Webley Mk VI

Webley Mk. VI - .455 Webley

The Webley Mk. VI is a version of the Webley Revolver chambered for the massive .455 round. It looks similar to the Webley Mk IV in .38 S&W, though it is noticeably larger and thicker due to the larger caliber.

Specifications

• Weight: 2.4 lb (1.1 kg), unloaded
• Length: 11.25 in. (286 mm)
• Cartridge: 455 Webley Mk II
• Calibre: 455 Webley
• Action: Double Action revolver
• Rate of fire: 20–30 rounds/minute
• Muzzle velocity: 620 ft/s (190 m/s)
• Effective range: 50 yd
• Maximum range: 300 yd
• Feed system: 6-round cylinder
• Sights: fixed front blade and rear notch

The Webley Mk. VI revolver can be seen in the following films and video games used by the following actors:

Films

• Canadian company commander in Passchendaele (2009)

• S.O.E agents in Charlotte Gray (2001)

• Canadian Army officers in Legends of the Fall (1994)

• British Army officers in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

• Australian and British soldiers in Beneath Hill 60 (2010)

• An Exterminator in Zardoz (1974)

• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

• Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

• Richard Burton as Flight Officer David Campbell in The Longest Day (1963)

• British officers in Zulu (1964)

• Stanley Baker as Lt. John Chard in Zulu (1964)

• British officers in Khartoum (1966)

• Used by Denholm Elliott in Too Late the Hero (1970)

• Vito Corleone, played by Robert De Niro, uses one to assassinate Don Fanucci in Godfather Part II, The (1974)

• British officers in Zulu Dawn (1979)

• British officers in Breaker Morant (1980)

• Edward Woodward as Lt. Harry 'Breaker' Morant in Breaker Morant (1980)

• Bill Hunter as Major Barton in Gallipoli (1981)

• Kate Nelligan as Lucy Rose in Eye of the Needle (1981)

• Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986)

• Australian and British officers and sergeants in The Lighthorsemen (1987)

• Gary Busey as Frank McBain in Bulletproof (1988)

• Mireille Mossé as Miss Bismuth in The City of Lost Children (1995)

• J.E. Freeman as Eddie Dane in Miller's Crossing (1990)

• Police officer of frontier in Cyborg Cop (1993)

• Don Cheadle as Mouse in Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

• A British gangster in Entrapment (1999)

• British soldiers in The Trench (1999)

• Steve Huison as Colin Wallis in The Last Train (1999)

• Sir David Jason as Captain Frank Beck in All The King Men (1999)

• Daniel Radcliffe as Lieutenant Jack Kipling in My Boy Jack (2007)

• Alexander Siddig as Prime Minister John Hatcher in Doomsday (2008)

• Kenneth More as Captain Scott in Northwest Frontier (1959)

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Air Date
Doctor Who		Kaled Scientific Elite		1963-1989
Dad's Army	Arthur Lowe	Captain George Mainwaring		1968-1977
Reilly: Ace of Spies				1983
The A-Team		Guerilla leader		1983-1988
Guns	Colm Feore	Paul Duguid		2008
Kokoda		Brigadier General Arnold Potts		2010

Video Game

Game Title	Appears as	Note	Release Date
Silent Storm	"Webley-Scott"		2003
Call of Duty 2	"Webley"		2005
Bioshock	"Pistol"		2007
Dark Sector	"Hammer 1895"		2008
Bioshock 2	"Pistol"		2010