He was of course known to the world as Alfred in the original Tim Burton-instigated Batman movies, which I've never seen (the first installment being the exemplar of a movie I looked forward to intensely but never got out of the house to see when I was sick in the 90's).
Not that I remember him, but I first saw him in a reasonably significant role in the first U.S. broadcast episode of the inconsistent but often excellent Hammer-produced TV suspense anthology series "Journey to the Unknown," which was broadcast here in (IIRC) the summer of 1969. I will whistle you the "memorably famous whistled theme tune" (says Wikipedia; it accompanied POV footage from a roller coaster in a seemingly abandoned amusement park (which, I now learn, was in fact the Big Dipper at the Battersea Fun Fair, which was closed a few years later after five children were killed in an accident). And perhaps some reader will now say, "Oh, that show!").
I appear to have also seen him in a small role in Top Secret! before seeing him in The Small Back Room. I wish I had seen more of him.
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Not that I remember him, but I first saw him in a reasonably significant role in the first U.S. broadcast episode of the inconsistent but often excellent Hammer-produced TV suspense anthology series "Journey to the Unknown," which was broadcast here in (IIRC) the summer of 1969. I will whistle you the "memorably famous whistled theme tune" (says Wikipedia; it accompanied POV footage from a roller coaster in a seemingly abandoned amusement park (which, I now learn, was in fact the Big Dipper at the Battersea Fun Fair, which was closed a few years later after five children were killed in an accident). And perhaps some reader will now say, "Oh, that show!").
I appear to have also seen him in a small role in Top Secret! before seeing him in The Small Back Room. I wish I had seen more of him.