Joss Ackland

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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).

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Known For

Lethal Weapon 2

Arjen Rudd

The Hunt for Red October

Ambassador Andrei Lysenko

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

De Nomolos

K-19: The Widowmaker

Marshal Zelentsov

Miracle on 34th Street

Victor Landbergh (uncredited)

Miracle on 34th Street

Victor Landbergh

The Mighty Ducks

Hans

Nowhere to Run

Franklin Hale

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2014	The Portrait MOVIE	Henry Winter
2014	Katherine of Alexandria MOVIE	Rufus
2013	Prisoners of the Sun MOVIE	Professor Mendella
2011	The Boy with Chocolate Fingers MOVIE	Narrator
2010	Peak Performers - The Mk3 Ford Cortina MOVIE	Narrator
2009	Pinocchio MOVIE	Mastro Ciliegia
2009	Pinocchio TV	Mastro Ciliegia
2007	How About You... MOVIE	Donald Vanston
2007	Hogfather MOVIE	Mustrum Ridcully
2007	In Search of the Great Beast 666: Aleister Crowley MOVIE	Narrator
2007	Flawless MOVIE	Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft
2007	Kingdom TV	Mr. John Narbutowicz
2006	Hogfather TV	Mustrum Ridcully
2006	Moscow Zero MOVIE	Tolstoy
2006	Above and Beyond TV	Winston Churchill
2006	The One Show TV	Self
2006	These Foolish Things MOVIE	Albert
2005	Asylum MOVIE	Jack Straffen
2005	Icon MOVIE	General Nikolayev
2005	Defining a Style MOVIE	Self
2004	A Different Loyalty MOVIE	Randolph Cauffield
2003	Henry VIII TV	Henry VII
2003	I'll Be There MOVIE	Evil Edmonds - The BeeLzeeBOPS
2002	K-19: The Widowmaker MOVIE	Marshal Zelentsov
2002	No Good Deed MOVIE	Mr. Quarre
2001	Othello MOVIE	James Brabant
2000	The Mumbo Jumbo MOVIE	Mayor Smith
2000	Easter Tales TV	Barabbas
2000	Passion of Mind MOVIE	Dr. Langer, the French Psychiatrist
2000	Lounge Act MOVIE	Self
1999	The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service MOVIE	The Prussian
1999	Milk MOVIE	Vicar
1998	Firelight MOVIE	Lord Clare
1998	My Giant MOVIE	Monsignor Popesou
1998	Heat of the Sun TV	Max Van Der vuurst
1998	Swept from the Sea MOVIE	Mr. Swaffer
1997	Midsomer Murders TV	Sir Freddy Butler
1996	To the Ends of Time MOVIE	King Francis
1996	Testament: The Bible in Animation TV	Noah (voice)
1996	Testament: The Bible in Animation TV	Samuel (voice)
1996	D3: The Mighty Ducks MOVIE	Hans
1996	Surviving Picasso MOVIE	Henri Matisse
1996	Deadly Voyage MOVIE	Self
1996	Hidden in Silence MOVIE	German Factory Manager
1995	Daisies in December MOVIE	Gerald Carmody
1995	A Kid in King Arthur's Court MOVIE	King Arthur
1995	Mad Dogs and Englishmen MOVIE	Insp. Sam Stringer
1995	Citizen X MOVIE	Bondarchuk
1994	OcchioPinocchio MOVIE	Brando Della Valle
1994	Jacob MOVIE	Isaak
1994	Julius Caesar MOVIE	Caesar
1994	Miracle on 34th Street MOVIE	Victor Landbergh (uncredited)
1994	Miracle on 34th Street MOVIE	Victor Landbergh
1994	Giorgino MOVIE	Father Glaise
1994	Citizen Locke MOVIE	Lord Ashley
1994	Joan Miró: Constellations - The Color of Poetry MOVIE	Self
1993	Simulacrum MOVIE	The Chemist
1993	Mother's Boys MOVIE	Lansing, Jude's Attorney
1993	The Thief and the Cobbler MOVIE	Brigand (voice)
1993	Voices in the Garden MOVIE	Sir Charles Peverall
