Timothy Bateson
Timothy Bateson ( born April 3, 1926 in London, † 16 September 2009) was an English actor who has appeared in nearly 175 film and television roles.
Bateson began his film career as Lord Frederick Verisopht in the film adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby by Ealing Studios in 1947, he was in several other successful British films of this time on the cast list. ; so he worked with Roy Boulting, Pat Jackson - to the " main cast " he belonged - and Laurence Olivier.
As the roles in the late 1950s were rare, he moved to film comedies like The Mouse That Roared; when there was something to do here less and less and he became a stooge for James Robertson Justice and Leslie Phillips in their films, he discovered the Hammer films and a short time later, the television as a field of activity. He played roles in almost all series of the 1960s; also the subsequent decade he was predominantly on the screen, rarely seen on the screen.
Bateson was in the 1980s to fill the series Grange Hill and Do not wait up; 1991 to 1993 he was Padre Benites in the rotated in Spain The new series Zorro. In addition, he also worked as a voice actor. Again and again he became a stage actor in appearance, as in the first British staging of Waiting for Godot, for which he received the Clarence Derwent Award in 1956.