MenuFLIXANO
Start Your Free Trial
Search
William Franklyn

William Franklyn

William Franklyn was a British actor, perhaps best known for voicing the "Schhh... You Know Who" adverts for Schweppes from 1965 to 1973. He also performed on stage, film, television and radio, taking over from Peter Jones as "The Book" (the narrator) in the third, fourth and fifth radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He is also known for his portrayal of Sexton Blake for BBC Radio 4 in 1967.

Sign up to watch Free William Franklyn Movies

Movies Starring William Franklyn (24)

J.G. Ballard: A Profile (2003)

Tom Sutcliffe meets J.G. Ballard, arguably one of Britain's most profound and provocative novelists, author of such works as Crash, High-Rise and Empire of the Sun. ...

Watch Now

Robert Rylands' Last Journey (1996)

Loosely (and controversial) adaptation of the novel "All Souls" by Javier Marias. It tells the story of a Spanish professor at Oxford who witnesses the return of a very popular man there. ...

Watch Now

London Suite (1996)

On one day at an English Hotel, four different stories are shown. Diana is in London to promote her Television Series and her ex-husband Sidney shows up to ask her for money for his gay lover. Mark and Annie come to London for the Wimbledon Tennis matches, ...

Watch Now

Diana: Her True Story (1993)

Television film telling the story of Diana, Princess of Wales, based on the publication of the same name by Andrew Morton. ...

Watch Now

Splitting Heirs (1993)

A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian comes to believe that he is actually the heir. He ...

Watch Now

Nutcracker (1982)

A Russian ballet dancer defects from the USSR, emigrates to England, and joins a ballet company run by a powerful, wealthy lady (Joan Collins). ...

Watch Now

The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)

The police and British security forces call in Professor Van Helsing to help them investigate Satanic ritual which has been occurring in a large country house, and which has been attended by a government minister, an eminent scientist and secret service ch ...

Watch Now

Ooh... You Are Awful (1972)

Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000 but during their flight out Charlie is arrested for coning an American and a dog. Reggie stores the money in a Swiss Bank and after Charlie is released is about to tell him whi ...

Watch Now

Cul-de-sac (1966)

On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems. ...

Watch Now

The Intelligence Men (1965)

A chance meeting with a Schlecht agent forces a humble coffee shop manager into the secret world of spies in Swinging London. With the help of his MI5 friend, he poses as the recently dead Major Cavendish who had managed to infiltrate the dreaded organizat ...

Watch Now

The Legend of Young Dick Turpin (1965)

When a rapacious new landlord threatens to evict him, seize his horse, and leave him penniless, the young farmer Dick Turpin flees to London and reluctantly establishes himself in the underworld with the help of a street-smart boy. ...

Watch Now

Pit of Darkness (1961)

When Richard Logan, the partner in a safe making firm, is found unconscious, on an old deserted bomb site, he finds that he has no recollection of the last three weeks. Then he discovers that the private detective, hired by his wife, has been found murdere ...

Watch Now

The Big Deal (1961)

Unscrupulous business Sir Pierson Cale is determined to win the contract to build a power station. He sees John Hamilton as someone who can get the job done but he wants him to bid half a million less than his nearest competitor. ...

Watch Now

Fury at Smugglers' Bay (1961)

It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time occupation for most fishermen around the British shores. But when a gang of cut-throats, led by the infamous Black John (Bernard Lee) begins to lure ships onto the ...

Watch Now

The Big Day (1960)

A drama unfolding in the business world where shrewd methods are adopted by a boss to select a suitable yes-man for the Board. ...

Watch Now

Danger Within (1959)

Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst. ...

Watch Now

The Snorkel (1958)

On the Italian coast, writer Paul Decker has grown unhappy in his marriage and executes what appears to be a perfect murder of his wife. While Paul is believed to be writing a book in France, his stepdaughter, Candy, suspects him of murdering her mother, a ...

Watch Now

The Flesh Is Weak (1957)

Giani is a pimp who preys on the naïve, 'just off the bus' young women who come to post-war London for fortune. ...

Watch Now

That Woman Opposite (1957)

In a French coastal town, Det. Dermot Kinross is inspecting the murder of antiques dealer Maurice Lawes, and the evidence points to Lawes's son, Toby -- and especially to Toby's bride-to-be, Eve Atwood. Eve's ex-husband, Ned, had his eyes set on something ...

Watch Now

Quatermass 2 (1957)

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus o ...

Watch Now

Above Us the Waves (1955)

In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack by conventional means, so a plan is hatched for a special commando unit to attack it, using midget su ...

Watch Now

The Love Match (1955)

After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his £55 fine. He knows he's going to be discovered though, leaving him no choice but to get the money back by h ...

Watch Now

Time Is My Enemy (1954)

A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz. ...

Watch Now

Operation Diplomat (1953)

A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances. ...

Watch Now