Acting
Bruce Purchase
Born 1938-10-02
Thames, New Zealand
Department: Acting
Known For
Prominent works featuring Bruce Purchase
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Doctor Who
1963
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Play for Today
1970
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Macbeth
1971
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BBC Play of the Month
1965
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All Quiet on the Western Front
1979
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I, Claudius
1976
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Richard III
1995
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Blake's 7
1978
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Rumpole of the Bailey
1975
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The New Avengers
1976
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Filmography & Credits
Complete career catalog (57 titles)
| Poster | Title | Character / Role | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Parrot Fashion | Self / Appearance | Movie | 2007 |
 | Another Life | Sir Henry Curtis-Bennett | Movie | 2001 |
 | Esther | Hauptmann der Wache | Movie | 1999 |
 | The Sea Change | Oldberg | Movie | 1998 |
 | Killer Net | Pathologist | TV Series | 1998 |
 | David | Isai | Movie | 1997 |
 | Richard III | City Gentleman | Movie | 1995 |
 | Freddie As F.R.O.7. | Additional voices (voice) | Movie | 1992 |
 | Lionheart | Simon Nerra | Movie | 1987 |
 | Casanova | Self / Appearance | Movie | 1987 |
 | Playing Away | Fredrick | Movie | 1987 |
 | Anna of the Five Towns | Tom Kelly | TV Series | 1985 |
 | Other Halves | Irwin | Movie | 1984 |
 | The Tripods | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1984 |
 | Freud | Professor Nothnagel | TV Series | 1984 |
 | The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood | Moishe | Movie | 1984 |
 | Pope John Paul II | Jerzy Loparicz | Movie | 1984 |
 | Atlantis | Goff | Movie | 1983 |
 | Doctor Who: Logopolis | The Captain (archive footage) | Movie | 1981 |
 | Henry IV Part 2 | Earl of Northumberland | Movie | 1979 |
 | Henry IV Part 1 | Henry Percy | Movie | 1979 |
 | All Quiet on the Western Front | Cook (uncredited) | Movie | 1979 |
| Even Solomon | Jake | Movie | 1979 | |
 | The Quatermass Conclusion | Tommy Roach | Movie | 1979 |
 | Quatermass | Tommy Roach | TV Series | 1979 |
 | Meetings with Remarkable Men | Father Maxim | Movie | 1979 |
 | Kidnapped | Cumberland | TV Series | 1979 |
 | Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet | The Pirate Captain | Movie | 1978 |
 | A Horseman Riding By | Parson Augustus Bull | TV Series | 1978 |
 | Blake's 7 | Gola | TV Series | 1978 |
 | Exiles | Ernest Hemingway | Movie | 1977 |
 | BBC2 Play of the Week | Ernest | TV Series | 1977 |
 | Supernatural | Herr Steekebeck | TV Series | 1977 |
 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Provost | Movie | 1976 |
 | The New Avengers | Prof. Lopez | TV Series | 1976 |
 | I, Claudius | Sabinus | TV Series | 1976 |
 | Clayhanger | Big James | TV Series | 1976 |
 | Rumpole of the Bailey | Leslie Delgado | TV Series | 1975 |
| The Secret Agent | Mr. Michaelis | Movie | 1975 | |
| Looking for Clancy | Basil Rudering | TV Series | 1975 | |
 | Fall of Eagles | Von Plehve | TV Series | 1974 |
 | Soft Beds, Hard Battles | Colonel Meinertzhagen (uncredited) | Movie | 1974 |
 | Alice Through the Looking Glass | Walrus / Guard | Movie | 1973 |
 | The Optimists of Nine Elms | Policeman | Movie | 1973 |
 | A Picture of Katherine Mansfield | Father | TV Series | 1973 |
 | Mary, Queen of Scots | Morton | Movie | 1971 |
 | Macbeth | Caithness | Movie | 1971 |
 | Play for Today | Jake | TV Series | 1970 |
| Play for Today | Goff | TV Series | 1970 |
 | Doomwatch | Norman Sylvester | TV Series | 1970 |
 | Callan | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1967 |
| Callan | Det. Sgt. Lynn | TV Series | 1967 |
 | Othello | Senators-Soldiers-Cypriots | Movie | 1965 |
 | BBC Play of the Month | Taffy | TV Series | 1965 |
 | Doctor Who | Self / Appearance | TV Series | 1963 |
| Doctor Who | Captain | TV Series | 1963 |
 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Cook | TV Series | 1951 |