Series: Hart to Hart
Episode: S4Ep3 – Million Dollar Harts
First Aired: 19 October 1982
Character: Arthur Roman
Description: Jennifer becomes involved in a deadly gambling scheme while in London.
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19 October 1982
SMCFP On This Day: Hart to Hart – Million Dollar Harts
30 April 1982
SMCFP On This Day: The Sword and the Sorcerer
Film: The Sword and the Sorcerer
First Aired: 30 April 1982 (USA)
Character: Prince Mikah
Description: A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage’s dangerous future when he is recruited to help a princess foil the designs of a brutal tyrant and a powerful sorcerer in conquering a land.
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01 December 1981
Film Review – December 1981
I Don’t Wait For The Phone To Ring
Says Simon MacCorkindale who believes in making things happen himself. And happening they are – in America.
Simon MacCorkindale breezed into the London hotel where we’d arranged to meet. He was dressed in a navy blazer, open-neck shirt and pale blue trousers, apparently oblivious to the cold and rain outside.
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24 October 1981
SMCFP On This Day: Fantasy Island – Cyrano/The Magician
Series: Fantasy Island
Episode: S5Ep3 – Cyrano/The Magician
First Aired: 24 October 1981
Character: Gaston du Brielle
Description: A woman in search of the most chivalrous and romantic man of all time winds up meeting Cyrano de Bergerac; and a magician trying to perfect his craft faces a huge problem after he makes his assistant vanish.
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02 October 1981
SMCFP On This Day: Manions of America – Reunion
Series: Manions of America
Episode: Part III – Reunion
First Aired: 2 October 1981
Character: David Clement
Description: Epic miniseries about a proud Irish farmer who migrates to America, tired of English repression and the Great Famine. He works hard and even meets the Englishwoman he once loved. The couple reunites. Then the American Civil War breaks out.
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01 October 1981
SMCFP On This Day: Manions of America – Exile
Series: Manions of America
Episode: Part II – Exile
First Aired: 1 October 1981
Character: David Clement
Description: Epic miniseries about a proud Irish farmer who migrates to America, tired of English repression and the Great Famine. He works hard and even meets the Englishwoman he once loved. The couple reunites. Then the American Civil War breaks out.
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30 September 1981
SMCFP On This Day: Manions of America – Rebellion
Series: Manions of America
Episode: Part I – Rebellion
First Aired: 30 September 1981
Character: David Clement
Description: Epic miniseries about a proud Irish farmer who migrates to America, tired of English repression and the Great Famine. He works hard and even meets the Englishwoman he once loved. The couple reunites. Then the American Civil War breaks out.
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02 August 1981
Screen International – 8th to 15th August 1981
*snip*
Because he had liked MacCorkindale’s work in “Death on the Nile”, wherein the actor played the killer, Chase had him flown in from England, just for the few days’ shooting.
The day we visited the set, MacCorkindale was manacled, stretched out. The shot was just an insert — a sword cutting him loose, and the camera wouldn’t even see his wrists, but the actor insisted on being locked in his chains — “for realism”, he said. Chase nodded in agreement.
26 July 1981
The Importantance of Being Oscar – 26th July 1981
Simon MacCorkindale
Since his award-winning performances in the films Death on the Nile and The Riddle of the Sands, 29-year-old Simon MacCorkindale has spent much time commuting between the United Kingdom and the U.S.A. In fact for his Festival engagement today he has flown in especially from Los Angeles, where he is currently filming in Sword and Sorcerer. The visit marks a brief but welcome return home for the Ely-born actor, whose father, former RAF Group Captain Peter MacCorkindale, is now a social services administrator for Pye and Philips of Cambridge. In his career, Simon continues to enjoy the nomadic existence that was a feature of his childhood. Death on the Nile was filmed in Egypt; The Riddle of the Sands took him to Holland and Germany; Capo Blanco, in which he co-stars with Charles Bronson, was made in Mexico, and he has recently completed four months location work in Dublin, starring as Lieutenant David Clement of the Royal Hussars in The Manions of America, made for EMI-TV by ABC. This sweeping saga spanning two parallel love stories during the 20 years from 1847 will be screened as a six-hour mini-series.
