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1970

The Six Wives of Henry VIII
TV Mini-Series)
Duke of Norfolk

The Six Wives of Henry VIII staring Keith Michell as the King is a series of six television plays produced by the BBC. Each play focuses on a single wife, from their perspective and was written by a different dramatist. The series was produced by Mark Shivas and Ronald Travers.
Patrick plays the Duke of Norfolk who was a prominent Tudor politician. He was an uncle to Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and played a major role in the machinations behind these marriages. After falling from favour in 1546, he was stripped of the dukedom and imprisoned in the Tower, avoiding execution when the King died. The series was first transmitted between 1 January and 5 February 1970.

1970

Scars of Dracula (Film)
Klove

Scars of Dracula is a British horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker for Hammer Studios. It stars Christopher Lee as Count Dracula, along with Dennis Waterman, Jenny Hanley, and Michael Gwynn. Patrick plays Dracula’s servant Klove. He has a masochistic relationship with and twisted loyalty towards Dracula who has some kind of power over him. He geniunly seeks his masters praise, and defends him against the angry villagers. When he is disobedient he willingly takes his punishment. Klove eventually turns on Dracula when he falls in love with one of Dracula’s intended victims. Fighting with Dracula to save her life, Dracula eventually kills him by throwing him over the his castle battlements.
1971

Little Women (TV Mini-Series)
Mr. March

A BBC adaptation of the classic novel by Louisa M. Alcott, directed by Paddy Russell and staring Angela Down, Janina Faye, Stephen Turner and Pat Nye. Patrick plays the rather difficult part of Mr March, the girls’ father in four episodes of the nine part series. Although the character is a source of moral guidance for the family and the whole community, my father discovered after reading the book he was still only a two dimentional sketch, the outline of a person instead of a fully-rounded individual. Patrick makes him a quiet, thoughtful man who busies himself with thinking about philosophical issues.
 
1971

Doomwatch (TV Series)
Lyon McArthur / Alan McArthur

Doomwatch is a BBC science fiction television programme created by Doctor Who script writers Gerry Davis and Kit Pedler. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist (played by John Paul), responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. Patrick played a terminally ill man called McArthur in an episode entitled ‘In the Dark’. The subject matter is about death, and the time to die. Patrick produces a terrifingly realistic portrail of a man who’s destiny is to become a brain supported by machine, without the ability to speak, see or move. 
1971

The Persuaders! (TV)
Count Marceau

The Persuaders is a TV series staring Tony Curtis and Roger Moore created by Robert S. Baker for ITC Entertainment. The adventures revolve around two equally-matched men from different backgrounds who reluctantly team together to solve cases which the courts cannot. Patrick appeared in one episode called The Old, the New and the Deadly wrtten by Brian Clemens and directed by Leslie Norman. Dad played a sinister and fanatical ex-Nazi called Count Marceau, desperately trying to get his hands on a statuette of a German eagle personally signed by Hitler. Marceau hires professional killers and one attempt after another is made on Danny’s (Tony Curtis) life, each time foiled by the alertness of Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore).
1972

The Goodies (TV Series)
Dr. Petal

The Goodies is a comedy series which combines surreal sketches and situation comedy. The show was co-written by and starred Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie and was broadcast by BBC and later by LWT . Patrick appeared in the episode The Baddies as the infamous unloved mad proffessor Doctor Wolfgang Adolphus Ratfink Petal. The director/producers of Dad’s episode was John Howard Davies. One memorable moment out of many hilarious gags involved the doctor’s only friend, his pet vulture Lucretia: “She only stays with me because she knows I’ve left her something in me will.” Curious, Bill asks him: “What have you left her?”, to which Dr. Petal replies: “Me!”
1972

A Family at War (TV)
Harry Porter

A Family At War is a ITV Granada Television drama created by John Finch and directed by David Giles among others. Patrick appeared in nine episodes of the series that examined the lives of the lower middle-class Ashton family of the city of Liverpool and their experiences from 1938 and through the Second World War. Patrick’s performance is remembered for his bitter and extremely distressing exchanges with his wife Celia (Margery Mason) brought about by her dangerous obsessive fixation on her son John. His most powerful performance is given in the episode The War Office Regrets when he tries to kill himself with a revolver after recieving a telgram to say his son is missing belived killed in action.
1972

