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| Format | Drama |
| Created by | John Brason Gerard Glaister |
| Starring | Clifford Rose Alan Dobie Nitza Saul Alison Glennie Nicholas Young Bernard Hepton |
| Country of origin | UK |
| No. Drama is the specific mode of Fiction represented in Performance. John Leslie "Gerard" Glaister DFC, ( December 21, 1915 &ndash February 5, 2005) was a British Television Clifford Rose is a British classical actor (born 24 October 1929 in Herefordshire, England) Alan Russell Dobie (born 2 June 1932 is a British actor Dobie was born in Wombwell, Yorkshire, England, to George Russell and Sarah Kate ( Nitza Saul (sometimes credited as Nitza Shaul is an Israeli -born actress best known for her appearances on British Television during the 1980s Alison Glennie is a British actress She is best known for her role as Ingrid Dorf in the BBC thriller serial Kessler. Nicholas Young (born June 11, 1949) is a British actor He is best known for his role as John in the 1970s Science fiction television Bernard Hepton (born October 19 1925 in Bradford, England) is a British Actor of Stage, Film The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located of episodes | 6 |
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| Running time | 50 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC |
| Original run | November 13, 1981 – December 18, 1981 |
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Kessler is a television series produced by the BBC in 1981. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981
The six-part serial is a sequel to the Second World War drama series Secret Army, set in the present day and following the progress of former SS Standartenführer Ludwig Kessler, now living under the alias of industrialist Manfred Dorf, and trying to avoid being discovered as a war criminal. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Secret Army is a BBC television drama series created by Gerard Glaister. The ( German for "Protective Squadron" abbreviated SS - or ( Runic)- was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the Standartenführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was used in both the S War crimes are "violations of the laws or customs of war" including but not limited to "murder the ill-treatment or deportation of civilian residents of an occupied Ranged against him are West German intelligence operative Richard Bauer (Alan Dobie) and young Israeli vigilante Mical Rak (Nitza Saul). West Germany ( Inf German: Westdeutschland or West-Deutschland) was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany ( Alan Russell Dobie (born 2 June 1932 is a British actor Dobie was born in Wombwell, Yorkshire, England, to George Russell and Sarah Kate ( Nitza Saul (sometimes credited as Nitza Shaul is an Israeli -born actress best known for her appearances on British Television during the 1980s Bauer and Rak's quest for justice moves from Europe to Paraguay, where other notorious real-life war criminals, Martin Borman and Josef Mengele are featured. Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay ( Spanish: República del Paraguay; Guaraní: Tetã Paraguái) is one of the only Martin Ludwig Bormann (17 June 1900 – 2 May 1945 Dr Josef Mengele ( March 16, 1911 – February 7, 1979) was a German SS officer and a Physician in the
Another prominently placed character is Kessler's daughter Ingrid (Alison Glennie), an advocate of Nazism who schemes for the young Nazis to take over from the old guard and tries to persuade her father to give financial backing to their organisation. Alison Glennie is a British actress She is best known for her role as Ingrid Dorf in the BBC thriller serial Kessler. Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German
The premise for Kessler has its origins in the unscreened final episode of Secret Army - "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?" - in which the main characters are reunited in 1969 to participate in a documentary entitled "In Our Time" about their lives during the war. Year 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This element was revived in Kessler with former Secret Army cast members Bernard Hepton (Albert Foiret), Angela Richards (Monique Durnford, née Duchamps) and Juliet Hammond-Hill (Natalie Chantrens) reprising their roles for the first episode, in which they meet again and reminisce about their wartime activities running the resistance organisation Lifeline. Bernard Hepton (born October 19 1925 in Bradford, England) is a British Actor of Stage, Film Angela Richards (born 18 December 1944) is an English actress best known to Television viewers for her leading role in the 1970s BBC Juliet Hammond-Hill (born 13 November 1953 in London) is an English actress best known for her role as Natalie Chantrens in all three series of the 1970s BBC
Many other former Secret Army production personnel were involved with Kessler, most notably producer Gerard Glaister, writer John Brason and directors Michael E. Briant and Tristan de Vere Cole. John Leslie "Gerard" Glaister DFC, ( December 21, 1915 &ndash February 5, 2005) was a British Television Michael E Briant (born in Bournemouth, Hampshire, England on 14 February 1942) is best known as a British Television
Kessler is available on DVD (Region 2, UK) from DD Home Entertainment, who had previously released the complete series of Secret Army. DVD (also known as " Digital Versatile Disc " or " Digital Video Disc " - see Etymology)is
Cast
- Ludwig Kessler - Clifford Rose
- Richard Bauer - Alan Dobie
- Mical Rak - Nitza Saul
- Ingrid Dorf - Alison Glennie
- Franz Hoss - Nicholas Young
- Colonel Hans Ruckert - Ralph Michael
- Albert Foiret - Bernard Hepton
- Monique Durnford - Angela Richards
- Natalie Chantrens - Juliet Hammond-Hill
- Don Julian Yqueras - Guy Rolfe
- Josef Mengele - Oscar Quitak
- Hugo van Eyck - Jerome Willis
- Jose Garriga - John Moreno
- Karl Leider - Robert Morris
- Gidney - Jeremy Wilkin
- Deakin - Harold Innocent
- Maurer - Royston Tickner
- Graun - John Dearth
- Ruth Lieberman - Ishia Bennison
- Heinrich Himmler - Robert Eddison
External links
- Kessler at the Internet Movie Database
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