Fred Machon

Acting

Known For & Full Filmography37 Titles

#1The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Borstal Master at Meeting (uncredited)

7.2 / 10
Drama

A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution by impressing its Governor through his prowess as a long distance runner. He is encouraged to compete in an upcoming race, but faces ridicule from his peers.

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#2Lolita

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Guest at High School Dance (uncredited)

7.3 / 10
Drama

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

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#3The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Drama Series - 1955, 16 episodes as Guest (uncredited)

8.0 / 10
DramaAction & Adventure

The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.

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#4The MacKintosh Man

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Court Policeman (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
Thriller

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...

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#5Anne of the Thousand Days

Movie - 1969, 2h 15m as Lord (uncredited)

7.1 / 10
DramaHistoryRomance

Henry VIII of England discards his wife, Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn.

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#6Carry On Regardless

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m as Wine Taster (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
Comedy

After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.

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#7The Deadly Affair

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Pub Patron

6.3 / 10
ThrillerMysteryDrama

Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.

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#8Carry On Nurse

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m as Doctor (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
Comedy

In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. The formidable Matron's debut gives everyone a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who's a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell wants his bunion removed straight away, so after a couple of pints, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!

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#9Carry On Loving

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Pub Customer (uncredited)

5.7 / 10
RomanceComedy

The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-the-Green. Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough complications in his own love life, but still produces a pamphlet called 'The Wit to Woo'. The strange collection of hopefuls lead to some outlandish matches—and jealousies are bound to lead to trouble.

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#10Crooks Anonymous

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m as Peekaboo Club Patron (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
ComedyCrime

A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.

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#11Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as German Officer (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
DramaWarHistory

Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.

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#12The Alphabet Murders

Movie - 1965, 2h 15m as Policeman (uncredited)

5.8 / 10
ComedyCrimeMystery

The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.

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#13There's a Girl in My Soup

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Sightseer at Wedding (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
ComedyRomance

TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses any romantic illusions.

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#14The League of Gentlemen

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as Bank Official (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
ComedyCrime

Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.

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#15Carry On Spying

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
Comedy

Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.

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#16Carry On Jack

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m as Man at Dirty Dick's (uncredited)

5.9 / 10
ComedyHistory

Able seaman Poop-Decker signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless. Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was originally to be titled Up the Armada, but the British Board of Film Censors objected to such a rude title.

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#17I'll Never Forget What's'isname

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Old Edgcumbian (uncredited)

5.4 / 10
ComedyDrama

Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.

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#18No Sex Please - We're British

Movie - 1973, 2h 15m as Man at Church Film Show (uncredited)

5.2 / 10
Comedy

A porn-store owner orders some new stuff from his supplier, but the delivery address gets mixed with the address of the local Barclays Bank. Here, David (the bank's assistant manager) and his new wife are shocked when photos, then films and finally two girls are sent to them in their bank-supplied flat. They and the bank's head cashier then hatch a plan to get rid of the porn—without letting their boss, the local police and David's mother in on what is happening.

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#19Doctor in Trouble

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Passenger (uncredited)

5.0 / 10
Comedy

Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise ship is an old school chum of Burke's who plays 'Dr.Dare' in a very popular TV series and who women flock to. Burke decides to join the cruise, but is first apprehended as a stowaway, and then becomes the captain's steward. For Burke, trying to talk to Ophelia is a hard enough task, but he meets some funny characters on board, such as a pools winner and a very stubborn captain.

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#20There Was a Crooked Man

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as General at Washington Meeting

6.6 / 10
Comedy

When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught and jailed. When he is released he goes straight and then notices a leading citizen in his town is cheating his neighbours.

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#21I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Professor Latecock (uncredited)

3.6 / 10
Comedy

Virginal nerd Jon Pigeon, manages to secure a job in a sex research institute where the patients run about the corridors naked, nude aerobics are encouraged and no man is safe from the crotch-grabbing tea lady. In his attempts to seduce pretty office secretary Cheryl, Pigeon invents a machine called Agnes that emits a 'sonic aphrodisiac' guaranteed to turn any man or woman into an slathering sex maniac. Although his attempts to zap Cheryl are singularly unsuccessful, Pigeon gets some interesting results when he accidentally turns the 'sex ray' on his bullying boss Nutbrown and the prudish Mary Watchtower.

