Guy Doleman

Guy Doleman was a New Zealand-born actor who worked in Australia, Britain and the United States. He was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, and later moved to Australia. Through the 1940s and 1950s he was among the busiest performers in Australian film, and he became a radio star through the drama Hagen's Circus. His performance in the radio play The Coward earned him a £300 Actor's Choice Award in 1952, money he used to travel to Hollywood in September 1953. In London from the early 1960s, he won recognition as Count Lippe in the Bond adventure Thunderball (1965), and he played Colonel Ross across three Harry Palmer spy adaptations led by Michael Caine between 1965 and 1967. He also portrayed Number Two in the television show The Prisoner (1967). Stage credits included Little Lambs Eat Ivy and Edward, My Son, and his early Australian films included The Phantom Stockman (1953).