Алан Бадел: Англиялық актердің өмірі мен шығармашылығы

English actor

Alan Fernand Badel (/b//ə/'/d//ɛ//l/; 11 September 1923 – 19 March 1982) was an English stage actor who also appeared frequently in the cinema, radio and television and was noted for his richly textured voice which was once described as "the sound of tears".

Badel was born in Rusholme, Manchester, and educated at Burnage High School. He fought in France and Germany during the Second World War, serving as a paratrooper on D Day. He partially lost his hearing when a shell exploded near him.

In his early career, he played leading parts, including Romeo and Hamlet, with the Old Vic and Stratford companies. Badel's earliest film role was as John the Baptist in the Rita Hayworth version of Salome (1953), a version in which the story was altered to make Salome a Christian convert who dances for Herod in order to save John rather than have him condemned to death. He portrayed Richard Wagner in Magic Fire (1955), a biopic about the composer. He also played the role of Karl Denny, the impresario, in the film Bitter Harvest (1963). Around the same time, he played opposite Vivien Merchant in a television version of Harold Pinter's play The Lover (also 1963) and as Edmond Dantès in a BBC television adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo (1964). Badel also played the villainous sunglasses wearing Najim Beshraavi in Arabesque (1966) with Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren. He played the French Interior Minister in The Day of the Jackal (1973), a political thriller about the attempted assassination of President Charles de Gaulle. In the political television drama Bill Brand (1976) he played David Last, the government's Employment Minister, a left wing former backbench MP who had recently joined the front bench after 30 years in the House of Commons. One of his last roles was that of Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg in the Paramount film Nijinsky (1980). A television adaptation for the BBC of The Woman in White (1982) by Wilkie Collins, in which Badel played the role of Count Fosco, was shown posthumously.

Badel married the actress Yvonne Owen in 1942 and they remained married until his death from a heart attack in Chichester, aged 58. Their daughter Sarah Badel is an actress.

Year Title Role Notes 1952 The Stranger Left No Card Stranger Short film1953 Salome John the Baptist Will Any Gentleman ? The Great Mendoza1955 Three Cases of Murder Owen/Mr. X/Harry Magic Fire Richard Wagner 1961 The Complaisant Lover Clive Root TV film1963 This Sporting Life Weaver The Lover Richard TV film Bitter Harvest Karl 1964 Children of the Damned Dr. David Neville 1966 Arabesque Beshraavi1969 Otley Alec Hadrian Where's Jack? The Lord Chancellor The Siegfried Idyll Richard Wagner TV film 1970 The Adventurers President Rojo 1973 The Day of the Jackal The Minister 1974 Luther Cardinal Cajetan de Vio 1976 Where Adam Stood Philip Gosse TV film 1977 Telefon Colonel Malchenko1978 The Medusa Touch Quinton Force 10 from Navarone Major Petrovitch1979 Agatha Lord Brackenbury The Riddle of the Sands Dollmann1980 Nijinsky Baron de Gunzburg Shōgun Father Dell'Aqua TV film