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Bernard Horsfall
Born
Bernard Arthur Gordon Horsfall

(1930-11-20)20 November 1930
Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Died29 January 2013(2013-01-29) (aged 82)[1]
OccupationActor
SpouseJane Jordan Rogers

Bernard Horsfall (20 November 1930 – 29 January 2013) was a British actor.[2]

Horsfall was born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, and educated at Rugby School. He trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.[3]

Horsfall appeared in many television and film roles including: Guns at Batasi (1964),[4] On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969),[5] Enemy at the Door (ITV, 1978–1980),[6][7] Gandhi (1982),[8] an episode of The Jewel in the Crown (ITV, 1984),[9] the character Frankland in The Hound of the Baskervilles (ITV, 1988)[10] and the character Balliol in Braveheart (1995).[11] His other roles included portraying British barrister Melford Stevenson in a 1980 Granada TV dramatisation of the 1955 case of Ruth Ellis.[12]

He has made several guest appearances in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. His first was as Lemuel Gulliver in The Mind Robber (1968).[13] His other appearances were as a Time Lord in The War Games (1969),[14] Taron in Planet of the Daleks (1973),[15] and Chancellor Goth in The Deadly Assassin (1976).[16] All four of these serials were directed by David Maloney. Horsfall also appeared, with a Swedish accent, as "Christianson" in an episode of The Persuaders! titled "The Morning After" during 1972.[17]

In 2003 he appeared in Davros — a Doctor Who audio drama produced by Big Finish Productions.[18]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2013/01/dwn29011312bernard-horsfall-1930-2013.html
  2. ^ "Horsfall, Bernard". British Film Institute (Film & TV Database). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  3. ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/jan/30/bernard-horsfall
  4. ^ a b "Cast: Guns at Batasi". British Film Institute (Film & TV Database). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  5. ^ a b "Cast: On Her Majesty's Secret Service". British Film Institute (Film & TV Database). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  6. ^ Dancis, Bruce (25/02/2009). "DVD REVIEW: British miniseries 'Enemy at the Door' released". readingeagle.com (original publisher: McClatchy-Tribune). Retrieved 8 September 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  7. ^ "Enemy at the Door". British Film Institute (Film & TV Database). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  8. ^ a b "Cast: Gandhi". British Film Institute (Film & TV Database). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  9. ^ "Cast: The Jewel in the Crown, Episode 5: Regimental Silver". British Film Institute (Film & TV Database). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  10. ^ Kelley, Gordon E. (1994). Sherlock Holmes: Screen and Sound Guide. Scarecrow Press. p. 118.
  11. ^ a b McFarlane, Brian; British Film Institute (2005). "Horsfall, Bernard". The Encyclopedia of British Film. Methuen. p. 337.
  12. ^ "Cast: Lady Killers: Lucky, Lucky, Thirteen!". British Film Institute (Film & TV Database). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  13. ^ "Cast: Doctor Who: The Mind Robber (Episode 5)". British Film Institute (Film & TV Database). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  14. ^ "Cast: Doctor Who: The War Games (Part 10)". British Film Institute (Film & TV Database). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  15. ^ "Cast: Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks (Episode 6)". British Film Institute (Film & TV Database). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  16. ^ "Cast: Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin (Episode 4)". British Film Institute (Film & TV Database). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  17. ^ "Cast: The Persuaders!: Morning After". British Film Institute (Film & TV Database). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  18. ^ "Davros". Big Finish.com. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  19. ^ "Cast: The Steel Bayonet". British Film Institute (Film & TV Database). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  20. ^ "Cast: High Flight". British Film Institute (Film & TV Database). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  21. ^ "Cast: The One That Got Away". British Film Institute (Film & TV Database). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  22. ^ "Cast: The Angry Silence". British Film Institute (Film & TV Database). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  23. ^ "Cast: Man in the Moon". British Film Institute (Film & TV Database). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  24. ^ "Cast: Gold". British Film Institute (Film & TV Database). Retrieved 8 September 2012.
  25. ^ "Shout at the Devil". Films and Filming. 22. Hansom Books: 38. 1975.

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