Barry Foster

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Barry Foster (1972)

Barry Foster (born August 21, 1931 in Beeston , England , † February 11, 2002 in Guildford ) was a British actor.

Life

Before starting his acting career, he worked as a chemical laboratory assistant in the plastics industry. At the age of 20 he enrolled in acting classes at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London , making him a little older than the rest of the students. There he met the later writer Harold Pinter , who at that time was still working as an actor - later he played in some of Pinter's plays.

Foster had his first professional theater appearance in 1952 as Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice , and in 1955 he appeared for the first time in London. In 1956 he got his first film role. Although he continued to act in the theater and also had the lead role in several British television series, he is better known to German audiences from his supporting roles in many films. He played in the Battle of Britain (1969), Ryan's Daughter (1970) and The Wild Geese Come (1978). In the mini-series Fall of Eagles (1974) Foster played the German Kaiser Wilhelm II. His most famous role, however, is that of the tie killer Bob Rusk in Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film Frenzy (1972). Between 1972 and 1992 the British television crime series Van der Valk was created , in which Foster played an Amsterdam crime inspector. The series ran from 1976 on GDR television and from 1979 on ZDF . He then appeared in the English television series Agent on his own behalf ( Smiley's People ) based on John le Carré 's novel of the same name with Alec Guinness . For the BBC , Foster also recorded 13 episodes with radio plays as Sherlock Holmes .

Foster was married to Judith Shergold for 40 years and had two daughters, who also became actresses, and a son. Forster died of a heart attack in 2002 . After his death, a foundation was set up, The Barry Foster Memorial Appeal , to bring the theater closer to disabled children.

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year of birth according to obituary in The Guardian dated February 12, 2002, IMDb mentions 1927 differently.
personal data
SURNAME Foster, Barry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Beeston (Nottinghamshire)
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 2002
Place of death Guildford