...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Richard Attenborough

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  • 1957
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    Hell Drivers

    Hell Drivers

    6.6 1957 HD

    An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Stanley Baker

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  • 1952
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    The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

    The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

    6.1 1952 HD

    Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Richard Todd

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  • 1953
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    The Titfield Thunderbolt

    The Titfield Thunderbolt

    6.896 1953 HD

    When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves,...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Stanley Holloway

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  • 1952
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    Brandy for the Parson

    Brandy for the Parson

    5.8 1952 HD

    A young couple get involved with a smuggler

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: James Donald

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  • 1960
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    Snowball

    Snowball

    7.3 1960 HD

    A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. The story gets out of control and the conductor, a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gordon Jackson

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  • 1976
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    Beasts: Special Offer

    Beasts: Special Offer

    1 1976 HD

    A misfit teenage checkout operator has an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager. At the same shop's cuddly cartoon mascot seems to have come...

    Genre: Horror

    Cast: Pauline Quirke

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  • 1954
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    Isn't Life Wonderful!

    Isn't Life Wonderful!

    5.6 1954 HD

    Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Peter Asher

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  • 1980
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    F.D.R.: The Last Year

    F.D.R.: The Last Year

    7.5 1980 HD

    Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jason Robards

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  • 1979
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    Ike

    Ike

    6.2 1979 HD

    Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Duvall

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  • 1978
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    Edward & Mrs. Simpson

    Edward & Mrs. Simpson

    10 1978 HD

    While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Edward Fox

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  • 1952
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    Lady in the Fog

    Lady in the Fog

    5.8 1952 HD

    In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freak accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an American journalist is more...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Cesar Romero

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  • 1981
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    The Cherry Orchard

    The Cherry Orchard

    1 1981 HD

    Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Judi Dench

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  • 1958
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    The Greatest Man in the World

    The Greatest Man in the World

    1 1958 HD

    Just after a young unknown American becomes the first on the Moon returns, he dies in an accident. He's laid to rest with full honours, but only the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Donald Pleasence

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  • 1948
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    London Belongs to Me

    London Belongs to Me

    6.731 1948 HD

    Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Richard Attenborough

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  • 1970
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    The Saint and the Brave Goose

    The Saint and the Brave Goose

    1 1970 HD

    A two-part episode of the 1978 TV series "The Return of the Saint," edited together and released as a feature.

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Ian Ogilvy

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  • 1975
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    One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

    One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

    5.845 1975 HD

    Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Derek Nimmo

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  • 1972
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    Callan

    Callan

    7 1972 HD

    Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage. Originally produced by ABC Weekend Television and later...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Edward Woodward

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  • 1974
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    Special Branch

    Special Branch

    4.333 1974 HD

    Special Branch is a British television. A police drama series, the action was centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Paul Eddington

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  • 1964
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    Call the Gun Expert

    Call the Gun Expert

    1 1964 HD

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    Cast: Wensley Pithey

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  • 1969
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    Her Majesty's Pleasure

    Her Majesty's Pleasure

    1 1969 HD

    Genre:

    Cast: Ken Jones

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  • 1980
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    The Old Curiosity Shop

    The Old Curiosity Shop

    6 1980 HD

    The Old Curiosity Shop is a 1979 BBC miniseries based on the novel by Charles Dickens. It was directed by Julian Amyes, and adapted by William Trevor.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Patsy Byrne

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  • 1961
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    Persuasion

    Persuasion

    1 1961 HD

    Persuasion is a 1960 British television mini-series adaptation of the Jane Austen novel of the same name. It was produced by the BBC and was directed...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Jane Hardie

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  • 1967
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    The Scales of Justice

    The Scales of Justice

    6.7 1967 HD

    Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for Anglo Amalgamated running around 30 minutes and...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Edgar Lustgarten

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  • 1978
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    Edward and Mrs Simpson

    Edward and Mrs Simpson

    6.2 1978 HD

    While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Edward Fox

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  • 1976
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    Beasts

    Beasts

    6.75 1976 HD

    Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United...

    Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Cast:

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  • 1962
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    Sir Francis Drake

    Sir Francis Drake

    4 1962 HD

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

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Terence Morgan

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  • 1975
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    The Main Chance

    The Main Chance

    8 1975 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Stride

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  • 1973
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    The Adventurer

    The Adventurer

    5.5 1973 HD

    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...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Gene Barry

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  • 1979
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    Ike

    Ike

    6.5 1979 HD

    Made-for-TV biography of General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

    Genre: War & Politics

    Cast: Robert Duvall

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  • 1967
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    Gideon's Way

    Gideon's Way

    6.75 1967 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Gregson

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  • 1969
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    The Saint

    The Saint

    7.279 1969 HD

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

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Roger Moore

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  • 1990
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    Howards' Way

    Howards' Way

    5.6 1990 HD

    The BBC's answer to Dynasty, Howards' Way was launched in 1985 with an enormous 1 million pound budget. The main characters in the show were 'best...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kate O'Mara

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  • 1964
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    The Larkins

    The Larkins

    7 1964 HD

    'The Larkins' is a British television sitcom which was produced by Associated Television and aired on ITV. It aired for four series between 1958 to...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: David Jackson

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  • 1979
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    Return of the Saint

    Return of the Saint

    7 1979 HD

    Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Ian Ogilvy

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