Laurence Naismith (born Lawrence Johnson; 14 December 1908 – 5 June 1992) was an English actor. He made numerous film and television appearances, including starring roles in the musical films '' Scrooge'' (1970) and the children's ghost film '' The Amazing Mr. Blunden'' (1972). He also had memorable roles as Captain Edward Smith of the RMS ''Titanic'' in '' A Night to Remember'' (1958), the First Sea Lord in ''

Sink the Bismarck! ''Sink the Bismarck!'' is a 1960 black-and-white CinemaScope British war film based on the 1959 book '' The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck'' by C. S. Forester. It stars Kenneth More and Dana Wynter and was directed by Lewis Gilbert. To date ...

'' (1960), and Argus in '' Jason and the Argonauts'' (1963).

Early life and career

Naismith was born as Lawrence Johnson on 14 December 1908 in Thames Ditton, Surrey. He attended All Saints Choir School, Margaret Street, London, and was a chorus member for a 1927 production of the

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musical ''

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.'' He later worked in

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and ran a repertory company of his own.Laurence Naismith profile
Masterworksbroadway.com; retrieved 2 January 2016. Naismith served in the

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and at the outbreak of the

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, he joined the

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where he became an officer in the

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Film

His film roles included '' Carrington V.C.'' (1954), ''

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'' (1955), ''

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'' (1956), '' A Night to Remember'' (1958), ''

'' (1960), ''

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'' (1960) and '' Jason and the Argonauts'' (1963). He played the non-singing role of

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in the 1967 film version of the musical ''

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'' and appeared in the

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film '' Diamonds Are Forever'' (1971) as the chairman of the diamond trading syndicate.

Television

In 1965, Naismith played the title role of the

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statesman

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in the

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documentary series, ''

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''.

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played

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in the episode, and

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was cast as

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. In 1965, Naismith guest-starred as barber Gilly Bright in episode 25, "The Threat" of the

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military drama, ''

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'' and Dr. McCallister in the ABC action drama, '' The Fugitive'', starring

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. In 1969 he played Don Q Hought in an episode of ''

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''. He played Judge Fulton in the television series ''

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'' (1971), with

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and

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. He portrayed Emperor of Austria

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in the BBC production ''

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'' (1974). Naismith played the ''Prince of Verona'' in the

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version of ''

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''. He also appeared in the

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sitcom '' Oh, Father!'' (1972) and played in ''

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'' (1967–68) with

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Stage

In 1934, he appeared alongside

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in the musical '' Mr. Whittington'' in London's West End. In 1952 he appeared at the

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in ''

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'' by Peter Jones. On

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he performed in the

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musical ''

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'' in 1963, with

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.Taubman, Howard. "Theater: Musical by Meredith Willson: 'Here's Love' Based on 'Miracle on 34th St.'" New York Times, 4 October 1963, 28.

Filmography

* '' A Piece of Cake'' (1948) as Merlin Mound * '' Trouble in the Air'' (1948) as Tom Hunt * '' Badger's Green'' (1949) as Mr. Butler * ''

Kind Hearts and Coronets ''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' is a 1949 British crime film, crime black comedy film directed by Robert Hamer. It features Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness; Guinness plays eight characters. The plot is loosely based ...

'' (1949) as Warder in Jail (uncredited) * ''

Train of Events ''Train of Events'' is a 1949 British portmanteau film made by Ealing Studios, directed by Sidney Cole, Charles Crichton and Basil Dearden and starring Jack Warner, Peter Finch and Valerie Hobson. The film premiered on 18 August 1949 at the ...

'' (1949) as Joe Hunt (segment "The Actor") * '' The Chiltern Hundreds'' (1949) as Reporter (uncredited) * '' Room to Let'' (1950) as Editor * '' The Happiest Days of Your Life'' (1950) as Dr. Collet * ''

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'' (1951) as Commissionaire (uncredited) * ''

Hell is Sold Out ''Hell Is Sold Out'' is a 1951 British drama film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Mai Zetterling, Herbert Lom and Richard Attenborough. The film was written by Guy Morgan and Moie Charles, from an adaptation by Nick Salamon of the ...

'' (1951) as Dr. Monceau * '' There Is Another Sun'' (1951) as Riley * ''

Chelsea Story ''Chelsea Story'' is a 1951 British second feature ('B') crime film directed by Charles Saunders and starring Henry Mollison, Sydney Tafler and Ingeborg von Kusserow. It was written by John Gilling. Plot Fletcher Gilchrist offers £100 to a ...

'' (1951) as Sergeant Matthews * ''

Calling Bulldog Drummond ''Calling Bulldog Drummond'' is a 1951 British crime film directed by Victor Saville and featuring Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, Robert Beatty, David Tomlinson and Bernard Lee.''Harrison's Reports'' film review; 20 October 1951, page 167 ...

'' (1951) as Hardcastle, Card Player (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1951) as Reginald Gordon-Wells * ''

His Excellency Excellency is an honorific style (manner of address), style given to certain high-level officers of a sovereign state, officials of an international organization, or members of an aristocracy. Once entitled to the title "Excellency", the holder ...

'' (1952) as First Soldier * ''

Whispering Smith Hits London ''Whispering Smith Hits London'' (U.S. title ''Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard'') is a 1952 British second feature ('B') crime drama directed by Francis Searle and starring Richard Carlson, Greta Gynt and Herbert Lom. The screenplay was by ...

'' (1952) as Parker * '' The Happy Family'' (1952) as Councillor * '' I Believe in You'' (1952) as Sergeant Braxton * ''

Mother Riley Meets the Vampire ''Mother Riley Meets the Vampire'' (also known as ''Vampire Over London'' and ''My Son, the Vampire'') is a 1952 British horror comedy film directed by John Gilling, starring Arthur Lucan and Bela Lugosi. It was filmed at Nettlefold Studios. ...

'' (1952) as Police Sergeant at Desk (uncredited) * ''

Penny Princess ''Penny Princess'' is a 1952 British Technicolor comedy film written and directed by Val Guest and starring Yolande Donlan, Dirk Bogarde and A. E. Matthews. It was made by Guest for his own production company, Conquest Productions. The film stars ...

'' (1952) as Louis the Jailkeeper (uncredited) * ''

A Killer Walks ''A Killer Walks'' is a 1952 British film noir directed and written by Ronald Drake and starring Laurence Harvey, Trader Faulkner and Susan Shaw. Plot Two brothers, Ned and Frankie, live on a farm with their elderly grandmother. Ned despises ...

'' (1952) as Doctor James * ''

The Long Memory ''The Long Memory'' is a black-and-white 1953 British crime film directed by Robert Hamer, starring John Mills, John McCallum and Elizabeth Sellars. The screenplay was by Hamer and Frank Harvey based on the 1951 novel ''The Long Memory'' by ...

'' (1952) as Hasbury * ''

Cosh Boy ''Cosh Boy'' (released in the United States as ''The Slasher'') is a 1953 British film noir based on an original play by Bruce Walker. It was directed by Lewis Gilbert and featured James Kenney and Joan Collins. It was made at Riverside Studios ...

'' (1953) as Inspector Donaldson * ''

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'' (1953) as Ambulance Man (uncredited) * ''

Rough Shoot ''Rough Shoot'', released in the USA as ''Shoot First'', is a 1953 British thriller film directed by Robert Parrish and written by Eric Ambler, based on the 1951 novel by Geoffrey Household. The film stars Joel McCrea, in his only postwar non-W ...

'' (1953) as Blossom * ''

The Beggar's Opera ''The Beggar's Opera'' is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of sati ...

'' (1953) as Matt of the Mint * ''

Mogambo ''Mogambo'' is a 1953 Technicolor adventure/ romantic drama film directed by John Ford and starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, and Grace Kelly, and featuring Donald Sinden. Shot on location in colonial British East Africa, Tanganyika, Uganda P ...

