Laurence Naismith (14 December 1908 – 5 June 1992) was an English actor.
Naismith appeared in films such as Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Richard III (1955), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Carrington VC (1954) and as Captain Edward Smith of the RMS Titanic in A Night to Remember (1958). He appeared on Broadway in the musical Here's Love in 1963 and played the non-singing role of Merlin in the 1967 film version of the musical Camelot.
In 1965 he guest-starred as barber Gilly Bright in episode 25, "The Threat" of 12 O-Clock High (TV series). He was Judge Fulton in the TV series The Persuaders! (1971), with Tony Curtis and Roger Moore. He also starred in a children's ghost film The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972). He portrayed Emperor of Austria Franz Joseph in the BBC production Fall of Eagles (1974). Naismith played the Prince of Verona in the BBC Television Shakespeare version of Romeo & Juliet.
Outside of acting he was the landlord of the Rowbarge pub at Woolhampton, Berkshire and a keen cricket fan. Naismith married, in 1939, Vera Bocca of Horden, County Durham.
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as Self (archive footage)
as Rev. Edmund Nelson(4 eps)
as Prince Escalus
as Prince Escalus(1 ep)
as General Platt(1 ep)
as Judge Fulton
as Judge Fulton
as Judge Fulton (archive footage)
as Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria-Hungary(3 eps)
as Judge Fulton (archive footage)
as Father Harris(7 eps)
as Judge Fulton
as Mr. Frederick Percival Blunden
as Prof. Alexander Schelpin(1 ep)
as Lord Salisbury
as Sir Donald Munger
as Judge Fulton(11 eps)
as Sir Henry Lanstein
as Mr. Fezziwig
as Lord Pomeroy
as Lord Dunnsfield
as Prof. 'Cranky' Crankshaw
as Professor Bromley
as Dr. Mills
as Reddington(1 ep)
as Lord Loam
as Mr. Cotty (uncredited)
as Merlyn
as Anton(1 ep)
as Burr
as McDougal
as Sir John Bledlow
as Professor Lindstrom(1 ep)
as Cyrus Stone(1 ep)
as Edwin Dacres
as John Adams(1 ep)
as George Mason(1 ep)
as Gilly Bright(1 ep)
as Reverend Angus Paddie
as Gordon Knight(1 ep)
as Inspector Rason(1 ep)
as Dr. Andrew Emmett McAllister(1 ep)
as Major Fielding(1 ep)
as John Mallory(1 ep)
as Argos
as Arachesilaus (uncredited)
as Admiral Blake
as O'Grady
as First Delegate
as Admiral
as Earl of Hertford
as Sir Miles Burns(1 ep)
as Mr. Collins(1 ep)
as Mr. Traill
as Old Uncle
as O’Neill
as Mr. Town
as Spooner(1 ep)
as Dr. Willers
as Prince of Wales
as Martindale
as First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound
as Teo Zurbriggen
as Self
as Hezrai
as Ostrow(1 ep)
as The McCriach(1 ep)
as Don Q. Hought(1 ep)
as Maj. Zurin
as Gen. Hauser
as Capt. Edward John Smith
as Arthur Sayer
as Judge at Esterhazy Trial
as Skin Trader
as Dr. Forrester
as Dr. Hawkins
as Captain Paul Darrow
as Ben Marston
as Canon Avril
as Dr. Bosman
as Jamison
as Adm. Cross
as Kurt Vorn
as Porter
as Sir William de Courcier(1 ep)
as Farmer
as Major Panton
as Earl of Hertford(2 eps)
as Self(1 ep)
as Major Domo
as Walter Craddock
as Uncle Amos
as Skipper
as Matt of the Mint
as Boxing Booth Barker
as Blossom
as Inspector Donaldson
as Hasbury
as Dr. James
as Police Sergeant at Desk (uncredited)
as Councillor
as Louis the Jailkeeper (uncredited)
as Sergeant Braxton
as First Soldier
as Parker
as Lord Loam(1 ep)
as Lord Pomeroy(1 ep)
as Reginald Gordon-Wells
as Sergeant Matthews
as Hardcastle (uncredited)
as Riley
as Doctor Monceau
as Commissionaire (uncredited)
as Editor
as Dr. Collet
as Arthur Lawton(1 ep)
as Reporter (uncredited)
as Warder in Jail (uncredited)
as Mr Butler
as Joe Hunt
as Merlin Mound