Jason King (TV Series)
Bennett

Jason King is a television series produced by ITC Entertainment as a follow up to Department S. It featured the continuing adventures of Jason King (Peter Wyngarde) who was a dilettante dandy and author. In the last episode of the series called That isn’t me, It’s someone else, King accepts the invitation of a renown criminal to visit him in Italy. When a murderer’s syndicate learns that King is on his way, they send a lookalike of King’s to Italy with a mission of murdering the criminal. The bogus Jason King played by Patrick sets a problem for the adventure loving author when he sets out to kill the gangland boss. But inadvertently it saves the real Jason King from the danger of marriage! 
1972

The Main Chance (TV)
Frederick Owen

The Main Chance was a British television series on ITV depicting the sudden transformation in the life of a solicitor, David Main (played by John Stride), after he moves from London to Leeds. Patrick plays a rather slick character called Frederick Owen in an episode entitled Acting for Self directed by Marc Miller and written by Ray Jenkins. The story involves Sandy McGoggie (Tom Watson) trying to buy a house for his family.wants is a home for his family. But it isn’t as easy as that and David Main finds he has to go a very long way round indeed if he is to help one man achieve his dream. Featuring early appearance of Bob Hoskins.
1972

The Protectors (TV)
Bela Karoleon

The Protectors is a TV action thriller series created by Gerry Anderson. It starred Robert Vaughn as Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter as the Contessa Caroline di Contini, and Tony Anholt as Paul Buchet. All three are affluent international private detectives/troubleshooters charged with ensuring the protection of innocents. Patrick was in an episode called Brotherhood
and played a reclusive industrial magnate, Bela Karoleon, who offers Harry an assignment to engineer his brother Sandor’s escape from a prison on a Mediterranean island where he has been jailed on a trumped-up charge.
1972

Colditz (TV Series)
Padre

Colditz is a BBC television dramaseries co-produced with Universal Studios created by Brian Degas and produced by Gerard Glaister. The story deals with Allied prisoners of war held in the supposedly escape-proof Colditz Castle during World War II. Most of the episodes focus on and their many attempts to escape captivity, as well as the relationships formed between the various nationalities and their German captors. Patrick appeared in one episode called The Traitor as a Catholic padre. The series starred Robert Wagner, David McCallum, Jack Hedley, Bernard Hepton, Edward Hardwicke and Anthony Valentine. 
1973

The Three Doctors
The Doctor

The Three Doctors is the tenth anniversary celebration of the BBC’s science fiction TV series, Doctor Who. It stars the three Doctors all appearing in the same serial and it is the first Doctor Who episode in which an earlier incarnation of the Doctor returns to the show. Patrick reprised his role as the second Doctor along side Bill Hartnell and Jon Pertwee. The three Doctors are united against an old enemy from the distant past of Gallifrey. Vital cosmic energy is draining into a black hole and the Time Lords are under siege. The Doctor is their only hope but, trapped in the TARDIS, he’s powerless. The only way out is to break the First Law of Time to let the Doctor help himself - literally.
1973

Whoops Baghdad! (TV)
Tambalane the Tartar

Whoops Baghdad is a BBC television comedy programme produced by John Howard Davies. It starred Frankie Howerd, and was similar to his earlier programme Up Pompeii!, with the setting moved from Ancient Rome to medieval Baghdad. Patrick played a crazed bulging-eyed tyrant called Tambalane the Tartar. Frankie Howerd, had asked specifically for Patrick to play the evil character after seeing his performance in the Goodies. Pat told me he really enjoyed working with Frankie Howerd who he described as, ‘a true professional and naturally funny man who had a stunning presence and control while performing.’
1973

Hawkeye, the Pathfinder (TV)
Uncle Cap

Hawkeye, the Pathfinder is a BBC children’s serial based on James Fenimore Cooper’s book. Patrick was in all five episodes and played Charles Cap, Mabel Dunham’s (Jan Francis) crusty uncle. He is a hardy seagoing sailor who accompanies his niece to Fort Oswego and later goes with Sergeant Dunham (Windsor Davies) on his tour of duty to relieve a garrison in the Thousand Islands. After barely escaping an Indian ambush, he ably assists Pathfinder (Paul Massie) in the defense of a beleaguered blockhouse until help arrives. The series was directed by David Malony and featured a young Simon MacCorkindale as Lieutenant Carter.
1974

