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Alec McCowen
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Alexander Duncan McCowen, CBE (26 May 1925 – 6 February 2017) was an English actor. He was known for his work in numerous film and stage productions.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 13.918 |
Birthday | 1925-05-26 |
Place of Birth | Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK |
Also Known As |
![Frenzy](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/4SFvqrlSigAt9tnhXFSMyKeJWQk.jpg)
1972
![Frenzy](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/4SFvqrlSigAt9tnhXFSMyKeJWQk.jpg)
Frenzy
7.107/867
After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.
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Frenzy
![The Age of Innocence](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/5Tuyt26v7qNR8Cl3m7ZRx36rduf.jpg)
1993
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The Age of Innocence
6.987/1053
In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin...
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The Age of Innocence
![Henry V](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/w9R2HsYNnfF3m9uEo2UAmPNJr8a.jpg)
1989
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Henry V
7.218/356
Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
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Henry V
![Travels with My Aunt](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/2bycdsCdZ7oqZsLbViWRp2fnHEg.jpg)
1972
![Travels with My Aunt](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/2bycdsCdZ7oqZsLbViWRp2fnHEg.jpg)
Travels with My Aunt
5.7/33
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him alon...
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Travels with My Aunt
![The Silent Enemy](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/9srqtNqB5onJTSNeia5RjPFJuDZ.jpg)
1958
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The Silent Enemy
5.4/15
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to c...
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The Silent Enemy
![Hanover Street](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/mCjziHSMygqCWiLBWnJDBxwpcoj.jpg)
1979
![Hanover Street](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/mCjziHSMygqCWiLBWnJDBxwpcoj.jpg)
Hanover Street
5.6/89
Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.
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Hanover Street
![The Witches](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/jPfBd6Af21hVtSSFPrbfV4nWKCz.jpg)
1966
![The Witches](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/jPfBd6Af21hVtSSFPrbfV4nWKCz.jpg)
The Witches
6/56
Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and...
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The Witches
![Never Say Never Again](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/zhoAL4o1STGgLbLxJ9r1ijfyHC9.jpg)
1983
![Never Say Never Again](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/zhoAL4o1STGgLbLxJ9r1ijfyHC9.jpg)
Never Say Never Again
6.067/1395
James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuc...
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Never Say Never Again
![Time Without Pity](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/3P6XLCD3tGtWTtktfdlGL3fnJ4t.jpg)
1957
![Time Without Pity](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/3P6XLCD3tGtWTtktfdlGL3fnJ4t.jpg)
Time Without Pity
6.6/39
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of...
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Time Without Pity
![The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/ePhZKUNyFGc8lzx0E0LiCcKs4y4.jpg)
1962
![The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/ePhZKUNyFGc8lzx0E0LiCcKs4y4.jpg)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
7.19/142
A rebellious youth sentenced to a reformatory for robbing a bakery rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance r...
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![The Hawaiians](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/bf0Np3insLJiYkY6e6ZCQeytPZy.jpg)
1970
![The Hawaiians](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/bf0Np3insLJiYkY6e6ZCQeytPZy.jpg)
The Hawaiians
5.4/16
A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties.
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The Hawaiians
![Town on Trial](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/ueJfqnxtspZI3vCrLrskM8HvIrh.jpg)
1957
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Town on Trial
6.675/20
When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort...
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Town on Trial
![Henry V](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/UmOd2zvZ6BQ3Smqi6WEmLjRNS9.jpg)
1979
![Henry V](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/UmOd2zvZ6BQ3Smqi6WEmLjRNS9.jpg)
Henry V
6/4
The life of King Henry the Fifth.
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Henry V
![The Doctor's Dilemma](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/av0TsS70zYNaj4snaKXn1lrJRuc.jpg)
1959
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The Doctor's Dilemma
6.1/8
Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.
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The Doctor's Dilemma
![The Assam Garden](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
1985
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The Assam Garden
6.5/2
An insecure, aggressive widow of a tea garden manager reluctantly develops an affectionate relationship with an Indian housewife and her family.
