Joss Ackland

Biography

Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland CBE (29 February 1928 – 19 November 2023) was an English actor who appeared in more than 130 film and television roles. He was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for portraying Jock Delves Broughton in White Mischief (1987). Description above from the Wikipedia article Joss Ackland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

male

Known Credits

147

Birth Date

1928-02-29 00:00:00

Birth Place

North Kensington, London, England, UK

Known For

• 

  Lethal Weapon 2
• 

  The Mighty Ducks
• 

  White Mischief
• 

  The Portrait
• 

  Peak Performers - The Mk3 Ford Cortina
• 

  In Search of the Great Beast 666: Aleister Crowley

Credits

• actors (147 credits)

  • The Portrait

    Henry Winter

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • Katherine of Alexandria

    Rufus

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • Prisoners of the Sun

    Professor Mendella

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • The Boy with Chocolate Fingers

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • Peak Performers - The Mk3 Ford Cortina

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • Pinocchio

    Mastro Ciliegia

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • How About You...

    Donald Vanston

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • Hogfather

    Mustrum Ridcully

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • In Search of the Great Beast 666: Aleister Crowley

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • Flawless

    Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft

    actor

    actors
    2007
  • Moscow Zero

    Tolstoy

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • These Foolish Things

    Albert

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • The One Show

    - August 19, 2009 (2009) ... Self actor actors
    2006
  • Asylum

    Jack Straffen

    actor

    actors
    2005
  • Icon

    General Nikolayev

    actor

    actors
    2005
  • Defining a Style

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2005
  • A Different Loyalty

    Randolph Cauffield

    actor

    actors
    2004
  • I'll Be There

    Evil Edmonds - The BeeLzeeBOPS

    actor

    actors
    2003
  • K-19: The Widowmaker

    Marshal Zelentsov

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • No Good Deed

    Mr. Quarre

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • Othello

    James Brabant

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • The Mumbo Jumbo

    Mayor Smith

    actor

    actors
    2000
  • Passion of Mind

    Dr. Langer, the French Psychiatrist

    actor

    actors
    2000
  • Lounge Act

    actor

    actors
    2000
  • The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service

    The Prussian

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • Milk

    Vicar

    actor

    actors
    1999
  • Firelight

    Lord Clare

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • My Giant

    Monsignor Popesou

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • Swept from the Sea

    Mr. Swaffer

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • Midsomer Murders

    - Vixen's Run (2006) ... Sir Freddy Butler actor actors
    1997
  • To the Ends of Time

    King Francis

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • D3: The Mighty Ducks

    Hans

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • Surviving Picasso

    Henri Matisse

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • Deadly Voyage

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • Hidden in Silence

    German Factory Manager

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • Daisies in December

    Gerald Carmody

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • A Kid in King Arthur's Court

    King Arthur

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Mad Dogs and Englishmen

    Insp. Sam Stringer

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Citizen X

    Bondarchuk

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • OcchioPinocchio

    Brando Della Valle

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • Jacob

    Isaak

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • Julius Caesar

    Caesar

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • Miracle on 34th Street

    Victor Landbergh (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • Giorgino

    Father Glaise

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • Citizen Locke

    Lord Ashley

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • Joan Miró: Constellations - The Color of Poetry

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • Simulacrum

    The Chemist

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Mother's Boys

    Lansing, Jude's Attorney

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • The Thief and the Cobbler

    Brigand (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Voices in the Garden

    Sir Charles Peverall

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Nowhere to Run

    Franklin Hale

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • The Mighty Ducks

    Hans

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Project: Shadowchaser

    Kinderman

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • White Bear's Secret

    Brown Bear (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Once Upon a Crime

    Hercules Popodopoulos

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls

    King Edward

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • The Bridge

    Smithson

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

    - Austria, March 1917 (1992) ... The Prussian actor actors
    1992
  • Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors

    Lewis Serrocold

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • Brown Bear's Wedding

    Brown Bear (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • A Murder of Quality

    Terence Fielding

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

    De Nomolos

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • The Princess and the Goblin

    King Papa (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • The Object of Beauty

    Mr. Mercer

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • The Sheltering Desert

    actor

    actors
    1991
  • Tre colonne in cronaca

    Gaetano Leporino, il finanziere

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • The Secret Life of Ian Fleming

    Gen. Gerhard Hellstein

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • The Hunt for Red October

    Ambassador Andrei Lysenko

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • The Palermo Connection

    il boss

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • Jekyll & Hyde

    Dr. Charles Lanyon

    actor

    actors
    1990
  • First and Last

    Alan Holly

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • Lethal Weapon 2

    Arjen Rudd

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • The Man Who Lived at the Ritz

