Brian Hall

Brian Hall was a British actor whose early stage appearances came with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the Royal Court Theatre. In film and television he often played hard-bitten Cockney characters, yet he was best remembered for Terry, the warm hotel cook in the second series of the sitcom Fawlty Towers, a role that was cast against his usual type. His leading parts included police drama Softly, Softly: Task Force between 1971 and 1972, the crime picture McVicar (1980), and the situation comedy You Must Be The Husband in 1987. Hall also guest-starred on The Sweeney, The Bill, London's Burning, The Professionals, and The Long Good Friday, and in the Minder episode You Gotta Have Friends. He appeared as the father in Billy Webb's Amazing Story, a 1991 BBC production. He died in 1997.