Complex sentence: His portrayal of the serial killer John Christie in "10 Rillington Place" (1971) garnered excellent reviews and in 1977 he played the ruthless General Outram, again to great acclaim, in the Indian director Satyajit Ray's period piece "The Chess Players".
Split into simpler sentences: His portrayal of the serial killer John Christie in "10 Rillington Place" (1971) garnered excellent reviews. In 1977 he played the ruthless General Outram, again to great acclaim, in the Indian director Satyajit Ray's period piece "The Chess Players".