Victor Brooks | |
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 in The Brides of Dracula (1960) | |
| Born | Victor Ronald Brooks 11 November 1918 Woolwich, London, England |
| Died | 19 January 2000 (aged 81) Dorset, England, UK |
| Years active | 1956–1994 |
Victor Brooks (1918–2000) was an English film and television actor.[1]
The charactors he portrayed on the silver screen often included police inspectors. Such is the case with this British thrillers Cover Girl Killer (1959), Witchcraft (1964) and Devils of Darkness (1965).[1] To this day he is most remembered for playing in The Brides of Dracula (1960), Billy Budd (1962) and Goldfinger (1964).[2] On television, he co-hosted eight of the 32 episodes of the 1964 magazine programme Open House.[2][3] He was noted for playing pipe-smoking authority figures in crime series like Dixon of Dock Green, Gideon's Way, Detective, Z Cars and Crown Court.[2] He also appeared in the television series Raffles in the recurring role of the Albany porter.[1][4][5] In 1961, he narrated the 15-minute instructional short The Warden, His Duties and Training,[6]
In July 1970 he appeared on theater stage opposite Alec Guinness in the Bridget Boland play Time Out of Mind at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford.[7]
