Bob Sherman (actor)
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Robert Sherman was an American
United States
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-born dramaturge
Dramaturge
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, playwright
Playwright
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, and film and television actor
Actor
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, best remembered for his role as CIA agent Jeff Ross in the British
United Kingdom
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 television series The Sandbaggers
The Sandbaggers
The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of the espionage game on the personal and professional lives of British and...

.

Select television

  • Big Town
    Big Town
    Big Town is a popular long-running radio drama series which was later adapted to both film and television and a comic book published by DC Comics.-Radio:...

     (1 episode, 1953) (TV)
  • Not for Hire (1 episode, 1960) (TV)
  • W. Somerset Maugham
    W. Somerset Maugham
    William Somerset Maugham , CH was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and, reputedly, the highest paid author during the 1930s.-Childhood and education:...

     (1 episode, 1969) (TV)
  • UFO  (1 episode, 1970) (TV)
  • Jackanory
    Jackanory
    Jackanory is a long-running BBC children's television series that was designed to stimulate an interest in reading. The show was first transmitted on 13 December 1965, the first story being the fairy-tale Cap o' Rushes read by Lee Montague. Jackanory continued to be broadcast until 24 March 1996,...

     (5 episodes, 1971) (TV)
  • The Persuaders!
    The Persuaders!
    The Persuaders! is a 1971 action/adventure series, produced by ITC Entertainment for initial broadcast on ITV and ABC. It has been called "the last major entry in the cycle of adventure series that had begun eleven years earlier with Danger Man in 1960", as well as "the most ambitious and most...

     (1 episode, 1972) (TV)
  • Applause
    Applause
    Applause is primarily the expression of approval by the act of clapping, or striking the palms of the hands together, in order to create noise. Audiences are usually expected to applaud after a performance, such as a musical concert, speech, or play...

     (1973) (TV)
  • Zodiac
    Zodiac
    In astronomy, the zodiac is a circle of twelve 30° divisions of celestial longitude which are centred upon the ecliptic: the apparent path of the Sun across the celestial sphere over the course of the year...

     (1 episode, 1974) (TV)
  • Father Brown
    Father Brown
    Father Brown is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton, who stars in 52 short stories, later compiled in five books. Chesterton based the character on Father John O'Connor , a parish priest in Bradford who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism in 1922...

    (1 episode, 1974) (TV)
  • Quiller
    Quiller
    Quiller is the alias of a fictional spy created by English novelist Elleston Trevor and featured in a series of Cold War thrillers written under the pseudonym "Adam Hall".The series focuses on a solitary, highly capable spy...

     (1 episode, 1975) (TV)
  • Jubilee (1 episode, 1977) (TV)
  • Wings (1 episode, 1978) (TV)
  • A Life at Stake
    A Life at Stake
    A Life at Stake is a 1954 American film directed by Paul Guilfoyle.The film is also known as Key Man.- Plot summary :Down on his luck architect and builder Edward Shaw is approached by Mrs Doris Hillman with a business proposal: buying land together, on which he would build houses that she would...

     (1 episode, 1978) (TV)
  • Holocaust (1 episode, 1978) (TV)
  • Return of the Saint
    Return of the Saint
    Return of the Saint was a British action-adventure television series that aired for one season in 1978 and 1979 in Britain on ITV, and was also broadcast on CBS in the United States...

     (1 episode, 1978) (TV)
  • The Sandbaggers
    The Sandbaggers
    The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of the espionage game on the personal and professional lives of British and...

     (17 episodes, 1978–1980) (TV)
  • Oppenheimer
    Oppenheimer (TV miniseries)
    Oppenheimer is a television serial about J. Robert Oppenheimer, produced by the BBC. It began broadcast in the United Kingdom on 29 October 1980 and in the United States on 11 May 1982...

     (4 episodes, 1980) (TV)
  • Three's Company
    Three's Company
    Three's Company is an American sitcom that aired from March 15, 1977, to September 18, 1984, on ABC. It is based on the British sitcom, Man About the House....

     (1 episode, 1981) (TV)
  • Whoops Apocalypse
    Whoops Apocalypse
    Whoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 television sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 movie from ITC Entertainment, with almost completely different characters and plot, although one or two...

     (1 episode, 1982) (TV)
  • Remington Steele
    Remington Steele
    Remington Steele is an American television series, co-created by Robert Butler and Michael Gleason. The series, starring Stephanie Zimbalist and Pierce Brosnan, was produced by MTM Enterprises and first broadcast on the NBC network from 1982 to 1987. The series blended the genres of romantic...

     (1 episode, 1984) (TV)
  • C.A.T.S. Eyes
    C.A.T.S. Eyes
    C.A.T.S. Eyes is a British television series made by TVS for ITV between 1985 and 1987.-Premise:The series was a spin-off from The Gentle Touch and saw Jill Gascoine reprise her role as Det. Insp. Maggie Forbes, having left the police force to join a private detective agency called "Eyes" that is...

     (1 episode, 1985) (TV)
  • Strong Medicine
    Strong Medicine
    Strong Medicine is a medical drama with a focus on feminist politics, health issues and class conflict. The television series aired on the Lifetime network from 2000 to 2006. It is distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The series was created and produced in part by comedienne and...

     (1986) (TV)
  • Murrow
    Murrow
    -Places:*Murrow, Cambridgeshire**Murrow East railway station**Murrow West railway station...

