Bernard Horsfall

Bernard Arthur Gordon Horsfall (20 November 1930 – 28 January 2013) was an English actor of stage and screen.

Bernard Horsfall
Born	Bernard Arthur Gordon Horsfall (1930-11-20)20 November 1930 Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England
Died	28 January 2013(2013-01-28) (aged 82) Isle of Skye, Scotland
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1957-2008
Spouse	Jane Rogers
Children	3

Early life

Horsfall was born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, and educated at Rugby School. He trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.^[1]

Career

Horsfall appeared in many television and film roles, including the title role in Campion (1959–1960), Pathfinders to Mars (1960), the second sequel to Target Luna, Guns at Batasi (1964),^[2] The Avengers (three episodes in 1966 and 1967), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969),^[3] Beasts, as Sir Christopher Hatton in the 1971 BBC miniseries Elizabeth R, Enemy at the Door (ITV, 1978–1980),^[4][5] Gandhi (1982),^[6] an episode of The Jewel in the Crown (ITV, 1984),^[7] the character Frankland in The Hound of the Baskervilles (ITV, 1988),^[8] and the character Balliol in Braveheart (1995).^[9] His other roles included portraying British barrister Melford Stevenson in a 1980 Granada Television dramatisation of the 1955 case of Ruth Ellis.^[10]

Horsfall made several guest appearances in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. His first was as Lemuel Gulliver in The Mind Robber (1968).^[11] His other appearances were as a Time Lord in The War Games (1969),^[12] Taron in Planet of the Daleks (1973),^[13] and Chancellor Goth in The Deadly Assassin (1976).^[14] All four of these serials were directed by David Maloney. Many years later he returned to Doctor Who, appearing in Davros – a Doctor Who audio drama produced by Big Finish Productions.^[15]

Horsfall also appeared, with a Swedish accent, as Christianson in an episode of The Persuaders! entitled "The Morning After" during 1972.^[16]

Horsfall's stage work included performances at The Old Vic, with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the National Theatre.^[1]

Death

Horsfall died on 28 January 2013, aged 82, on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.^[1][17] He was survived by his wife Jane, their daughters Hannah and Rebecca, five grandchildren and his sister. His son Christian died in 2012.^[1]

Selected filmography

• The Steel Bayonet (1957)^[18] – Pvt. Livingstone
• The Admirable Crichton (1957) – Lifeboatman (uncredited)
• High Flight (1957)^[19] – Radar Operator
• The One That Got Away (1957)^[20] – Lieutenant – Kent (uncredited)
• The Angry Silence (1960)^[21] – Pryce-Evans
• Man in the Moon (1960)^[22] – Rex
• Guns at Batasi (1964)^[2] – Sgt. 'Schoolie' Prideaux
• Doctor Who: The Mind Robber (1968) – Lemuel Gulliver
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)^[3] – Shaun Campbell
• Doctor Who: The War Games (1969) – a Time Lord
• Quest for Love (1971) – Telford
• Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks (1973) – Taron
• Gold (1974)^[23] – Dave Kowalski
• Shout at the Devil (1976)^[24] – Captain Joyce
• Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin (1976) – Chancellor Goth
• Enemy at the Door (1978) – Dr. Philip Martel
• Brass Target (1978) – Shelley
• Inside the Third Reich (1982) – Fritz Todt
• Gandhi (1982)^[6] – Gen. Edgar
• Braveheart (1995)^[9] – Balliol
• Stone of Destiny (2008) – Archdeacon (final film role)