William Lucas

William Thomas Clucas, better known as William Lucas, was an English film, theatre, radio and television actor.

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Night of the Big Heat (1967)

While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terence Fisher
CAST:  Christopher Lee  •  Patrick Allen  •  Peter Cushing  •  Jane Merrow

While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Terence Fisher
CAST:  Christopher Lee  •  Patrick Allen  •  Peter Cushing  •  Jane Merrow

X the Unknown (1956)

Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leslie Norman
CAST:  Dean Jagger  •  Edward Chapman  •  Leo McKern  •  Anthony Newley

Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Leslie Norman
CAST:  Dean Jagger  •  Edward Chapman  •  Leo McKern  •  Anthony Newley

Operation: Daybreak (1975)

Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lewis Gilbert
CAST:  Timothy Bottoms  •  Anthony Andrews  •  Martin Shaw  •  Anton Diffring

Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lewis Gilbert
CAST:  Timothy Bottoms  •  Anthony Andrews  •  Martin Shaw  •  Anton Diffring

Man at the Top (1973)

Northerner Joe Lampton becomes involved with Lord Ackerman, the powerful chairman of a pharmaceutical concern, his beautiful wife Alex, and daughter Robin. But trouble starts when Joe is made Managing Director of one of Ackerman’s companies and makes a shocking ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mike Vardy
CAST:  Kenneth Haigh  •  Nanette Newman  •  Harry Andrews  •  William Lucas

Northerner Joe Lampton becomes involved with Lord Ackerman, the powerful chairman of a pharmaceutical concern, his beautiful wife Alex, and daughter Robin. But trouble starts when Joe is made Managing Director of one of Ackerman’s companies and makes a shocking ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mike Vardy
CAST:  Kenneth Haigh  •  Nanette Newman  •  Harry Andrews  •  William Lucas

The Professionals (1960)

A renowned safecracker and his crew try to rob a bank by entering the vault through the sewer system.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Don Sharp
CAST:  William Lucas  •  Andrew Faulds  •  Colette Wilde  •  Stratford Johns

A renowned safecracker and his crew try to rob a bank by entering the vault through the sewer system.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Don Sharp
CAST:  William Lucas  •  Andrew Faulds  •  Colette Wilde  •  Stratford Johns

Breakout (1959)

A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Graham Scott
CAST:  Lee Patterson  •  Hazel Court  •  Terence Alexander  •  William Lucas

A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Graham Scott
CAST:  Lee Patterson  •  Hazel Court  •  Terence Alexander  •  William Lucas

The Marked One (1963)

William Lucas plays a lorry driver who is recently out of prison. He becomes a target when it s discovered that he knows where he can find plates for making forged banknotes.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Francis Searle
CAST:  William Lucas  •  Patrick Jordan  •  Laurie Leigh  •  David Gregory

William Lucas plays a lorry driver who is recently out of prison. He becomes a target when it s discovered that he knows where he can find plates for making forged banknotes.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Francis Searle
CAST:  William Lucas  •  Patrick Jordan  •  Laurie Leigh  •  David Gregory

Up in the World (1956)

Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Paddy Carstairs
CAST:  Norman Wisdom  •  Maureen Swanson  •  Jerry Desmonde  •  Michael Caridia

Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Paddy Carstairs
CAST:  Norman Wisdom  •  Maureen Swanson  •  Jerry Desmonde  •  Michael Caridia

Payroll (1961)

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sidney Hayers
CAST:  Michael Craig  •  Françoise Prévost  •  Billie Whitelaw  •  William Lucas

A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured van is killed in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sidney Hayers
CAST:  Michael Craig  •  Françoise Prévost  •  Billie Whitelaw  •  William Lucas

Portrait of Alison (1955)

An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Guy Green
CAST:  Terry Moore  •  Robert Beatty  •  William Sylvester  •  Josephine Griffin

An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Guy Green
CAST:  Terry Moore  •  Robert Beatty  •  William Sylvester  •  Josephine Griffin

