This Sporting Life 1963
This Sporting Life (movie, 1963)

This Sporting Life

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.

This Sporting Life (1963) - Full Cast & Crew

Actors and roles, crew of This Sporting Life (1963). Who was filming and what role he played.

Actors

Richard Harris
Frank Machin
lead role
Actor, Producer, Director. Popular movies: Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), Red Desert (1964), Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997)
Rachel Roberts
Mrs. Hammond
lead role
Actor. Popular movies: Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), O Lucky Man! (1973)
Alan Badel
Weaver
lead role
Actor. Popular movies: Arabesque (1966), This Sporting Life (1963), Otley (1969)
William Hartnell
Johnson
Actor. Popular movies: Doctor Who (1963), The Mouse That Roared (1959), Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957)
Colin Blakely
Maurice Braithwaite
Actor. Popular movies: Evil Under the Sun (1981), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), Equus (1977)
Vanda Godsell
Mrs. Weaver
Actor. Popular movies: The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), A Shot in the Dark (1964), This Sporting Life (1963)
Anne Cunningham
Judith
Actor. Popular movies: The Bigger Picture (2014)
Jack Watson
Len Miller
Actor. Popular movies: Peeping Tom (1960), The Hill (1965), The Wild Geese (1978)
Arthur Lowe
Slomer
Actor. Popular movies: The Ruling Class (1972), Dad's Army (1968), Daphne Laureola (1978)
Harry Markham
Wade
Actor. Popular movies: Kes (1969), This Sporting Life (1963), Hi-de-Hi! (1980)
George Sewell
Jeff
Actor. Popular movies: Barry Lyndon (1975), Get Carter (1971), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
Leonard Rossiter
Phillips
Actor. Popular movies: Britannia Hospital (1982), If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them (1974)
Katherine Parr
Mrs. Farrer
Actor. Popular movies: This Sporting Life (1963), Otley (1969), Van der Valk (1972)
Bernadette Benson
Lynda
Actor. Popular movies: This Sporting Life (1963)
Andrew Nolan
Ian
Actor. Popular movies: This Sporting Life (1963)
Peter Duguid
Doctor
Director, Producer, Actor. Popular movies: This Sporting Life (1963), Sherlock Holmes (1964), Van der Valk (1972)
Wallas Eaton
Waiter
Actor. Popular movies: Let's Go Crazy (1951)
Anthony Woodruff
Head Waiter
Actor. Popular movies: This Sporting Life (1963), Upstairs, Downstairs (1971), The Human Factor (1979)
Michael Logan
Riley
Actor. Popular movies: The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986), This Sporting Life (1963), Upstairs, Downstairs (1971)
Murray Evans
Hooker
Actor. Popular movies: Youngblood (1986), This Sporting Life (1963), The Shuttered Room (1967)
Tom Clegg
Gower
Actor. Popular movies: Thunderball (1965), Moby Dick (1956), Ivanhoe (1952)
Ken Traill
Trainer
Actor. Popular movies: This Sporting Life (1963)
Frank Windsor
Dentist
Actor. Popular movies: Revolution (1985), This Sporting Life (1963), Lovejoy (1986)
John Gill
Cameron
Actor. Popular movies: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984), Tess (1979), Pirates (1986)
 
Actor. Popular movies: Great Expectations (1946), A Night to Remember (1958), The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Jack Armstrong
Actor. Popular movies: The Elephant Man (1980), The Meaning of Life (1983), An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Gerry Duggan
Actor. Popular movies: Goldfinger (1964), The Servant (1963), This Sporting Life (1963)
Mabel Etherington
Actor. Popular movies: Gandhi (1982), The Wicker Man (1973), Frenzy (1972)
Edward Fox
Actor. Popular movies: The Day of the Jackal (1973), The Dresser (1983), Daniel Deronda (2002)
 
Actor. Popular movies: Repulsion (1965), A Night to Remember (1958), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
Glenda Jackson
Actor. Popular movies: Hopscotch (1980), Women in Love (1969), Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
Roy Lansford
Actor. Popular movies: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Batman (1989), Thunderball (1965)
Aileen Lewis
Actor. Popular movies: The Shining (1980), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), From Russia with Love (1963)
Guy Mills
Actor. Popular movies: Dracula (1958), This Sporting Life (1963), Follow a Star (1959)
Bryan Mosley
Actor. Popular movies: Get Carter (1971), Billy Liar (1963), This Sporting Life (1963)
 
Actor. Popular movies: Lawrence of Arabia (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Casino Royale (1967)
Graham Roberts
Actor. Popular movies: This Sporting Life (1963)
Anton Rodgers
Actor, Writer. Popular movies: Rotten to the Core (1965), French Fields (1989), You Can Choose Your Friends (2007)
 
Actor. Popular movies: From Russia with Love (1963), Thunderball (1965), Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
David Storey
Writer, Actor. Popular movies: This Sporting Life (1963)
John Wilder
Actor. Popular movies: Dr. No (1962), Fawlty Towers (1975), A Shot in the Dark (1964)
 
Actor. Popular movies: A Night to Remember (1958), This Sporting Life (1963), The Million Pound Note (1953)

Editor

Peter Taylor
Editor. Popular movies: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Summertime (1955), The Taming of the Shrew (1967)

Producers

Karel Reisz
Director, Actor, Producer. Popular movies: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), This Sporting Life (1963)
Leslie Parkyn
Producer. Popular movies: This Sporting Life (1963), Tiger Bay (1959), The Fast Lady (1962)
Julian Wintle
Producer, Writer, Editor. Popular movies: This Sporting Life (1963), Tiger Bay (1959), The Fast Lady (1962)

Writer

David Storey
Writer, Actor. Popular movies: This Sporting Life (1963)

Operator

Denys N. Coop
Operator. Popular movies: Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), 10 Rillington Place (1970), Asylum (1972)

Composer

Roberto Gerhard
Composer. Popular movies: This Sporting Life (1963), Secret People (1952)

Design

Alan Withy
Design. Popular movies: O Lucky Man! (1973), This Sporting Life (1963), The Scapegoat (1959)

Director

Lindsay Anderson
Actor, Director, Producer. Popular movies: Chariots of Fire (1981), O Lucky Man! (1973), This Sporting Life (1963)



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