Arthur George Murcell (30 October 1925 – 3 December 1998) was a British character actor. Born in Italy, he made his film debut in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Battle of the River Plate (1956), Murcell went on to develop a career playing snarling villains in both film and television. These could either be stupid, brutish henchmen, as in Hell Drivers and Campbell's Kingdom (both 1957), or sophisticated rogues, such as Needle in "You Have Just Been Murdered", an episode of The Avengers. He specialised in playing foreign characters, including Germans, Russians and South Americans. A number of these roles were in ITC adventure TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Danger Man, The Baron, The Saint, The Champions (Reply Box No.666 episode, 1967) Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), The Persuaders! and Jason King. His film roles included Sea of Sand (1958), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), The Heroes of Telemark (1965), Kaleidoscope (1966), The Fixer (1968), A Dandy in Aspic (1968), The Assassination Bureau (1969), A Walk with Love and Death (1969), Penny Gold (1973), Special Branch (1974), Inside the Third Reich (1982, as Hermann Göring), Year of the Gun (1991), and Cutthroat Island (1995). He enjoyed a long stage career, which involved working with Tyrone Guthrie and Peter Brook, and was active in the Royal Shakespeare Company.In the 1970s, he acquired a Victorian church in North London, which he converted into an Elizabethan-style theatre in collaboration with director Adrian Brown. In 1973, he opened it as "St George's Theatre", intending that it present little-seen classical plays. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, he continued to work at St George's Theatre as both an actor and a director, often with his wife, Elvi Hale.

The Cherry Orchard

Peter the Great

The Avengers

The Persuaders!

Jason King

The Professionals

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

The Saint

The Angry Silence

Theatre 625

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Armchair Cinema

テレマークの要塞

A Dandy in Aspic

Supercar

Gideon's Way

Hell Drivers

世界殺人公社

007は二度死ぬ

Sea of Sand

Manhunt

The Adventures of Sir Lancelot

The Fall of the Roman Empire

In Search of the Castaways

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Horsemen

The Battle of the River Plate

Pascali's Island

The Champions

There Was a Crooked Man

A Walk with Love and Death

The Naked Runner

Sea Fury

1990

Campbell's Kingdom

カットスロート・アイランド

Blood of the Vampire

Penny Gold

Crossroads to Crime

Don't Panic Chaps

The Pursuers

Smuggler

Si può essere più bastardi dell'ispettore Cliff?

Year of the Gun

Kaleidoscope

Die Eisprinzessin

The Year of the Sex Olympics

No Hiding Place

Sunday Night Theatre

Schwedischer Sommerwind

The Possessed

The Prison

Presented in Supercolorisation

The Informer

Inside the Third Reich