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29 June 1981
SMCFP On This Day: The Importance of Being Oscar
Play: The Importance of Being Oscar
First Shown: Various times between 1977 and 1985
Character: Oscar Wilde
Description: A one man show based on the writings of Oscar Wilde.
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01 May 1981
Woman’s World – May 1981
Long Live The Class Englishman!
Meet the good looking actor who’s found a style to suit him Simon MacCorkindale seems set to prove that you can’t judge a book by its cover. One glance at the debonair six footer might suggest that he earns his living wheeling and dealing at the Stock Exchange, commanding a battalion, or doing something important in banking. But Mr MacCorkindale who has a clutch of challenging roles under his (smart leather) belt that many an actor would be proud of is proof that, these days, you simply can’t go by appearances alone. In fact, Simon did almost follow in family footsteps and go into the Army. For generations, MacCorkindale’s have automatically gone into the Army and indeed, much of Simon’s childhood was spent travelling the world with his parents, moving from posting to posting.
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01 March 1981
Photoplay – March 1978
HUSSAR — it’s Simon
WITH terrific enthusiasm, 28-year-old Simon MacCorkindale is pouring all his energy into work. I met him in London while he was having a week’s break. He’d flown in from Ireland, where he had been filming The Manions Of America.
He describes it as being, “A sweeping saga of love and romance set in the Irish famine of 1847”. It is a TV movie starring David Soul and Kate Mulgrew (alias Mrs. Columbo) to be screened in three one-hour episodes. Simon plays the part of Lieutenant David Clement. “I’m a Royal Hussar on detachment to Ireland,” he explains, “policing it like our current troops are doing in Northern Ireland at the moment. My family inherit an estate in Ireland so we are all reunited there.”
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01 February 1981
SMCFP On This Day: Cabo Blanco
Film: Cabo Blanco
First Aired: 1 February 1981 (USA)
Character: Lewis Clarkson
Description: Giff Hoyt, a cafe owner in Cabo Blanco, Peru after World War II is caught between refuge-seeking Nazis and their enemies. After the murder of a sea explorer is passed off as accidental death by the corrupt local police, Giff becomes suspicious. The police chief also intimidates a new arrival Marie, and Giff intervenes to help her. Giff suspects Beckdorff, a Nazi refugee living in the area. Beckdorff, it emerges, is seeking to uncover sunken treasure.
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14 December 1980
Sunday People – 14th December 1980
Watch it Yanks, Simon’s coming
HOW’S THIS for confidence! That most English of actors Simon MacCorkindale is all set to conquer America—although he admits: “I am not a great talent and I’ll never win an Oscar.”
But being ” a workaholic and a great trier,” he is convinced he’ll succeed. writes TONY PURNELL.
He began his campaign to be a big name on both sides of the Atlantic when he was named promising new actor of 1979 for his part in the Agatha Christie film Death On The Nile.
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22 November 1980
SMCFP On This Day: Hammer House of Horror – Visitor from the Grave
Series: Hammer House of Horror
Episode: S1Ep11 – Visitor from the Grave
First Aired: 22 November 1980
Character: Harry Wells
Description: A former mental patient kills her would-be rapist, but his corpse returns from its secret grave.
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01 November 1980
Sliming – November/December 1980
Turn On’s and Off’s
SIMON MACCORKINDALE – actor
Off: No matter how pretty a girl is or how fabulous her figure, if there’s a whining note in her voice I’m immediately out of the room.
On: Sparkling eyes and a warm laugh.
26 October 1980
SMCFP On This Day: Scalpels
Series: Scalpels
Episode: Pilot
First Aired: 26 October 1980
Character: Dr. Bob Hobart
Description: This was a TV pilot and was also known as The Single Life, a comedy about doctors.
