Shakespearean repertory player with trademark deep voice who appeared on
the classical stage ("Macbeth," "King Lear," "Romeo and Juliet," "Much
Ado About Nothing," "A Midsummer Night's Dream") and occasionally
supported on film as various dignitaries. He also played Brackenbury, the jailkeeper, in
Laurence Olivier's film of "Richard III" (1955).