'' (1953) as Skipper * '' Love in Pawn'' (1953) as Uncle Ramos * ''

The Million Pound Note ''The Million Pound Note'' is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Ronald Neame and starring Gregory Peck, Ronald Squire, Wilfrid Hyde-White and Jane Griffiths (actress), Jane Griffiths. It is based on the 1893 Mark Twain short story "The Mi ...

'' (1954) as Walter Craddock (uncredited) * '' The Black Knight'' (1954) as Major Domo * '' Carrington V.C.'' (1954) as Major Panton * '' The Dam Busters'' (1955) as Farmer * ''

Josephine and Men ''Josephine and Men'' is a 1955 British comedy film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Glynis Johns, Jack Buchanan, Donald Sinden and Peter Finch. It was written by Nigel Balchin, Frank Harvey and Boulting. Produced by the Boulting ...

'' (1955) as Porter * ''

'' (1955) as The Lord Stanley * ''

'' (1956) as Adm. Cross * '' The Weapon'' (1956) as Jamison * '' Lust for Life'' (1956) as Dr. Bosman * ''

Tiger in the Smoke ''Tiger in the Smoke'' is a 1956 British crime film directed by Roy Ward Baker (billed as Roy Baker) and starring Donald Sinden, Muriel Pavlow, Tony Wright, Bernard Miles and Christopher Rhodes. It is based on the 1952 novel '' The Tiger in ...

'' (1956) as Canon Avril * ''

The Extra Day ''The Extra Day'' (also known as ''Twelve Desperate Hours'' and ''12 Desperate Hours'') is a 1956 British comedy-drama film directed by William Fairchild and starring Richard Basehart, Simone Simon and George Baker. Plot After the final scen ...

'' (1956) as Kurt Von * ''

The Barretts of Wimpole Street ''The Barretts of Wimpole Street'' is a 1930 play by the Dutch/English dramatist Rudolf Besier, based on the romance between Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, and her domineering father's unwillingness to allow them to marry. Presented f ...

'' (1957) as Dr. Chambers * ''

Seven Waves Away ''Seven Waves Away'' (alternate U.S. titles: ''Abandon Ship!'' and ''Seven Days From Now'') is a 1957 British adventure film directed by Richard Sale and starring Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling, Lloyd Nolan, and Stephen Boyd. After his cruise s ...

'' (1957) as Captain Paul Darrow * ''

Boy on a Dolphin ''Boy on a Dolphin'' is a 1957 American romantic adventure film theatrically released by 20th Century-Fox. It is set in Greece and shot in DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope. It was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Samuel G. Engel from a sc ...

'' (1957) as Dr. Hawkins * ''

Robbery Under Arms ''Robbery Under Arms'' is a bushranger novel by Thomas Alexander Browne, published under his pen name Rolf Boldrewood. It was first published in serialised form by ''The Sydney Mail'' between July 1882 and August 1883, then in three volumes in ...

'' (1957) as Ben Marston * ''

The Gypsy and the Gentleman ''The Gypsy and the Gentleman'' is a 1958 British costume drama film directed by Joseph Losey. It stars Melina Mercouri and Keith Michell. Plot The beautiful and fiery gypsy Belle (Melina Mercouri) marries Regency playboy Sir Paul Deverill (K ...

'' (1958) as Dr. Forrester * ''

I Accuse! ''I Accuse!'' is a 1958 British biographical historical drama film based on the Dreyfus affair, in which a Jewish captain in the French Army, Alfred Dreyfus, was falsely accused of treason and imprisoned for five years before being pardoned. Th ...

'' (1958) as Judge, Esterhazy Trial * '' Gideon's Day'' (1958) as Arthur Sayer * '' A Night to Remember'' (1958) as Capt. Edward John Smith * ''

The Two-Headed Spy ''The Two-Headed Spy'' is a 1958 British spy thriller film directed by Andre de Toth and starring Jack Hawkins, Gia Scala, Erik Schumann, Donald Pleasence and Alexander Knox. The film, which has elements of film noir and is set in the Second Wo ...

