Roger Ostime

Acting
1928-06-05
Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK

Biography

Roger Ostime was born on June 5, 1928 in Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Baker Street Boys (1983), Probation Officer (1959) and The Lost Boys (1978). He was married to Hilary Mason. He died on December 18, 2019 in Reigate, Surrey, England, UK.

Known For & Full Filmography23 Titles

#1Casualty

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Norman Parker

6.2 / 10
DramaSoap

Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.

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#2Hart to Hart

Drama Series - 1979, 16 episodes as Cyril

6.9 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeMystery

Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.

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#3Grange Hill

Drama Series - 1978, 16 episodes as Brookdale Teacher

6.7 / 10
Drama

Children's drama series following the lives of students and teachers at Grange Hill comprehensive school.

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#4Rumpole of the Bailey

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Ashby

7.1 / 10
DramaComedyCrime

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.

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#5Lovejoy

Drama Series - 1986, 16 episodes as Charles Renton

7.4 / 10
ComedyDramaMystery

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.

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#6Hammer House of Horror

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes as The Butler

7.1 / 10
MysteryDrama

Each self-contained episode features a different kind of horror, varying from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also includes non-supernatural themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers.

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#7The Duchess of Duke Street

Drama Series - 1976, 16 episodes as Usher

8.0 / 10
Drama

In Victorian London, Louisa Leyton works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St James's.

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#8Hancock's Half Hour

Drama Series - 1956, 16 episodes Main Cast Role

7.4 / 10
Comedy

Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.

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#9Lytton's Diary

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Priest

7.3 / 10
ComedyDrama

Lytton's Diary is a 1985–86 British comedy-drama programme created and written by Peter Bowles and Philip Broadley. Produced by Thames Television for ITV, it originated as a single play on the anthology programme Storyboard before expanding into two popular series, known for their mix of glamour, intrigue, and social commentary. Bowles stars as Neville Lytton, a suave and successful Fleet Street gossip columnist for the Daily News. Lytton navigates the world of high-society scandals, political corruption, and personal challenges, balancing his professional life with his love life and his ambition to write a novel.

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#1084 Charing Cross Road

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m as Stately Home Butler

7.2 / 10
DramaRomance

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.

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#11Three Up, Two Down

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Darby

6.3 / 10
Comedy

Comedy series about Nick and Angie, a young married couple, Angie's snobbish mother Daphne, and Nick's cockney father Sam. Much of the humour arises from the fact that the mismatched Daphne and Sam are forced by circumstances to share the flat below that occupied by their children.

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#12Miss Marple: The Moving Finger

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes as Detective Inspector Crawford

7.7 / 10
CrimeMystery

The residents of a quiet English village begin to receive nasty, threatening letters. The wife of the local vicar calls in her friend Miss Marple to investigate.

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#13Mr. Palfrey of Westminster

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes as Coroner

5.7 / 10
Drama

Mr. Palfrey is a mild-mannered, but highly skilled counter-espionage agent employed by a small, unnamed department within British intelligence. He and his team tackle complex cases, often involving government cover-ups and internal affairs.

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#14The Blue Max

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as The Crown Prince

6.8 / 10
WarActionAdventure

A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

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#15Great Expectations

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes as Sheriff's Man

8.0 / 10
Drama

Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

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#16The Love School

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as John Hungerford Pollen

8.8 / 10
Drama

The Love School is a BBC television drama miniseries originally broadcast from 22 January to 26 February 1975 about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The series was written by John Hale, Ray Lawler, Robin Chapman, and John Prebble, and directed by Piers Haggard, John Glenister and Robert Knights. The drama was a significant influence on the subsequent 2009 series Desperate Romantics. It was also the basis of the historical novel of the same name by Hale.

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#17Framed

Drama Series - 1992, 16 episodes as Bank Manager

6.9 / 10
CrimeDrama

On holiday in Spain, London police officer Lawrence Jackson recognises absconded criminal turned informant Eddie Myers, now a wealthy art dealer under the pseudonym Phillip von Joel. Extradited back to England after a nerve-wracking Scotland Yard Operation, Myers agrees to tell what he knows — but only if Jackson is his interrogator. So begins a deadly game of cat and mouse between the master criminal and his determined minder. Which comes first — duty or temptation?

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#18Nicholas Nickleby

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Westwood

7.0 / 10
Drama

Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.

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#19Aquila

Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes as Mr. Appleby

7.6 / 10
Family

Aquila is a British children's television show which aired on the BBC from 1997 to 1998. An episode was aired once a week, and was based on the story of two boys, Tom Baxter and Geoff Reynolds, who find a spacecraft when digging in a field. It was based on the book Aquila by British author Andrew Norriss and set in Bristol.

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#20Therese Raquin

Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes as Priest

5.5 / 10
Drama

Therese, an attractive young woman married to her sickly cousin Camille, leads an extremely monotonous life until Camille brings home Laurent, an old schoolmate.

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#21The Secret Adversary

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m as Ritz Receptionist

6.9 / 10
ComedyMysteryTV Movie

After a chance meeting and an indiscreet conversation, childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley become involved in a convoluted intrigue led by a mysterious man known simply as Mr. Brown.

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#22Hancock's Half Hour: Volume 1

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as Police Constable (uncredited)

8.8 / 10

Thirty-five years after his premature death in 1968 Tony Hancock was voted Britain's best-ever comedy performer. Here's a chance to see what made him so special - the surviving episodes from Series 2 and Series 3 of Hancock's Half Hour, plus a Christmas special. Episodes include: "The Alpine Holiday", "Air Steward Hancock", "The Last Of The Many", "The Lawyer: The Crown vs Sidney James", "Competitions: How To Win Money And Influence People" and "There's An Airfield At The Bottom Of My Garden". The Christmas special is "Hancock's Forty-Three Minutes: The East Cheam Repertory Company".

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#23Twentieth Century Theatre: Colombe

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as Hairdresser

7.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

A diva of the Paris stage transforms her mousy daughter-in-law into an attractive ingenue to spite her hated son, away on military service.

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