Bernard Kay

Bernard Frederic Bemrose Kay (23 February 1928 – 25 December 2014) was an English actor with an extensive theatre, television, and film repertoire.

Early life Kay began his working life as a reporter for the Bolton Evening News, and a stringer for the Manchester Guardian. In 2006, he guest-starred in the Doctor Who audio adventure Night Thoughts.

In the 2006 New Writing Ventures awards, Kay won the Creative Non-fiction prize for the first chapter of his unpublished memoir Maybe A Bastard, which covered his childhood in Bolton. It remained unpublished at his death.

Selected filmography

Carry On Sergeant (1958) – Injured Recruit Backfire! (1962) – Fire Chief Doctor Who (1965) – Saladin and Carl Tyler Doctor Zhivago (1965) – Kuril, The Bolshevik Doctor Who (1967) – Inspector Crossland The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1967, TV Series) – Aslan They Came from Beyond Space (1967) – Richard Arden The Shuttered Room (1967) – Tait Torture Garden (1967) – Dr. Heim (segment 2 "Terror Over Hollywood") Interlude (1968) – George Selworth Witchfinder General (1968) – Fisherman Darling Lili (1970) – Bedford Trog (1970) – Inspector Greenham Doctor Who (1971) – Caldwell The Hunting Party (1971) – Buford King Running Scared (1972) – Mr. Willis Emmerdale Farm (1974) – Robert Sharp The Hiding Place (1975) – Fred Koonstra Voyage of the Damned (1976) – Cuba Harbour pilot (uncredited) Spy Story (1976) – Commander Wheeler Sweeney! (1977) – Matthews Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) – Zabid The Professionals (1978) – Harry Scott The Great Riviera Bank Robbery (1979) – Commissaire The Case of Marcel Duchamp (1984) The Most Dangerous Man in the World (1988) – Dogan London's Burning (1989) – Chief Fire Officer A Ghost in Monte Carlo (1990) – Police Chief Gutier Coronation Street (1994) – Mr Phillips Steal This Movie (2000) – John Hoffman Foyle's War: The White Feather (2002) – Robert Woolton Puritan (2005) – The old man Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005) – Uncle Tom Joy Division (2006) – Bothringaye Psychosis (2010) – Reverend Swan (final film role)