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Barry Foster
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21 August 1927 - 11 February 2002
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Barry Foster was born on 21 August 1931 in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. Before starting his acting career, he worked as an organic chemist. At the age of twenty he entered the London Central School of Diction and Dramatic Art. There he became friends with a young actor who performed under the stage name David Baron, who later became famous as a playwright under his real name Harold Pinter. Foster made his professional debut in 1952 in Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice, in which he played Lorenzo.
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Barry Foster was born on 21 August 1931 in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. Before starting his acting career, he worked as an organic chemist. At the age of twenty he entered the London Central School of Diction and Dramatic Art. There he became friends with a young actor who performed under the stage name David Baron, who later became famous as a playwright under his real name Harold Pinter. Foster made his professional debut in 1952 in Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice, in which he played Lorenzo. He began acting in films since 1956. One of his first works in cinema was an episodic role in the military film "The Battle of the River La Plata" (1956, dir. Michael Powell and Emerick Pressburger).
During his life he starred in a fairly large number of films, including such as "For the King and the Fatherland" (1964, dir. Joseph Lowsey), "Family Life" (1966, dir. Roy Bowling), "The Robbery" (1967, dir. Peter Yates), "The Twisted Ner" (1968, dir. Le Marx, Roy, David Bowling" (1977), "David Rage" (1977), "David Rage" (David). Most often, he played supporting roles or was involved in small supporting roles, such as Squadron Commander Edwards in the military epic Battle of Britain (1969, Guy Hamilton) or Balfour, the henchman of a corrupt industrialist in the mercenary film Wild Geese (1978, directed by Andrew W. McLaglen). At the same time, he had more memorable and vivid works - so, he played the serial killer strangler Bob Rusk in the famous crime thriller Alfred Hitchcock "The Excitement" (1972).
He was remembered by the audience as the performer of the role of the Dutch police Commissioner Pete van der Walk in the series "Van der Valk", which was on British television in 1972-1973. Subsequently, he returned to this role twice more - in the late seventies and early nineties. The actor also worked on radio, voicing Sherlock Holmes in a series of BBC radio plays. He appeared in numerous television series, including Team Smiley (1982, Simon Langton, based on the novel by John Le Carré) and in one of the series of the popular detective series Inspector Morse. Since 1955 he was married to singer and actress Judith Shergold, they had three children: son Jason and daughter Miranda and Joanna. Both daughters followed in their father’s footsteps, becoming professional actresses. The last film that Foster starred in was the crime film Rusty Aluminum (2000), directed by Edward Thomas. Shortly before his death, he rehearsed with actors Nigel Havers and Roger Lloyd Pack the play "Art". After a sudden heart attack, he died at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford on February 11, 2002.
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