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Originally Posted by John Beaman
A great character actor. He will be missed. Aside from the great horror flicks he did...
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Not to forget his protrayal of 007's arch-enemy, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, white cat and all!
He wasn't the only British character actor to have been a PoW and then played one: Sam Kydd was another, I believe. A lot of the actors in British war movies of the 50s had seen war service of course: they were the right age. For example, Richard Todd had been a paratrooper in Normandy, before he became a Dambuster in movies.