Victor Brooks (actor)

Victor Brooks (actor)
Victor Brooks (11 November 1918 – 19 January 2000) was a prolific English film and television actor. He specialised in character roles, police inspectors in particular, in British thrillers such as Cover Girl Killer (1959), Witchcraft (1964), and Devils of Darkness (1965).
In 1961, he narrated the fifteen minute instructional short, 'The Warden, His Duties and Training'.
He also appeared in eight of the thirty-two episodes of 1964's 'Open House', playing himself, and The Host.
His best known films are Goldfinger (1964), The Brides of Dracula (1960), and Billy Budd (1962). On television, he was noted for playing a pipe-smoking authority figure in crime series like Dixon of Dock Green, Gideon's Way, Detective, Z Cars, and Crown Court. He also appeared in the television series Raffles, in the recurring role of the Albany porter.
Selected filmography
Film
The Hostage (1956) – Inspector Clifford
These Dangerous Years (1957)
No Time for Tears (1957) – Mr. Harris
The Scamp (1957) – Inspector Birch
The Birthday Present (1957) – 2nd Reception Officer (uncredited)
The One That Got Away (1957) – Police Sergeant (uncredited)
Innocent Sinners (1958) – Inspector Russell (uncredited)
The Moonraker (1958) – Blacksmith
The Long Knife (1958) – Supt Leigh
The Man Upstairs (1958) – Sergeant Collins
Further Up the Creek (1958) – Policeman (uncredited)
Too Many Crooks (1959) Court Usher (uncredited)
No Trees in the Street (1959) – Bookie's Clerk
Whirlpool (1959) – Riverman
Cover Girl Killer (1959) – Inspector Brunner
The Price of Silence (1959) – Supt. Wilson
Sapphire (1959) Police Sergeant
The 39 Steps (1959) Policeman at Accident (uncredited)
Jackpot (1960) – Sgt. Jacks
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) – Constable
The Challenge (1960) – Foreman
In the Nick (1960) – Screw Smith
The Brides of Dracula (1960) – Hans
Follow That Horse! (1960) – Blake
Offbeat (1961) – Inspector Adams
Seven Keys (1961) – Discharging Officer (uncredited)
No My Darling Daughter (1961) – Policeman
Victim (1961) – Detective (uncredited)
Play It Cool (1962) – Twist Commissioner (uncredited)
Crooks Anonymous (1962) – Police Officer
The Road to Hong Kong (1962) – Leader's Man (uncredited)
The Inspector (1962) – Sgt. Groninger
The Day of the Triffids (1962) – Poiret
The Brain (1962) – Farmer at Crash Site (uncredited)
The Wild and the Willing (1962) – Fire Chief
Billy Budd (1962) – Amos Leonard – First Mate, Rights of Man
The Fast Lady (1963) – Policeman
The Yellow Teddy Bears (1963) – George Donaghue
Doctor in Distress (1963) – Police Constable (uncredited)
80,000 Suspects (1963) – Health Inspector Collins (uncredited)
Witchcraft (1964) – Inspector Baldwin
The Eyes of Annie Jones (1964) – Sgt. Henry
Goldfinger (1964) – Blacking
Devils of Darkness (1965) – Inspector Hardwick
The Murder Game (1965) – Rev Francis Hood
Arthur! Arthur! (1969) – Bit Part (uncredited)
Burke & Hare (1972) – Butler
Give Us Tomorrow (1978) – Superintendent Ogilvie
The Dallas Connection (1994) – Charlie (final film role)
Television
Sergeant Cork (1963–1964) – Yates / Sgt. Dempsey
Dixon of Dock Green (1964–1967) – Gaoler / Sgt. Cox / Sgt. Barrett
Gideon's Way (1965) – Supt. Ridgeway
Z-Cars (1967–1969) – Sgt. Potter / Sergeant
Raffles (1977) – Albany Porter
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1918 births
2000 deaths
English male film actors
English male television actors
Male actors from London
People from Woolwich
20th-century English male actors