Peter Bull - Turner Classic Movies

Peter Bull

Actor

About

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Birth Place

London, England, GB

Born

March 21, 1912

Died

May 20, 1984

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Filmography

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The New Music (1980)

Yellowbeard (1983)

The Tempest (1979)

Joseph Andrews (1977)

Sir Thomas Booby

Great Expectations (1974)

Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)

Government Minister

Photos & Videos

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Dr. Strangelove (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Doomsday Machine

Christmas Carol, A (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Addressing Mr. Scrooge

Biography

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

The New Music (1980)

Cast (Feature Film)

Yellowbeard (1983)

The Tempest (1979)

Joseph Andrews (1977)

Sir Thomas Booby

Great Expectations (1974)

Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)

Government Minister

The Executioner (1970)

Lock Up Your Daughters (1969)

Doctor Dolittle (1967)

General Bellowes

The 2nd Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World (1965)

You Must Be Joking! (1965)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Ambassador de Sadesky

The Old Dark House (1963)

Casper Femm/Jasper Femm

Tom Jones (1963)

Call Me Genius (1961)

Paris art gallery manager

Goodbye Again (1961)

The Girl on the Boat (1961)

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)

The Scapegoat (1959)

tom thumb (1958)

The Green Man (1956)

Footsteps in the Fog (1955)

Village potentate

Beau Brummell (1954)

The Malta Story (1953)

The Lavender Hill Mob (1952)

The African Queen (1951)

Lucky Nick Cain (1951)

A Christmas Carol (1951)

Narrator/1st businessman

The Reluctant Widow (1950)

Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)

Contraband (1940)

Marie Antoinette (1938)

The Ware Case (1938)

As You Like It (1937)

Dreaming Lips (1937)

Knight Without Armor (1937)

Producer (Feature Film)

Freakonomics (2010)

Life Events

1933

Stage acting debut

Videos

Dr. Strangelove (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Doomsday Machine President Muffley (Peter Sellers) asks Ambassador de Sadesky (Peter Bull) why the Soviets would build a "Doomsday Machine," leading to the first appearance of the title character (also Sellers), in the war room during the nuclear crisis, in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb, 1964.

Christmas Carol, A (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Addressing Mr. Scrooge Opening scene, introducing Scrooge (Alastair Sim), arriving at his office where Cratchit (Mervyn Johns) has received two businessmen (Peter Bull, the narrator, and Douglas Muir), in Brian Desmond-Hurst's A Christmas Carol, 1951, from the Dickens novel.

Scapegoat, The (1959) -- (Movie Clip) An Emptiness In The Heart Opening the MGM-British production, with affecting narration by Alec Guinness, from Gore Vidal’s screenplay based on Daphne Du Maurier’s novel, as English teacher Barratt, arriving on the ferry at Port Boulogne, Calais, then reaching Le Mans (though the city is never named) and it’s famous cathedral, briefly meeting Peter Bull, in The Scapegoat, 1959, co-starring Bette Davis.

Sabotage (1936) -- (Movie Clip) If The Arsenal Lose We know grocer Ted (John Loder) is a policeman, Sylvia Sidney at the ticket box doesn't know the guys (William Dewhurst, Peter Bull, then Torin Thatcher) visiting her husband (Oscar Homolka) are terrorists, her young brother (Desmond Tester) also an innocent, in Hitchcock's Sabotage, 1936.

Tom Jones (1963) -- (Movie Clip) There's LIttle Hope Quickening events as Tom (Albert Finney) learns from Blifil (David Warner) of the accident, and both attend the deathbed of Squire Allworthy (George Devine), who fails to die in Tony Richardson's Tom Jones, 1963.

Old Dark House, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) You're Very Brave To Come American car salesman Tom (Poston), let in through the trap-door after the car he delivered was crushed by statues, with Potiphar (Mervyn Johns) who updates him on his customer Casper (Peter Bull) before Cecily (Janette Scott) appears, in William Castle's The Old Dark House, 1963

Doctor Dolittle (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Fox Protection Society Introducing the bloviating General Bellowes (Peter Bull) and his prepossessing but stuffy niece Emma (Samantha Eggar), assaulting the title character (Rex Harrison) and friends Matt (Anthony Newley) and Tommy (William Dix), in Doctor Dolittle, 1967, directed by Richard Fleischer.

Saraband For Dead Lovers -- (Movie Clip) King Of The Wife Notorious Hanoverian Prince George-Louis (Peter Bull), who will become England's George I, is informed of arrangements for his 1682 marriage to Sophie Dorothea of Celle (Joan Greenwood), followed by a dramatically implied wedding night rape, in Ealing Studios' Saraband For Dead Lovers, 1948.

Saraband For Dead Lovers -- (Movie Clip) Dirt Of My Own Choosing Swedish Count Konigsmark (Stewart Granger) tangling with his cruel sponsor Countess Platen (Flora Robson) over his debt to the Hanoverian prince George-Louis (Peter Bull), whose tortured wife (Joan Greenwood) he soon meets, in Saraband For Dead Lovers, 1948.

Dr. Strangelove - (Original Trailer) Peter Sellers is an RAF officer, the President and the title character, all facing the end of the world in Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove (1964).

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