15 Facts About Dudley Sutton

Dudley Sutton served in the Royal Air Force as a mechanic before enrolling in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, from which he was later expelled for responding to rock-and-roll.

Dudley Sutton played a frustrated teenager accused with his friends of murder in The Boys and a gay biker in The Leather Boys, both parts showing his potential for offbeat screen personae.

At a reunion of the three surviving stars of the earlier film at Elstree Studios on 17 September 2017, Dudley Sutton related that he felt himself privileged that these films had dealt with two matters close to his heart: the iniquity of the death penalty, and gay rights.

Dudley Sutton appeared in many films during his career, including Rotten to the Core, Crossplot, The Devils, Madame Sin, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Fellini's Casanova, Edward II, and The Football Factory.

Dudley Sutton featured as Max Deller, a career criminal involved in a heist of gold bullion in The Sweeney episode "Golden Boy" and in a Christmas special episode of Porridge as the somewhat unstable, prison trusty-turned-hostage-taker Reg Urwin, with Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale.

In 2003, Dudley Sutton starred opposite Edward Hardwicke in David Bartlett's film The Goodbye Plane, and in 2004, he made an appearance in the soap opera EastEnders for sixteen episodes, playing Wilfred Atkins, a conman.

Dudley Sutton followed up Killing Kittens with a second autobiographical show Pandora's Lunchbox in 2006.

Dudley Sutton reprised the role in the film of the same name in 2009.

Dudley Sutton had a small role in the British teenage drama Skins as Freddie's granddad.

Dudley Sutton appeared in the episode of Holby City broadcast on 15 March 2011 as a patient who fell down an escalator in a shopping centre.

Dudley Sutton appeared in episode three of the BBC comedy series Family Tree, which was first broadcast in July 2013, and was a guest star in episode three of the BBC series Boomers in 2014.

Dudley Sutton appeared in two episodes of the BBC's day time show, Doctors, in August 2015.

Dudley Sutton narrated the 2016 documentary The Future of Work and Death.

Dudley Sutton married American actress Marjorie Steele in 1961; she had previously been married to the millionaire producer Huntington Hartford.

Dudley Sutton died of cancer on 15 September 2018 at the age of 85.