Except there’s no mention on the BBC website, even though they show links to the Independent site story saying he’s died
It’s probably a gross disservice to his acting career, but I’ll always remember him as the Witchsmeller Pursuivant in the first series of Blackadder.
It’s surprising that there is no mention of his death on the BBC website as he seemed to be always on TV in the 70’s.
I saw him as Salieri in Amadeus in 1982 or thereabouts. I have a strong memory of the beginning where the aged Salieri speaks to his confessor (the audience). An elderly gentleman slowly walked across the stage, hung up his dressing gown and about 40 years. An energetic man in the prime of life then took over. No makeup, no props, just the physical transformation of an actor in a split second. I couldn’t quite believe that I had seen what I had seen.
A wonderful actor.
His turn in Black Adder was ace – he went right OTT and was clearly having the time of his life.
I call! My first! WITNE-E-E-ESS!!!
Mentioned this on the obituary thread…Casanova, with script by Dennis Potter, in (good grief!) 1971. He was magnificently wolfish….Mary Whitehouse wasn’t impressed.
He was also very good as Inspector Lestrade in one my favourite Sherlock Holmes films, Murder By Decree, and please let us not forget his turn as Porthos in those two magnificent Musketeer films:
Superb in”A bouquet of barbed wire” as the creepy obsessed father too.