Laurence Payne (Acting)

Tender Touches

A very relatable soap opera wherein a love triangle leads to the ultimate discovery of self.

Release Date:2017-12-18

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:3

Shakespeare: The Animated Tales

An animated adaptation of twelve of Shakespeare's best-known plays. The series was produced by S4C for the BBC, but animated by some of the foremost artists of Soyuzmultfilm, the former Soviet Union's main animation studio. Each 26-minute play is directed by a different animator, in a wide variety of styles: cel animation for Macbeth, stop-motion puppets in Twelfth Night, and paint on glass for Hamlet.

Release Date:1992-11-09

Character:Duncan (voice)

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:13

Doctor Who: The Two Doctors

Suddenly gripped by a memory of being executed in his second incarnation, the Sixth Doctor travels to Seville to save his past self and ensure his own existence in his present.

Release Date:1985-03-02

Character:Dastari

Vote Count:5

Airline

Airline is a British television series produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network in 1982. The series starred Roy Marsden as Jack Ruskin, a pilot demobbed after the end of the Second World War who starts up his own air freight business. Airline was created by Wilfred Greatorex and lasted for one series of nine episodes broadcast in January & February 1982, with a repeat in the summer of 1984. Other leading cast members were Polly Hemingway, Richard Heffer, Sean Scanlan and Terence Rigby, while noted guest-stars included Anthony Valentine and Walter Gotell. It was partially filmed at the former RAF Rufforth in Yorkshire..

Release Date:1982-01-03

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Psy-Warriors

Soldiers are captured and interrogated by terrorists: but is it real or only a sadistic form of psychological training exercise?

Release Date:1981-07-17

Character:Weaver

Vote Count:1

Doctor Who: The Leisure Hive

Romana fancies a proper holiday and convinces the Doctor to visit the leisure planet Argolis, where a takeover by the Argolins' historic enemy is underway.

Release Date:1980-09-20

Character:Morix

Vote Count:1

Lady Killers

Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women. Introduced by Robert Morley, seven hour-long dramas reconstruct sensational trials which shocked Britain, offering in-depth analyses of individuals' motives and methods.

Release Date:1980-07-20

Character:Victor Mishcon

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Tales of the Unexpected

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.

Release Date:1979-03-24

Character:Collingwood

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:43

Romeo and Juliet

Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.

Release Date:1976-09-26

Character:Capulet

Vote Count:1

The Hanged Man

After surviving a series of attempts on his life, successful businessman Lew Burnett decides to remain "dead" after the most recent one so he can go undercover and find out which of his close friends and business associates want him dead.

Release Date:1975-02-15

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

One Deadly Owner

A fashion model buys a Rolls-Royce. What she doesn't know is that it's haunted.

Release Date:1974-02-16

Thriller

Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.

Release Date:1973-04-14

Character:John Jacey

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:11

Vampire Circus

After a spate of murders, the villagers of Schtettel kill the depraved perpetrator, Count Mitterhouse. Fifteen years later the Circus of Nights appeared in the plague-ridden village and its performers include Mitterhouse's mistress, children and cousins. They have come to Schtettel to fulfil the Count's last words, an evil, vicious curse of death and destruction on those who participated in his impaling. The children of Schtettel become the targets for a brutal and devastating revenge as the Vampire Circus rehearses for its most deadly performance.

Release Date:1972-04-30

Character:Prof. Albert Mueller

Vote Count:112

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Adaptations of mystery stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's contemporary rivals in the genre.

Release Date:1971-09-20

Character:Prescott

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:9

Play for Today

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

Release Date:1970-10-15

Character:Weaver

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:8

The Main Chance

The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.

Release Date:1969-06-18

Character:James Galbraith

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

Sexton Blake

ITV aired Thames Television's Sexton Blake starring Laurence Payne as Blake and Roger Foss as Tinker from Monday 25 September 1967 to Wednesday 13 January 1971. In keeping with Sexton Blake's classic print adventures, Payne's Blake drove a white Rolls-Royce named "The Grey Panther" and owned a bloodhound named Pedro. The show was originally produced by Ronald Marriott for Associated Rediffusion, with Thames Television taking over production in 1968.

