''Assassin'' is a 1973 British
thriller film
Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre ...
directed by
Peter Crane
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and starring
Ian Hendry
Ian Mackendrick Hendry (13 January 1931 – 24 December 1984) was a British actor. He worked on several British TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, including the lead in the first series of '' The Avengers'' and '' The Lotus Eaters'', and played ...
,
Edward Judd
Edward Judd (4 October 1932 – 24 February 2009) was a British actor.
Biography
Born in Shanghai, he and his English father and Russian mother fled when the Japanese attacked China five years later. His career was at its peak in the 1960s ...
and
Frank Windsor
Frank Windsor Higgins (12 July 1928 – 30 September 2020), known professionally as Frank Windsor, was an English actor, primarily known for his roles on television, especially policeman John Watt in ''Z-Cars'' and its spin-offs.
Biography
Win ...
.
Premise
The British government hires an assassin to kill a
Ministry of Defence
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official suspected of leaking secrets.
Cast
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Ian Hendry
Ian Mackendrick Hendry (13 January 1931 – 24 December 1984) was a British actor. He worked on several British TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, including the lead in the first series of '' The Avengers'' and '' The Lotus Eaters'', and played ...
as The Assassin
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Edward Judd
Edward Judd (4 October 1932 – 24 February 2009) was a British actor.
Biography
Born in Shanghai, he and his English father and Russian mother fled when the Japanese attacked China five years later. His career was at its peak in the 1960s ...
as MI5 Control
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Frank Windsor
Frank Windsor Higgins (12 July 1928 – 30 September 2020), known professionally as Frank Windsor, was an English actor, primarily known for his roles on television, especially policeman John Watt in ''Z-Cars'' and its spin-offs.
Biography
Win ...
as John Stacy
*
Ray Brooks as Edward Craig
*
John Hart Dyke as Janik
*
Verna Harvey as The Girl
*
Mike Pratt as Matthew
*
Frank Duncan as Luke
*
Mike Shannon
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as Alcoholic
*
Paul Whitsun-Jones
Paul Whitsun-Jones (25 April 1923 – 14 January 1974) was a Welsh character actor.
Born in Newport in Monmouthshire, he was educated at Merchant Taylors' School in Northwood in Middlesex. He started his acting career in 1948 with two years a ...
as Drunk Man
*
Molly Weir
Mary Weir (17 March 1910 – 28 November 2004), known as Molly Weir, was a Scottish actress. She appeared as the character Hazel the McWitch in the BBC TV series '' Rentaghost''.
She was the sister of naturalist and broadcaster Tom Weir.
B ...
as Drunk Woman
*
Andrew Lodge
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as Back-up Man
*
Avril Fenton
Avril means April in French and other languages. It may also refer to:
Places
* Mont Avril, a mountain on the Swiss-Italian border
* Avril, Meurthe-et-Moselle, a commune of the Meurthe-et-Moselle département, France
People
* Avril (name)
* ...
as Barmaid
*
Caroline John
Caroline Frances John (19 September 1940 – 5 June 2012) was an English actress. She played classical roles on the stage and also portrayed Elizabeth "Liz" Shaw in the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', as well as several o ...
as Ann
References
External links
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1973 films
1970s thriller films
1970s English-language films
Films directed by Peter Crane
British thriller films
1970s British films
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