Joss Ackland

Known for: Acting

Born: 1928-02-29 – 2023-11-19 (aged 95)

From: North Kensington, London, England, UK

Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland CBE (29 February 1928 – 19 November 2023) was an English actor who appeared in more than 130 film and television roles. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying Jock Delves Broughton in White Mischief (1987). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joss Ackland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography (200)

MOVIE
The Portrait
2014
as Henry Winter
MOVIE★ 2.7
Katherine of Alexandria
2014
as Rufus
MOVIE★ 3.9
Prisoners of the Sun
2013
as Professor Mendella
MOVIE★ 5.0
The Boy with Chocolate Fingers
2011
as Narrator
MOVIE
Peak Performers - The Mk3 Ford Cortina
2010
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 6.1
Pinocchio
2009
as Mastro Ciliegia
TV
Pinocchio
2009
as Mastro Ciliegia
MOVIE★ 6.3
How About You...
2007
as Donald Vanston
MOVIE★ 6.8
Hogfather
2007
as Mustrum Ridcully
MOVIE★ 6.7
In Search of the Great Beast 666: Aleister Crowley
2007
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 6.8
Flawless
2007
as Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft
TV★ 7.1
Kingdom
2007
as Mr. John Narbutowicz
TV★ 7.6
Hogfather
2006
as Mustrum Ridcully
MOVIE★ 3.4
Moscow Zero
2006
as Tolstoy
TV★ 6.8
Above and Beyond
2006
as Winston Churchill
TV★ 4.4
The One Show
2006
as Self
MOVIE★ 5.8
These Foolish Things
2006
as Albert
MOVIE★ 6.0
Asylum
2005
as Jack Straffen
MOVIE★ 5.5
Icon
2005
as General Nikolayev
MOVIE
Defining a Style
2005
as Self
MOVIE★ 4.8
A Different Loyalty
2004
as Randolph Cauffield
TV★ 7.0
Henry VIII
2003
as Henry VII
MOVIE★ 5.4
I'll Be There
2003
as Evil Edmonds - The BeeLzeeBOPS
MOVIE★ 6.6
K-19: The Widowmaker
2002
as Marshal Zelentsov
MOVIE★ 5.4
No Good Deed
2002
as Mr. Quarre
MOVIE★ 6.9
Othello
2001
as James Brabant
MOVIE★ 7.0
The Mumbo Jumbo
2000
as Mayor Smith
TV
Easter Tales
2000
as Barabbas
MOVIE★ 5.8
Passion of Mind
2000
as Dr. Langer, the French Psychiatrist
MOVIE★ 10.0
Lounge Act
2000
MOVIE★ 5.2
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999
as The Prussian
MOVIE★ 4.0
Milk
1999
as Vicar
MOVIE★ 6.7
Firelight
1998
as Lord Clare
MOVIE★ 5.4
My Giant
1998
as Monsignor Popesou
TV★ 6.2
Heat of the Sun
1998
as Max Van Der vuurst
MOVIE★ 6.4
Swept from the Sea
1998
as Mr. Swaffer
TV★ 7.5
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Sir Freddy Butler
MOVIE★ 5.6
To the Ends of Time
1996
as King Francis
TV★ 7.0
Testament: The Bible in Animation
1996
as Samuel (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.0
D3: The Mighty Ducks
1996
as Hans
MOVIE★ 5.8
Surviving Picasso
1996
as Henri Matisse
MOVIE★ 5.6
Deadly Voyage
1996
MOVIE★ 7.2
Hidden in Silence
1996
as German Factory Manager
MOVIE★ 6.2
Daisies in December
1995
as Gerald Carmody
MOVIE★ 5.0
A Kid in King Arthur's Court
1995
as King Arthur
MOVIE★ 4.0
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
1995
as Insp. Sam Stringer
MOVIE★ 7.2
Citizen X
1995
as Bondarchuk
MOVIE★ 4.3
OcchioPinocchio
1994
as Brando Della Valle
MOVIE★ 6.8
Jacob
1994
as Isaak
MOVIE
Julius Caesar
1994
as Caesar
MOVIE★ 6.8
Miracle on 34th Street
1994
as Victor Landbergh (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 6.4
Giorgino
1994
as Father Glaise
MOVIE★ 10.0
Citizen Locke
1994
as Lord Ashley
MOVIE★ 10.0
Joan Miró: Constellations - The Color of Poetry
1994
as Self
MOVIE
Simulacrum
1993
as The Chemist
MOVIE★ 5.4
Mother's Boys
1993
as Lansing, Jude's Attorney
MOVIE★ 7.1
The Thief and the Cobbler
1993
as Brigand (voice)
MOVIE★ 8.0
Voices in the Garden
1993
as Sir Charles Peverall
MOVIE★ 6.5
Nowhere to Run
1993
as Franklin Hale
TV★ 6.4
Shakespeare: The Animated Tales
1992
as Caesar (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.6
