Bernard Miles

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Sir Bernard James Miles, Baron Miles, CBE (27 September 1907–14 June 1991) was a British character actor, writer and director.<p>Miles was born in Uxbridge. While his parents were respectively a farm labourer and a cook, he was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He entered the theatre in the 1930s, soon appearing in films. Like many actors, he featured prominently in the patriotic cinema during the Second World War, including classics of the genre such as In Which We Serve and One of Our Aircraft is Missing.<p>His typical persona as an actor was as a countryman, with a strong accent typical of the Hertfordshire/Buckinghamshire Counties. He was also, after Robert Newton the actor most associated with the part of Long John Silver, which he played in a British TV version of Treasure Island, and in an annual performance at the Mermaid. He had a pleasant rolling bass-baritone voice that worked well in theatre and film, as well as being much in demand for voice-overs.<p>He opened the Mermaid...