Maximilien de Robespierre
He had many television roles, including that of Flay in the BBC television miniseries, based on Mervyn Peake's novels, "Gormenghast" (2000), and Stefan Wyszyński in the CBS film "John Paul the Second" (2005). He played Lucas de Beaumanoir, the Grand Master of the Knights Templar, in the BBC/A&amp;E co-production of Sir Walter Scott's "Ivanhoe" (1997). He played a role in the made-for-TV series "La Révolution française" (1989) in part 2, "Les Années Terribles," as the executioner, Charles-Henri Sanson, who beheaded King Louis XVI, Maximilien de Robespierre, and others.