I remember him first as Father in Beauty and the Beast - the wise, kind older man who held the underground community together.
Later, he played a much more unpleasant father - Wesley's dad in Angel:
And of course he was in Hellboy, with Ron Perlman again.
On stage, he was part of the RSC at a time when many great names were gracing the boards there, including Laurence Olivier, Peter O'Toole and Paul Robeson.
Born on the island of Guernsey, he escaped with this brother and mother at the beginning of the Second World War, and joined the RAF as a wireless operator and air gunner - and ended up in a POW camp after being shot down. After the War, he began his acting career, and was still going strong quite recently, with a small part in Game of Thrones, for which he also read the audio books.
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