Actor. He was born in Stockport (Cheshire, England). He developed his career on stage, television and screen during more than forty years. His film roles included a terrorist who puts a bomb in the Eiffel Tower in Superman II (1980), the detective’s father in The Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), Davidson in A Fish Called Wanda (1988) and the returning officer in Ali G: the Movie (2002), in which he revealed the character’s full name, Alistair Leslie Graham, for the first time. His most recent work included portraying John Biffen in the TV dramatisation of The Alan Clark Diaries (2004). Cause of death: Heart attack