Cyril Luckham

Personal Info

Birthday

July 25, 1907

Day of Death

1989-02-08

(81 years old)

Place of Birth

Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK

Cyril Luckham

Biography

Cyril Alexander Garland Luckham (25 July 1907 – 8 February 1989) was an English film, television and theatre actor. He was the husband of stage and screen actress Violet Lamb.

The son of a paymaster captain in the Royal Navy, Cyril Luckham was educated at RNC Osborne and Dartmouth and briefly followed his father into the service. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1930 and retired the following year, transferring to the Emergency List. Afterwards he trained for the stage with the Arthur Brough school at Folkestone, making his debut with Brough's company there in The Admirable Crichton in 1935.

Known For

Doctor Who

The Saint

Tales of the Unexpected

The Professionals

BBC Play of the Month

The Famous Five

The Wednesday Play

Playhouse

Filmography

1983
Mrs. Silly
as Bishop
Doctor Who: Enlightenment
as The White Guardian
1981
The Winter's Tale
as Antigonus
1980
Donkeys' Years
as Sydney Birkett
1979
Sweet Wine of Youth
as Dean Inge
The Saint and the Brave Goose
as Coroner
1978
Doctor Who: The Ribos Operation
as The Guardian
Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man
as Old Hardy
1977
Providence
as Dr. Mark Eddington
1975
The Doll
as Sir Arnold Wyatt
1974
The Wood Demon
as Orlovsky
1973
Caring for History
as Narrator
1971
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
as Tringham
1970
One More Time
as Magistrate
1969
Anne of the Thousand Days
as Prior Houghton
1968
Stand by Your Screen
as Norman Gritter
1967
The Naked Runner
as Cabinet minister
1966
A Man for All Seasons
as Archbishop Cranmer
1965
The Alphabet Murders
as Sir Carmichael Clarke
VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton
as Archibald Lake
1964
The July Plot
as General-Colonel Ludwig Beck
The Pumpkin Eater
as Doctor
A Midsummer Night's Dream
as Egeus
1962
Billy Budd
as Hallam, Captain of Marines
Some People
as Magistrate
1957
The Birthday Present
as Magistrate
How to Murder a Rich Uncle
as Coroner
The End Begins
as Dr. Wincot
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
as Commander in Chief
1956
The Battle of the River Plate
as Lieutenant Jasper Abbot, H.M.S. Achilles
1955
Out of the Clouds
as Doctor Harman
1954
Stranger from Venus
as Dr. Meinard
1945
Murder in Reverse?
as Crossley's Guest