1993	Nowhere to Run MOVIE	Franklin Hale
1992	Shakespeare: The Animated Tales TV	Caesar (voice)
1992	The Mighty Ducks MOVIE	Hans
1992	Project: Shadowchaser MOVIE	Kinderman
1992	White Bear's Secret MOVIE	Brown Bear (voice)
1992	Once Upon a Crime MOVIE	Hercules Popodopoulos
1992	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles TV	The Prussian
1992	Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls MOVIE	King Edward
1992	The Bridge MOVIE	Smithson
1991	Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors MOVIE	Lewis Serrocold
1991	Brown Bear's Wedding MOVIE	Brown Bear (voice)
1991	Ashenden TV	Self
1991	A Woman Named Jackie TV	Aristotle Onassis
1991	A Murder of Quality MOVIE	Terence Fielding
1991	Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey MOVIE	De Nomolos
1991	The Princess and the Goblin MOVIE	King Papa (voice)
1991	The Object of Beauty MOVIE	Mr. Mercer
1991	The Sheltering Desert MOVIE	Self
1990	Tre colonne in cronaca MOVIE	Gaetano Leporino, il finanziere
1990	The Secret Life of Ian Fleming MOVIE	Gen. Gerhard Hellstein
1990	The Hunt for Red October MOVIE	Ambassador Andrei Lysenko
1990	The Palermo Connection MOVIE	il boss
1990	Jekyll & Hyde MOVIE	Dr. Charles Lanyon
1989	First and Last MOVIE	Alan Holly
1989	Lethal Weapon 2 MOVIE	Arjen Rudd
1988	The Man Who Lived at the Ritz MOVIE	Hermann Goering
1988	To Kill a Priest MOVIE	Colonel
1988	It Couldn't Happen Here MOVIE	Priest/Murderer
1988	Codename: Kyril MOVIE	'C'
1988	Codename: Kyril TV	'C'
1988	Olympus Force: The Key MOVIE	George Grossopoulos
1987	When We Are Married MOVIE	Henry Ormonroyd
1987	White Mischief MOVIE	'Jock' Delves Broughton
1987	The Sicilian MOVIE	Don Masino Croce
1987	Queenie TV	Sir Burton Rumsey
1987	A Killing on the Exchange TV	Sir Max Sillman
1986	Lady Jane MOVIE	Sir John Bridges
1985	A Zed & Two Noughts MOVIE	Van Hoyten
1985	Shadowlands MOVIE	CS Lewis
1984	Sherlock Holmes TV	Jephro Rucastle
1984	The Tragedy of Coriolanus MOVIE	Menenius
1984	Shroud for a Nightingale TV	Stephen Courtney-Briggs
1984	The Leather Boys MOVIE	Narrator
1983	Natural World TV	Self - Narrator (voice)
1983	Dalgliesh TV	Stephen Courtney-Briggs
1982	The Barretts of Wimpole Street MOVIE	Edward Moulton-Barrett
1982	Wogan TV	Self
1981	Findings on a Late Afternoon MOVIE	Father
1981	Elizabeth Alone MOVIE	Major Orpen
1981	Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective MOVIE	Chief Insp. Yardbird
1980	The Apple MOVIE	Mr. Topps / Hippie Leader
1980	Rough Cut MOVIE	Insp. Vanderveld
1980	The Love Tapes MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1980	The Gentle Touch TV	Ivor Stocker
1980	A Question of Guilt TV	Self
1980	A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square MOVIE	Prison Warden
1980	Closing Ranks MOVIE	Victor Rogachev
1979	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy TV	Jerry Westerby
1979	Saint Jack MOVIE	Yardley
1979	Turtle's Progress TV	Benny D-Day
1979	Tales of the Unexpected TV	Colonel George Peregrine
1979	Tales of the Unexpected TV	Jack Cutler
1978	Watership Down MOVIE	Black Rabbit (voice)
1978	Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? MOVIE	Cantrell
