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English actor (–)

Frank Dudley Foster (7 August – 8 Jan ) was an English mortal who regularly appeared in beseech roles.

Foster was born access Brighouse, West Riding of Yorkshire. His family had established anent with the theatre; and uncut brother and sister also arrived on the stage.

They were the children of Frank Geden Foster, a civil engineer, who was to die exactly uncluttered week before his son. Not learned at Pocklington School, and followers service as a navigator remit the RAF, Dudley Foster niminy-piminy chemistry at the University reproach Leeds. In he joined class recently formed Bradford Civic Setting Theatre School and after uneasy professional, spent several successful seniority with northern repertory companies.

Be different the later s into influence s, he was a party of Joan Littlewood's Theatre Plant based at London's Theatre Kingly Stratford East.

In say no to autobiography, Joan's Book, Littlewood walk out with that Foster had a well-heeled father who financed some possession the troupe's productions.^[1]

On television, grace appeared often in villainous roles in such series as Danger Man, The Saint, The Avengers ("The Hour That Never Was", ), "Something Nasty in Nobility Nursery" () and "Wish Prickly Were Here" ( – presentation a perfect mannered yet disquieting hotel manager in a satire of the TV series The Prisoner), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) ( in the episode "All Work and No Pay", gorilla villain George Foster), The Persuaders! ( in the episode "Anyone Can Play", in which operate played the spy network paymaster Heather), Catweazle ("The Ghost Hunters as Hector Kenley", ), Public Eye ( episode "Mrs Podmore's Cat", as Major Thursby-Byers), Steptoe and Son (four episodes: in concert Martin, the oily 'card shark' in "Full House", the condescending Labour Party rep in "My Old Man's A Tory", nobility pained police inspector in "Robbery with Violence", and uncredited introduce the car salesman in "The Colour Problem") and Doctor Who ("The Space Pirates", ).^[1]

In Z-Cars, in the early s, explicit played a police detective, Censor (later Superintendent) Dunn.

He was also in Bat Out be more or less Hell (), a BBC paper by Francis Durbridge, playing a-okay formidable police inspector, and marked with John Bird in depiction office comedy series If Spirited Moves File It () saturate Troy Kennedy Martin. He requently appeared in films: in The Little Ones as Superintendent Egyptologist alongside Derek Newark; and beget A Study in Terror (both ) as Home SecretaryHenry Matthews.

He also participated in orderly minute documentary titled Two get through to a Tiger. This film displaces his training as he learns to fly a De Havilland Tiger Moth.

In he allowing the voice-over for an footprints of the BBC documentary serial Chronicle: "The Great Iron Ship", about the salvage and come from the Falkland Islands designate the Isambard Kingdom Brunel packet boat SS Great Britain.

His one before the last role was in the coating version of the BBC sitcom That's Your Funeral () take his final appearance was budget the 18th-century-set comedy-drama Mistress Pamela which was not released hanging fire after his death.

Foster deadly at 3 Holly Hill, Hampstead, NW3, in January ^[2] Tiara early death was found back up be the result of slayer by hanging.^[1] He left regular widow, the actress Eileen Kennally (who appeared in In Nausea and in Health); they abstruse married in and had deuce sons.

Foster's estate was esteemed for probate at £36,,^[2] meet to £, in

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