Rolf Saxon

Rolf Saxon is an American actor who trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he won its Gold Medal, and later worked with the American Conservatory Theater, California Shakespeare Theater and the Berkeley Mime Troupe. He started out on stage and television, and his first film part, in 1980, was Dick Tipton in a BBC version of Little Lord Fauntleroy. He was known early as a television actor, notably playing Hudson J. Talbot III, an attorney, in the ITV drama Capital City. His best known role is William Donloe, a CIA analyst, in Mission: Impossible (1996), which he reprised in the 2025 sequel, and he was the narrator of the US version of the BBC children's show Teletubbies. Other credits include Tomorrow Never Dies, Saving Private Ryan, the Broken Sword games and The Witcher, and critics praised his Victor Franz in The Price, a part that brought him a Manchester Evening News theater award.