Leonard Sachs
Passed away this day in 1990
Group Captain in Thunderball
Leonard Sachs has been associated with the big franchises of
the UK. He acted in the Eon Productions’ film Thunderball as well as the Hammer films of The Men of
Sherwood Forest (1954) and Scream
of Fear (1961), and in the Doctor
Who television series as Lord President
Borusa in 1966 and then as Admiral Gaspard de Coligny in 1983. Additionally, he
had a role in the television version of Sherlock Holmes (1965) as well having recurring guest appearances in
the BBC Sunday-Night Theatre
during the 1950s.
Sachs’ first acting credit was for his role of Arif in
Secret of Stamboul (1936). Like Stone below, Sachs worked often on the small
screen doing guest appearances on a number of series as well as being cast in
roles for television movies. IMDB recorded 122 acting credits for Sachs before
his death. He died in Westminster at the age of 80.
Philip Stone
Passed away this day in 2003
Spectre Number 5 in Thunderball
Originally from Leeds, Philip Stone got a second start in
acting in 1960 after having to give it up when he contracted tuberculosis and
had to have treatments. He made guest appearances in several shows on
television. His role in Thunderball was
his second appearance on the big screen.
Stanley Kubrick saw Stone at the Royal Court Theatre in a
production of “The Contractor” and that led to Stone being cast in three
consecutive Kubrick films: A Clockwork Orange (1971) as Dad; Barry Lyndon
(1975) as Graham; and The Shining
(1980) as Delbert Grady. Stone had 115 acting credits to his name by the time
of his death in Ealing, at the age of 79.
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