The Crossfire (1967) | Ian Hendry - Eric Portman - Peter Wyngarde
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The Crossfire (Broadcast 7th February 1967)
ITV Play of the Week: Season 12, Episode 23
The play is set during the Algerian War
Episode Cast (in alphabetical order)
Patrick Barr ... General Palice
Anne Blake ... Francesca
Lindsay Campbell ... Colonel Carnot
Michael Coles ... Armidal
Roger Delgado ... Dr. Si Cada
Frank Gatliff ... President of the Court
Ian Hendry ... Paul Du Pre
Philip Locke ... Vedoni
Kenneth Mcreddie ... 1st Guard
Wolfe Morris ... Lieutenant Vinh
Mia Nardi ... Maria
Eric Portman ... Dr. David Sorel
Zoe Randall ... Dr. Marianne Lagny
Jeffrey Sirr ... Salem
Jeanette Sterke ... Eliane de Croissillon
Peter Wyngarde ... Hugo de Croissillon
Anglia Television - ITV Play Of The Week - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Two years after this 1967 production, Eric Portman, the consummate English actor would pass away at 68 years old. Just watched one of his MANY brilliant performances in a 1948 film called "Daybreak", with Ann Todd.
Thank you so much for your comment. I adored Eric (and Knox) and am more than somewhat depressed at the approach of the 50th anniversary of his death. Someone please tell me why EP so so dreadfully under-rated.
From excellent television drama and wordplay like this to...EastEnders and Strictly Come Dancing.
Eric Portman is wonderful. i have always loved his work. What a cast!. Thanks, for this treat.
It is a sad comment on modern TV that this production made 49 years ago has more to say about the current state of the world than anything being broadcast now.
A quality production with some great actors. If there was more like this I would consider getting a TV,
The television I remember from the 1960s ro the late eighties was full of such quality production,our generation now realise how fortunate we were. The world war 11 generation often told us,however many then did not realise that everything has a price !
Eric Portman was so under rated. Dear Murderer. Wow what a movie x
Yes Eric Portman was a supreme actor very talented, no one could play sinister better than him he had that stare with those lovely dark eyes. ❤️ Much missed
half a century later...this really is a play to be much appreciated for today, thank you
Sublime Eric Portman my favourite actor, always acted everyone else off the screen. ❤️❤️
Roger "The Master" Delgado is in this i see.
What a gem - so many greats were in this. Looks like a PLAY FOR TODAY episode, which I think came out on TV during Wednesdays. Eric died in 1969!
I'm not sure if they were on Wednesdays too but The Wednesday Plays definitely were! They ran each from October 1964 to May 1970. Play for Today ran from 1970 to 1984. It's interesting that Eric Portman was in one. I assumed he died prior to that time--wrongly. He was a great actor.
I remember Ian Hendry. He was in the very first Avengers. I first remember Peter Wyngarde in Department S, though I've seen him recently in two older productions.
There were great dramas in those days and plenty of great British (and Irish) ones around back then.
So fortunate to have experienced a time when “Play for Today” frequently produced wonderful drama. The rediscovery of the fabulous Eric Portman via CZcams has also given another chance to fully appreciate how excellent he was.
Some actors have it easy. Consider Peter Wyngarde's beginnings...
"One city which left a lasting impression on him was Shanghai, where he had been temporarily left in the care of a Swiss family whilst his father was away in India on business. The year was 1941, and amidst a mass of turmoil and confusion, news broke that the Japanese had captured the city, and before long, Peter and his surrogate family found themselves in Lung Hau concentration camp.
Confined in these desperately brutal conditions for four years, Peter struggled to prevent his family and friends from dying at the hands of the cruel and barbaric soldiers who governed the camp, and on one occasion while running errands between accommodation huts, he was discovered and punished by having both his feet broken with a rifle butt, and then put into solitary confinement for two weeks.
During better times however, the young Mr Wyngarde worked in the camp laundry and gardens, and began to write and appear in plays staged by, and for, his fellow inmates, making his acting debut in his own production of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. When the camp was finally liberated in 1945 Peter, who was then suffering from malnutrition, beriberi and malaria, was taken to a sanatorium in the Swiss mountains where he remained for the next two years."
Tsk. Tsk.
They should make a film of his life.
I think so too ...but a good biopic what tells especially his carreer much more than his privacy....most of biopics i watched suck(in my opinion)
powerful,with a fine cast
Wow, I miss plays on TV.
What talented cutie was brunet english french late actor peter wyngarde and he could act too
The Crossfire, episode aired 7 February 1967. Eric Portman as Dr. David Sorel; Roger Delgado as Dr. Si Cada; Anne Blake as Francesca; Jeanette Sterke as Eliane de Croissillon; Jeffrey Sirr as Salem; Peter Wyngarde as Hugo de Croissillon; Zoe Randall as Dr. Marianne Lagny; Ian Hendry as Paul Du Pre; Philip Locke as Vedoni; Mia Nadasi (as Mia Nardi) as Maria; Venetia Matania, Dancer; Patrick Barr as General Palice; Wolfe Morris as Lieutenant Vinh; Michael Coles as Armidal; Frank Gatliff, President of the Court; Kenneth Mcreddie (as Kenneth McReddie), 1st Guard; Lindsay Campbell as Colonel Carnot.
Can't seem to find this one on IMDB Thanks for the info
Great to see the late Roger Delgado too.
Yip. I remember Roger in lots of TV series in the 1960s and 1970s.
He must have been one of the most well-known faces on TV in those days. But I reckon a lot of people didn't know his name because he didn't ever seem to be in the main part. He had one of those faces--like that of Ronald Frazer and Arthur Mullard--that was common to most people though his name wasn't.
He had en exotic look about him (at least he did for those days) so, as far as I know, he was never given typical British parts. Ironically, he was London born and bred. It's good to see him again on you tube. Thanks.
Fun facts: His full name was Roger Caesar Marius Bernard de Delgado Torres Castillo Roberto and he was best known as the first actor to play the diabolical Master in Doctor Who (1971-73).
Must have been one of Eric Portman's last roles.
Same as the Timeslip theme tune
A lot of ITV productions around this time just used library music for theme tunes. "Callan" was another such example.
From a culture of high political intelligence both in the population at large and in its actors.
It’s deliberate degradation by policy and infiltration is a shame that needs - in the words of the film - ‘moral revolt’.
In the film the polarity was anarchic political idealism vs constitutional affirmation.
This plays before our eyes in 2020.
The deeper conflict is between the Numinous and the atheistic - between intelligent faith and ignorant rationalistic self-assurance.
‘Man - proud man - most ignorant of what he’s most assured,
His glassy essence - like an angry ape - plays such fantastic tricks
Before high heaven as make the angels weep..........’
Of Angelo in ‘Measure for Measure’. - William Shakespeare - from Stratford - England.
Is this the colonial Malayan Crisis ?
+IAN PAYNE Hi Ian, the play is set during the Algerian War...
+Ian Hendry Thanks Neil - ironic when one looks at the tragic events in Paris this weekend. Hope you are well.
suziecreamchease what about all the innocent French that were killed by the Algerians? Are you oblivious to that.
innocent French? read much?
Claude Belew You seem confused about who was occupying whose country.
British actors playing French characters??? A little weird and unauthentic. I would qualify the movie as "theatrical".