The Mighty Ducks
1992
as Hans
MOVIE★ 4.3
Project: Shadowchaser
1992
as Kinderman
MOVIE
White Bear's Secret
1992
as Brown Bear (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.7
Once Upon a Crime
1992
as Hercules Popodopoulos
TV★ 6.5
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
as The Prussian
MOVIE★ 5.1
Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls
1992
as King Edward
MOVIE★ 4.5
The Bridge
1992
as Smithson
MOVIE★ 6.9
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
1991
as Lewis Serrocold
MOVIE
Brown Bear's Wedding
1991
as Brown Bear (voice)
TV★ 6.0
Ashenden
1991
TV★ 8.8
A Woman Named Jackie
1991
as Aristotle Onassis
MOVIE★ 5.6
A Murder of Quality
1991
as Terence Fielding
MOVIE★ 6.3
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
1991
as De Nomolos
MOVIE★ 5.8
The Princess and the Goblin
1991
as King Papa (voice)
MOVIE★ 5.2
The Object of Beauty
1991
as Mr. Mercer
MOVIE★ 10.0
The Sheltering Desert
1991
MOVIE★ 6.4
Tre colonne in cronaca
1990
as Gaetano Leporino, il finanziere
MOVIE★ 4.5
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
1990
as Gen. Gerhard Hellstein
MOVIE★ 7.4
The Hunt for Red October
1990
as Ambassador Andrei Lysenko
MOVIE★ 6.2
The Palermo Connection
1990
as il boss
MOVIE★ 5.9
Jekyll & Hyde
1990
as Dr. Charles Lanyon
MOVIE★ 7.0
First and Last
1989
as Alan Holly
MOVIE★ 7.0
Lethal Weapon 2
1989
as Arjen Rudd
TV
A Quiet Conspiracy
1989
as Theo Carter
MOVIE★ 4.3
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
1988
as Hermann Goering
MOVIE★ 6.1
To Kill a Priest
1988
as Colonel
MOVIE★ 5.9
It Couldn't Happen Here
1988
as Priest/Murderer
MOVIE
Codename: Kyril
1988
as 'C'
TV★ 6.0
Codename: Kyril
1988
as 'C'
MOVIE★ 2.5
Olympus Force: The Key
1988
as George Grossopoulos
MOVIE★ 7.0
When We Are Married
1987
as Henry Ormonroyd
MOVIE★ 6.1
White Mischief
1987
as 'Jock' Delves Broughton
MOVIE★ 5.2
The Sicilian
1987
as Don Masino Croce
TV★ 5.0
Queenie
1987
as Sir Burton Rumsey
TV★ 5.0
A Killing on the Exchange
1987
as Sir Max Sillman
MOVIE★ 6.9
Lady Jane
1986
as Sir John Bridges
MOVIE★ 7.0
A Zed & Two Noughts
1985
as Van Hoyten
MOVIE★ 7.4
Shadowlands
1985
as CS Lewis
TV★ 7.1
Screen Two
1985
as Sir Charles (Archie) Peverall
TV★ 8.2
Sherlock Holmes
1984
as Jephro Rucastle
TV★ 10.0
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1984
as Jephro Rucastle
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Tragedy of Coriolanus
1984
as Menenius
TV★ 6.4
Shroud for a Nightingale
1984
as Stephen Courtney-Briggs
MOVIE
The Leather Boys
1984
as Narrator
TV★ 7.4
Natural World
1983
as Self - Narrator (voice)
TV★ 6.9
Dalgliesh
1983
as Stephen Courtney-Briggs
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
1982
as Edward Moulton-Barrett
TV★ 5.3
Wogan
1982
as Self
MOVIE
Findings on a Late Afternoon
1981
as Father
MOVIE
Elizabeth Alone
1981
as Major Orpen
MOVIE★ 6.2
Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
1981
as Chief Insp. Yardbird
MOVIE★ 4.5
The Apple
1980
as Mr. Topps / Hippie Leader
MOVIE★ 5.9
Rough Cut
1980
as Insp. Vanderveld
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Love Tapes
1980
as Narrator (voice)
TV★ 7.2
The Gentle Touch
1980
as Ivor Stocker
TV
A Question of Guilt
1980
as Samuel Kent
MOVIE★ 6.0
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
1980
as Prison Warden
MOVIE★ 7.0
Closing Ranks
1980
as Victor Rogachev
TV★ 7.6
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979
as Jerry Westerby
MOVIE★ 6.7
Saint Jack
1979
as Yardley
TV★ 6.3
Turtle's Progress
1979
as Benny D-Day
TV★ 6.8
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
as Colonel George Peregrine
TV★ 6.0
The BBC Television Shakespeare
1978
as Menenius
MOVIE★ 7.2
Watership Down
1978
as Black Rabbit (voice)
MOVIE★ 6.1
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
1978
as Cantrell
TV★ 7.0