1978	Return of the Saint TV	Gunther
1978	The Greek Tycoon MOVIE	Naval officer (uncredited)
1978	Enemy at the Door TV	Major General Laidlaw
1977	The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It MOVIE	President
1977	Silver Bears MOVIE	Henry Foreman
1976	The Crezz TV	Charles Bronte
1976	You Talk Too Much MOVIE	Doctor
1975	Operation: Daybreak MOVIE	Janák
1975	Royal Flash MOVIE	Sapten
1975	One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing MOVIE	B.J. Spence
1975	Heading For Glory MOVIE	Self - Narrator (voice)
1975	The Sweeney TV	Alan Ember
1974	The Little Prince MOVIE	The King
1974	The Four Musketeers MOVIE	D'Artagnan's Father (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974	SPY*S MOVIE	Martinson
1974	The Black Windmill MOVIE	Chief Supt. Wray
1974	Playhouse TV	Maj. Orpen
1974	Playhouse TV	Father
1974	Great Expectations MOVIE	Joe Gargery
1974	Miss Nightingale MOVIE	Lord Palmerston
1973	The Three Musketeers MOVIE	D’Artagnan’s Father
1973	Centre Play TV	Doctor
1973	Penny Gold MOVIE	Jones
1973	England Made Me MOVIE	Haller
1973	Hitler: The Last Ten Days MOVIE	General Burgdorf
1973	Access to the Children MOVIE	Malcolmson
1972	The Bankrupt MOVIE	Ellis Cripper
1972	The Protectors TV	Arthur Gordon
1972	Crippled Bloom MOVIE	Potter Jones
1972	Country Matters TV	Potter-Jones
1972	The Mind Snatchers MOVIE	Dr. Frederick
1972	King's Cross Lunch Hour MOVIE	The Man
1972	Shirley's World TV	Self
1971	Getting In MOVIE	An Applicant
1971	Justice TV	Sir Robert Beste
1971	The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes TV	Grubber
1971	The Persuaders! TV	Felix Meadowes
1971	Mr. Forbush and the Penguins MOVIE	Head of Board
1971	Villain MOVIE	Edgar Lowis
1971	The House That Dripped Blood MOVIE	Neville Rogers (segment 2 "Waxworks")
1970	The Lie MOVIE	Albert
1970	Play for Today TV	Albert
1970	Play for Today TV	Ellis Cripper
1970	Play for Today TV	Malcolmson
1970	Crescendo MOVIE	Carter
1970	The Three Sisters MOVIE	Chebutykin
1967	The Further Adventures of the Musketeers TV	d'Artagnan
1967	One Pair of Eyes TV	Self
1966	Rasputin: The Mad Monk MOVIE	The Bishop
1966	Mystery and Imagination TV	Herr Scavenius
1966	Mystery and Imagination TV	Mr Smedhurst
1966	David Copperfield TV	Daniel Peggotty
1965	Tomorrow, Just You Wait MOVIE	Tom Gorbet
1965	BBC Play of the Month TV	Chebutykin
1965	BBC Play of the Month TV	Charley
1965	The Troubleshooters TV	Mr. Gibbon
1965	The Troubleshooters TV	Sam Jardine
1965	The Troubleshooters TV	Considine
1965	The Troubleshooters TV	Lewis
1965	Londoners TV	Angus Grahame
1964	The Wednesday Play TV	Tom Gorbet
1964	The Wednesday Play TV	Cornelius
1964	Sherlock Holmes TV	Hon. Philip Green
1964	Theatre 625 TV	Hockey Jagger
1964	Theatre 625 TV	Fred
1964	Theatre 625 TV	John Hinks
1964	Maggie MOVIE	Norman
1962	In Search of the Castaways MOVIE	Yacht Seaman
1961	The Avengers TV	Brigadier Hansing
1959	No Hiding Place TV	Self
1958	Next to No Time MOVIE	Turkish Bath Attendant
1956	Armchair Theatre TV	Frank Penfold
1956	Armchair Theatre TV	Mr Green
1952	Ghost Ship MOVIE	Ron, 2nd Fisherman
1950	Seven Days to Noon MOVIE	Station Policeman
1949	Landfall MOVIE	O'Neil

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