Bernard Horsfall

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Bernard Horsfall : biography

20 November 1930 – 29 January 2013

Bernard Arthur Gordon Horsfall (20 November 1930 – 29 January 2013) was a British actor.

Horsfall was born in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, and educated at Rugby School. He trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Horsfall appeared in many television and film roles including: Guns at Batasi (1964), On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), Enemy at the Door (ITV, 1978–1980), Gandhi (1982), an episode of The Jewel in the Crown (ITV, 1984), the character Frankland in The Hound of the Baskervilles (ITV, 1988) and the character Balliol in Braveheart (1995). His other roles included portraying British barrister Melford Stevenson in a 1980 Granada TV dramatisation of the 1955 case of Ruth Ellis.

Horsfall made several guest appearances in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. His first was as Lemuel Gulliver in The Mind Robber (1968). His other appearances were as a Time Lord in The War Games (1969), Taron in Planet of the Daleks (1973), and Chancellor Goth in The Deadly Assassin (1976). All four of these serials were directed by David Maloney. Horsfall also appeared, with a Swedish accent, as "Christianson" in an episode of The Persuaders! titled "The Morning After" during 1972.

In 2003 he appeared in Davros — a Doctor Who audio drama produced by Big Finish Productions.

Horsfall is survived by his wife Jane, their daughters Hannah and Rebecca and his sister. His son Christian died in 2012.http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/obituaries/2013/02/bernard-horsfall/

Selected filmography

  • The Steel Bayonet (1957)
  • High Flight (1957)
  • The One That Got Away (1957)
  • The Angry Silence (1960)
  • Man in the Moon (1960)
  • Guns at Batasi (1964)
  • On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
  • Gold (1974)
  • Shout at the Devil (1976)
  • Gandhi (1982)
  • Braveheart (1995)