Quiz

He famously defined himself as an "actor with a weight problem - the more he diets, the less work he seems to get".

He appeared in four Sherlock Holmes films and /or television episodes, each of them starring a different actor as Holmes.

He was a massively overweight character actor, best known for his role of 'mother' in Agente speciale (1961).

He was originally cast in La grande s...parata (1958) but when he turned up on the first morning he saw that the army sergeant who was going to drill the actors for the film was the same one that had drilled him when he was in the army and said that he wasn't going to go through that again and left.

He was educated at Taunton School and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.