Bernard Archard

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Bernard Archard (born 20 August 1916 in London) is an English actor. He is a tall, imposing actor with a distinctive face. <p>He has appeared in over fifty films, including Village of the Damned (1960), The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), Play Dirty (1968), The File of the Golden Goose (1969), Run a Crooked Mile (1969), The Horror of Frankenstein (1970), Roman Polanski's Macbeth (1971), Dad's Army (1971), The Day of the Jackal (1973), The Sea Wolves (1980), Krull (1983), and King Solomon's Mines (1985). <p>His TV guest appearances represent some of the most popular shows broadcast in the 1960s to 1980s: two notable roles in Doctor Who; a regular role in Emmerdale; plus appearances in Upstairs, Downstairs, Rumpole of the Bailey, Bergerac, The Avengers, Callan, Danger Man, Z Cars, Paul Temple, Dixon of Dock Green, and The Professionals. <p>His first major television role was playing Lt Col. Oreste Pinto in the BBC wartime drama series Spycatcher, which ran for four seasons between 1959 and 1961...