1. Bernard Frederic Bemrose Kay was an English actor with an extensive theatre, television, and film repertoire.
13 Facts About Bernard Kay
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Bernard Kay was conscripted in 1946 and started acting in the army.
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Bernard Kay gained a scholarship to study at the Old Vic Theatre School and became a professional in 1950, as a member of the company which reopened the Old Vic after World War II.
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Bernard Kay appeared in hundreds of television productions including Emmerdale Farm, The Champions, The Cellar and the Almond Tree, Clayhanger, A Very British Coup, Casualty, Casualty 1909, Doctors, Z-Cars, Coronation Street, Jonathan Creek, Foyle's War and London's Burning in 1989.
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Bernard Kay portrayed a mutant in the Space: 1999 episode "A Matter of Balance".
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Bernard Kay portrayed Captain Stanley Lord of the SS Californian in the BBC dramatisation Trial by Inquiry: Titanic in 1967.
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Bernard Kay gave a sympathetic performance as Korporal Hartwig in an early episode of Colditz.
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Bernard Kay appeared four times in the Doctor Who series in various roles, most notably as Saladin in the classic Doctor Who story The Crusade in 1965.
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Bernard Kay appeared in the serials The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Faceless Ones and Colony in Space.
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Bernard Kay twice appeared at the Finborough Theatre in London: in 2006 in After Haggerty and in 2010 in Dream of the Dog.
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Bernard Kay was married to the actress Patricia Haines from 1963 until her death from cancer in 1977; he never remarried, and was said to have been grief-stricken for the rest of his life.
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Bernard Kay had no children of his own, but was stepfather to Haines's daughter from her first marriage to the actor Michael Caine.
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Bernard Kay died in London on Christmas Day in 2014, at the age of 86.