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Sam Kydd
Catalogued films 130Actor 130
Samuel John Kydd (15 February 1915 – 26 March 1982) was a British-Irish actor. His best-known roles were in two major British television series of the 1960s, as the smuggler Orlando O'Connor in Crane and its sequel Orlando. He also played a recurring character in Coronation Street. Kydd's first film was The Captive Heart (1946), in which he played a POW. He made over 290 films, more than any other British actor, including 119 between 1946 and 1952.
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Eye of the Needle
The Mirror Crack'd
The Shillingbury Blowers
Danger on Dartmoor
High Rise Donkey
Yesterday's Hero- THThe Bass Player and the Blonde
Kipper- THThe Great Snail Race
Sporting Chance
Confessions of a Window Cleaner
The Firefighters
Great Expectations
Steptoe & Son Ride Again
Carson Country
The Alf Garnett Saga
Up the Chastity Belt- IRIreland, Mother Ireland
Quest for Love
Dad's Army
10 Rillington Place
Too Late the Hero
Moon Zero Two
The Magnificent Six and ½: Peewee Had a Little Ape
Till Death Us Do Part
The Killing of Sister George- LOLook at Life: There Ought to Be a Law
Gold Is Where You Find It
Smashing Time
Island of Terror
The Projected Man
The Midas Plague
Smokescreen
The Iron Maiden
Clue of the Silver Key
The Secret of Monte Cristo
Suspect
The House in Marsh Road
There Was a Crooked Man
Dead Lucky
Sink the Bismarck!
Upstairs and Downstairs
Libel
I'm All Right Jack
The Scapegoat
The Price of Silence
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The 39 Steps
Too Many Crooks
Make Mine a Million
Further Up the Creek
I Was Monty's Double
Orders to Kill
Law and Disorder
Up the Creek
Barnacle Bill
Just My Luck
The Scamp
The Long Haul
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
The Hide-Out
Tiger in the Smoke- DRDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Circus Friends
Reach for the Sky
The Baby and the Battleship
The Long Arm
A Town Like Alice
You Can't Escape
The Ladykillers
Portrait of Alison
Josephine and Men
The Quatermass Xperiment
One Way Out
A Kid for Two Farthings
The Constant Husband
The Glass Cage
Passage Home
A Prize of Gold
Storm Over the Nile
Radio Cab Murder
Final Appointment
Father Brown
The Rainbow Jacket
Devil on Horseback
They Who Dare
The Embezzler
Impulse
The Saint's Return
Malta Story
The Steel Key
Death Goes to School
The Cruel Sea- HOHot Ice
Appointment in London
The Runaway Bus
Time Bomb
Trent's Last Case
Angels One Five
Hunted
Secret People
Murder Will Out
The Big Frame
High Treason
The Galloping Major
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
Assassin for Hire
Pool of London
Mr. Denning Drives North
Highly Dangerous
The Magnet
Treasure Island
Chance of a Lifetime
The Blue Lamp
Passport to Pimlico
The Hasty Heart
Obsession
Vengeance Is Mine
Forbidden
The Small Back Room
Once a Jolly Swagman
The Gay Lady
Scott of the Antarctic
Trouble in the Air
To the Public Danger
A Song for Tomorrow
Colonel Bogey
They Made Me a Fugitive
The Captive Heart
Mr Jones Takes the Air