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Nicholas Ball
Cast · Known for Lifeforce
Nicholas Ball was an English actor best known for playing the title role of James Hazell in the television series Hazell. His film credits included roles in D-Day drama Overlord, Hobe Tooper's sci-fi horror Lifeforce and Mike Hodges' Croupier. In later years Ball played violent gangster Terry Bates in EastEnders between 2007 and 2009 and Garry Ryan in series five of Footballers' Wives and both series of its spin-off programme Footballers' Wives: Extra Time.
Mathilda May
Cast · Known for Lifeforce, The Jackal
Born on February 8, 1965 in Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, France as Karima Mathilda Haim. She is known for her work on Lifeforce (1985), The Jackal (1997) and Le cri du hibou (1987).
Steve Railsback
Cast · Known for Lifeforce
Steve Railsback (born November 16, 1945, in Dallas, Texas) is an American theatre, film, and television actor. He is best known for his performances in the films The Stunt Man and Lifeforce, and his portrayal of Charles Manson in the 1976 television mini-series Helter Skelter. Railsback was a student of Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio and in the late 1960s and early 1970s spent 10 years working in theatre in New York City. He once said that he found Strasberg extremely difficult to work with. He made his film debut in The Visitors, directed by Elia Kazan. He portrayed two notorious murderers, appearing as Charles Manson in the 1976 television miniseries Helter Skelter and as Ed Gein in the 2000 film In the Light of the Moon. He also served as executive producer of the latter film. Other notable roles include the part of Cameron in The Stunt Man with Peter O'Toole, the astronaut Tom Carlsen in Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce, Duane Barry in two episodes of The X-Files, and Joseph Welch in the pilot episode of Supernatural. In 2008, he appeared in the science fiction/horror movie film Plaguers.
Alan Hume
Cinematographer · Known for Lifeforce, Return of the Jedi, The Avengers
Alan Hume (16 October 1924 – 13 July 2010) was an English cinematographer. He served as director of photography on many of the Carry On films and three James Bond films (For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, and A View to a Kill). Other notable films include Return of the Jedi (1983), Supergirl (1984), Lifeforce (1985), and A Fish Called Wanda (1988).
Gareth Milne
Gareth Milne was born on 7 May 1953 in Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, Wales, UK. He is an actor and stunt person, known for Skyfall (2012), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) and Lifeforce (1985).
Michael Gothard
Cast · Known for Lifeforce, The Devils
British actor who may be best remembered as the villainous Emile Locque in For Your Eyes Only. A native of Hendon, Middlesex, England, Gothard made his feature film debut as Max, the young poet star of director Don Levy’s drama Herostratus (1967). Specializing in characters with odd traits and personalities, Gothard also appeared in Scream and Scream Again (1970); The Last Valley (1971); The Devils (1971); Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972); The Three Musketeers (1973); Warlords of the Deep (1978); Lifeforce (1985); and Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992). Sadly he committed suicide after a bout with depression.
John Lloyd Fillingham
John Lloyd Fillingham (born 1967 in Ince, Lancashire) appeared on Coronation Street between July 1992 and May 1993 as builder, Neil Mitchell. He studied at the Welsh College of Music and Drama between 1987 and 1990. His other credits include roles in September Song, Crocodile Shoes, The Bill, Life Force, Heartbeat, Cold Feet, Stig of the Dump, Always and Everyone, The Vice, The Royal, Casualty, Foyle's War, Rush, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Gallipoli, Hunters, The Doctor Blake Mysteries and Spring Clean. Film roles include B & B, Exam, Dark Place and Blood Vessel. On stage, he appeared in productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, Richard III and Titus Andronicus for the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Tempest, The Glass Menagerie and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice for Bristol Old Vic. Other works include The Glory of the Garden, King Lear, A Christmas Carol and Be My Baby along with a tour of Australia playing Bernard Wooley in the screenplay of Yes, Prime Minister.John Lloyd Fillingham Training - Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Theatre.
Alan Ruscoe
Alan Ruscoe is a British actor who is best known for his work as various aliens, monsters and androids in the Star Wars films and the television series Doctor Who. On television, he has played Baraquel, Sariel and Araquiel in Sky One's Hex season 2, as well as a number of characters in the 2005 series of Doctor Who: Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen in "Aliens of London" and "World War Three" (and briefly in "Boom Town"), lead Auton in "Rose", the Anne Droid in "Bad Wolf" and "The Parting of the Ways", Trine-E in "Bad Wolf", and Lute of the Forest of Cheem in "The End of the World". Ruscoe has also appeared in the Doctor Whoaudio dramas The Veiled Leopard, The Settling, Gallifrey: Annihilation and Bernice Summerfield: Paradise Frost Big Finish Productions. He also played Andrew Stone, a Mars colonist later taken over by an alien lifeform in the November 2009 Doctor Who special "The Waters of Mars". In films, Ruscoe has played Daultay Dofine, Lott Dod and Plo Koon in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and the Mangalore Kino in The Fifth Element. He also played "the Poulterer" in a 2004 television adaptation of A Christmas Carol. He appears alongside Terence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave and Gemma Arterton in "Song For Marion" released this year. In theatre, he has played Deputy and Snake Preacher in Whistle Down the Wind, Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Show in the English Theatre Frankfurt, Bob Cratchit in the 2004 touring version of Scrooge and Gussie Fink-Nottle in the 2007 UK tour of By Jeeves. In Germany, he played "Bob" the pizza-boy-eating alien for the T-Online television and poster campaign.