Thomas Heathcote

Thomas Heathcote
Born	9 September 1917 Simla, Himachal Pradesh, India
Died	5 January 1986 (aged 68) London, England
Years active	1939–1986

Thomas Heathcote (9 September 1917 – 5 January 1986) was a British character actor.

He was educated at Bradfield College in Bradfield, near Reading in Berkshire, England. His films included A Night to Remember (1958), Village of the Damned (1960), Billy Budd (1962), A Man for All Seasons (1966), Night of the Big Heat (1967) and Quatermass and the Pit (1967). On television he had notable guest roles in Dixon of Dock Green, The Prisoner, Z-Cars, The Onedin Line and Crossroads. Heathcote was also a regular actor in BBC radio drama, notably in several series of Paul Temple.

Selected filmography

• Cloudburst (1951)
• The Red Beret (1953)
• Blood Orange (1953)
• Above Us the Waves (1955)
• Doctor at Sea (1955)
• The Last Man to Hang? (1956)
• Tiger in the Smoke (1956)
• Yangtse Incident (1957)
• A Night to Remember (1958)
• Tread Softly Stranger (1958)
• Village of the Damned (1960)
• On the Fiddle (1961)
• Billy Budd (1962)
• A Man for All Seasons (1966)
• Night of the Big Heat (1967)
• Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
• The Fixer (1968)
• Julius Caesar (1970)
• The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
• Burke & Hare (1971)
• Demons of the Mind (1972)
• Luther (1973)
• Trial by Combat (1976)
• The Shooting Party (1985)

External links

• Thomas Heathcote at the Internet Movie Database