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TürkçeMichael Rennie (Eric Alexander Rennie)
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Biography
Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
The British actor Michael Rennie worked as a car salesman and factory manager before he turned to acting. A meeting with a Gaumont-British Studios casting director led to Rennie's first acting job - that of stand-in for Robert Young in Secret Agent (1936) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He put his film career on hold for a few years to get some acting experience on the stage, working in repertory in York and Windsor. Afterwards, he returned to films and achieved star status in I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945). Read more... F. Zanuck, Rennie was cast in arguably his most popular role as Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), when director Robert Wise's first choice, Claude Rains, was unavailable. After that he worked as a supporting actor for eight years until his return to England in 1959. At that time, he took the lead role of Harry Lime in the television series The Third Man (1959). Throughout his career, he made numerous guest appearances on television, particularly on American programs.
Actor
Character:
Extra
Secret Agent 1936
17
Character:
Minor Role
The Divorce of Lady X 1938
5
Character:
Guardsman
Bank Holiday 1938
13
Character:
Kapulski
Dangerous Moonlight 1941
5
Character:
Lt Maxwell
Ships with Wings 1941
3
Character:
Diner
Turned Out Nice Again 1941
10
Character:
Anthony Hale
Tower of Terror 1941
2
Character:
Royal Air Force: George
The Big Blockade 1942
3
Character:
Kit Locksby
The Wicked Lady 1945
10
Character:
Narrator
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel 1951
4
Character:
Dr. Robert Fortness
Phone Call from a Stranger 1952
3
Character:
Colin Travers
5 Fingers 1952
1
Character:
End Narrator
Titanic 1953
104
Character:
Dr. Paul Manning
Dangerous Crossing 1953
2
Character:
Narrator
The Desert Rats 1953
3
Character:
Lt. Richard Saville
Single-Handed 1953
3
Character:
Inspector Merryweather
Soldier of Fortune 1955
6
Character:
Jay Fallon
Teenage Rebel 1956
2
Character:
Hilary Carson
Island in the Sun 1957
7
Character:
Hasani Sabah
Omar Khayyam 1957
4
Character:
Captain John Winter
Third Man on the Mountain 1959
2
Character:
Geoffrey - Duke of Lanbourne
Hotel 1967
6
Character:
Lt. Gen. Mark Clark
The Devil's Brigade 1968
17
Character:
Arthur Nordlund
The Power 1968
2
Character:
Inspector Durand
Nude... si muore 1968
1
Character:
Goldsmith
Subterfuge 1968
2
Character:
Hamilton
I Spy 1965
0
Character:
Edward Parker Greene
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre 1963
0
Character:
General Conrad Munday
The Dick Powell Theatre 1961
0
Character:
Howard Joyce
Producers' Showcase 1954
0
Character:
Peter
The Robe 1953
0
0
Character:
Barnaby Partridge
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 1964
0
Character:
King Edward
The Black Rose 1950
2
Character:
'Irish' Sean Dillon
Climax! 1954
0
Character:
Angus Martin
Suspicion 1957
0
0
Character:
Robert Thurston
Kraft Suspense Theatre 1963
0
Character:
Actor in 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' Clip
Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey 1994
17
Character:
Summers
Route 66 1960
0
Character:
The Keeper
Lost in Space 1965
0
Character:
Gen. St. John Keighley
12 O'Clock High 1964
0
Character:
Brig. Gen. J. R. Maitland
King of the Khyber Rifles 1953
0
Character:
Julius Ulrich
The Barbara Stanwyck Show 1960
0
Character:
Prison Camp Officer
'Pimpernel' Smith 1941
1
Character:
Klaatu
The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951
0
Character:
Quayside Centurion
Caesar and Cleopatra 1945
0
Character:
Ralph Manson
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1962
0
Character:
Grant Coburn
Zane Grey Theater 1956
0
Character:
Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte
Désirée 1954
0
Character:
Capt. Creighton
Shirley Temple's Storybook 1958
0
Character:
Capt. Malcolm Smith
The Time Tunnel 1966
0
