1. Valentine Dyall worked regularly as a voice actor, and was known for many years as "The Man in Black", the narrator of the BBC Radio horror series Appointment with Fear.
10 Facts About Valentine Dyall
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Valentine Dyall was the son of the actor Franklin Dyall and the actress and author Mary Phyllis Joan Logan, who acted and wrote as Concordia Merrel.
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In 1934, Dyall appeared with his father, actor Franklin Dyall, at the Manchester Hippodrome in Sir Oswald Stoll's presentation of Shakespeare's Henry V, playing the roles of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Captain Gower, and a cardinal of France.
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Valentine Dyall appeared in one movie with his father, the 1943 spy thriller Yellow Canary; Dyall's part was that of a German U-boat commander attempting to kidnap a British agent from a ship in the Atlantic, while his father played the ship's captain.
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Valentine Dyall appeared in Robert Wise's 1963 film The Haunting as Mr Dudley, the sinister caretaker of the haunted Hill House.
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Valentine Dyall narrated the mondo documentary The Mystery and the Pleasure in 1966, and part-narrated the pseudo-documentary The Naked World of Harrison Marks in 1967.
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In 1975, at London's Royal Court Theatre, Valentine Dyall played Dr Rance in a major revival of Joe Orton's play What the Butler Saw.
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Valentine Dyall was in the cast of the BBC's Doctor Who to portray the Black Guardian in several serials.
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Valentine Dyall played the character Norl in the Blake's 7 episode "City at the Edge of the World" and Lord Angus in the 1983 Black Adder episode "Witchsmeller Pursuivant".
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In 1984, Valentine Dyall appeared in the BBC Miss Marple episode "The Body in the Library".