Return of the Saint
1978
as Gunther
MOVIE★ 5.5
The Greek Tycoon
1978
as Naval officer (uncredited)
TV★ 8.2
Enemy at the Door
1978
as Major General Laidlaw
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
1977
as President
MOVIE★ 6.1
Silver Bears
1977
as Henry Foreman
TV
The Crezz
1976
as Charles Bronte
MOVIE★ 10.0
You Talk Too Much
1976
as Doctor
MOVIE★ 6.9
Operation: Daybreak
1975
as Janák
MOVIE★ 5.9
Royal Flash
1975
as Sapten
MOVIE★ 5.8
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
1975
as B.J. Spence
MOVIE★ 7.0
Heading For Glory
1975
as Self - Narrator (voice)
TV★ 8.0
The Sweeney
1975
as Alan Ember
MOVIE
The Magic Dream
1975
as Narrator
MOVIE★ 6.9
The Little Prince
1974
as The King
MOVIE★ 6.4
The Four Musketeers
1974
as D'Artagnan's Father (archive footage) (uncredited)
MOVIE★ 5.3
S*P*Y*S
1974
as Martinson
MOVIE★ 6.3
The Black Windmill
1974
as Chief Supt. Wray
TV★ 7.0
Playhouse
1974
as Maj. Orpen
MOVIE★ 6.8
Great Expectations
1974
as Joe Gargery
MOVIE
Miss Nightingale
1974
as Lord Palmerston
MOVIE★ 6.7
The Three Musketeers
1973
as D’Artagnan’s Father
TV★ 6.8
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
as Detective Inspector Hud
TV★ 7.0
Centre Play
1973
as Doctor
MOVIE★ 6.0
Penny Gold
1973
as Jones
MOVIE★ 6.1
England Made Me
1973
as Haller
MOVIE★ 6.2
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
1973
as General Burgdorf
MOVIE★ 8.5
Access to the Children
1973
as Malcolmson
MOVIE★ 8.0
The Bankrupt
1972
as Ellis Cripper
TV★ 6.1
The Protectors
1972
as Arthur Gordon
MOVIE
Crippled Bloom
1972
as Potter Jones
TV★ 4.6
Country Matters
1972
as Potter-Jones
MOVIE★ 5.9
The Mind Snatchers
1972
as Dr. Frederick
MOVIE★ 7.0
King's Cross Lunch Hour
1972
as The Man
TV
Late Night Theatre
1972
as Martens
TV★ 6.0
Shirley's World
1972
MOVIE★ 8.0
Getting In
1971
as An Applicant
TV★ 7.3
Justice
1971
as Sir Robert Beste
TV★ 7.5
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
1971
as Grubber
TV★ 7.6
The Persuaders!
1971
as Felix Meadowes
MOVIE★ 5.0
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
1971
as Head of Board
MOVIE★ 6.2
Villain
1971
as Edgar Lowis
MOVIE★ 6.4
The House That Dripped Blood
1971
as Neville Rogers (segment 2 "Waxworks")
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Lie
1970
as Albert
TV★ 6.6
Play for Today
1970
as Malcolmson
MOVIE★ 5.2
Crescendo
1970
as Carter
MOVIE★ 6.5
The Three Sisters
1970
as Chebutykin
TV
Canterbury Tales
1969
as Host
TV
W. Somerset Maugham
1969
as Harold Bannon
TV★ 7.0
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
as Councillor Horne
TV
Trapped
1967
as Pritchy
TV★ 7.7
The Further Adventures of the Musketeers
1967
as d'Artagnan
TV★ 7.0
One Pair of Eyes
1967
MOVIE
Death of a Salesman
1966
as Charley
TV
Lord Raingo
1966
as Tom Hogarth
MOVIE★ 5.8
Rasputin: The Mad Monk
1966
as The Bishop
TV★ 5.8
Mystery and Imagination
1966
as Herr Scavenius
TV★ 6.5
David Copperfield
1966
as Daniel Peggotty
MOVIE★ 4.0
Tomorrow, Just You Wait
1965
as Tom Gorbet
TV★ 5.3
BBC Play of the Month
1965
as Chebutykin
TV★ 4.2
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
as The Applicant
TV★ 7.3
The Troubleshooters
1965
as Sam Jardine
TV
Londoners
1965
as Angus Grahame
TV★ 5.2
The Wednesday Play
1964
as Cornelius
TV
The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling
1964
as William Stevens
TV★ 6.7
Sherlock Holmes
1964
as Hon. Philip Green
TV★ 7.2
Theatre 625
1964
as Hockey Jagger
MOVIE
Maggie
1964
as Norman
MOVIE★ 6.5
In Search of the Castaways
1962
as Yacht Seaman
TV★ 7.8
The Avengers
1961
as Brigadier Hansing
TV★ 4.8
No Hiding Place
1959
MOVIE★ 7.7
Next to No Time
1958
as Turkish Bath Attendant
TV★ 6.0
Armchair Theatre
1956
as Frank Penfold
MOVIE★ 5.4
Ghost Ship
1952
as Ron, 2nd Fisherman
MOVIE★ 6.8
Seven Days to Noon
1950
as Station Policeman
MOVIE★ 7.6
Landfall
1949
as O'Neil