Guy Doleman(1923-1996)
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Tough-looking New Zealander, with a long string of credits as an actor
in Australian films and theatre. He was also prolific on radio as
actor, announcer and compère. In August 1952, Doleman won a £300 prize
for his performance in an Actor's Choice half-hourly play, entitled
"The Coward". He used this as a travelling fund for a trip to Hollywood
and was duly cast in a supporting role in the adventure film
Le roi des îles (1954).
That was followed by an uncredited bit in
Alfred Hitchcock's
Le crime était presque parfait (1954). More
substantial roles, however, failed to materialise. Doleman consequently
returned to Australia, where he found regular work on radio and on
stage in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, between 1957 and 1960.
Doleman had his best spell in Britain in the 1960's: fondly remembered as SPECTRE operative Count Lippe in the James Bond movie Opération Tonnerre (1965), and as the hard-edged spook Colonel Ross in the Harry Palmer trilogy, beginning with Ipcress - Danger immédiat (1965). In a similar vein, he also made a worthy antagonist for Patrick McGoohan as the first 'Number 2' in Le prisonnier (1967). Doleman eventually settled in Los Angeles, where he died of lung cancer in January 1996.
Doleman had his best spell in Britain in the 1960's: fondly remembered as SPECTRE operative Count Lippe in the James Bond movie Opération Tonnerre (1965), and as the hard-edged spook Colonel Ross in the Harry Palmer trilogy, beginning with Ipcress - Danger immédiat (1965). In a similar vein, he also made a worthy antagonist for Patrick McGoohan as the first 'Number 2' in Le prisonnier (1967). Doleman eventually settled in Los Angeles, where he died of lung cancer in January 1996.
