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Roger Livesey

Roger Livesey

Highest Rated: 100% The Master of Ballantrae (1953)

Lowest Rated: 50% Of Human Bondage (1964)

Birthday: Jun 25, 1906

Birthplace: Barry, Wales, UK

Versatile English leading man and character player from the early 1920s with a marvelous, slightly gruff speaking voice, typically in amiably roguish roles. Livesey is probably best known for essaying the leading role of Clive Candy in "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943). The inspired filmmakers behind "Blimp," Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, gave the often underutilized actor two more fine roles in "I Know Where I'm Going" (1945) and "A Matter of Life and Death" (1946). Livesey was one of an acting dynasty which included father Sam Livesey (1873-1936), brothers Jack (1901-1961) and Barry (born 1904), and wife Ursula Jeans.

Highest rated movies

100% The Master of Ballantrae
100% I Know Where I'm Going!
97% A Matter of Life and Death
97% The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
83% The League of Gentlemen
83% The Drum
80% The Entertainer
75% Rembrandt

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IF THIS BE SIN, (aka THAT DANGEROUS AGE), Roger Livesey, Myrna Loy, 1949 I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING, Roger Livesey, 1945 I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING, Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, 1945 I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING, Roger Livesey, 1945 NO MY DARLING DAUGHTER, Roger Livesey, 1961 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, (aka THE ADVENTURES OF COLONEL BLIMP), Roger Livesey, Anton Walbrook, 1943 STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, (aka A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH), Roger Livesey, 1946 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, (aka THE ADVENTURES OF COLONEL BLIMP), Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Roger Livesey, 1943 I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Wendy Hiller, 1945 A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, (aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN), foreground from left: Raymond Massey (far left, back to camera), Kim Hunter, David Niven, Roger Livesey (far right, back to camera), 1946 A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, (aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN), from left: Marius Goring, David Niven, Roger Livesey, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, 1946 A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, (aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN), David Niven, Marius Goring, Roger Livesey, Kim Hunter, Raymond Massey, 1946 IF THIS BE SIN, (aka THAT DANGEROUS AGE), Roger Livesey, Myrna Loy, 1949 A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, (aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN), Roger Livesey, 1946 A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, (aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN), David Niven, Roger Livesey, Kim Hunter, Raymond Massey, 1946 I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Wendy Hiller, 1945 A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH, (aka STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN), from left: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey, 1946 STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, (aka A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH), David Niven, Roger Livesey, 1946 IF THIS BE SIN, (aka THAT DANGEROUS AGE), Richard Greene, Peggy Cummins, Roger Livesey, 1949 IF THIS BE SIN, (aka THAT DANGEROUS AGE), Roger Livesey, Myrna Loy, 1949
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 70% Hamlet Lucianus/Gravedigger (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Oedipus the King Shepherd (Character) - 1968
50% 52% Of Human Bondage Thorpe Athelny (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet 43% No, My Darling Daughter General Henry Barclay (Character) - 1961
83% 83% The League of Gentlemen Capt. Mycroft (Character) - 1960
80% 74% The Entertainer Billy Rice (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet 64% Finger of Guilt Ben Case (Character) - 1956
100% 47% The Master of Ballantrae Col. Francis Burke (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Green Grow the Rushes Capt. Cedric Biddle (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 40% Vice Versa Paul Bultitude (Character) - 1947
97% 93% A Matter of Life and Death Doctor Reeves (Character) - 1946
100% 82% I Know Where I'm Going! Torquil MacNeil (Character) - 1945
97% 90% The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Clive Candy (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet Spies of the Air Houghton (Character) - 1939
No Score Yet No Score Yet Barbarian and the Lady Peter Bulba (Character) - 1939
83% 56% The Drum Capt. Carruthers (Character) - 1938
75% 75% Rembrandt Beggar Saul (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lorna Doone Tom Faggus (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Blind Justice Gilbert Jackson (Character) - 1934