Mutiny on the Bounty
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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.
Actor: The Guns of Navarone. The massive brooding face and nose of British actor Percy Herbert is familiar to movie goers and TV audiences alike. A seemingly unlikely stage discovery by no one less than the great Dame Sybil Thorndike of British theater, Herbert moved into movie roles by the early 1950s.
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Overview. Born. July 31, 1920 · London, England, UK. Died. December 6, 1992 · Kent, England, UK (heart attack) Height. 6′ (1.83 m) Mini Bio. The massive brooding face and nose of British actor Percy Herbert is familiar to movie goers and TV audiences alike.
- July 31, 1920
- December 6, 1992
Profession Actor. Actor. 70 Credits. Cimarron Strip. 1968. The Saint. 1965. Danger Man. 1961. Idle on Parade. Deadly Record. The Love Child. The Wild Geese. The Guns of Navarone. Mutiny on the...
Percy Herbert (31 July 1920 - 6 December 1992) was an English character actor who often played soldiers, most notably in The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Geese and Tunes of Glory. However, he was equally at home in comedies (Barnacle Bill, Call Me Bwana, two Carry On films) and science fiction (One Million Years B.C., Mysterious Island).
Biography. Humble Cockney origins eventually paid off for Percy Herbert, a beefy and bent-nosed veteran of World War II who became a reliable resource for directors needing a gruff, working-class British soldier for their war pictures.
Trivia. Percy Herbert. Edit. It was his idea that the marching POWs whistle "The Colonel Bogey March" in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). A British soldier in World War II, he was captured by the Japanese army and interned in a POW camp for 4 years. He once spent six months in the cooler for stealing a tin of corned beef.