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
(Film)
Bodysnatcher

Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell was a Hammer Film Productions directed by Terence Fisher and starred Peter Cushing as Baron Victor Frankenstein, Shane Briant as Dr. Simon Helder and David Prowse as the monster.
Patrick took on the role of the Bodysnatcher and produced a suitably sinister charcter with missing teeth and stubble covered face. In some ways physically similar to his fabulous portrail of Quilp in the Sixties. Dad filmed Frankenstein at Elstree Studios in 1973 but it was not released until 1974. It was the final chapter in the Hammer Frankenstein saga of films but my father continued to appear in many more Hammer productions.
1974

Special Branch (TV)
Professor Frederick Denny

Special Branch is a TV series made by Euston Films starring George Sewell as Chief Inspector Alan Craven, Roger Rowland and Patrick Mower. It was a police drama series with the action centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department. Patrick played a university professor in his episode Alien which was a hard hitting story about a German student revolutionary who has been allowed into Britain under the strict condition that he did nothing political. A comment on the social revolution in the aftermath of the students’ movement as well as communist witchhunting. 
1974

Village Hall (TV)
Bill Lester

Village Hall is a drama series made by Granada and is entirely set in a village hall, with weekly episode highlighting a different use to which the space is put by local people. It was written, by among others, Jack Rosenthal and Kenneth Cope. Patrick played a cocky moutached character called Bill in an episode entitled The Magic Sponge. It was about a local football club committee’s raucous event upsetting the feelings of the refined first aid class in the next room. It was written by Kenneth Cope, directed by Colin Cant and starred Richard Pearson, Sydney Tafler, Ian Hastings and John Rapley. This was the last episode of series one.
1974

Crown Court (TV)
John Fisher

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1975

Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill (TV)
Benjamin Disraeli

Jennie : Lady Randolf Churchill is an award-winning Thames Television mini-series starring Lee Remick, Ronald Pickup and Christopher Cazenove among others. My father appeared as Disraeli who was a British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and dandy who twice served as Prime Minister. He appears in two episodes: Recovery and Lady Randolf  both directed by James Cellan Jones. Patrick creates a very accurate study of this larger than life character who is the only British Prime Minister of Jewish birth. Lee Remick won a Best Actress BAFTA and a Golden Globe for her portail as Jennie. 
1975

Nurse Will Make It Better (Thriller TV)
Lyall

Thriller is a ATV television anthology series with each episode having a self-contained story from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits. Patrick appeared in the episode entitled Nurse Will Make It Better written by Brian Clemens and  starring Diana Dors as the Devil, Michael Culver as Simon Burns, Andrea Marcovicci as Ruth Harrow and my father as Lyall a drunken destitute priest. Directed by Shaun O’Riordan the story opens in a shabby room with a dishevelled man (Patrick) asleep with a bottle of whisky nearby, surrounded by several large “The End Is Nigh” placards. 
1975

The Sweeney (TV)
Reg Crofts

The Sweeney is a television police drama about the Metropolitan Police Flying Squad. Shot entirely on location by Euston Films it starred John Thaw as Detective Inspector Jack Regan, and Dennis Waterman as his partner Detective Sergeant George Carter. Patrick appeared as a weaselly gangland boss called Croft in the episode Hit and Run. Carter’s wife is deliberately killed by a hit and run driver whilst wearing borrowed a coat from her friend Judy who is wanted by Croft. Regan has to find her before the gang boss gets to her. Patrick later commented that he had felt a bit miscast as Reg Crofts.
1975
 
Crown Court

Crown Court is an afternoon TV courtroom drama produced by Granada Television. All those involved in the cases were actors but the jury was made up of members of the general public and it was this jury alone which decided the verdict. Patrick appeared in Will the Real Robert Randell Please Stand Up as an actor accused of attempting and acquiring money by deception. The prosecution argued that he impersonated TV producer Robert Randell in order to obtain money from two women. He was found guilty on only one count and was ordered to pay a fine of one hundred pounds.
1976