'' (1958) as Gen. Hauser * '' Tempest'' (1958) as Maj. Zurin * ''

Solomon and Sheba ''Solomon and Sheba'' is a 1959 American Biblical epic historical drama film directed by King Vidor, shot in Technirama (color by Technicolor), and distributed by United Artists. The film dramatizes events described in the tenth chapter of Fir ...

'' (1959) as Hezrai * ''

Third Man on the Mountain ''Third Man on the Mountain'' is a 1959 American family adventure film by Walt Disney Productions, directed by Ken Annakin and starring Michael Rennie, James MacArthur and Janet Munro. Set during the golden age of alpinism, its plot concerns a ...

'' (1959) as Teo Zurbriggen * ''

'' (1960) as First Sea Lord * ''

The Angry Silence ''The Angry Silence'' is a 1960 black-and-white British drama film directed by Guy Green and starring Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli, Michael Craig and Bernard Lee. The film marked the first release through screenwriter Bryan Forbes's p ...

'' (1960) as Martindale * ''

The Trials of Oscar Wilde ''The Trials of Oscar Wilde'', also known as ''The Man with the Green Carnation'' and ''The Green Carnation'', is a 1960 British drama film based on the libel and subsequent criminal cases involving Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensberry. I ...

'' (1960) as Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Prince of Wales * ''Village of the Damned (1960 film), Village of the Damned'' (1960) as Doctor Willers * ''The Criminal (1960 film), The Criminal'' (1960) as Mr. Town * ''

'' (1960) as O'Neill * ''The Singer Not the Song'' (1961) as Old Uncle * ''Greyfriars Bobby (film), Greyfriars Bobby'' (1961) as Mr. Traill * ''The Valiant (1962 film), The Valiant'' (1962) as Admiral * ''I Thank a Fool'' (1962) as O'Grady * ''The 300 Spartans'' (1962) as First Delegate * ''We Joined the Navy'' (1962) as Admiral Blake * ''Cleopatra (1963 film), Cleopatra'' (1963) as Arachesilaus (uncredited) * '' Jason and the Argonauts'' (1963) as Argus (Argonaut), Argus * ''The Three Lives of Thomasina'' (1963) as Reverend Angus Peddie * ''Sky West and Crooked'' (1965) as Edwin Dacres * ''Deadlier Than the Male'' (1967) as Sir John Bledlow * ''

'' (1967) as Merlyn * ''The Scorpio Letters (film), The Scorpio Letters'' (1967) as Burr * ''The Long Duel'' (1967) as McDougal * ''Fitzwilly'' (1967) as Mr. Cotty (uncredited) * ''Eye of the Cat'' (1969) as Dr. Mills * ''The Valley of Gwangi'' (1969) as Professor Bromley * ''The Bushbaby'' (1969) as Prof. 'Cranky' Crankshaw * ''Run a Crooked Mile'' (1969) as Lord Dunnsfield * '' Scrooge'' (1970) as Mr. Fezziwig * ''Quest for Love (1971), Quest for Love'' (1971) as Sir Henry Larnstein * '' Diamonds Are Forever'' (1971) as List of James Bond allies#Film allies, Sir Donald Munger * ''Young Winston'' (1972) as Lord Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Salisbury * ''The Amazing Mr Blunden'' (1972) as Mr. Blunden

Television

* ''The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series), The Adventures of Robin Hood'' (1956) as Sir William de Courcier * ''Danger Man'' (1960) as Spooner * ''Disneyland (TV series), The Prince and the Pauper'' (1962) as Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Earl of Hertford * ''

'' (1965) as John Quincy Adams/

* '' The Fugitive'' (1965-1967) as Major Fielding/Dr. Andrew Emmett McAllister/John Mallory * ''

'' (1967) as Professor Curtis Lindstrom/Cyrus Stone * ''

'' (1969) as Don Q. Hought * ''

'' (1971) as Judge Fulton * ''

'' (1974) as Franz Joseph I of Austria, Emperor Franz Josef * ''BBC Television Shakespeare#Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet'' (1978) as Characters in Romeo and Juliet#Prince Escalus, Prince Escalus * ''I Remember Nelson'' (1982) as Edmund Nelson (priest), Rev. Edmund Nelson

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