Percy Herbert (actor)

Percy Herbert
Born	31 July 1920(1920-07-31) London, England, UK
Died	6 December 1992(1992-12-06) (aged 72) Kent, England, UK
Occupation	actor
Years active	1951-87

Percy Herbert (31 July 1920 - 6 December 1992) was an English character actor who often played soldiers, most notably in The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Geese and Tunes of Glory. However, he was equally at home in comedies (Barnacle Bill, Call Me Bwana, two Carry On films) and science fiction (One Million Years B.C., Mysterious Island). He also acted on television; he was a regular on the short-lived series Cimarron Strip, starring Stuart Whitman.

Herbert was a soldier and prisoner of war during World War II, captured by the Japanese when they took Singapore.

He was discovered by Dame Sybil Thorndike.

Herbert died of a heart attack on 6 December 1992.

Partial filmography

• Confession (1955)
• The Night My Number Came Up (1955)
• The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
• A Hill in Korea (1956)
• Tiger in the Smoke (1956)
• The Steel Bayonet (1957)
• Quatermass 2 (1957)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
• Barnacle Bill (1957)
• The Safecracker (1958)
• Sea of Sand (1958)
• Serious Charge (1959)
• Yesterday's Enemy (1959)
• The Devil's Disciple (1959)
• The Challenge (1960)
• There Was a Crooked Man (1960)
• Tunes of Glory (1960)
• The Guns of Navarone (1961)
• Mysterious Island (1961)
• Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
• Call Me Bwana (1963)
• The Cracksman (1963)
• Carry On Jack (1963)

• The Counterfeit Constable (1964)
• Becket (1964)
• Guns at Batasi (1964)
• Joey Boy (1965)
• Carry On Cowboy (1965)
• One Million Years B.C. (1966)
• Casino Royale (1967)
• Tobruk (1967)
• The Viking Queen (1967)
• Mister Ten Per Cent (1967)
• Night of the Big Heat (1967)
• The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
• Too Late the Hero (1970)
• Man in the Wilderness (1971)
• The Fiend (1972)
• The Mackintosh Man (1973)
• One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
• Valentino (1977)
• The Wild Geese (1978)
• The London Connection (1979)
• The Sea Wolves (1980)
• The Love Child (1987)

External links

• Percy Herbert at the Internet Movie Database
• Percy Herbert at Find a Grave