Billy Russell

Acting
1893-07-16
Birmingham, England, UK

Known For & Full Filmography13 Titles

#1The Wednesday Play

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes as Jim Ulyatt

5.2 / 10
Drama

An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

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#2Theatre 625

Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes as Stan Mann

7.2 / 10
Drama

Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.

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#3Cold Comfort Farm

Drama Series - 1968, 16 episodes as Adam Lambsbreath

8.0 / 10

Adaptation of Stella Gibbons's comic novel of the same name. Following the death of her parents, 20-year-old Flora Poste (Sarah Badel) finds herself alone with insubstantial means in 1930s London. Fascinated by the little she knows of her distant relatives the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, she goes to stay with her aunt Judith Starkadder (Rosalie Crutchley) and a colourful array of cousins. There she finds a variety of earthy, passionate relations, dominated by Great Aunt Ada Doom (Fay Compton) who long ago saw "something nasty in the woodshed" and now holds the rest of the household in thrall. Flora decides to put to rights the lives of all of them.

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#4The Man in the White Suit

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Nightwatchman

6.9 / 10
ComedySci-Fi

The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...

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#5Night Train to Munich

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

7.2 / 10
DramaThrillerWar

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; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.

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#6Negatives

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m as Massinger

6.1 / 10
Drama

A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.

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#7I Start Counting

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Granddad

6.5 / 10
ThrillerDrama

An English schoolgirl suspects the foster brother she worships is a serial killer.

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#8Wilton's: The Handsomest Hall in Town

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Self - Presenter

8.8 / 10
ComedyMusicTV Movie

An evening at Wilton's Music-Hall, Grace's Alley, Wellclose Square, London, 1860 starring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Keith Michell, Pat Kirkwood, Warren Mitchell, Ronnie Barker, Bill Fraser, Gina Astralita, Eric Robinson. Introduced by Billy Russell. Tonight, 90 years after it closed, this famous Music-Hall opens again to bring you a picture of the stars, the singers, the dancers, and the people who once went there.

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#9Alice

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

6.5 / 10
TV MovieFantasyDrama

In this look at Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, Dennis Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to explore the roots of Dodgson's creativity. Dodgson tells stories to ten-year-old Alice Liddell, leading to recreations of scenes adapted from ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865), designed to resemble the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations.

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#10Penny Paradise

Movie - 1938, 2h 15m as Minor Role

6.7 / 10
Comedy

A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive party, he discovers that he may not really have won after all.

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#11Hot Blooded Woman

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

4.0 / 10
ThrillerDramaRomance

Backwoods bombshell Myrtle marries George, only to find out that George neither can nor wants to satisfy her desires. Lots of heavy breathing, roughing-up and weirdo moralism ensues.

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#12A Night Out

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Old Man

8.8 / 10

Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for "a night out" with his workmates; it turns nightmarish.

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#13The Pigeon Fancier

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m as Old Man

8.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

When Len Shelton retires from a life of work in the coal mines, he turns to his first love - pigeons, which become a symbol of hope for him.

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