James Bree

James Bree was a British actor who worked on stage and screen. Born in East Coker, he served in the RAF during the Second World War and later attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. He appeared in the original London productions of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker in 1954 and John Arden's Sergeant Musgrave's Dance at the Royal Court in 1959, and joined Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford as one of its founding members in 1960. On screen he took supporting parts, playing Blofeld's attorney Gumbold in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) and Uncle Arthur in The Jewel in the Crown. He also played three roles in the original run of Doctor Who, among them the Security Chief in The War Games, Nefred in Full Circle and the Keeper of the Matrix in The Ultimate Foe. He died in 2008.