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The Assam Garden
![Twelfth Night](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/y5BbS1DuZTehp6itGbrtsAVXxPr.jpg)
1980
![Twelfth Night](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/y5BbS1DuZTehp6itGbrtsAVXxPr.jpg)
Twelfth Night
6.7/3
Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into...
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Twelfth Night
![Stevie](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/rJwkmMAYDiUCNNsPU7ebTGldJaG.jpg)
1978
![Stevie](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/rJwkmMAYDiUCNNsPU7ebTGldJaG.jpg)
Stevie
7/7
For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional life. Sheltered in a London suburb, she spends her...
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![The Secret Adversary](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/jwWinzok3UrztPfNKKW5zksTS35.jpg)
1983
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The Secret Adversary
6.8/8
After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue...
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The Secret Adversary
![The Deep Blue Sea](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/98TFnJ8GZlbBnbCZ6v8IIcdCPsP.jpg)
1955
![The Deep Blue Sea](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/98TFnJ8GZlbBnbCZ6v8IIcdCPsP.jpg)
The Deep Blue Sea
5.2/10
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle....
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The Deep Blue Sea
![Personal Services](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/q7opjmMn5uVfvQjKObc7VbHnKyU.jpg)
1987
![Personal Services](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/q7opjmMn5uVfvQjKObc7VbHnKyU.jpg)
Personal Services
6/39
The story of the rise of a madame of a suburban brothel catering to older men, inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne. The story follows C...
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Personal Services
![The Cruel Sea](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/kEhPaWuHNyXPUSJsu9FtwUZp7sh.jpg)
1953
![The Cruel Sea](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/kEhPaWuHNyXPUSJsu9FtwUZp7sh.jpg)
The Cruel Sea
6.8/61
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. Th...
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The Cruel Sea
![St Mark's Gospel](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/cBF1T5bALbyVyJR1veKJtTZGduT.jpg)
1990
![St Mark's Gospel](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/cBF1T5bALbyVyJR1veKJtTZGduT.jpg)
St Mark's Gospel
0/0
Alec McCowen's award-winning solo performance of the St Mark Gospel.
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St Mark's Gospel
![Forever Young](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/bp407CecPvfdXTeXD80w19RqT2e.jpg)
1983
![Forever Young](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/bp407CecPvfdXTeXD80w19RqT2e.jpg)
Forever Young
0/0
A lonely young boy idolizes his local priest. An old acquaintance of the priest shows up one day, and the boy learns that his idol isn't exactly what...
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Forever Young
![The One That Got Away](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/nYkPLiaHuQN5kcoNj3HpKaw9vFI.jpg)
1957
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The One That Got Away
7/44
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Seco...
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The One That Got Away
![Squaring the Circle](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/aB3LNvrcf0Ibl09vbKPwXBjVfQ2.jpg)
1984
![Squaring the Circle](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/aB3LNvrcf0Ibl09vbKPwXBjVfQ2.jpg)
Squaring the Circle
5/1
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.
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Squaring the Circle
![Cry Freedom](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/ngD4tJvFtPYQHskQKE9uIZ2Tijw.jpg)
1987
![Cry Freedom](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/ngD4tJvFtPYQHskQKE9uIZ2Tijw.jpg)
Cry Freedom
7.025/199
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods...
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Cry Freedom
![Gangs of New York](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/lemqKtcCuAano5aqrzxYiKC8kkn.jpg)
2002
![Gangs of New York](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/lemqKtcCuAano5aqrzxYiKC8kkn.jpg)
Gangs of New York
7.328/6466
In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murder...
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Gangs of New York
![The Good Companions](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/lqayTz5Hi6O2uvVG4wiXnO6InXd.jpg)
1957
![The Good Companions](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/lqayTz5Hi6O2uvVG4wiXnO6InXd.jpg)
The Good Companions
0/0
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
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The Good Companions
![Private Lives](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
1976
![Private Lives](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
Private Lives
6.5/4
Divorced couple Amanda and Elyot have both recently remarried. On their honeymoons, however, they discover that they have accidentally booked adjoinin...