Survivors
Jon Millen

Survivors is a post-apocalyptic drama TV series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley for the BBC. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague (The Death) that wipes out almost the entire human population. Patrick appears at the beginning of the episode called Parasites as a ‘gentleman’ survivor who has made his home on a canal barge. However, he is killed and his barge is stollen. The episode was written by Roger Marshall, directed  by Terence Williams and starred Denis Lill as Charles and Ian McCulloch as Greg.
1976

The Omen (Film)
Father Brennan

The Omen is a British and American financed horror movie scripted by David Seltzer and directed by Richard Donner. The film stars Gregory Peck as Robert Thorn, US Ambassador to Great Britain and Lee Remick as his wife Katherine. When she gives birth to a stillborn child, Robert is gifted a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth by a priest at the hospital. Without telling his wife he accepts. After relocating to London, strange events and the ominous warnings of a priest played by Patrick, lead Robert to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is the devil incarnate.
1976

Angels (TV Series)
George Moore

Angels was a BBC TV drama series dealing with the subject of student nurses and was broadcast by the BBC between 1975 and 1983. Patrick appeared as George Moore in an episode entitled Decision. His character was a very strict and controlling father. I played his son. I recall the scenes we had together were quite disturbing with an undercurrent of real hatred from my character and blundering insensitivity from his. It was written by Alan Janes, directed by Tristan de Vere Cole and starred Faith Brook, Clare Clifford, Terence Conoley, Fiona Fullerton and Erin Garaghty.
1976

Lorna Doone (TV)
Counsellor Doone

The BBC’s adaptation of R.D. Blackmore’s classic novel set on the late 17th Century Exmoor, where the once-noble, now despised Doone family plague the land. This is the story of a respectable farmer John Ridd (John Sommerville) who falls in love with Lorna Doone (Emily Richard) and must rescue her from her cruel family. Patrick took the role of Councellor Doone who is a wise old bird and one of the few who cares for Lorna. Patrick revels in this part with full beard, wig and moustache. He was in five episodes and the production was directed by Joan Craft, produced by Barry Letts, and Shep Greene.
1977

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (Film)
Melanthius

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger is a fantasy film made for Columbia Pictures starring Patrick Wayne (Sinbad) Taryn Power (Dione) Jane Seymour (Farah) and Patrick (Melanthius) It was directed by Sam Wanamaker and used Ray Harryhausen special effects. This was a follow-up to The Golden Voyage of Sinbad . Patrick played the grey-bearded wise old Greek alchemist named Melanthius, a hermit living on the island of Casgar, who was said to be able to break a spell cast on Prince Kassim (Damian Thomas). The script is a bit predictable but the the action and the special effects provide for a fast-paced two hours of entertainment.
1977

Yanks Go Home (TV)
Lubbock

Yanks Go Home is a Granada Television sitcom about a group of U.S. Army Air Force pilots stationed in a small northern town in Lancashire, England during the Second World War and their sometimes tense relationship with the local men, most often over the attentions of the young women in the town. Patrick appeared in one episode entitled The Name of the Game directed by Roger Cheveley as a rather manic and crazed butler to Lady of the Manor Gertrude (Barbara Mitchel). The show failed to meet the network’s expectations however, mostly due to the concept already having been touched upon in the very popular Dad’s Army.
1977

Van der Valk (TV)
Father Bosch

Van der Valk is a Thames Television series that starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris “Piet” van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling. The stories were based in Amsterdam, where Commissaris van der Valk is a cynical yet intuitive detective. Drugs, sex and murder are the gritty themes of the casework. Patrick appeared in the episode, Accidental as Father Bosch in which Van der Valk runs across “Amsterdam’s best known cheque forger” and his young female accomplice. It was written by Ted Childs and directed by Mike Vardy. 
1977

Treasure Island (TV Mini-Series)
Israel Hands

Treasure Island is a BBC TV adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous 1883 novel. It was filmed on location in Plymouth and Dartford, and in Corsica, and also at Television Centre at Wood Lane, London. Patrick appeared as the drunken thug Israel Hands who tries to kill Jim Hawkins (Ashley Knight) on board a deserted Hispaonolia. Patrick appeared as a pirate in the 1950s Disney version but this time secured a lager part under the direction of Michael E.Briant. A memorable performance from Patrick but Alfred Burke is a brilliantas Silver; slick, violent, cunning, and dangerously plausible.
1977

