familiar unknown

Janet Henfrey: With her rather severe features - somewhere between Edith Sitwell and Geoffrey Bayldon - Janet Henfrey has been called...

Graham Seed Perhaps it's too much of a stretch to suggest that, like Leonard Nimoy's autobiography, 'I Am Not Spock', ...

Bridget Brice: A great choice for a role needing some glamour but with a confident, business-like edge, Ms Brice may be familiar as ...

Alan Dobie: Alan Dobie seems a rather dour, astringent sort of actor, but perhaps that's because I find it a little difficult to s...

John Castle: A serious actor, strikingly handsome in a sullen way, looking rather like a cross between Derek Jacobi and Oliver Reed. T...

Selina Cadell: The sister of the late Simon Cadell, who played the endearingly shy and anxious Mr Fairbrother in 'Hi-De-Hi!',...

'What do you mean, 'I'm not in it?'  The top ten greatest British character actors of all time? A purely personal c...