William Lucas

Known for Acting

4/14/1925

Manchester, England, UK

Biography

William Thomas Clucas, better known as William Lucas, was an English film, theatre, radio and television actor.

Known For (65 credits)

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Inside the Tower

2015

A look back at a 70s cult classic, Tower of Evil.

5.2

Eldorado

1992

Eldorado was a British soap opera that ran for only one year, from 6 July 1992 to 9 July 1993. Set in the fictional town of Los Barcos on the Costa del Sol in Spain and based around the lives of British and European expats, the BBC hoped it would be as successful as EastEnders and replicate some of the sunshine and glamour of imported Australian soaps such as Home and Away and Neighbours. A co-production between the BBC and independent production company Cinema Verity, Eldorado aired three times a week in a high-profile evening slot on the mainstream channel BBC1, filling the slot vacated by Terry Wogan's chat show Wogan, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7.00pm. In spite of a high-profile advertising campaign on television, radio and in the press preceding the launch, the programme was not initially a popular hit with viewers and critics. Ratings improved with a radical overhaul, but it was eventually cancelled by the new controller of BBC1, Alan Yentob.

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The New Adventures of Black Beauty

1990

The New Adventures of Black Beauty was the title of a television drama series produced in the early 1990s.

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Beatrix: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter

1990

A biographical film about Beatrix Potter as a young woman.

6.7

The Bill

1984

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.

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Movie

Doctor Who: Frontios

1984

"Frontios buries its own dead", or so the saying goes. The Doctor, Turlough and Tegan are forced into landing on the remote planet of Frontios, a human colony where deaths go unaccounted for. What lies beneath the surface, dragging its victims down?

5.0

Squadron

1982

Squadron is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1982. The series dealt with the adventures of the fictional 370 Rapid Deployment Squadron of the Royal Air Force. The Squadron operated a mix of operational RAF aircraft including the Harrier GR Mk 3, Hercules C Mk 1, Puma HC Mk 1 and the first episode, Phantom FGR Mk 2. One series of ten episodes was made. The leading cast members included Michael Culver, Malcolm Stoddard, Derek Anders, and Catriona MacColl.

7.3

Dick Turpin

1979

Richard O'Sullivan stars as Dick Turpin in this action-filled adventure series chronicling the exploits of England's most celebrated highwayman.

Movie

The Love of a Good Woman

1976

Isabella and Henry were childhood sweethearts. Isabella dreams of the arrival of a vulgar woman named Emily.

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Movie

Operation: Daybreak

1975

Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.

5.5

The Hanged Man

1975

After surviving a series of attempts on his life, successful businessman Lew Burnett decides to remain "dead" after the most recent one so he can go undercover and find out which of his close friends and business associates want him dead.

7.0

Playhouse

1974

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.