1. Lyndon Brook was a British actor, on film and television.
11 Facts About Lyndon Brook
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Lyndon Brook was born on 10 April 1926 in Los Angeles, California, to British parents.
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Lyndon Brook came from an established acting family: his father, Clive Brook, had been a star of the silent movies and had moved to Hollywood to play quintessential Englishmen in a host of films.
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Lyndon Brook's parents sent their son back to England to be educated at Stowe School, and he subsequently gained stage experience at Cambridge University.
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In 1949, Brook was given a minor part in the film Train of Events, which starred Valerie Hobson and John Clements.
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Two years later, Lyndon Brook co-starred with Kenneth More in one of the most popular of all Second World War dramas, Reach for the Sky.
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Lyndon Brook appeared with Michael Hordern and Dirk Bogarde in The Spanish Gardener, and as Richard Wagner opposite Bogarde's Franz Liszt in Song Without End.
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Thereafter, Lyndon Brook became a regular in many popular television dramas.
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Lyndon Brook appeared in I, Claudius; three times in The Avengers and The New Avengers; and one appearance in Crown Court.
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Lyndon Brook played George VI alongside Timothy West's Winston Churchill in the BBC's Churchill and the Generals.
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Lyndon Brook was a much-published author, and scripted the 1957 television series Love Her to Death, which had Peter Wyngarde in the leading role.