Sandor Elès

Sandor Elès was a Hungarian-British actor who was born in Tatabánya and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He started on the stage and then worked extensively in television, mostly on ITV, appearing in ITC series such as The Saint, Danger Man, The Baron, Jason King, The Avengers and Timeslip. He was often cast as a foreigner, most often a Frenchman, and also appeared in Strange Report, The Professionals and Upstairs, Downstairs. Between 1970 and 1972 he was a storyteller in ten episodes of the BBC children's program Jackanory. His film work included And Soon the Darkness (1970), a thriller by Brian Clemens in which he played the mysterious Paul, plus the Hammer horrors The Evil of Frankenstein (1964) and Countess Dracula (1971). In the 1980s he spent four years on the British soap opera Crossroads as Paul Ross, a scheming restaurant manager. In 1996 he narrated Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Bernard Haitink.