Philip Madoc(1934-2012)

He spoke several foreign languages fluently (including, he liked to say, English), and played his first film role, in "Operation Crossbow", entirely in German, just as his second film role, in "A High Wind In Jamaica" was mostly in Spanish.

Certainly initially I rarely played heroes because there was still this tradition that heroes were six foot tall. Certainly if you had a voice that wasn't high and dark eyes then there was a feeling that we were set out to play the villains of this world. I didn't ever argue with that, because they were more or less the best parts.