Bernard Archard | |
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 Archard in 1962 | |
| Born | 20 August 1916 |
| Died | 1 May 2008 (aged 91) Witham Friary, Somerset, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1939–1994 |
| Partner | James Belchamber |
Bernard Joseph Archard (20 August 1916 – 1 May 2008) was an English actor who made many film and television appearances.
Archard was born in Fulham, London, where his father Alfred James Aloysius, who was born in Marylebone, was a jeweller. Bernard's paternal grandfather Alfred Charles Archard and great grandfather Henry Archard were clockmakers, watchmakers and jewellers in Mayfair, London during the 1800s. [1] He was the maternal grandson of James Matthew Littleboy, Mayor of Fulham from 1906 to 1907. [2] He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and in summer 1939 he appeared in the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park production of Twelfth Night . [1] As a conscientious objector during the Second World War, he worked on Quaker land. [2] At the Edinburgh Festival in 1948, in a production of the Glyndebourne Children's Theatre, he met fellow actor James Belchamber, who was his partner for nearly 60 years. [2]
Archard's first major television role, reprising the like-titled radio show, was playing Lt Col. Oreste Pinto in the BBC wartime drama series Spycatcher , which ran for four seasons between 1959 and 1961. [3] [4] His TV guest appearances include two roles in Doctor Who (as Bragen in The Power of the Daleks and as Marcus Scarman in Pyramids of Mars ); a regular role in Emmerdale ; plus appearances in The Children of the New Forest (the 1964 BBC edition), Dixon of Dock Green , Danger Man , The Avengers , Z-Cars , Paul Temple , Upstairs, Downstairs , Callan , Rumpole of the Bailey , Crown Court , The Professionals , Bergerac , Sir Francis Drake and Keeping Up Appearances . [5] [6]
Archard appeared in over fifty films, including Village of the Damned (1960), The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), Play Dirty (1968), Run a Crooked Mile (1969), The Horror of Frankenstein (1970), Roman Polanski's Macbeth (1971), Dad's Army (1971), The Day of the Jackal (1973), The Sea Wolves (1980), Krull (1983) and King Solomon's Mines (1985). [7]
Archard and his long term partner, James Belchamber, [8] ran a touring repertory company, based in Torquay, which included Hilda Braid among its players. [2] On the West End stage he appeared at Her Majesty's Theatre as a magistrate in the Terence Rattigan play Cause Célèbre and in The Case of the Oily Levantine by Anthony Shaffer. [9]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
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| 1957 | A Woman of Property | Dr. Pickford | TV movie | |
| 1958 | Black Furrow | Harper | Documentary | |
| Mary Britten, M.D. | Councillor Pyke | 5 episodes | ||
| The Secret Man | Inspector | |||
| Corridors of Blood | Hospital Official | |||
| 1960 | Village of the Damned | Vicar | ||
| Danger Man | Doctor Bryant | Episode: The Leak | ||
| 1961 | The Clue of the New Pin | Superintendent Carver | ||
| Two Letter Alibi | Duke | |||
| Man Detained | Detective Inspector Verity | |||
| 1962 | The Second Mrs Tanqueray | Cayley Drummie | TV movie | |
| A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing | Barney Fincham | TV movie | ||
| The Password Is Courage | 1st Prisoner of War | |||
| Flat Two | Trainer | |||
| 1963 | The List of Adrian Messenger | Inspector Pike | ||
| Silent Playground | Inspector Duffy | |||
| 1964 | Edgar Wallace Mysteries | Michael Forrest | Face of a Stranger episode | |
| 1965-1968 | The Avengers | Desmond Leeming/Dr. Constantine | 2 episodes | |
| 1966/1975 | Doctor Who | Bragen/Marcus Scarman | 10 episodes | |
| 1966 | The Spy with a Cold Nose | Russian Intelligence Chief | ||
| 1967 | The Mini-Affair | Sir Basil Grinling | ||
| 1968-1970 | Mystery and Imagination | Professor Van Helsing/The President | 2 episodes | |
| 1969 | Play Dirty | Colonel Homerton | ||
| The File of the Golden Goose | Collins | |||
| Tower of London: The Innocent | Earl of Oxford | TV movie | ||
| Run a Crooked Mile | Business Spokesman | TV movie | ||
| 1970 | Fragment of Fear | Priest | ||
| Song of Norway | George Nordraak | |||
| The Horror of Frankenstein | Professor Heiss | |||
| 1971 | Dad's Army | Major General Fullard | ||
| The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes | Dr. Davidson | Episode: A Message from the Deep Sea | ||
| Macbeth | Angus | |||
| 1972 | The Adventures of Black Beauty | Bulov | Episode: The Duel | |
| 1973 | The Day of the Jackal | Detective Hughes | ||
| Upstairs, Downstairs | Col Harry Tewksbury | Episode: What the Footman Saw | ||
| 1974 | Crown Matrimonial | Geoffrey Dawson | TV movie | |
| 1975 | The Hiding Place | Lieutenant Rahms | ||
| The Legend of Robin Hood | Sir Richard of the Lea | Miniseries | ||
| 1976 | Smuga Cienia | Captain Elis | ||
| 1977 | Philby, Burgess and Maclean | Graves | TV movie | |
| 1979 | Churchill and the Generals | Edward, Lord Halifax | TV movie | |
| 1980 | 'Tis Pity She's a Whore | Donado | TV movie | |
| The Sea Wolves | Underhill | |||
| A Tale of Two Cities | Court President | TV movie | ||
| 1982 | Inside the Third Reich | Dr. Hans Flachsner | TV movie | |
| 1983 | Separate Tables | Mr. Fowler | ||
| Krull | Eirig | |||
| Al-Mas' Ala Al-Kubra | Sir Percy Cox | |||
| Number 10 | Duke of Wellington | |||
| 1985 | King Solomon's Mines | Professor Huston | Uncredited | |
| 1986 | God's Outlaw | Sir Thomas More | ||
| 1990 | Hidden Agenda | Sir Robert Neil | ||
| 1991 | Keeping Up Appearances | Hotel Guest | Episode: Golfing with the Major | |
| 1992-1994 | Emmerdale | Leonard Kempinski | 23 episodes | |
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