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Private Lives
![A Night to Remember](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/6fDhJAz6AuYWj3hAnvUL42Xlxfj.jpg)
1958
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A Night to Remember
7.6/236
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspect...
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A Night to Remember
![A Dedicated Man](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/ekFRQebPlPR58rRt41gnC9aT45t.jpg)
1982
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A Dedicated Man
0/0
Edith is a hotel waitress, single and in her mid-forties, with a major infatuation on Maurice Silcox, the hotel's head waiter. But Edith becomes distr...
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A Dedicated Man
![The Importance of Being Earnest](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/3lVK0G6a458G1BcDcaHI8Xr5khV.jpg)
1988
![The Importance of Being Earnest](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/3lVK0G6a458G1BcDcaHI8Xr5khV.jpg)
The Importance of Being Earnest
4.7/6
Filled with wit and wisdom, The Importance of Being Earnest tells the tale of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff. Jack has invented an imaginary bro...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
![In the Cool of the Day](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/agLNmHDCMleZ1QgKGNUb9sU72M4.jpg)
1963
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In the Cool of the Day
5.4/10
After he mends a marital rift between a vacationing young couple, the bored, fragile wife falls hopelessly in love with the husband's ex-colleague who...
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In the Cool of the Day
![Dialogue in the Dark](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
1989
![Dialogue in the Dark](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
Dialogue in the Dark
0/0
A summer evening in Edinburgh, 1776. The ailing philosopher David Hume has an unexpected visitor.
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Dialogue in the Dark
![The Divided Heart](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/lZUbHxF8vDqXuswWNkxaP2qsdwQ.jpg)
1954
![The Divided Heart](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/lZUbHxF8vDqXuswWNkxaP2qsdwQ.jpg)
The Divided Heart
6.7/7
During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's adopte...
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![The Agony and the Ecstasy](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/4ZiwyXtyxYDmMnNiVemCPgxY8X6.jpg)
1965
![The Agony and the Ecstasy](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/4ZiwyXtyxYDmMnNiVemCPgxY8X6.jpg)
The Agony and the Ecstasy
7.019/131
During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes...
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
![Maria's Child](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
1993
![Maria's Child](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
Maria's Child
1/1
Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the fa...
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Maria's Child
![Triple Exposure](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/yWTZRMugdfQRItexlCcBvfDPpr1.jpg)
1972
![Triple Exposure](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/yWTZRMugdfQRItexlCcBvfDPpr1.jpg)
Triple Exposure
0/0
Len climbs Veronica and Percy’s fence intent on burglary, but what really happens next? The three acts of the play show the incident from each of the...
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Triple Exposure
![Cruel Train](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/fqMiiSoYHc6u1xvn1RlpOY0Vn0Z.jpg)
1995
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Cruel Train
4.5/2
In wartime England, a railway official learns that the chairman of the line had sexually abused his wife as a child, then given him the job so he coul...
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Cruel Train
![The Long Arm](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/wMWQCfhYNucYrF8JlTYvzXq6L3w.jpg)
1956
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The Long Arm
7/17
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The fi...
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The Long Arm
![Rope](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
1957
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Rope
0/0
British iTV adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's Rope that aired as a part of ITV Play of the Week.
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![Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/gtE5tX2coJ0VrAEIaYqdQwIKB4F.jpg)
1989
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Max Miller: I Like The Girls Who Do
0/0
A celebration of Max Miller , comedian and star. Presented by Gerald Scarfe with Max Bygraves Charlie Chester , Doris Hare Jean Kent , Alec McCowen,...
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![The War That Never Ends](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/b86rYKh40Aj2JZcU1Ww01vHXLna.jpg)
1991
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The War That Never Ends
0/0
The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and o...
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