Bernard Horsfall

Horsfall was born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, and educated at Rugby School. He trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.[1]

Horsfall appeared in many television and film roles, including the title role in Campion (1959–1960), Pathfinders to Mars (1960), the second sequel to Target Luna, Guns at Batasi (1964),[2] The Avengers (three episodes in 1966 and 1967), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969),[3] Beasts, as Sir Christopher Hatton in the 1971 BBC miniseries Elizabeth R, Enemy at the Door (ITV, 1978–1980),[4][5] Gandhi (1982),[6] an episode of The Jewel in the Crown (ITV, 1984),[7] the character Frankland in The Hound of the Baskervilles (ITV, 1988),[8] and the character Balliol in Braveheart (1995).[9] His other roles included portraying British barrister Melford Stevenson in a 1980 Granada Television dramatisation of the 1955 case of Ruth Ellis.[10]

Horsfall made several guest appearances in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. His first was as Lemuel Gulliver in The Mind Robber (1968).[11] His other appearances were as a Time Lord in The War Games (1969),[12] Taron in Planet of the Daleks (1973),[13] and Chancellor Goth (intended to be the same character as he played in The War Games) in The Deadly Assassin (1976).[14] All four of these serials were directed by David Maloney. Many years later he returned to Doctor Who, appearing in Davros – a Doctor Who audio drama produced by Big Finish Productions.[15]

Horsfall also appeared, with a Swedish accent, as Christianson in an episode of The Persuaders! entitled "The Morning After" during 1972.[16]

His stage work included performances at The Old Vic, with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the National Theatre.[1]

Horsfall died on 28 January 2013, aged 82, on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.[1][17] He was survived by his wife Jane, their daughters Hannah and Rebecca, five grandchildren and his sister. His son Christian died in 2012.[1][18]

• The Steel Bayonet (1957)[19] – Pvt. Livingstone
• The Admirable Crichton (1957) – Lifeboatman (uncredited)
• High Flight (1957)[20] – Radar Operator
• The One That Got Away (1957)[21] – Lieutenant – Kent (uncredited)
• The Angry Silence (1960)[22] – Pryce-Evans
• Man in the Moon (1960)[23] – Rex
• Guns at Batasi (1964)[2] – Sgt. 'Schoolie' Prideaux
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)[3] – Shaun Campbell
• Mr. Horatio Knibbles (1971) – Mr. Bunting
• Quest for Love (1971) – Telford
• Some Kind of Hero (1972) – George Crane
• Gold (1974)[24] – Dave Kowalski
• Shout at the Devil (1976)[25] – Captain Joyce
• Brass Target (1978) – Shelley
• Inside the Third Reich (1982) – Fritz Todt
• Gandhi (1982)[6] – Gen. Edgar
• Braveheart (1995)[9] – Balliol
• Stone of Destiny (2008) – Archdeacon (final film role)

• Bernard Horsfall at IMDb