Crack in the Mirror (1960)

A Story of two love triangles...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Fleischer
CAST:  Orson Welles  •  Juliette Gréco  •  Bradford Dillman  •  Alexander Knox

A Story of two love triangles...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Fleischer
CAST:  Orson Welles  •  Juliette Gréco  •  Bradford Dillman  •  Alexander Knox

Tower of Evil (1972)

A group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jim O'Connolly
CAST:  Bryant Haliday  •  Jill Haworth  •  Anna Palk  •  William Lucas

A group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jim O'Connolly
CAST:  Bryant Haliday  •  Jill Haworth  •  Anna Palk  •  William Lucas

Dateline Diamonds (1965)

In this swinging romp through 1960s London, the frenzied manager of mod-rockers the Small Faces (made up of Steve Marriott, Kenney Jones, Ian McLagan and Ronnie Lane) gets into trouble when he agrees to use the band to smuggle diamonds out of the country. Songs ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jeremy Summers
CAST:  William Lucas  •  Kenneth Cope  •  Conrad Phillips  •  Patsy Rowlands

In this swinging romp through 1960s London, the frenzied manager of mod-rockers the Small Faces (made up of Steve Marriott, Kenney Jones, Ian McLagan and Ronnie Lane) gets into trouble when he agrees to use the band to smuggle diamonds out of the country. Songs ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jeremy Summers
CAST:  William Lucas  •  Kenneth Cope  •  Conrad Phillips  •  Patsy Rowlands

Bitter Harvest (1963)

A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Graham Scott
CAST:  Janet Munro  •  John Stride  •  Anne Cunningham  •  Thora Hird

A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Graham Scott
CAST:  Janet Munro  •  John Stride  •  Anne Cunningham  •  Thora Hird

The Shadow of the Cat (1961)

Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Gilling
CAST:  Barbara Shelley  •  Conrad Phillips  •  André Morell  •  Richard Warner

Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Gilling
CAST:  Barbara Shelley  •  Conrad Phillips  •  André Morell  •  Richard Warner

Lost (1956)

U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Guy Green
CAST:  David Farrar  •  David Knight  •  Julia Arnall  •  Anthony Oliver

U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Guy Green
CAST:  David Farrar  •  David Knight  •  Julia Arnall  •  Anthony Oliver

Sons and Lovers (1960)

The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jack Cardiff
CAST:  Trevor Howard  •  Dean Stockwell  •  Wendy Hiller  •  Donald Pleasence

The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jack Cardiff
CAST:  Trevor Howard  •  Dean Stockwell  •  Wendy Hiller  •  Donald Pleasence

The Break (1962)

A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but are doggedly chased by police.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lance Comfort
CAST:  Tony Britton  •  William Lucas  •  Eddie Byrne  •  Robert Urquhart

A group of inmates escape from Dartmoor prison. They hide out in the English country side but are doggedly chased by police.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lance Comfort
CAST:  Tony Britton  •  William Lucas  •  Eddie Byrne  •  Robert Urquhart

Calculated Risk (1963)

After spending a long time in prison, Kip is still willing to pull off one more big job  (more)

DIRECTION:  Norman Harrison
CAST:  Warren Mitchell  •  William Lucas  •  John Rutland  •  Dilys Watling

After spending a long time in prison, Kip is still willing to pull off one more big job  (more)

DIRECTION:  Norman Harrison
CAST:  Warren Mitchell  •  William Lucas  •  John Rutland  •  Dilys Watling

Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter (1990)

A biographical film about Beatrix Potter as a young woman.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mike Healy
CAST:  Helena Bonham Carter  •  Ernest Blake  •  Angela Chadfield  •  Patrick Hannaway

A biographical film about Beatrix Potter as a young woman.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mike Healy
CAST:  Helena Bonham Carter  •  Ernest Blake  •  Angela Chadfield  •  Patrick Hannaway
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