Space: 1999(TV Series)
Archon

Space: 1999, an ITC science-fiction television series that followed the trials and tribulations of the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, an international space research and exploration facility on Earth’s Moon. In 1999, a cataclysmic nuclear accident blasts the Moon out of orbit, hurling it into deep space. Patrick appeared in the final episode called The Dorcons as the cunning and ruthless Archon who will stop at nothing to capture Maya ( Catherine Schell) so that he can use of her brain stem to continue his immortal existence. The screenplay was written by Johnny Byrne and the director was Tom Clegg. 
1978

The Feathered Serpent (TV Series)
Nasca

The Feathered Serpent is a children’s Thames Television TV series set in Aztec Mexico created by John Kane and directed by Vic Hughes. It ran two series and was transmitted in 1976 between 1978. Patrick starred as the scheming High Priest Nasca with Diane Keen as Empress Chilalma, Brian Deacon as Prince Heumac and Richard Willis as Torzo. The series is suprisingly realistic in the depiction of the Aztecs. By the end of the first episode there is a human sacrifices, someone has been brutally stabbed and at the start of the second, an old disgraced priest tells of how he was tied down in the desert and forced to stare at the sun.
1978

The Devil's Crown (TV)
William Marshal

The Devil’s Crown was a very styilised BBC TV drama series which dramatised the reigns of three medieval Kings of England: Henry II and his sons Richard the Lionheart and John Lackland. The series was written by Jack Russell and Ken Taylor. Patrick played the part of William Marshall who was a magnificantsolid Anglo-Norman soldier and statesman in spite of being about eight inches too short for the part. His character appeared in five out of the thirteen episodes, To the Devil They Go, Tainted King, The Flowers are Silent, In Sun’s Eclipse and Bolt from the Blue. They were directed by Jane Howell and Ronnie Wilson.
1978

Edward & Mrs. Simpson (TV Mini-Series)
Clement Attlee

Edward & Mrs. Simpson is a Thames Television seven-part drama series that covers the events leading to the 1936 abdication of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, who gave up his throne to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson. It starred Edward Fox as Edward and Cynthia Harris as Mrs. Simpson. Patrick played Attlee who was a modest and unassuming man, lacking charisma and public speaking skills. Patrick appeared in three episodes - The Abdication, Proposals and The Desision. The series was written by Simon Raven, produced by Andrew Brown, overseen by Head of Drama Thames Television Verity Lambert and directed by Waris Hussein. 
1978

A Hitch in Time
Professor Adam Wagstaff

A Hitch in Time is a children’s s film produced by Eyeline Films with sponsorship from the Children’s Film Foundation. It was directed by Jan Darnley-Smith and written by T.E.Clarke. Patrick plays the eccentric professor Wagstaff who is brilliant yet bungling. Late for school, Paul (Michael Mcvey) and Fiona (Pheona McLellan) take a short cut past an old castle and hear the shouts of someone in trouble. In the cellars, they rescue a man trapped underneath a strange electronic contraption. Professor Wagstaff, explains this is his time travel device, OSKA (Oscillating Shortwave Kinetic Amplifier). 
1979

The Famous Five (TV Series)
Mr. Stick

The Famous Five is a Southern Television childrens drama series based on the books by Enid Blyton. The episodes were recorded on location and on film rather than in the studio, making it the most expensive children’s television series ever produced at that point. Patrick apperared in an episode called Five Run Away Together and played the devious Mr Stick who with his wife (Mona Bruce), kidnaps one of the children and keeps them hostage on an Island. This episode was adapted by Richard Carpenter, directed by James Gatward and starred Marcus Harris, Gary Russell, Jennifer Thanisch and Michelle Gallagher.
1979

The Onedin Line (TV)
Captain Dampier

The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series (1971-1980) that was created by Cyril Abraham. The story centres around Liverpool in the mid nineteth centuary and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin. Patrick appeared in an episode called The Suitor as a steamboat captain called Dampier who proposes to one of the regular cast, Sarah. Patrick’s character however, turns out to be a penniless fortune-hunter so he is payed-off and agrees him to leave Sarah. The episode is directed by David Reynolds and starred Peter Gilmore(James Onedin) with Jessica Benton and  Howard Lang.


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