Clifford Evans (actor)

Clifford Evans (actor)
Clifford George Evans (17 February 1912 – 9 June 1985) was a Welsh actor.
During the summer of 1934 Evans appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Open Air Theatre in London. He played many parts in British films of the 1930s, then during the Second World War was a conscientious objector, serving in the Non-Combatant Corps. He continued to act during the war and starred in the films The Foreman Went to France (1942) and The Flemish Farm (1943).
After the war, Evans's best known film roles were for Hammer Studios: he played Don Alfredo Carledo in The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) and Professor Zimmer, an often inebriated vampire-hunter, in Kiss of the Vampire (1963). His last screen role was in Granada TV's A Land of Ice Cream in 1985.
On television, Evans appeared with George Woodbridge and Tim Turner in the 15-episode series Stryker of the Yard (1957). Between 1965 and 1969, he played a major role in the TV boardroom drama The Power Game, playing building tycoon Caswell Bligh. He is also among several British actors to play the character of Number Two in The Prisoner ("Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling", 1967). He also appeared in three episodes of The Avengers, in The Champions, The Saint, and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) ("When did You Start to Stop Seeing Things?", 1969). The following year, he played Sir Iain Dalzell, a leading character in the BBC TV series Codename (1970).
He married Hermione Hannen, who was an actress.
Partial filmography
The River House Mystery (1935) – Ivan
Ourselves Alone (1936) – Commandant Connolly
Calling the Tune (1936) – Peter Mallory
The Tenth Man (1936) – Ford
The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1937) – Bert Rhyne
Under Secret Orders (1937) – Rene Condoyan
13 Men and a Gun (1938) – Jorg
Luck of the Navy (1938) – Lieut. Peel
His Brother's Keeper (1940) – Jack Cornell
At the Villa Rose (1940) – Tace
The Proud Valley (1940) – Seth Jones
The House of the Arrow (1940) – Maurice Thevenet
Freedom Radio (1941) – Dressler
Fingers (1941) – Fingers
Love on the Dole (1941) – Larry Meath
Penn of Pennsylvania (1942) – William Penn
The Foreman Went to France (1942) – Fred Carrick, the foreman
Suspected Person (1942) – Jim Raynor
The Saint Meets the Tiger (1943) – Tidemarsh / The Tiger
The Flemish Farm (1943) – Jean Duclos
The Silver Darlings (1947) – Roddie
While I Live (1947) – Peter
The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery (1950) – Tom Harmon
Escape Route (1952) – Michael Grand
The Accused (1953) – Dan Anderson
Valley of Song (1953) – Geraint Llewellyn
The Straw Man (1953) – Jeff Howard
Stryker of the Yard (1953) – Inspector Stryker
Solution by Phone (1954) – Richard Hanborough
The Red Dress (1954) – Sam Pugh (segment "Red Dress' story)
Companions in Crime (1954) – Inspector Stryker
The Gilded Cage (1955) – Ken Aimes
Passport to Treason (1956) – Orlando Syms
Face in the Night (1957) – Inspector Ford
At the Stroke of Nine (1957) – Inspector Hudgell
The Heart Within (1957) – Matthew Johnson
Violent Playground (1958) – Heaven
SOS Pacific (1959) – Petersen
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) – Alfredo
Kiss of the Vampire (1963) – Professor Zimmer
The Long Ships (1964) – King Harald
A Twist of Sand (1968) – Admiral Tringham
One Brief Summer (1971) – Mark Stevens
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1912 births
1985 deaths
People from Caerphilly
British conscientious objectors
Personnel of the Non-Combatant Corps
Welsh male film actors
Welsh male television actors
20th-century Welsh male actors
Alumni of RADA
Welsh military personnel