Release Date:1967-09-25

Character:Sexton Blake

Episode Count:2

Doctor Who: The Gunfighters

Arriving in the town of Tombstone, the First Doctor finds himself involved with gunmen out to kill Doc Holliday...

Release Date:1966-05-21

Character:Johnny Ringo

Vote Count:4

Doctor Who

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

Release Date:1963-11-23

Character:Johnny Ringo

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:639

Girl in the Headlines

Called in to investigate the murder of a model, Chief Inspector Birkett and Sergeant Saunders soon discover that the victim had been leading somewhat of an immoral life.

Release Date:1963-11-15

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:7

Mystery Submarine

A British convoy is trying to elude a group of German U-Boats.

Release Date:1963-03-03

Character:Lt. Seaton

The Saint

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.

Release Date:1962-10-04

Character:Noel Bastion

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:115

Studio Four

Release Date:1962-01-22

Character:Larsen

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Crosstrap

In this thriller, two gangs of jewel thieves battle it out in a deserted cottage. Murder ensues when the owners of the cabin show up. Listed as lost by the BFI.

Release Date:1962-01-01

Character:Duke

Vote Count:7

Barabbas

Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place.

Release Date:1961-12-23

Character:Disciple

Vote Count:156

The Court Martial of Major Keller

Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-martialled for the murder of his commanding officer Colonel Winch. The facts of the case are shrouded by the mayhem of war and the effects that fear, pressure and duty have upon a soldier. Did the Major covet the Colonel's wife? Was the Major ambitious and kill Winch to secure a promotion? Or had the Colonel cracked under the pressure of an illustrious battle career? To prove his innocence Major Keller must rely on the evidence and testimonies given in court, however when he himself is the only witness, his word may not be good enough to win his freedom.

Release Date:1961-12-01

Character:Major Keller

The Queen's Guards

Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.

Release Date:1961-10-17

Vote Count:4

The Third Alibi

A composer (Laurence Payne) is stuck in a middle-class marriage and finds that his affair with his wife's half-sister (Jane Griffiths) has resulted in a pregnancy. When his wife refuses to give him a divorce he hatches a murder scheme that is too clever by half.

Release Date:1961-03-15

Character:Norman Martell

Vote Count:12

The Singer Not the Song

A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.

Release Date:1961-01-05

Character:Pablo

Vote Count:14

The Tell-Tale Heart

Themes of voyeurism and unrequited love compliment Poe's classic of murder and insanity in this superbly suspenseful loose interpretation. Anxiety-stricken librarian Edgar Marsh becomes infatuated with his next-door neighbor, but when he can't have her, he resorts to murder.

Release Date:1960-12-14

Character:Edgar Marsh

Vote Count:18

Maigret

BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.

Release Date:1960-10-31

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:11

Ben-Hur

In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.

Release Date:1959-11-18

Character:Joseph (uncredited)

Vote Count:2811

Interpol Calling

The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international drug-running, homicide, robbery and forgery.

Release Date:1959-09-13

Character:Porton

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

The Crawling Eye

A United Nations investigator crosses paths with a pair of psychic sisters on his way to Trollenberg observatory in the Swiss Alps, which has been plagued by a series of mountaineer disappearances that may be related to a radioactive cloud at the mountain's south face.

Release Date:1958-07-07

Character:Philip Truscott

Vote Count:93

Dangerous Exile

Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.

Release Date:1957-12-12

Character:Lautrec

Vote Count:5

Ill Met by Moonlight

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

Release Date:1957-01-31

Character:Manoli

Vote Count:40

Colonel March of Scotland Yard

Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.

Release Date:1956-02-22

Character:Delius

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:7

Train of Events

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

Release Date:1949-01-18

Character:Richard

Vote Count:10

A Matter of Life and Death

When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.

Release Date:1946-12-15

Character:Prosecuting Counsel (uncredited)

Vote Count:417