Joss Ackland

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Joss Ackland , CBE (born February 29, 1928 in Kensington , London ; actually Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland ) is a British actor . He acted in over 100 films and was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2000.

Life

Ackland studied at London's Central School of Speech and Drama . In 1945 he made his actor debut in the play The Hasty Heart . He played his first film role in the award-winning film A City Holds its Breath from 1950. In the television series The Further Adventures of the Three Musketeers (1967) he played the role of d'Artagnan . In the British television series Die 2 (The Persuaders, 1970 and 1971), he played the freelance ex-agent Felix Meadows in the episode "The Man with the Toupee". In the science fiction film Ein Draht im Kopf (1972) he had one of the bigger roles alongside Christopher Walken , similar to - alongside Michael York - in the film drama England Made Me (1973). In Richard Lester's comedy Royal Flash (1975) he appeared alongside Malcolm McDowell , Alan Bates and Oliver Reed , and in the comedy Sherlock Holmes or The Strange Case of Civilization's End (1977) alongside John Cleese . In the television series A Question of Guilt (1980) he played one of the leading roles.

For the supporting role in the movie The Last Days in Kenya (1987) Ackland was nominated for the BAFTA Award in 1989. Another nomination for the BAFTA Award came in 1990 for the lead role in the TV movie First and Last from the year 1989 . In the 1989 action film Brennpunkt LA , in which Mel Gibson and Danny Glover played the leading roles, he played the South African diplomat and drug trafficker Arjen Rudd . In 1990 , he played the Soviet ambassador Andrei Lysenko in a supporting role in the blockbuster Hunt for Red October .

In 1987, Ackland appeared in the music video Always on My Mind by British pop music duo Pet Shop Boys and their film It Couldn't Happen Here .

Ackland was married to his wife Rosemary (nee Kirkcaldy) from 1951 until her death in 2002, with whom he had seven children (five daughters and two sons). The eldest son Paul died in 1982 at the age of 29 from a heroin overdose .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDe60CbIagg
  2. ^ Paul Ackland (1952–1982) , entry in findagrave.com. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Ackland, Joss
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ackland, Sidney Edmond Jocelyn (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Kensington , London , United Kingdom