Lyndon Brook

Lyndon Brook was a British actor who worked in film and television. He made an early screen appearance in Train of Events in 1949, then in 1951 joined Laurence Olivier's company at the St James's Theatre in London for a Festival of Britain pairing of Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra and Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. In 1954 he played a navigator opposite Gregory Peck in The Purple Plain, a box-office success set during the Burma campaign. He co-starred with Kenneth More in Reach for the Sky (1956) and appeared with Dirk Bogarde in The Spanish Gardener (1956) and Song Without End (1960), playing Richard Wagner. Television work followed in I, Claudius, The Avengers, The New Avengers and Crown Court, and he portrayed George VI in Churchill and the Generals (1979). The Hireling, Plenty and Defence of the Realm were among his later films. He was also a much-published author and wrote the 1957 series Love Her to Death, starring Peter Wyngarde.