Michael Aldridge(1920-1994)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Excellent British character actor who played in the theater from 1939
to 1986 ("French Without Tears", "Othello" [as "the Moor", a role he
had already played at the age of seventeen in a school production],
"She Stoops to Conquer", "Jeeves"...) and also appeared in scores of
movies, TV movies and TV series. Often cast as aristocratic types, he
is best remembered for his role as "Pistol" in
Orson Welles's
Falstaff (1965).
On TV, among many others, he starred as
P.G. Wodehouse's famous valet "Jeeves" in
Thank You, P.G. Wodehouse (1981),
co-starred with Robin Bailey in the
mini-series
Charters & Caldicott (1985)
and was a picturesque "Professor Digory Kirke" in the television
version of
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988).
