Percy Herbert (actor)

Percy Herbert (31 July 1920 – 6 December 1992) was an English actor. He worked predominantly from the 1950s into the 1970s and became one of the most recognisable faces in post-war British cinema.

Biography
He served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps during the Second World War and spent four years in the Japanese prisoner of war camp Changi. After the war, he was helped by Dame Sybil Thorndike to secure an interview with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he won a scholarship. His acting career began in the theatre, which included working at John Gielgud's Old Vic Company.

Beginning in the early 1950s, he went on to make nearly seventy films, often playing soldiers, most notably in The Cockleshell Heroes, The Bridge on the River Kwai (for which he also worked as consultant), Sea of Sand, Tunes of Glory, The Guns of Navarone, Guns at Batasi, Tobruk and The Wild Geese. However, he was equally at home in comedies (Barnacle Bill, Casino Royale, two Carry On films), fantasy (One Million Years B.C., Mysterious Island), drama (Becket, Bunny Lake is Missing), and science fiction (Quatermass 2, Night of the Big Heat).

He also acted on television; he was a regular on the short-lived American series Cimarron Strip, during a brief foray to Hollywood. Other television work includes Danger Man, The Saint, Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green and Worzel Gummidge.

Herbert died of a heart attack on 6 December 1992 aged 72.

Complete filmography

 * I Done a Murder (1951, TV film) - The Rev. Christopher Spoke
 * The Young Lovers (1954) - Richards (uncredited)
 * Montserrat (1954, TV film) - Morales
 * The Green Carnation (1954) - Casey O'Rourke
 * One Good Turn (1955) - "Seen Enough" Boxing Spectator (uncredited)
 * The Night My Number Came Up (1955) - R.E.M.E. Sergeant
 * The Prisoner (1955) - Soldier (uncredited)
 * Confession (1955) - Barman
 * The Gold Express (1955)
 * Timeslip (1955) - Assassin (uncredited)
 * The Cockleshell Heroes (1955) - Marine Lomas
 * Doctor at Sea (1955) - Helmsman (uncredited)
 * Lost (1956) - Police Constable in Phone Box (uncredited)
 * Child in the House (1956) - Det. Sgt. Taylor
 * A Hill in Korea (1956) - Pvt. Moon
 * Tiger in the Smoke (1956) - Copper
 * Quatermass 2 (1957) - Gorman
 * The Steel Bayonet (1957) - Pvt. Clark
 * The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - Grogan
 * Night of the Demon (1957) - Farmer (deleted from US print)
 * Barnacle Bill (1957) - Tommy
 * The Safecracker (1958) - Sergeant Harper
 * No Time to Die (1958) - 1st British soldier
 * Sea Fury (1958) - Walker
 * Sea of Sand (1958) - 'Blanco' White
 * Idol on Parade (1959) - Sgt. Hebrides
 * The Hill (1959, TV film) - Reuben
 * Serious Charge (1959) - Mr. Thompson
 * Deadly Record (1959) - Belcher (uncredited)
 * Yesterday's Enemy (1959) - Wilson
 * The Devil's Disciple (1959) - Edict Sergeant
 * Don't Panic Chaps! (1959) - Bolter
 * Yesterday's Enemy (1959) - Wilson
 * A Touch of Larceny (1960) - (uncredited)
 * The Challenge (1960) - Shop Steward
 * There Was a Crooked Man (1960) - Prison Warden
 * Tunes of Glory (1960) - RSM Riddick
 * The Guns of Navarone (1961) - Sgt. Grogan
 * Mysterious Island (1961) - Sergeant Pencroft
 * Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) - Seaman Matthew Quintal
 * The Captive City (1962) - Sgt. Maj. Reed
 * Call Me Bwana (1963) - First Henchman
 * The Cracksman (1963) - Nosher
 * Carry On Jack (1963) - Mister Angel, Bo’sun
 * Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963) - Dover Castle Jailer
 * Becket (1964) - Baron
 * Guns at Batasi (1964) - Colour Sgt. Ben Parkin
 * The Counterfeit Constable (1964) - L'agent Baxter
 * Carry On Cleo (1964) - Guard (uncredited)
 * Joey Boy (1965) - Mad George Long
 * Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965) - Policeman at Station
 * Carry On Cowboy (1965) - Charlie, the Bartender
 * One Million Years B.C. (1966) - Sakana
 * Tobruk (1967) - Dolan
 * Mister Ten Per Cent (1967) - Inspector Great
 * The Viking Queen (1967) - Catus
 * Casino Royale (1967) - 1st Piper
 * Night of the Big Heat (1967) - Gerald Foster
 * Cimarron Strip (1968, episode : Fools Gold) - MacGregor
 * The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969) - Diego
 * One More Time (1970) - Mander
 * Too Late the Hero (1970) - Sergeant Johnstone
 * The Other Reg Varney (1970, TV film) - Various characters
 * Captain Apache (1971) - Moon
 * Man in the Wilderness (1971) - Fogarty
 * Doomwatch (1972) - Constable Hartwell
 * The Fiend (1972) - Commissionaire
 * Up the Front (1972) - Cpl. Lovechild
 * Black Snake (1973) - Joker Tierney
 * The Mackintosh Man (1973) - Taafe
 * Craze (1974) - Detective Constable Russet
 * One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975) - Mr. Gibbons
 * Metamorphosis Alpha (1976, TV film) - Thargon Commander
 * Hardcore (1977) - Hubert
 * Valentino (1977) - Studio Guard
 * The Wild Geese (1978) - Keith
 * The London Connection (1979) - Ship's Captain
 * The Sea Wolves (1980) - Dennison
 * Rules of Justice (1981, TV film) - George Lattimore
 * The Love Child (1988) - Maurice