    Hermann Goering

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • To Kill a Priest

    Colonel

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • It Couldn't Happen Here

    Priest/Murderer

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • Codename: Kyril

    'C'

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • Olympus Force: The Key

    George Grossopoulos

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • When We Are Married

    Henry Ormonroyd

    actor

    actors
    1987
  • White Mischief

    'Jock' Delves Broughton

    actor

    actors
    1987
  • The Sicilian

    Don Masino Croce

    actor

    actors
    1987
  • Lady Jane

    Sir John Bridges

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • A Zed & Two Noughts

    Van Hoyten

    actor

    actors
    1985
  • Shadowlands

    CS Lewis

    actor

    actors
    1985
  • The Tragedy of Coriolanus

    Menenius

    actor

    actors
    1984
  • The Leather Boys

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    1984
  • Sherlock Holmes

    - The Copper Beeches (1985) ... Jephro Rucastle actor actors
    1984
  • Natural World

    - Jewels of the Caribbean Sea (1995) ... Self - Narrator (voice) actor actors
    1983
  • The Barretts of Wimpole Street

    Edward Moulton-Barrett

    actor

    actors
    1982
  • Wogan

    - Series 12, Show 3 (1992) ... Self actor actors
    1982
  • Findings on a Late Afternoon

    Father

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • Elizabeth Alone

    Major Orpen

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective

    Chief Insp. Yardbird

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • The Apple

    Mr. Topps / Hippie Leader

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • Rough Cut

    Insp. Vanderveld

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • The Love Tapes

    Narrator (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

    Prison Warden

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • Closing Ranks

    Victor Rogachev

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • Saint Jack

    Yardley

    actor

    actors
    1979
  • Tales of the Unexpected

    - The Colonel's Lady (1988) ... Colonel George Peregrine actor actors

    - The Stinker (1980) ... Jack Cutler actor actors
    1979
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

    - Smiley Sets a Trap (1979) ... Jerry Westerby actor actors
    1979
  • Watership Down

    Black Rabbit (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

    Cantrell

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • The Greek Tycoon

    Naval officer (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It

    President

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • Silver Bears

    Henry Foreman

    actor

    actors
    1977
  • You Talk Too Much

    Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1976
  • Operation: Daybreak

    Janák

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Royal Flash

    Sapten

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing

    B.J. Spence

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • Heading For Glory

    Self - Narrator (voice)

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • The Magic Dream

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    1975
  • The Little Prince

    The King

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • The Four Musketeers

    D'Artagnan's Father (archive footage) (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • S*P*Y*S

    Martinson

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • The Black Windmill

    Chief Supt. Wray

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • Miss Nightingale

    Lord Palmerston

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • Great Expectations

    Joe Gargery

    actor

    actors
    1974
  • Playhouse

    - Findings on a Late Afternoon (1981) ... Father actor actors

    - Elizabeth Alone: Part 1 (1981) ... Maj. Orpen actor actors
    1974
  • The Three Musketeers

    D’Artagnan’s Father

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • Penny Gold

    Jones

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • England Made Me

    Haller

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • Hitler: The Last Ten Days

    General Burgdorf

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • Access to the Children

    Malcolmson

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • The Bankrupt

    Ellis Cripper

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • Crippled Bloom

    Potter Jones

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • The Mind Snatchers

    Dr. Frederick

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • King's Cross Lunch Hour

    The Man

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • Getting In

    An Applicant

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • Mr. Forbush and the Penguins

    Head of Board

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • Villain

    Edgar Lowis

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • The House That Dripped Blood

    Neville Rogers (segment 2 "Waxworks")

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • The Persuaders!

    - Read and Destroy (1972) ... Felix Meadowes actor actors
    1971
  • The Lie

    Albert

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Crescendo

    Carter

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • The Three Sisters

    Chebutykin

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Play for Today

    - Access to the Children (1973) ... Malcolmson actor actors

    - The Bankrupt (1972) ... Ellis Cripper actor actors

    - The Lie (1970) ... Albert actor actors
    1970
  • Death of a Salesman

    Charley

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • Rasputin: The Mad Monk

    The Bishop

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • Tomorrow, Just You Wait

    Tom Gorbet

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • BBC Play of the Month

    - Three Sisters (1970) ... Chebutykin actor actors

    - Death of a Salesman (1966) ... Charley actor actors
    1965
  • Maggie

    Norman

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • In Search of the Castaways

    Yacht Seaman

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • The Avengers

    - The Morning After (1969) ... Brigadier Hansing actor actors
    1961
  • Next to No Time

    Turkish Bath Attendant

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Ghost Ship

    Ron, 2nd Fisherman

    actor

    actors
    1952
  • Seven Days to Noon

    Station Policeman

    actor

    actors
    1950
  • Landfall

    O'Neil

    actor

    actors
    1949