Richard Vernon Richard Evelyn Vernon was an English actor . He appeared in many feature films and television programmes, often in aristocratic or supercilious roles. Prematurely balding and greying, Vernon settled into playing archetypal middle-aged lords and military types while still in his 30s.Early life He was educated at Reading School and Leighton Park School and during the Second World War served in the Royal Navy . Vernon trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama .Career In 1960, Vernon appeared in an adaptation of A.J. Cronin's novel, The Citadel . In 1961, he played the father in the BBC series, Stranger on the Shore . An early leading role was as wartime agent-turned-criminologist Edwin Oldenshaw in the TV series The Man in Room 17 and its sequel The Fellows . He also played a small role as Colonel Smithers , an executive of the Bank of England , in a scene opposite Sean Connery and Bernard Lee in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger , discussing how Auric Goldfinger transports his gold overseas. He played an unnamed 'city gent' reluctantly sharing a train compartment with the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night , planet designer Slartibartfast in the BBC radio and TV series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , the occasional character Sir Desmond Glazebrook in the TV series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister , and Mr Becket in Sammy's Super T-Shirt . He also appeared in the 1965 Morecambe and Wise film The Intelligence Men as patron of the arts Sir Edward Seabrook, Lord Bartelsham in Ripping Yarns , and Squire Dale in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of The Small House at Allington . He played Admiral Croft in the 1971 BBC television adaptation of Persuasion . He played the urbane head of the Secret Intelligence Service Sir James Greenley in ITV political drama The Sandbaggers from 1978 to 1980. In 1986 he appeared in Paradise Postponed , and voiced the professor Gus in The Giddy Game Show , in addition to a cameo role in the video for Experiment IV by Kate Bush . He also appeared in the final episode of Thames Television's production of Rumpole of the Bailey as Rumpole's exculpatory dentist, Lionel Leering, and in the last series of Lovejoy playing Tinker's brother-in-law. On radio, in 1978 he played Sir Gerald Tarrant in a BBC World Service adaptation of the Modesty Blaise book Last Day in Limbo and Professor Misty in the BBC Radio 3 sitcom Patterson in 1981. He also starred in the title role of Lord Emsworth in several BBC Radio 4 series of Blandings between 1985 and 1992. His final film appearance was a cameo at the end of the family film Loch Ness , which was released in 1996.In 1955 he married an actress Benedicta Leigh née Hoskyns.—They had a daughter Sarah and a son, Thomas. They divorced in 1990. Vernon died of complications from Parkinson's disease on 4 December 1997.Filmography Stop Press Girl - Street of Shadows - Indiscreet - Guide The Heart of a Man - Manager The Siege of Pinchgut - Under-Secretary Clue of the Twisted Candle - Viney Village of the Damned - Sir Edgar Hargraves Foxhole in Cairo - General Cash on Demand - Pearson Stranger on the Shore - David Gough The Edgar Wallace Mysteries - John Crewe Reach for Glory - Dr. Aldrich Jigsaw - We Joined the Navy - The Edgar Wallace Mysteries - John Paxton Just for Fun - Prime Minister The Servant - Lord Mounset Hot Enough for June - Roddinghead A Hard Day's Night - Pompous man on train Goldfinger - Colonel Smithers The Counterfeit Constable - Lord Brisburn The Tomb of Ligeia - Dr. Vivian The Yellow Rolls-Royce - Racecourse official The Intelligence Men - Sir Edward Seabrook The Secret of My Success - Lord Hetherby The Early Bird - Sir Roger Wedgewood The Man in Room 17 - - Edwin Oldenshaw Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Chairman Song of Norway - Councilman UFO - Stone She'll Follow You Anywhere - Andrew Coombes One Brief Summer - Hayward Persuasion - Admiral Croft The Satanic Rites of Dracula - Mathews Upstairs, Downstairs - Major Cochrane-Danby Thriller - George Cornfield Adventures of a Taxi Driver - Gentleman The Duchess of Duke Street - Major Smith-Barton The Pink Panther Strikes Again - Professor Hugo Fassbender Ripping Yarns - Lord Bartlesham The Cedar Tree - Lord Evelyn Forbes Sammy's Super T-Shirt - Mr. Becket The Sandbaggers - Sir James Greenley / "C" The Human Factor - Sir John Hargreaves Oh! Heavenly Dog - Quimby Charles Yes Minister - Sir Desmond Glazebrook The Box - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Slartibartfast Evil Under the Sun - Flewitt Witness for the Prosecution - Brogan-Moore, barrister Gandhi - Sir Edward Albert Gait Night Train to Murder - Uncle Felix Lady Jane - The Marquess of Winchester Last of the Summer Wine - The Vicar A Month in the Country - Colonel Hebron Yes, Prime Minister - - Sir Desmond Glazebrook The Camomile Lawn – General Peachum Loch Ness - Aged professor
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