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#22Doctor in Clover

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Visitor (uncredited)

5.8 / 10
Comedy

Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of the main Administrator (James Robertson Justice) who wants his doctors to be 100% focussed on the job. Numerous antics follow, with Phillips getting Justice fixed up with the new prim-and-proper Matron (Joan Sims) and his attempted failures to lure the hospital's beauty, the physiotherapist.

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#23Theatre of Death

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Theatre de Mort Audience (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
MysteryHorrorThriller

The Theatre of Death in Paris specialises in horror presentations. A police surgeon finds himself becoming involved in the place through his attraction to one of the performers. When bloodless bodies start showing up all over town he realises there could be links with the theatre.

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#24The Baby and the Battleship

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m as Officer

6.4 / 10
Comedy

After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.

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#25A Stitch in Time

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m as Sunshine Ball Guest (uncredited)

7.4 / 10
Comedy

An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal amount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.

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#26Who Done It?

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m as Police Dispatcher (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
ComedyCrime

This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.

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#27Don't Lose Your Head

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Soldier (uncredited)

6.7 / 10
Comedy

Amidst the French revolution, Citizen Robespierre is beheading the aristocracy! When word gets to England, noblemen Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy Pue take it upon themselves to aid their French counterparts. Sir Rodney is a master of disguise, and becomes 'The Black Fingernail' scourge of Camembert and Bidet, leaders of the French secret police.

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#28The Headless Ghost

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m as Medieval Ghost (Uncredited)

3.4 / 10
FantasyHorrorComedy

Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their parts to help him find it.

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#29Up in the World

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m as Club Patron (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
Comedy

Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can't remember Norman's heroic stand

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#30Very Important Person

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m as German Guard (uncredited)

5.5 / 10
WarComedy

Sir Ernest Pease is a self-important scientist sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a new-fangled radar. When the plane is attacked, he parachutes to safety — only to be sent to a POW camp, where he takes on the alias of Lieutenant Farrow. There, the somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits suspect their acerbic new fellow prisoner of being a spy, and all sorts of culture clashes and misunderstandings ensue.

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#31No Kidding

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as Chauffeur (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
Comedy

A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.

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#32Trouble in Store

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Shop Worker (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
ComedyFamily

Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. Whilst trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls in love (doesn't he always !!), with one of the shopgirls. Together they discover a plot to rob the store and, somehow, manage to foil the robbers.

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#33Just My Luck

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

6.1 / 10
Comedy

Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants to buy her a diamond pendant but calculates it will take him over 100 years to save up for it. He is talked into betting a pound on a six horse accumulator at the Goodwood races with a slightly shady bookmaker. When he has won on the first five races, the bookie owes him over 16,000 pounds and everyone begins to worry. Everyone's future depends on a single race ... what can be done ?

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#34The Flanagan Boy

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as Clumsy Dancer

6.0 / 10
Crime

Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan to murder her husband.

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#35Carlton-Browne of the F.O.

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m as Delegate at UN Conference

6.2 / 10
Comedy

Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.

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#36Man of the Moment

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m as Airline Passenger (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
Comedy

Norman is a file clerk who accidentally becomes a British delegate to a diplomatic conference, befriends the queen of a remote island, and winds up a knight. Norman leaves rooms in shambles, tailors in shreds, and diplomats in bandages. Chased by gunmen and assassins of foreign powers, Norman finds himself running through active TV studio sets and interrupts various programs and performances in progress

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#37Jazz Boat

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m as Jewellery Shop Customer

6.4 / 10
Comedy

An electrician boasts about being a cat burglar to impress his comrades, but his lie spins out of control when he's sought to participate in a jewel heist.

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