![]() Myles hasĪ ring with a family crest on it and as he learns to be a squire under Sir ![]() Myles and Meg are sent to the castle of theirįather's closest friend the Earl of Mackworth who knows their secret. Was able to get Myles and Meg's father branded a traitor by King Henry IV after The screenplay was written by Oscar Bradley based upon Howard Pyle's classicġ891 novel "Men of Iron". O'Herlihy, Patrick O'Neil, Lance Fuller, Brett Halsey and Craig Hill. The supporting cast included such 1950's/1960's future stars as Dan "William, Earl of Mackworth" and Torin Thatcher as "Sir Janet Leigh as "Lady Anne:, David Farrar as "Gilbert Blunt, Earl ofĪlban", Barbara Rush as "Meg Falworth", Herbert Marshall as The main roles in the picture were Tony Curtis as "Myles Falworth". Where the Widescreen format was still just breaking and drawing in Release in CinemaScope and had a major publicity push especially in Foreign "The Black Shield of Falworth" was also the first Universal Studio's MyĪrticle on all three actors and their films can be found at: Robert Wagner became "Prince Valiant" for 20th Century Fox. Sent to England to play "The Black Knight" by Columbia Pictures and "Merrie Olde England" by Universal Studios. However, in thisĬase Universal Studio's decided to get into the craze by making a motionīesides Tony Curtis being cast, Brooklyn accent and all, as a Squire in Actually blackmail by theīritish as there would be no tax whatsoever, if filmed there. Was to use British crews and make films in the UK. Second by the United States for bring the funds into the country.The solution ![]() First by the British for taking the money out and These funds that had gathered interest would cause American Studio's to beĭouble taxed if removed. Most Studio's were making suchįilms, because of money tied up in British banks since the start of World WarĢ. The widower of TV actress Rita Daniel, he was long married to second wife, Anne Le Borgne, at the time of his death.Thatcher were back together in 1954's "The Black Shield ofįalworth". At the time motion pictures set during KingĪrthur's time had by necessity become the rage. Diagnosed with cancer, Thatcher died on March 4, 1981, in Thousand Oaks, California (near Los Angeles). Hyde (1968) starring Jack Palance and Brenda Starr (1976), his final on-camera appearance, starring Jill St. "Bonanza," "Perry Mason," "The Real McCoys," "The Untouchables," "My THree Sons," "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," "Perry Mason," "Get Smart," "Lost in Space," "Star Trek," "Gunsmoke," "Daniel Boone," "Mission: Impossible," "Night Gallery," "Search" and "Petrocelli." He also showed up in support in the TV movies The Strange Case of Dr. Also a steady fixture on American TV from the mid-1950's on, Torin appeared in a number of quality TV anthologies ("Omnibus," "Playhouse 90, "Zane Grey Theatre") before making fairly steady guest appearances on such shows as "The Millionaire," "Ellery Queen," "Peter Gunn," "Wagon Train," In 1959 he portrayed Captain Keller in the award-winning Thatcher returned to the stage quite frequently, notably on Broadway, in such esteemed Wellington, the Marlon Brando/ Trevor Howard remake ofĪnd Hawaii (1966). Were constantly in demand, gnashing his teeth in a slew of popularĪs the evil, shaven-domed magician Sokurah who shrinks the princess to In Hollywood from the 1950s on, the actor's looming figure and baleful countenance Great Expectations (1946), as Bentley ("The Spider") Drummle, Jassy (1947) and Major Barbara (1941), I See a Dark Stranger (1946), They included Sabotage (1936), Dark Journey (1937), Night Train to Munich (1940), Thatcher began in minor roles and progressed to better ones in a number of classic British films in the late 1930sĪnd 1940s as the years went on. Sinister roles over the years primarily in larger-than-life action Specimen and it offered him a number of tough, commanding, often He was an extremely imposing, powerfully built World War II he served with the Royal Artillery and achieved the rank ![]() Among his earlier stage plays was a 1937 version of "Hamlet" which starred Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. He would be notable for his stage prowess in the works of Shaw, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies. A former schoolteacher, he appeared on the London stage, notably the Old Vic, in 1927 before entering British films in 1934. The son of a police officer (who died when Torin was 10) and a voice/piano teacher, he was educated in England at the Bedford School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Torin Herbert Erskine Thatcher was born in Bombay, India to British parents on Januaryġ5, 1905. Associated with gritty, flashy film villainy, veteran character actor ![]()
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