1. Ian Raymond Ogilvy was born on 30 September 1943 and is an English actor, playwright and novelist.
16 Facts About Ian Ogilvy
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Ian Ogilvy's grandfather, Francis John Longley Ogilvy, was born in Argentina and a self-taught Gaelic-speaker who was a classics scholar and a failed financial broker.
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Ian Ogilvy was educated at Sunningdale School, Eton College, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Ian Ogilvy is best known as the star of the television series Return of the Saint, in which he assumed the role of Simon Templar from Roger Moore.
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Ian Ogilvy never played the part, although he did play a Bond-like character in a series of North American TV commercials broadcast in the early 1990s.
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Ian Ogilvy recorded a series of readings of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels in the early 1980s, which were released on audio cassette by the Listen for Pleasure label.
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Ian Ogilvy has had an extensive career in the theatre playing leading roles in many London West End productions, including Design for Living, Happy Family, Three Sisters, Rookery Nook by Ben Travers, Run for Your Wife, The Millionairess by Shaw, The Waltz of the Toreadors, and others.
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Ian Ogilvy was a friend of the film-maker Michael Reeves and starred in all three of Reeves's films: Revenge of the Blood Beast, The Sorcerers and Witchfinder General.
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Ian Ogilvy had a role in the short-lived 1990s American soap opera, Malibu Shores.
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Ian Ogilvy has had roles in over one hundred television shows, often appearing as a guest star.
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Ian Ogilvy appeared in the television series Upstairs, Downstairs.
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Ian Ogilvy guest-starred in The Avengers in the 1968 episode "They Keep Killing Steed" as Baron Von Curt, and on the BBC in Somerset Maugham's The Door of Opportunity, opposite Marianne Faithfull.
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Ian Ogilvy appeared as Edgar Linton in a film version of Wuthering Heights and as Owen Gereth in BBC dramatisation of The Spoils of Poynton.
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Ian Ogilvy was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1979 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.
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Ian Ogilvy is a playwright and novelist, currently working on a series of children's books: Measle and the Wrathmonk, Measle and the Dragodon, Measle and the Mallockee, Measle and the Slitherghoul, and Measle and the Doompit.
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Ian Ogilvy married Kathryn Holcomb in 1992, and later became a naturalised United States citizen.