Martyn Read

Known for Acting

11/11/1944

Reading, Berkshire, England, UK

Biography

Martyn Read was a British actor, known for The Sweeney (1974), The Darling Buds of May (1991) and Juggernaut (1974).

Known For (15 credits)

Movie

Beyond Reason

1995

Drama based on a real-life story of a love affair between a married army captain and a young female soldier. Susan Christie and Duncan McAllister have an affair, but Duncan ends the relationship when he's posted to Germany. Three days later, Susan and Duncan's wife, Penny, go for a walk in the woods in Northern Ireland. Fifteen minutes later, Penny is dead and Susan claims they were attacked by an unknown man.

6.2

The House of Eliott

1991

Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.

7.8

The Darling Buds of May

1991

An idyllic picture of 1950's rural England as seen through the lives of the Larkins, a farm family living in Kent. The show revolves around Pa Larkin, a man of a kind and mischievous nature with a penchant for getting into scrapes and talking his way out of them with equal equanimity; and his daughters, as they deal with growing up and discovering the joys and sorrows of young love.

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

6.5

Movie

The Tragedy of Flight 103: The Inside Story

1990

Examination of the events that led to the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

6.0

The Chief

1990

The Chief is a British crime drama transmitted on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995. Produced by Anglia Television, it centred on the politics at the top of a typical English police force in its continual battle to solve the problems the times, in this case the fictional Eastland of East Anglia.

7.4

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library

1984

Amateur detective Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young woman whose body is found in the library at Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Arthur Bantry.

Movie

Sin with Our Permission

1981

A social scientist working in a New Town development discovers that the community television system is being used to monitor and control the population.

5.0

Buccaneer

1980

Buccaneer is a short-lived television series, made by the BBC in 1979–80, and broadcast over 13 weeks in April–July 1980. The series, about a developing air freight business, starred Bryan Marshall, Pamela Salem and Clifford Rose, and was produced by Gerard Glaister. The aircraft that "starred" in the series was a Bristol Britannia of Redcoat Air Cargo, registration G-BRAC, which wore the markings of "Redair", the name of the fictional airline in the series. Only one series was produced due to the Bristol Britannia G-BRAC crash near Boston, Mass., on 16 February 1980, shortly after the completion of filming. Of the eight passengers, seven were killed, and only one survived, albeit seriously injured.

6.8

Minder

1979

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

7.2

Blake's 7

1978

A group of convicts and outcasts fight a guerrilla war against the totalitarian Terran Federation from a highly advanced alien spaceship.

6.5

Target

1977

A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.

Movie

Good Salary, Prospects, Free Coffin

1975

After two of her roommates disappear while out for a job interview, a woman answers a want ad for the same job.