British actor (1913– 2000)
Michael Ripper
Born Michael George Ripper
(1913-01-27 ) 27 January 1913Died 28 June 2000(2000-06-28) (aged 87) Alma mater Central School of Speech and Drama Occupation actor Years active 1936–1992 Spouses
Jean Bramley
(
m. 1934–1947)
Catherine Finn
(
m. 1972–1978)
Cecelia Doidge
(
m. 1995)
Children 2
Michael George Ripper (27 January 1913 – 28 June 2000)[ 1] character actor .
Career
He began his film career in quota quickies in the 1930s and until the late 1950s was virtually unknown; he was seldom credited.[ 1] Michael Gough he played one of the two murderers in Laurence Olivier 's film version of Richard III [ 2]
Ripper became a mainstay in Hammer Film Productions playing supporting character roles: coachmen, peasants, tavern keepers, pirates and sidekicks.[ 3] The Camp on Blood Island The Revenge of Frankenstein The Mummy The Brides of Dracula Captain Clegg The Scarlet Blade The Reptile The Plague of the Zombies The Mummy's Shroud [ 1] [ 4]
Some of his parts were little better than glorified bits (as in The Curse of the Werewolf Hammer Films was a significant supporting part as a landlord in Scars of Dracula [ 5] That's Your Funeral [ 6]
He is also well remembered for his role as a jockey/horse trainer in The Belles of St. Trinian's St. Trinian's Butterflies Freewheelers [ 7] [ 1]
His other TV roles include Mr Shepherd, Aunt Sally's owner, in Worzel Gummidge The Adventures of William Tell Danger Man The Pickwick Papers Jeeves and Wooster [ 4] [ 8]
Partial filmography
Twice Branded Prison Breaker Not So Dusty To Catch a Thief The Heirloom Mystery Nothing Like Publicity Pearls Bring Tears Busman's Holiday Farewell to Cinderella Strange Adventures of Mr. Smith Fifty-Shilling Boxer Father Steps Out Why Pick on Me? Easy Riches Paid in Error His Lordship Regrets You're the Doctor His Lordship Goes to Press Luck of the Navy Miracles Do Happen Blind Folly Captain Boycott Oliver Twist The Dark Road Noose The History of Mr. Polly The Rocking Horse Winner The Adventures of PC 49 (1949) – Fingers Your Witness Let's Have a Murder A Case for PC 49 Lady Godiva Rides Again Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure Secret People Treasure Hunt Derby Day Folly to Be Wise Alf's Baby The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan Appointment in London Blood Orange The Intruder Personal Affair The Rainbow Jacket The Belles of St. Trinian's The Sea Shall Not Have Them Tale of Three Women (1954) – Simkins (segment "Thief of London' story)The Constant Husband Geordie Secret Venture Richard III A Man on the Beach 1984 Yield to the Night Reach for the Sky The Green Man X the Unknown The Steel Bayonet Quatermass 2 Woman in a Dressing Gown These Dangerous Years Not Wanted on Voyage The One That Got Away The Naked Truth Blue Murder at St Trinian's The Camp on Blood Island Up the Creek The Revenge of Frankenstein Girls at Sea Further Up the Creek I Only Arsked! Quatermass and the Pit The Man Who Could Cheat Death Bobbikins The Mummy The Ugly Duckling Jackpot Sink the Bismarck! Dead Lucky The Brides of Dracula Not a Hope in Hell (1960) – SidA Circle of Deception The Pure Hell of St Trinian's The Curse of the Werewolf A Matter of WHO Petticoat Pirates The Pirates of Blood River Captain Clegg The Phantom of the Opera Out of the Fog (1962 film) A Prize of Arms The Amorous Prawn Two Left Feet The Punch and Judy Man What a Crazy World Swallows and Amazons The Scarlet Blade The Human Jungle The Devil-Ship Pirates Every Day's a Holiday The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb The Secret of Blood Island The Spy Who Came in from the Cold The Plague of the Zombies Rasputin the Mad Monk The Reptile The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery Where the Bullets Fly The Deadly Bees The Mummy's Shroud Torture Garden Inspector Clouseau The Lost Continent Dracula Has Risen from the Grave Journey into Darkness Moon Zero Two Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly Taste the Blood of Dracula Scars of Dracula That's Your Funeral The Creeping Flesh No Sex Please, We're British Legend of the Werewolf Unipart TV advert (1970s) : ' Thousands of Parts for Millions of Cars ' , with Peter Cleall The Sweeney (TV 1975) Herbie Mew. The Prince and the Pauper Sammy's Super T-Shirt Danger on Dartmoor No Surrender Revenge of Billy the Kid (1992) – Old Pub Local (final film role)
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