John Forbes-Robertson (actor)
John Forbes - Robertson ( born May 10, 1928 in Worthing / Sussex, UK; † 14 May 2008 ) was an English actor. His most popular role was that of Count Dracula in Hammer 's last vampire movie The 7 Golden Vampires.
Life & Career
John Forbes - Robertson was born in Worthing, West Sussex into a theater family. His father was the celebrated 1913 ennobled, Shakespearean actor Sir Johnston Forbes - Robertson. Because his parents were often touring, he grew up with his older brother and his younger sister to live with his grandparents. His first stage experiences at the Intimate Theatre and at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
Forbes - Robertson had a number of appearances in television series such as The Saint and The Avengers and melon, as well as on the radio and played numerous theater roles. In 1974, he played in a small but charismatic supporting role in the TV miniseries QB VII, based on the real case of Vladislav Dering, a respected physician who was accused for alleged atrocities during the Second World War. Forbes - Robertson played the chairman of the jury, the doctor illustrated by Anthony Hopkins awards damages in the amount of half a penny. As a result, Forbes Robertson was repeated to see a doctor, policeman or military officer.
1970, he became Hammer producer Aida Young approached him to succeed with him about the possibility of Christopher Lee as Dracula actor to negotiate. First, he played a mute but impressive role as a vampiric black dressed man in the tomb vampires. Finally Forbes - Robertson told, and played alongside Peter Cushing Count Dracula in The 7 Golden Vampires, the final last Dracula film from Hammer. The film should be the death knell for the Hammer Film Production, nevertheless expressed Forbes - Robertson later that he was lucky to have played such a popular movie character.
John Forbes - Robertson played minor roles in several major films, including in the agent spoof Casino Royale (1967 ) on the side of David Niven, Peter Sellers and Orson Welles. He was glad for his cooperation in Room 36, an indipendent horror film of 2004. However, he became noticeably frail increasingly. His last work was his collaboration on the retrospective documentary The Legend Of Hammer - Vampires of 2007.
Away from the big screen, he lived in Hanwell, West London, where he was frequently found on the antique market in Portobello Road. Forbes - Robertson was also an avid sailor and although he never married, but he met regularly with the dancers of the famous Windmill Theatre in Soho.
John Forbes - Robertson died four days after his birthday at the age of eighty years. He is survived by two nieces and two nephews.