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Percy Herbert
Known for: ActingFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Percy Herbert (31 July 1920 - 6 December 1992) was an English character actor who often played soldiers, most notably in The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Geese and Tunes of Glory. However, he was equally at home in comedies (Barnacle Bill, Call Me Bwana, two Carry On films) and science fiction (One Million Years B.C., Mysterious Island). He also acted on television; he was a regular on the short-lived series Cimarron Strip, starring Stuart Whitman. Herbert was a soldier and prisoner of war during World War II, captured by the Japanese when they took Singapore. He was discovered by Dame Sybil Thorndike. Herbert died of a heart attack on 6 December 1992. Description above from the Wikipedia article Percy Herbert (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
Cimarron Strip
as Mac Gregor
The Guns of Navarone
Captain Apache
Becket
as Baron
Night of the Demon
One Million Years B.C.
as Sakana
The Wild Geese
as Keith
Mutiny on the Bounty
as Matthew Quintal
Mysterious Island
as Sgt. Pencroft
A Hill in Korea
as Pvt. Moon
The Sea Wolves
as Dennison
Quatermass 2
Too Late the Hero
as Sgt. Johnstone
Night of the Big Heat
Man in the Wilderness
as Fogarty
The Cockleshell Heroes
as Marine Lomas
The Devil's Disciple
as Edict Sergeant
The MacKintosh Man
as Taafe
Tobruk
as Dolan
Carry On Cowboy
Up the Front
as Corporal Lovechild
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
as Mr Gibbons
Guns at Batasi
as Parkin
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Tunes of Glory
Doomwatch
as Hartwell
Carry On Jack
as Mr. Angel
One More Time
as Mander
Craze
Call Me Bwana
as First Henchman
Sea of Sand
as White
The Prisoner
as Soldier (uncredited)
The Challenge
as Shop Steward
The Fiend
as Commissionaire Jim Hudson