Sydney Bromley (24 July 1909 – 14 August 1987) was an English actor. He appeared in more than sixty films and television programmes. On stage, he appeared in the 1924 premiere of Saint Joan, by George Bernard Shaw, as well as the 1957 film of the same name. He appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night during the summer of 1935 at the Open Air Theatre in London.
British character actor and member of the Royal Shakespeare Company with a penchant for playing wizened eccentrics. Often featured on screen as toothless, bucolic old men.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Volpone
1967
TV Series
Corbaccio
Theatre 625
1965-1967
TV Series
George / Glendenning-Rees / Tramp
Island of the Burning Damned
1967
Old Tramp (as Sidney Bromley)
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1967
TV Series
Old man
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1967
TV Series
Old man
Dance of the Vampires
1967
Sleigh Driver
Emergency-Ward 10
1967
TV Series
Faraday
Prehistoric Women
1967
Ullo
Operation Third Form
1966
Paddy
The Christmas Tree
1966
Motorist (uncredited)
The Three Musketeers
1966
TV Mini-Series
Attorney
Till Death Us Do Part
1966
TV Series
The Wednesday Play
1966
TV Series
Craigie
Hugh and I
1966
TV Series
No Hiding Place
1963-1966
TV Series
Brady / Bright
Dixon of Dock Green
1962-1965
TV Series
Wilkie / Wally Weir
Carry on Cowboy
1965
Sam Houston
Sykes and A...
1965
TV Series
Die, Monster, Die!
1965
Pierce
Pet Pals
1965
TV Movie
Fire Crackers
1964-1965
TV Series
Whiskers
Z Cars
1962-1964
TV Series
Harry Lewis / Whisky / Harry Dummitt
The Valiant Varneys
1964
TV Series
Sergeant Cork
1963-1964
TV Series
Starkie / Tramp
Father Came Too!
1964
Lang
Crane
1964
TV Series
Slotz
Paranoiac
1963
Tramp (uncredited)
The Plane Makers
1963
TV Series
George
BBC Sunday-Night Play
1963
TV Mini-Series
Beachcomber
The Piper's Tune
1962
Shepherd
Night Creatures
1962
Old Tom Ketch
Harpers West One
1961
TV Series
2nd Customer
Sambo and the Snow Mountains
1961
TV Short
Concrete Jungle
1960
Frightened Prisoner (uncredited)
Garry Halliday
1960
TV Series
The Admiral
The Men from Room 13
1959
TV Series
A Tramp
Horrors of the Black Museum
1959
Neighbor
Quatermass and the Pit
1959
TV Mini-Series
Tattered Man
Television Playwright
1959
TV Series
Kadon
Sailor of Fortune
1958
TV Series
Paddy
Big Guns
1958
TV Series
Engraver
The Gay Cavalier
1957
TV Series
Purdy
Saint Joan
1957
Baudricourt's Steward
Quatermass II
1955
TV Mini-Series
Father
Blonde Blackmailer
1955
The Love Match
1955
uncredited
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre
1952-1954
TV Series
Simple / Waiter / William Tabb / ...
Devil's Harbor
1954
Enson
A Place of Execution
1953
TV Series
Jarvis
Badger's Green
1949
Alf - the Ragholt scorer
Date with a Dream
1948
Stranger in Max's office
To the Public Danger
1948
Short
Bar patron
There Is No Escape
1948
The Mark of Cain
1947
Martin (Richard's Man) (uncredited)
The Dinner Was Deadly
1946
TV Movie
Leonardo
Loyal Heart
1946
Burton June (uncredited)
Brief Encounter
1945
Johnnie - Second Soldier (uncredited)
Demobbed
1944
Announcer (uncredited)
Crystalstone
1987
Old Man
Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna
1986
TV Movie
Herbert
Pirates
1986
Diddler
The NeverEnding Story
1984
Engywook
The Boy Who Won the Pools
1983
TV Series
Lord Muirbridge
An American Werewolf in London
1981
Alf
Dragonslayer
1981
Hodge
Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
1981
TV Movie
Harkness
Just William
1978
TV Series
Mr. Beezum
Crown Court
1977
TV Series
Professor Upshott
The Two Ronnies
1977
TV Series
Farmer
Candleshoe
1977
Mr. Thresher
Devenish
1977
TV Series
Edmund Summerfield, M.P.
Supernatural
1977
TV Mini-Series
Otto
Crossed Swords
1977
Peasant
Jabberwocky
1977
Dubbing (voice)
The New Avengers
1976
TV Series
Hara
Village Hall
1975
TV Series
Mr. Crabtree
Robin Hood Junior
1975
Alfric
The Virtuoso
1975
TV Movie
Snarl
Professor Popper's Problem
1974
Crickle
The Kids from 47A
1974
TV Series
Jeremiah
Whodunnit?
1974
TV Series
Royce Turner
Comedy Playhouse
1974
TV Series
Bernard Watson
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
1974
Muller
The Pallisers
1974
TV Mini-Series
Mr. Clarkson
Doctor in Charge
1973
TV Series
Mr. Golightly
No Sex Please: We're British
1973
Rag & Bone Man
Thriller
1973
TV Series
Seth
Macbeth
1971
Porter
Division 4
1970
TV Series
Mitford
Two in Clover
1969
TV Series
Tom Nelson
Nicholas Nickleby
1968
TV Mini-Series
Tix
Half a Sixpence
1967
Pub Character
Smashing Time
1967
Tramp
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
3-2-1
1984
TV Series
Chalky White
The British Greats
1980
TV Series
Himself
A Little of What You Fancy
1968
Documentary
the Tramp in Trafalgar Square (as Sidney Bromley)
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Taking Over the Asylum: The Making of Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell