Derren Nesbitt
Overview
- AKA Derry Nesbitt
- Occupation Actor
- Birthdate June 19, 1935
- Birthplace England
- Character Major von Hapen
Biography
Derren Nesbitt is a British actor that came to films in the late ’50s. A time when crude and cruel characters were popular in English movies. Derren Nesbitt’s looks were perfect for these roles and he got lorts of roles in movies where the producers needed a sadistic heavy or petty thief. Among Nesbett’s films were Room at the Top, Victim, The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, The Naked Runner (in which he and most of the supporting cast were nastily killed off in the first two reels) and Burke and Hare. Nesbitt was married with the film star Anne Aubrey and their acrimonious divorce in 1973 made headlines. Some observers have speculated that his career never fully recovered from the adverse publicity. But 1974 Nesbitt was back in Amorous Milkman. A film he wrote, directed and was starring in.
Selected films
- Silent Enemy, The - 1958
- Room at the Top - 1959
- Sword of Sherwood Forest - 1960
- In the Nick - 1960
- Man in the Backseat, The - 1961
- Victim - 1962
- Strongroom - 1962
- Life in Danger - 1964
- Underworld Informers - 1965
- Amorous Adventure of Moll Flanders, The - 1965
- Blue Max, The - 1966
- Operation Third Form - 1966
- Naked Runner, The - 1967
- High Commissioner, The - 1968
- Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies - 1969
- Where Eagles Dare - 1969
- Burke and Hare - 1971
- Get Charlie Tully - 1972
- Ooh, You Are Awful - 1972
- Innocent Bystanders - 1973
- Not Now, Comrade - 1975
- Give Us Tomorrow - 1979
- Saint and the Brave Goose, The (TV) - 1981
- Funny Money - 1982
- Guns and the Fury, The - 1983
- Eat the Rich - 1987
- Fatal Sky - 1990
- Bullseye! - 1990
Curiosa
- His father is comedian Harry Nesbitt.
- He is divorced from his first wife Anne Aubrey.