Bernard Horsfall

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Bernard Horsfall (born November 20, 1930 in Bishop's Stortford , England as Bernard Arthur Gordon Horsfall , † January 29, 2013 in Skye , Scotland ) was a British film and theater actor .

life and career

Bernard Horsfall, a descendant of the Berlin banker Alexander Mendelssohn , was born in 1930 in Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire . He made his film debut in 1957 in John Gilling's war film Comrades in the Air . In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s he was often seen as an actor in the war drama genre, such as in Roy Ward Baker's film about the escape of a German soldier from a POW camp in One Came Through (1957), in John Guillermin's drama Shots in Batasi (1964) or in Hidden Objective by director John Hough .

Since the 1960s, Horsfall has had smaller supporting roles in well-known dramas such as Angry Silence by director Guy Green (1960) in Ralph Thomas ' In Search of Love (1971) or in the award-winning Gandhi biography (1982) by director Richard Attenborough . Comedies like Basil Dearden 's Man in the Moon from 1960 remained the exception.

Since 1969, the director friend Peter R. Hunt has also used it in several of his films, such as in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) or in the adventure films Gold (1974) and Roar the Devil (1976).

In addition, Horsfall was often seen in well-known British television series, including episodes of Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone , Die 2 or Doctor Who or in sophisticated television adaptations such as the 1988 literary film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Dog of Baskerville .

Horsfall died on January 29, 2013 at the age of 82.

Filmography (selection)

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literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernard Horsfall in: Theater Record , Volume 13, Issues 10-19, by I. Herbert, 1993, page 624
  2. ↑ Bernard Horsfall in: James Bond in the cinema , by John Brosnan, Tantivy Press, 1972, p. 175
  3. ^ Bernard Horsfall in Doctor Who: 25 glorious years: XXV by Peter Haining, WH Allen, 1988, p. 216
  4. ↑ Bernard Horsfall 1930–2013
personal data
SURNAME Horsfall, Bernard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horsfall, Bernard Arthur Gordon (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Bishop's Stortford , Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2013
Place of death Skye , Scotland