George Murcell
Arthur George Murcell (30-oktabr 1925 – 3-dekabr 1998) britaniyalik xarakter aktyori edi. Italiyada tug‘ilgan Murcell, Michael Powell va Emeric Pressburgerning "The Battle of the River Plate" (1956) filmida debyut qildi. U film va televizorda g‘azablangan yovuzlarni o‘ynash orqali karerasini rivojlantirdi. Bu yovuzlar, masalan, "Hell Drivers" va "Campbell's Kingdom" (ikkalasi ham 1957-yilda) kabi ahmoq va kuchli yordamchilar yoki "You Have Just Been Murdered" epizodida Needle kabi murakkab firibgarlar bo‘lishi mumkin edi. U nemislar, ruslar va janubiy amerikaliklar kabi chet ellik xarakterlarni o‘ynashda ixtisoslashgan. Ushbu rollarning bir qismi 1960-yillar va 1970-yillardagi ITC sarguzasht televizion seriyalarida, masalan, "Danger Man", "The Baron", "The Saint", "The Champions" (Reply Box No.666 epizodi, 1967), "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)", "The Persuaders!" va "Jason King"da bo‘lgan. Uning film rollari orasida "Sea of Sand" (1958), "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (1964), "The Heroes of Telemark" (1965), "Kaleidoscope" (1966), "The Fixer" (1968), "A Dandy in Aspic" (1968), "The Assassination Bureau" (1969), "A Walk with Love and Death" (1969), "Penny Gold" (1973), "Special Branch" (1974), "Inside the Third Reich" (1982, Hermann Göring sifatida), "Year of the Gun" (1991) va "Cutthroat Island" (1995) filmlari mavjud. U uzoq vaqt davomida sahna faoliyatini olib bordi, Tyrone Guthrie va Peter Brook bilan ishladi va Royal Shakespeare Companyda faol bo‘ldi. 1970-yillarda u Shimoliy Londonda Viktoriya davri cherkovini sotib oldi va uni rejissyor Adrian Brown bilan hamkorlikda Elizaveta uslubidagi teatrga aylantirdi. 1973-yilda u uni "St George's Theatre" sifatida ochdi va unda kamdan-kam ko‘riladigan klassik asarlarni sahnalashtirishni maqsad qildi. 1970-yillar va 1980-yillarda u "St George's Theatre"da aktyor va rejissyor sifatida ishlashda davom etdi, ko‘pincha rafiqasi Elvi Hale bilan birga.
