Willoughby Gray

Willoughby Gray was an English actor who worked on stage and screen, born in London in 1916. He served in the Second World War with the GHQ Liaison Regiment and received an MBE. His acting career took off in the mid-1950s when he made 38 appearances on The Adventures of Robin Hood, and he also had roles on The Buccaneers and The Adventures of William Tell. In 1958 he played Pete in the first run of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party. His film work included a priest in Laurence Olivier's Richard III (1955), The Mummy (1959), Absolution (1978), The Hit (1984) and the kind elderly king in The Princess Bride (1987). In the James Bond movie A View to a Kill (1985) he was Dr. Carl Mortner. Later in the 1980s he played Sir John Stevens in the BBC drama Howards' Way. He also acted in and advised on Sergei Bondarchuk's Waterloo. He died in 1993.