10 Facts About Allan Cuthbertson

Allan Darling Cuthbertson was an Australian actor.

Allan Cuthbertson was best known for playing stern-faced military officers in British films of the 1950s and 1960s.

Allan Cuthbertson performed on stage and radio from an early age.

Allan Cuthbertson arrived in Britain in 1947, and appeared shortly thereafter as Romeo in Romeo and Juliet at the Boltons.

Allan Cuthbertson was often cast in military roles, which was quite common in actors of his generation, especially those with a military air about them.

Allan Cuthbertson made a brief appearance as a harassed staff officer, who then gets blown up, at the beginning of Ice Cold in Alex.

Allan Cuthbertson appeared four times in the television series The Avengers.

Allan Cuthbertson had a talent for playing comedy, which led to his best known role, although again playing a mustachioed military character, as Colonel Hall in the "Gourmet Night" episode of the hit sitcom Fawlty Towers in 1975.

Allan Cuthbertson was long married to Dr Gertrude Willner, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, who had been a lawyer originally, but became a teacher in Britain.

At the time of his death, Allan Cuthbertson was living in Surbiton, Greater London.