Patrick Wymark

Patrick Wymark

​Born Patrick Carl Cheeseman in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, England. He was brought up in neighbouring Grimsby and frequently re-visited the area during the height of his career. He attended University College, London, before training at the Old Vic Theatre School and making his first stage appearance in a walk-on part in Othello in 1951. He toured South Africa the following year and then directed plays for the drama department at Stanford University, California. Moving to the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Wymark played a wide range of traditional roles, including Dogberry in Much Ado about Nothing and Stephano in The Tempest. He also played the parts of Marullus in Julius Caesar and Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other stage parts included the title role in Danton's Death and, with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Ephihodov in The Cherry Orchard. His theatre roles also included playing the part of Bosola in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi in 1960. His film roles included: Children of the Damned (1964), Operation Crossbow (1965), Battle of Britain (1969), Where Eagles Dare (1968), Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and Cromwell (1970). On television, where at one point he was considered as a replacement for William Hartnell on Doctor Who., he was best known for his role as the machiavellian businessman John Wilder in the drama series The Plane Makers/The Power Game, a role which led to offers of company directorships. Wymark, however, was a gentle man in real life, self-confessedly ignorant of business matters, who considered the Wilder character to be a "bastard" and was described by his wife as "the most inefficient, dreamy muddler in the world."

  • Title: Patrick Wymark
  • Popularity: 3.974
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1926-07-11
  • Place of Birth: Lincolnshire, England, UK
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Patrick Wymark Movies

  • 1964
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    Children of the Damned

    Children of the Damned

    6.108 1964 HD

    Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to...

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  • 1968
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    Where Eagles Dare

    Where Eagles Dare

    7.5 1968 HD

    World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly...

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  • 1969
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    Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain

    6.8 1969 HD

    In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the...

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  • 1965
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    Repulsion

    Repulsion

    7.415 1965 HD

    Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen,...

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  • 1970
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    Cromwell

    Cromwell

    6.6 1970 HD

    Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell...

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  • 1971
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    The Blood on Satan's Claw

    The Blood on Satan's Claw

    6.1 1971 HD

    The accidental unearthing of Satan’s earthly remains causes the children of a 17th-century English village to slowly convert into a coven of...

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  • 1969
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    Doppelgänger

    Doppelgänger

    6.197 1969 HD

    A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The...

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  • 1964
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    The Secret of Blood Island

    The Secret of Blood Island

    1 1964 HD

    Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a...

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  • 1965
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    Operation Crossbow

    Operation Crossbow

    6.7 1965 HD

    Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between...

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  • 1962
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    The Cherry Orchard

    The Cherry Orchard

    8 1962 HD

    Madame Ranevsky and her daughter Anya return home from Paris to find that their beloved family estate and cherry orchard are to be auctioned off to...

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  • 1965
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    The Skull

    The Skull

    6 1965 HD

    An occult investigator buys the 150-year-old skull of the Marquis de Sade, which turns out to be possessed by evil spirits.

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  • 1963
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    Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

    Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow

    7 1963 HD

    English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.

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  • 1967
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    Woman Times Seven

    Woman Times Seven

    6.4 1967 HD

    Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a...

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  • 1960
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    The League of Gentlemen

    The League of Gentlemen

    7 1960 HD

    Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the...

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  • 1966
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    The Psychopath

    The Psychopath

    6.2 1966 HD

    Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were...

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  • 2008
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    Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

    Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

    8.3 2008 HD

    "Scarecrow! Scarecrow! The soldiers of the King feared his name!" And so begins the hard-to-forget theme song to The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. Walt...

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  • 1962
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    The Pitcairn People

    The Pitcairn People

    1 1962 HD

    A documentary feature telling how then descendants of the crew of HMS Bounty survive today on the remote island of Pitcairn, where their ancestors...

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  • 1972
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    The Man from the Other Side

    The Man from the Other Side

    1 1972 HD

    After the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917. A Russian engineer gets the assignment to purchase locomotives from Sweden. Paid in gold. Claimed by...

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  • 1959
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    Brand

    Brand

    1 1959 HD

    Brand's a bleak and desolate play that challenges the notion of a stern and stoic faith in the will of God. The title character is a pastor who...

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  • 1963
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    The Invasion

    The Invasion

    1 1963 HD

    Inhabitants in a remote village laughs off and dismiss a couple of schoolboys' claims that they are being invaded by aliens.

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  • 1963
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    As You Like It

    As You Like It

    1 1963 HD

    One of the earliest hits for the newly established RSC, Michael Elliott’s sparkling version of Shakespeare's comedy is still remembered with...

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  • 1964
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    The Finest Hours

    The Finest Hours

    6.3 1964 HD

    A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles.

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  • 1968
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    Tell Me Lies

    Tell Me Lies

    6.3 1968 HD

    Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop...

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  • 1968
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    Witchfinder General

    Witchfinder General

    6.453 1968 HD

    England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness...

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  • 1960
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    The Criminal

    The Criminal

    6.4 1960 HD

    When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has...

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  • 1963
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    West 11

    West 11

    6.7 1963 HD

    Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own...

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  • 1962
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    The Scales of Justice

    The Scales of Justice

    6.7 1962 HD

    Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for Anglo Amalgamated running around 30 minutes and...

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  • 1968
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    The Champions

    The Champions

    6.1 1968 HD

    The Champions is a British espionage/science fiction/occult detective fiction adventure series consisting of 30 episodes broadcast on the UK network...

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  • 1964
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    Sherlock Holmes

    Sherlock Holmes

    6.4 1964 HD

    Sherlock Holmes is a series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company BBC between 1965 and 1968. This was the second...

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  • 1961
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    Sir Francis Drake

    Sir Francis Drake

    4 1961 HD

    Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden...

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  • 1963
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    The Plane Makers

    The Plane Makers

    5 1963 HD

    The Plane Makers is a British television series created by Wilfred Greatorex and produced by Rex Firken. ATV made three series for ITV between 1963...

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.667 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1954
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    The Wonderful World of Disney

    The Wonderful World of Disney

    7.607 1954 HD

    Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series...

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