Patrick Wymark
Born Patrick Carl Cheeseman in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England. He was brought up in neighbouring Grimsby and frequently re-visited the area during the height of his career. He attended University College, London, before training at the Old Vic Theatre School and making his first stage appearance in a walk-on part in Othello in 1951. He toured South Africa the following year and then directed plays for the drama department at Stanford University, California. Moving to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Wymark played a wide range of traditional roles, including Dogberry in Much Ado about Nothing and Stephano in The Tempest. He also played the parts of Marullus in Julius Caesar and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other stage parts included the title role in Danton's Death and, with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Ephihodov in The Cherry Orchard. His theatre roles also included playing the part of Bosola in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi in 1960. His film roles included: Children of the Damned (1964), Operation Crossbow (1965), Battle of Britain (1969), Where Eagles Dare (1968), Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and Cromwell (1970). On television, where at one point he was considered as a replacement for William Hartnell on Doctor Who., he was best known for his role as the machiavellian businessman John Wilder in the drama series The Plane Makers/The Power Game, a role which led to offers of company directorships. Wymark, however, was a gentle man in real life, self-confessedly ignorant of business matters, who considered the Wilder character to be a "bastard" and was described by his wife as "the most inefficient, dreamy muddler in the world."
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 6.834 |
Birthday | 1926-07-11 |
Place of Birth | Lincolnshire, England |
Also Known As |
1968
Where Eagles Dare
7.531/856
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impo...
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Where Eagles Dare
1964
Children of the Damned
6.1/92
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to ea...
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Children of the Damned
1969
Battle of Britain
6.815/292
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the N...
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Battle of Britain
1965
Repulsion
7.422/960
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leave...
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Repulsion
1970
Cromwell
6.6/84
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell...
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Cromwell
1971
The Blood on Satan's Claw
6.1/135
The accidental unearthing of Satan’s earthly remains causes the children of a 17th-century English village to slowly convert into a coven of devil wor...
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The Blood on Satan's Claw
1969
Doppelgänger
6.2/116
A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The Europe...
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Doppelgänger
1964
The Secret of Blood Island
0/0
Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a...
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The Secret of Blood Island
1965
Operation Crossbow
6.762/103
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.The film alternates between Ger...
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Operation Crossbow
1965
The Skull
6/89
An occult investigator buys the 150-year-old skull of the Marquis de Sade, which turns out to be possessed by evil spirits.
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The Skull
1963
Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
7.1/15
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
1967
Woman Times Seven
6.3/46
Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out o...
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Woman Times Seven
1960
The League of Gentlemen
7/87
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboa...
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The League of Gentlemen
1966
The Psychopath
6.2/30
Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were p...
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The Psychopath
1963
As You Like It
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One of the earliest hits for the newly established RSC, Michael Elliott’s sparkling version of Shakespeare's comedy is still remembered with joy by a...
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As You Like It
1964
The Finest Hours
6.3/3
A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles.
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The Finest Hours
1968
Tell Me Lies
6.4/8
Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in Lo...
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Tell Me Lies
1968
Witchfinder General
6.484/218
England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness...
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Witchfinder General
1960
The Criminal
6.3/38
When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stas...
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The Criminal
1963
West 11
6.7/10
Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description...
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West 11
1962
The Pitcairn People
0/0
A documentary feature telling how then descendants of the crew of HMS Bounty survive today on the remote island of Pitcairn, where their ancestors set...
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The Pitcairn People
1959
Brand
0/0
Brand's a bleak and desolate play that challenges the notion of a stern and stoic faith in the will of God. The title character is a pastor who return...
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Brand
1962
The Cherry Orchard
8/1
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 pa...
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The Cherry Orchard
2008
Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
8.3/3
"Scarecrow! Scarecrow! The soldiers of the King feared his name!" And so begins the hard-to-forget theme song to The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. Walt D...
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Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
1972
The Man from the Other Side
0/0
After the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. A Russian engineer gets the assignment to purchase locomotives from Sweden. Paid in gold. Claimed by the...
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The Man from the Other Side
1963
The Invasion
0/0
Inhabitants in a remote village laughs off and dismiss a couple of schoolboys' claims that they are being invaded by aliens.
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