David Saire(1931-2021)

English stage and screen actor, the son of J. Arthur Rank scriptwriter Sidney Derek Salamon and housewife Sarah Sotnick. David was schooled in Edinburgh, studied drama at the Sorbonne and began his acting career in the mid-50s on the Shakespearean stage (at the London Old Vic in Henry V, Julius Caesar, Othello, The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Winter's Tale). He first appeared on screen from 1957 in BBC TV productions, had a recurring supporting part in the science fiction series The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962) and made his motion picture breakthrough as a resentful youth in Un si bel été (1961) (opposite Susannah York in her first leading role). During the 60s, David worked both in front and behind the camera (as a director) for BBC television. He subsequently became a free-lancer, working out of New York and setting up shop in Amsterdam where he had established a film production company in 1977. Latterly, he also took on voice-over work. David was married to the actress Jacqueline Chan between 1962 and 1989.