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Torin Thatcher (15 January 1905 – 4 March 1981) was an English actor born in Bombay, British India, India), to English parents. He was an imposing, powerfully built figure noted for his flashy portrayals of screen villains.
He was educated in England at Bedford School and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He worked as a schoolmaster before first appearing on the London stage in 1927 and then entering British films in 1934. He appeared in the 1937 Old Vic stage production of Hamlet, in which Laurence Olivier made his first appearance in the title role, opposite Vivien Leigh as Ophelia. During the Second World War, he served with the Royal Artillery and was demobilized with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Thatcher appeared in classic British films of the late 1930s and 1940s, including Major Barbara (1941) and Great Expectations (1946), in which he played Bentley Drummle. He moved to Hollywood in the 1950s. He was constantly in demand, invariably lending his looming figure and baleful countenance to sinister or stern roles in popular costume thrillers such as The Crimson Pirate (1952), Blackbeard the Pirate (1952), The Robe (1953) (as the disapproving father of Richard Burton’s character), The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), Helen of Troy (1956), Darby’s Rangers (1958), and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958). He also appeared in the Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard 1962 remake of Mutiny on the Bounty.
He returned to the stage quite frequently, notably on Broadway, in such esteemed productions as Edward, My Son (1948), That Lady (1949) and Billy Budd (1951). In 1959, he portrayed Captain Keller in the award-winning play The Miracle Worker with Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. All of these plays were filmed, but Thatcher did not appear in the movie versions.
Also a steady fixture on television, he appeared in such made-for-TV films as adaptations of A. J. Cronin’s Beyond This Place (1957) and The Citadel (1960),Bonanza(1961), and Brenda Starr (1976). He also played the title role in a Philco Television Playhouse version of Othello and acted in a CBS production of Beyond This Place (1957).
Thatcher died of cancer on March 4, 1981, in Thousand Oaks, California, in the Los Angeles area.
Torin Thatcher Biography / Wiki
| Name | Torin Thatcher |
| Also Know | Torin Herbert Erskine Thatcher, Lt. Torin Thatcher R.A., T. Atkinson |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Bombay, British India, India |
| Date of Birth | 1905-01-15 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 76 |
| Deathday | 1981-03-04 |
Torin Thatcher Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Common Round | Martin | 1936-03-12 | “The Common Touch” tells of an elderly headmaster (George Zucco) whose Christian beliefs are re-affirmed when he hears news from two of his ex-pupils … |
| Jack the Giant Killer | Pendragon | 1962-05-17 | The terrible and trecherous Pendragon plans to gain the throne of Cornwall by getting the king to abdicate and to marry his lovely daughter. To help h… |
| Houdini | Otto | 1953-07-02 | By the early 1900s, the extraordinary Houdini earned an international reputation for his theatrical tricks and daring feats of extrication from shackl… |
| The 7th Voyage of Sinbad | Sokurah the Magician | 1958-12-05 | When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war…. |
| Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing | Humphrey Palmer-Jones | 1955-08-18 | A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China’s Communist revolu… |
| Knock On Wood | Godfrey Langston | 1954-04-06 | Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriag… |
| Hell of Borneo | Mr. Bellflower | 1964-01-01 | A wealthy mercenary lives in blissful solitude on his private island in the Philippines, until it’s invaded by pirates, mobsters, and smugglers…. |
| The Canadians | Superintendent Walker | 1961-03-11 | When the Sioux come to Canada, the Canadians permit them to stay in Canada if they come peacefully. However, some cowboys kill all inhabitants of one … |
| Old Mother Riley, MP | Jack Nelson | 1939-08-15 | Old Mother Riley loses her laundry job and then battles her ex-boss in a parliamentary election…. |
| The Holy Terror | Dr. Poole | 1965-04-07 | A television dramatization based on the life and work of Florence Nightingale. The story, set in 1856, relates the incidents in her life following the… |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Sir Turnbull | 1968-01-07 | In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry Jekyll, a scientist experimenting to reveal the h… |
| The Crimson Pirate | Humble Bellows | 1952-08-27 | Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the l… |
| Istanbul | Douglas Fielding | 1957-01-23 | A suspected diamond smuggler returns to Istanbul and finds the lady love he thought was dead…or does he?… |
| Bengal Brigade | Colonel Morrow | 1954-11-06 | Year 1856, British India. Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne is severely punished after disobeying an order. Feeling unworthy of his fiancée Vivian Morrow, the… |
| Drums of Africa | Jack Cuortemayn | 1963-05-15 | David Moore is in East Africa to get to his employer’s railway construction site. He’s accompanied by the owner’s son Brian and they’ve lined up Jack … |
