Richard Vernon
Richard Vernon ( born March 7, 1925 in Reading, Berkshire, † December 4, 1997 in London) was a British actor.
Life
After finishing school, Vernon attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in Reading and then fought during the Second World War as a volunteer in the Royal Navy. After his return, he played at various theaters in England. In 1949, he was next to James Robertson Justice and Gordon Jackson in Stop Press Girl his feature film debut.
In the 47 years of his film and television career of the distinguished man often played with the narrow Mustache British gentlemen, officers and scientists. He acted in movies of different genres - as in comedies such as Indiscreet ( with Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman ) and Inspector Clouseau, the "best" man in Interpol ( with Peter Sellers), in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi epics like, Mysteries and Agatha Christie's evil Under the sun ( with Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot ) as well as in the remake of witness for the Prosecution ( with Diana Rigg and Ralph Richardson in the title roles ). Even in horror movies like Dracula needs ( with Christopher Lee) and the grave of Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe ( with Vincent Price ), music films such as A Hard Day 's Night by the Beatles and in the James Bond film Goldfinger, he was seen fresh blood.
In addition, Vernon had numerous guest appearances on television shows such as Yes Minister and The Avengers and melon. He had great success in his homeland in 1965 with the television series The Man in Room 17, where he later next Denholm Elliott clarifying two years as a criminologist initially opposite Michael Aldridge and with logic crimes without having to ever leave the house.
A wide audience Vernon was known as vertrottelter intergalactic planetary designer Slartibartfast. In 1978, he auditioned for the written by Douglas Adams BBC radio drama series for the first time the unconventional inventor of the Norwegian fjords. As the BBC 1981, a first film prompted a mini-series, he took the part a second time.
Vernon was married from 1955 to 1990 with his fellow actress Benedicta Leigh. Their daughter Sarah Vernon grabbed the profession also. Ill in his last years from Parkinson's disease, Richard Vernon died on 4 December 1997 at the age of 72 years in London.