     (1986) (TV)
  • Big Deal
    Big Deal
    Big Deal or The Big Deal may refer to:* Big Deal , a 1986 Broadway musical* Big Deal , a 1996 series on FOX* Big Deal , a British comedy drama...

     (1 episode, 1986) (TV)
  • Freedom Fighter (1988) (TV)
  • Countdown to War (1989) (TV)
  • Monkeys (1989) (TV)
  • Cyber City Oedo 808
    Cyber City Oedo 808
    is a seminal Cyberpunk anime set in the year 2808 in the megalopolis of Oedo . It was directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri.- Plot :To combat computerised crime more effectively, the Cyber Police unit of the future Japanese city of Oedo has restarted the feudal practice of hōmen , employing hardened...

     (1990) (V)
  • Company Business
    Company Business
    Company Business is a 1991 spy film, written and directed by Nicholas Meyer and starring Gene Hackman and Mikhail Baryshnikov.-Plot:The film follows the exploits of Sam Boyd , a former operative for the CIA who is reactivated to escort Pyotr Ivanovich Grushenko , a captured KGB mole, to a prisoner...

     (1991)
  • Look at It This Way (1992) (TV mini-series)
  • Space Precinct
    Space Precinct
    Space Precinct is a British television series that aired from 1994 to 1995 on Sky One and later on BBC Two in Britain, and in syndication in North America on the SyFy Channel....

     (1 episode, 1994) (TV)
  • Scarlett (1994) (TV mini-series)
  • MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (1994) (TV)
  • Human Bomb
    Human Bomb
    The Human Bomb is a fictional superhero published by DC Comics. He first appeared in Police Comics #1 , and was created by writer and artist Paul Gustavson.-Publication history:...

     (1998) (TV)
  • Doomwatch: Winter Angel
    Doomwatch
    Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC One between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist , responsible for investigating and combating various...

     (1999) (TV)
  • Big Bad World
    Big Bad World
    Big Bad World is the fifth album by Plain White T's. It was released on September 23, 2008 by Hollywood Records. To promote the album, the Plain White T's launched a few webisodes, which together form the series Meet Me in California.-Track listing:...

     (1 episode, 1999) (TV)
  • CI5: The New Professionals
    CI5: The New Professionals
    CI5: The New Professionals is a British crime drama that aired on the Sky1 satellite channel from 19 September to 19 December 1999. An updating of the late 1970s television series The Professionals, the series is set in a fictional government agency CI5 .-Synopsis:The original group of three men...

     (1 episode, 1999) (TV)
  • The American Embassy
    The American Embassy
    The American Embassy is an American drama series that aired on Fox from March to April 2002. The series was created by James D. Parriott, and executive produced by Danny DeVito.-Synopsis:...

     (1 episode, 2002) (TV)
  • The Falklands Play
    The Falklands Play
    The Falklands Play is a dramatic account of the political events leading up to, and including, the 1982 Falklands War. The play was written by Ian Curteis, an experienced writer who had started his television career in drama, but had increasingly come to specialise in dramatic reconstructions of...

     (2002) (TV)
  • Judge John Deed
    Judge John Deed
    Judge John Deed is a British legal drama television series produced by the BBC in association with One-Eyed Dog for BBC One. It was created by G.F. Newman and stars Martin Shaw as Sir John Deed, a High Court judge who tries to seek real justice in the cases before him. It also stars Jenny Seagrove...

     (1 episode, 2003) (TV)

Select films

  • Feelings
    Feelings
    Feelings is an album by David Byrne, released on June 17, 1997.Cover art by Stefan Sagmeister.-Track listing:All tracks written by David Byrne; additional writers in parenthesis.#"Fuzzy Freaky"  – 4:59...

     (1974)
  • The Cherry Picker
    The Cherry Picker
    The Cherry Picker is 1972 British drama film directed by Peter Curran and starring Lulu, Bob Sherman, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Patrick Cargill, Jack Hulbert, Fiona Curzon, Terry-Thomas and Marianne Stone. As of August 2010, the film is missing from the BFI National Archive, and is listed as one of the...

     (1974)
  • The Final Option (1982)
  • Sheena
    Sheena
    Sheena is an anglicisation of Sine, the Scottish Gaelic form of the name Jane, in turn the feminine form of John.Of Hebrew origin, it means "God is gracious".The name Sheena can refer to:...

     (1984)
  • Dark Tower
    Dark Tower (1987 film)
    Dark Tower is a 1987 film directed by Freddie Francis and Ken Wiederhorn and starring Michael Moriarty, Jenny Agutter, Theodore Bikel, Carol Lynley, Kevin McCarthy and Anne Lockhart...

     (as Robert Sherman)
  • RPM (1998)
  • Starry Night (1999)
  • Hellboy
    Hellboy
    Hellboy is a comic book superhero created by writer-artist Mike Mignola. The character first appeared in San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 , and has since appeared in various eponymous miniseries, one-shots and intercompany crossovers...

     (2004)
  • The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
    The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
    The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is a 2004 film about the life of English comic actor Peter Sellers, based on Roger Lewis' book of the same name...

     (2004)
  • Manga Latina: Killer on the Loose
    Manga Latina: Killer on the Loose
    Manga Latina: Killer on the Loose is a 2005 independent dark comedy animation film by Manga Latina Productions, distributed by H2V Distribution, and directed by Henrique Vera Villanueva...

     (2006)

External links

  • Bob Sherman at the Internet Movie Database
    Internet Movie Database
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