Jeffry Wickham (5 August 1933 – 17 June 2014) was an English stage, film and television actor.
He served as President of the actors' trade union
Equity
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Finance, accounting and ownership
* Equity (finance), ownership of assets that have liabilities attached to them
** Stock, equity based on original contributions of cash or other value to a business
** Home equity, the dif ...
from 1992 to 1994 and was the father of the actress
Saskia Wickham
Saskia Wickham (born 14 January 1967) is an English actress best known for playing Alex Wilton in the drama series ''Boon'' and Dr. Erica Matthews in the ITV television drama series ''Peak Practice'' between 1996 and 1998.
Early and personal li ...
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Rupert Wickham
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People
* Rupert (name), various people known by the given name or surname "Rupert"
Places Canada
*Rupert, Quebec, a village
*Rupert Bay, a large bay located on the south-east shore of James Bay
*Rupert River, Quebec
* Rupert ...
. His death after a long illness was announced on 18 June 2014.
Selected filmography
* ''
You Only Live Twice'' (1967) - Russian Control Room Officer (uncredited)
* ''
Before Winter Comes
''Before Winter Comes'' is a 1969 British comedy-drama war film directed by J. Lee Thompson from a screenplay by Andrew Sinclair.
Plot
''Before Winter Comes'' takes place in the immediate aftermath of World War II. British Major Giles Burnside ...
'' (1969) - Captain Roots
* ''
Hello-Goodbye'' (1970) - Dickie
* ''
The Breaking of Bumbo
''The Breaking of Bumbo'' is a 1970 British comedy film written and directed by Andrew Sinclair, a former Coldstream Guards National service officer that was updated from his 1959 novel of the same name that featured the Suez Crisis. It star ...
'' (1970) - Medical Officer
* ''
Waterloo'' (1970) - Colborne
* ''Le silencieux'' (1973)
* ''
Ransom
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When ransom means "payment", the word comes via Old French ''rançon'' from Latin ''red ...
'' (1974) - Capt. Frank Barnes
* ''
S*P*Y*S
''S*P*Y*S'' is a 1974 American spy comedy film directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland and Zouzou. The film was screened at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, but it was not entered into the main competition.
Plo ...
'' (1974) - Seely
* ''
The Sweeney
''The Sweeney'' is a 1970s British television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police specialising in tackling armed robbery and violent crime in London. It stars John Thaw as Detective Ins ...
'' (1975) (Episode: "Faces") - The Major
* ''
Thriller'' (1975) (Episode: "Night is the Time for Killing") - Parker
* ''Smuga cienia'' (1976)
* ''
Memed My Hawk'' (1984) - Captain Faruk
* ''
Another Country'' (1984) - Arthur
* ''
Plenty'' (1985) - 1st SOE Man
* ''
Clockwise
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'' (1986) - Headmaster #10
* ''
A Man Called Sarge
''A Man Called Sarge'' is a 1990 American parody film, written and directed by Stuart Gillard, starring Gary Kroeger, Marc Singer, Gretchen German and introducing a young Natasha Lyonne.
The humour is built on slapstick and verbal puns, in the ...
'' (1990) - Fitzpatrick
* ''
The Remains of the Day
''The Remains of the Day'' is a 1989 novel by the Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro. The protagonist, Stevens, is a butler with a long record of service at Darlington Hall, a stately home near Oxford, ...
'' (1993) - Viscount Bigge
* ''
The Grotesque'' (1995) - Justice Congreve
* ''Marco Polo: Haperek Ha'aharon'' (1996)
* ''
Ali G Indahouse
''Ali G Indahouse'' is a 2002 British comedy film written by Sacha Baron Cohen and Dan Mazer, directed by Mark Mylod, and starring Baron Cohen as Ali G, the character he originally played on the Channel 4 comedy series '' The 11 O'Clock Show'' ...
'' (2002) - Speaker
* ''
Vera Drake
''Vera Drake'' is a 2004 British period drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Daniel Mays and Eddie Marsan. It tells the story of a working-class woman in London in 1950 who performs illegal abor ...
'' (2004) - Prosecution Barrister
* ''
Brothers of the Head
''Brothers of the Head'' is a 2005 mockumentary featuring the story of Tom and Barry Howe (Harry and Luke Treadaway respectively), conjoined twins living in the United Kingdom. It was based on the 1977 novel of the same name by science fiction wr ...
'' (2005) - Sir Allardyce Stevens
* ''
Space Race
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'' (2005) -
Nikolai Kuznetsov
* ''
Scoop
Scoop, Scoops or The scoop may refer to:
Objects
* Scoop (tool), a shovel-like tool, particularly one deep and curved, used in digging
* Scoop (machine part), a component of machinery to carry things
* Scoop stretcher, a device used for casualt ...
'' (2006) - Sid's Co-Passengers
References
External links
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1933 births
2014 deaths
English male stage actors
English male film actors
English male television actors
Place of death missing
Place of birth missing
English trade unionists
20th-century English male actors
21st-century English male actors
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