Thomas Heathcote

British actor

Thomas Heathcote

Born	Thomas Ian Deacon Heathcote (1917-09-09)9 September 1917 Simla, Himachal Pradesh, India
Died	5 January 1986(1986-01-05) (aged 68) London, England
Years active	1939–1986

Thomas Heathcote (9 September 1917 – 5 January 1986) was a British character actor, a former protégé of Laurence Olivier.^[1]^[2]

He was educated at Bradfield College in Bradfield, near Reading in Berkshire, England. His films included A Night to Remember (1958), Village of the Damned (1960), Billy Budd (1962), A Man for All Seasons (1966), Night of the Big Heat (1967) and Quatermass and the Pit (1967).^[3] On television he had notable guest roles in Dixon of Dock Green, The Prisoner, Z-Cars and The Onedin Line, and several years as farmer Ed Lawton in the teatime soap Crossroads.^[4]^[5] Heathcote was also a regular actor in BBC radio drama, notably in several series of Paul Temple.^[6]

Selected filmography

Dance Hall (1950) - Fred
Cloudburst (1951) - Jackie
Malta Story (1953) - Soldier (uncredited)
The Sword and the Rose (1953) - Wrestling Second
The Red Beret (1953) - Alf
Blood Orange (1953) - Detective Sgt. Jessup
The Large Rope (1953) - James Gore
The Seekers (1954) - Sgt. Paul
Betrayed (1954) - Paratropper Corporal (uncredited)
Above Us the Waves (1955) - Hutchins
Doctor at Sea (1955) - Wilson
The Last Man to Hang (1956) - Bracket
Eyewitness (1956) - Tom - Barman (uncredited)
Tiger in the Smoke (1956) - Rolly Gripper
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957) - Mr. Monaghan RN
A Night to Remember (1958) - Steward
Tread Softly Stranger (1958) - Sergeant Lamb
Dial 999 (TV series) ('Commando Crook', episode) (1958)- Sgt. Quigley
The Square Ring (1959)
Village of the Damned (1960) - James Pawle
On the Fiddle (1961) - Sergeant
Billy Budd (1962) - Alan Payne - Maintopman
A Man for All Seasons (1966) - Boatman
Night of the Big Heat (1967) - Bob Hayward
Quatermass and the Pit (1967) - Vicar
The Fixer (1968) - Proshko
Julius Caesar (1970) - Flavius
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) .- 2nd Policeman
Burke & Hare (1972) - Paterson
Demons of the Mind (1972) - Coachman
Luther (1974) - Lucas
Trial by Combat (1976) - Tramp
The Jigsaw Man (1983) - Gamekeeper
Sword of the Valiant (1984) - Armourer
The Shooting Party (1985) - Ogden

References

^ McFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781526111968.
^ "Thomas Heathcote - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
^ "Thomas Heathcote". Archived from the original on 21 March 2017.
^ TV.com. "Thomas Heathcote". TV.com.
^ "Thomas Heathcote". www.aveleyman.com.
^ "Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury in 'PAUL TEMPLE AND THE SPENCER AFFAIR'". The Radio Times (1781): 39. 27 December 1957 – via BBC Genome.