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Father Brown is a British period detective television series loosely based on the ... Flambeau's daughter is equally adept at theft. ... Series 1 cast (left to right
In 2013, he appeared as Chief Inspector Roger Nelson in the BBC TV series WPC 56 (series 1), and he appeared as Hercule Flambeau, nemesis of Father Brown, in the BBC TV series Father Brown, a role he has reprised in a recurring capacity. [2]
Hercule Flambeau is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton, who appears in 16 short stories about the character Father Brown. A master criminal, his surname "Flambeau" is an alias, the French word for a flaming torch.
Flambeau seeks Father Brown's help to catch a thief, Alexander Romanici, who is actually Flambeau's daughter Marianne Delacroix. She has been stealing items ahead of her father, including from an Italian crime lord, Vincenzo Murgida (Vincenzo Nicoli), who will kill to recover his property. Father Brown is asked to act as referee and organise a ...
Father Brown makes his first appearance in the story "The Blue Cross" published in 1910 and continues to appear throughout fifty short stories in five volumes, with two more stories discovered and published posthumously, often assisted in his crime-solving by the reformed criminal M. Hercule Flambeau. Father Brown also appears in a third story ...
Father Brown is a British television series, which originally aired on ITV in 1974. It featured Kenneth More as Father Brown , a Roman Catholic priest who solved crime mysteries. [ 1 ] The episodes were closely based on the stories by G. K. Chesterton .
Father Brown, Detective is a 1934 American mystery film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Walter Connolly, Paul Lukas and Gertrude Michael. [1] It is based on the 1910 Father Brown story " The Blue Cross " by G. K. Chesterton .
On a frigid winter's night in England, Father Brown and his friend Hercule Flambeau visit a lonely churchyard and view the monumental tomb, with a broken sword alongside the recumbent effigy, of the late British General Sir Arthur St. Clare, who is adulated by the British public (and American tourists) as a war hero.