| Decision at Midnight | 1963-12-12 | Adaptation of the play Music at Midnight, set in the Iron Curtain…. | |
| The Desert Rats | Col. Barney White | 1953-05-20 | In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important p… |
| Affair in Trinidad | Inspector Smythe | 1952-07-29 | A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband’s killer…. |
| Blackbeard, the Pirate | Sir Henry Morgan | 1952-12-24 | Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship’s surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard…. |
| Lady Godiva of Coventry | Lord Godwin | 1955-11-02 | Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady…. |
| The Snows of Kilimanjaro | Johnson | 1952-10-08 | Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro…. |
| The Black Shield of Falworth | Sir James | 1954-09-02 | In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, without any knowledge of who their father really w… |
| Darby’s Rangers | Sergeant McTavish | 1958-02-12 | Stationed in Scotland, Maj. William Darby and the men under his command are trained by British commandos, becoming the U.S. Army’s 1st Ranger Battalio… |
| Diane | Louis – Count de Breze | 1956-01-12 | Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II’s mistress in 1500s France…. |
| The End of the River | Lisboa | 1947-12-01 | A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder…. |
| Witness for the Prosecution | Mr. Myers | 1957-12-17 | When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. … |
| Band of Angels | Capt. Canavan | 1957-08-03 | Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and… |
| The Sandpiper | le juge Thompson | 1965-06-23 | A free-spirited single mother forms a connection with the wedded headmaster of an Episcopalian boarding school in Monterey, California…. |
| The King’s Pirate | Captain Cullen | 1967-07-20 | Handsome British officer, Lt. Brian Fleming is sent undercover to infiltrate a lively band of pirates…. |
| Helen of Troy | Ulysses | 1956-01-26 | Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by t… |
| The Robe | Sen. Gallio | 1953-09-16 | Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus’ homespun robe afte… |
| When The Bough Breaks | Adams | 1947-11-19 | The bewildered wife of a bigamist allows her child to be adopted and then regrets it…. |
| Climbing High | Jim Castle | 1938-10-31 | Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering… |
| Let George Do It! | U-Boat commander | 1940-07-12 | Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken … |
| The Fallen Idol | Policeman | 1948-09-30 | Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father’s butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes … |
| The Case of the Frightened Lady | Jim Tilling, the Groundsman | 1940-09-28 | A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace…. |
| Hawaii | Reverend Thorn | 1966-10-10 | Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and takes her to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, … |
| Sabotage | Mr. Verloc’s Visitor (uncredited) | 1937-01-08 | Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her h… |
| Gasbags | SS Man | 1941-02-01 | It’s war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by runnin… |
| Major Barbara | Todger Fairmile | 1941-05-14 | Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvat… |
| The Next of Kin | German General | 1942-06-15 | Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning “Be like Dad, Keep Mum”. A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi sp… |
| Great Expectations | Bentley Drummle | 1946-12-26 | In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman…. |
| The Black Rose | Harry | 1950-09-01 | In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of … |
| The Man Who Could Work Miracles | Observer | 1936-07-23 | An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them…. |
| Jassy | Bob Wicks | 1947-08-13 | In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the … |
| The Spy in Black | Submarine Officer | 1939-08-03 | A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet…. |
| Drake of England | 1935-06-10 | Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century’s great Shakespearean players, and became Britain’s … | |
| Red Wagon | Eddie Prince | 1933-12-06 | Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles… |
| I See a Dark Stranger | Police Constable | 1946-07-04 | Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encourageme… |
| Young and Innocent | Nobby’s Lodging House Caretaker (uncredited) | 1937-11-01 | Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to … |
| Now Barabbas | 1949-05-24 | A humane prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer…. | |
| The Lion Has Wings | Seaman Receiving Information About German Activity | 1939-11-03 | This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British… |
| Crime Over London | 1936-10-21 | With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store…. | |
| Saloon Bar | Mr. Garrod | 1940-11-02 | A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man…. |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | Staines | 1962-11-08 | The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as … |
| Night Train to Munich | 1940-08-31 | Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England;… | |
| Contraband | Sailor | 1940-05-11 | When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved … |
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