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21 June 1980
SMCFP On This Day: Saturday Night at the Mill
Series: Saturday Night at the Mill
Episode: S5Ep14
First Aired: 21st June 1980
Description: Simon appeared on this talk show
01 June 1980
MacBeth Programme – June 1980
SIMON MacCORKINDALE
Simon MacCorkindale made an impressive entry into major film roles with two highly contrasting parts: the smooth, sybaritic Simon Doyle in the 1930’s-set Agatha Christie murder mystery Death on the Nile, and the rough sailor hero, Arthur Davies, in the Edwardian spy thriller The Riddle of the Sands. His performances in both films brought him the Most Promising Actor Award in the 1979 Evening News British Film Awards. He has since co-starred with Sir John Mills in Thames TV’s four-part serialisation of Nigel Kneale’s Quatermass, playing the single-minded radio astronomer Joe Kapp, and in the film adaptation, Quatermass Conclusion. Now he has completed work on another leading film role, Lewis Clarkson, an M15 agent in post-World War II Peru, in the forthcoming Charles Bronson epic Cabo Blanco.
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04 April 1980
SMCFP On This Day: Star Games – Easter Star Games
Series: Star Games
Episode: Easter Star Games
First Aired: 4 April 1980
Description: Simon appeared on this celebrity game show
01 March 1980
Photoplay – March 1980
MacCORKINDALE – A MAN OF ACTION
If a new vogue should develop for the kind of swashbuckling movie that brought Errol Flynn to fame, nobody would be more delighted than Simon MacCorkindale. This handsome British actor, who has made his presence felt in Death On The Nile and Riddle of The Sands, consolidates his strength in the television’s Quatermass and the adventure epic Cabo Blanco.
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02 February 1980
Jackie – 2nd February 1980
A real hunk if ever there was one is the mouth-watering Simon MacCorkindale – just look at those eyes! Simon’s been doing a lot of film work recently, not least of which was working with Michael York, but for TV coverage it had to be his role in that gripping series “Quatermass” that kept us all glued to and panting around our TV screens!
21 December 1979
SMCFP On This Day: The Dukes of Hazzard – Duke of Duke
Series: The Dukes of Hazzard
Episode: Duke of Duke
First Aired: 21 December 1979
Character: Gaylord Duke
Description: A man claiming to be the Dukes’ cousin from England, Gaylord Duke, asks Uncle Jesse for a $30,000 advance to pay off the taxes for a piece of land he claims to have inherited. But there’s more to Gaylord’s story that he isn’t exactly telling.
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14 November 1979
SMCFP On This Day: Quatermass – An Endangered Species
Series: Quatermass
Episode: S1Ep4 – An Endangered Species
First Aired: 14 November 1979
Character: Joe Kapp
Description: Quatermass emerges from the car park to find the stadium empty. So many have now been harvested that the particles of dust in the air have turned the sky green. Kapp attempts to repair his equipment in order to contact the alien presence, but the Planet People destroy his efforts. They try to persuade him to join them but he refuses, convinced now that his family are dead. Quatermass, aided by Gurov, who has travelled to London from Moscow, assembles a team of scientists to find a solution. He deliberately selects old people for the task as they are immune to the effects of the alien force. Quatermass decides to set a trap. He plans to fake the presence of a large gathering of Planet People at Kapp’s observatory and, when the force comes, to detonate a nuclear weapon
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07 November 1979
SMCFP On This Day: Quatermass – What Lies Beneath
Series: Quatermass
Episode: S1Ep3 – What Lies Beneath
First Aired: 7 November 1979
Character: Joe Kapp
Description: Quatermass is rescued by a group of elderly people living in a scrap yard. At the hospital, the doctors are shocked when Isabel levitates off her bed and explodes in a cloud of dust. Elsewhere, the devastated Kapp is left alone in the ruins of his cottage and observatory. More and more young people are joining the Planet People, including the gangs that have been terrorising the cities and the soldiers assigned to keep them away from the Megalithic sites.
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