Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
9/30/1943
Place of Birth
Woking, Surrey, England, UK
Also Known As
Иан ОгилвиIan Raymond Ogilvy
Ian Ogilvy
Biography
Ian Raymond Ogilvy (born 30 September 1943) is an English film and television actor. He is best known as the star of the TV series Return of the Saint (1978–79), in which he assumed the role of Simon Templar from Roger Moore (1962–69).
The role led to his being considered a leading contender for the role of James Bond in the early 1980s, when Moore announced his intention to leave the role. He never played the part (in part due to Moore reconsidering his resignation on several occasions), although he did play a Bond-like character in a series of North American TV commercials broadcast in the ...
Known For
The Saint
as The Fixer
Death Becomes Her
as Chagall
Renegades
as Peck
The Sorcerers
as Mike Roscoe
Waterloo
as De Lancey
Knightfall
as Charles Knight
Horse Sense
as Miles
Wuthering Heights
as Edgar Linton
Mistrust
as Ian
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
as Self
Anna Karenina
as Stiva
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
as Self / Poem Reader (voice)
My Life in Ruins
as Mr. Stewart Tullen
The Saint Steps In... To Television
as Himself
Fugitive Mind
as Dr. Grace
The Saint and the Brave Goose
as Simon Templar
And Now the Screaming Starts!
as Charles Fengriffen
Maigret
as Daniel Portman
We Still Steal the Old Way
as Richie Archer
Revenge of The Blood Beast
as Philip