BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor
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Lee Montague | |
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| Born | Leonard Goldberg 16 October 1927 Bow, London, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1952- |
| Spouse(s) | Ruth Goring (1955-, 2 Children) |
Lee Montague (born Leonard Goldberg; 16 October 1927) is an English actor noted for his roles in film and television, usually playing tough guys.[1]
Montague was a student of the Old Vic School.[2]
Montague's film credits include The Camp on Blood Island, Billy Budd, The Secret of Blood Island, Deadlier Than the Male, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Jesus of Nazareth, Mahler and The Legacy.[3] His theatre credits include: Who Saw Him Die by Tudor Gates staged in 1974 at London's Theatre Royal Haymarket in which he played the part of John Rawlings, the nemesis of former police Superintendent Pratt played by Stratford Johns.[citation needed][4] On Broadway, he portrayed Gregory Hawke in The Climate of Eden (1952), and Ed in Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1965).[5]
Montague's television credits include: Somerset Maugham TV Theatre,[6] Espionage,[7] The Four Just Men, Danger Man, The Baron, The Troubleshooters, Department S, Dixon of Dock Green, The Sweeney, Holocaust, Space: 1999, Minder, The Chinese Detective, Bergerac, Bird of Prey, Dempsey and Makepeace, Jekyll & Hyde, Casualty and Waking the Dead.[8] In the sitcom Seconds Out, he had a regular part as the manager of a boxer played by Robert Lindsay.[9] In Bergerac, he played Henri Dupont in several episodes.[10][11]
Montague was the first storyteller on the BBC children's programme Jackanory in 1965,[12] and he narrated in fifteen episodes between 1965 and 1966.[13]
