Bernard Archard

 ( 1916 Births ) 

Bernard Joseph Archard (20 August 1916 – 1 May 2008) was an English actor who made many film and television appearances.

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Early life and career Archard was born in Fulham, London, where his father Alfred James Aloysius, who was born in Marylebone, was a jeweller. Bernard's paternal grandfather Alfred Charles Archard and great grandfather Henry Archard were clockmakers, watchmakers and jewellers in Mayfair, London during the 1800s. He was the maternal grandson of James Matthew Littleboy, Mayor of Fulham from 1906 to 1907. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and in summer 1939 he appeared in the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park production of Twelfth Night. As a conscientious objector during the Second World War, he worked on Quaker land. At the Edinburgh Festival in 1948, in a production of the Glyndebourne Children's Theatre, he met fellow actor James Belchamber, who was his partner for nearly 60 years.

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Television

Archard's first major television role, reprising the like-titled radio show, was playing Lt Col. Oreste Pinto in the BBC wartime drama series Spycatcher, which ran for four seasons between 1959 and 1961. His TV guest appearances include two roles in Doctor Who (as Bragen in The Power of the Daleks and as Marcus Scarman in Pyramids of Mars); a regular role in Emmerdale; plus appearances in The Children of the New Forest (the 1964 BBC edition), Dixon of Dock Green, Danger Man, The Avengers, Z-Cars, Paul Temple, Upstairs, Downstairs, Callan, Rumpole of the Bailey, Crown Court, The Professionals, Bergerac, Sir Francis Drake and Keeping Up Appearances.

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Film

Archard appeared in over fifty films, including Village of the Damned (1960), The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), Play Dirty (1968), Run a Crooked Mile (1969), The Horror of Frankenstein (1970), Roman Polanski's Macbeth (1971), Dad's Army (1971), The Day of the Jackal (1973), The Sea Wolves (1980), Krull (1983) and King Solomon's Mines (1985).

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Stage

Archard and his long term partner, James Belchamber, Obituary at The Independent. Retrieved 26 December 2013. ran a touring repertory company, based in Torquay, which included Hilda Braid among its players. On the West End stage he appeared at Her Majesty's Theatre as a magistrate in the Terence Rattigan play Cause Célèbre and in The Case of the Oily Levantine by Anthony Shaffer.

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Filmography

1957	A Woman of Property	Dr. Pickford	TV movie
1958	Black Furrow	Harper	Documentary
	Mary Britten, M.D.	Councillor Pyke	5 episodes
	The Secret Man	Inspector
	Corridors of Blood	Hospital Official
1960	Village of the Damned	Vicar
	Danger Man	Doctor Bryant	Episode: The Leak
1961	The Clue of the New Pin	Superintendent Carver
	Two Letter Alibi	Duke
	Man Detained	Detective Inspector Verity
1962	The Second Mrs Tanqueray	Cayley Drummie	TV movie
	A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing	Barney Fincham	TV movie
	The Password Is Courage	1st Prisoner of War
	Flat Two	Trainer
1963	The List of Adrian Messenger	Inspector Pike
	Silent Playground	Inspector Duffy
1964	Edgar Wallace Mysteries	Michael Forrest	Face of a Stranger episode
1965-1968	The Avengers	Desmond Leeming/Dr. Constantine	2 episodes
1966/1975	Doctor Who	Bragen/Marcus Scarman	10 episodes
1966	The Spy with a Cold Nose	Russian Intelligence Chief
1968	The Mini-Affair	Sir Basil Grinling
1968-1970	Mystery and Imagination	Professor Van Helsing/The President	2 episodes
1969	Play Dirty	Colonel Homerton
	The File of the Golden Goose	Collins
	Tower of London: The Innocent	Earl of Oxford	TV movie
	Run a Crooked Mile	Business Spokesman	TV movie
1970		Serjeant Sullivan K.C.	TV movie
	Fragment of Fear	Priest
	Song of Norway	George Nordraak
	The Horror of Frankenstein	Professor Heiss
1971	Dad's Army	Major General Fullard
	The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes	Dr. Davidson	Episode: A Message from the Deep Sea
	Macbeth	Angus
1972	The Adventures of Black Beauty	Bulov	Episode: The Duel
1973	The Day of the Jackal	Detective Hughes
	Upstairs, Downstairs	Col Harry Tewksbury	Episode: What the Footman Saw
1974	Crown Matrimonial	Geoffrey Dawson	TV movie
1975	The Hiding Place	Lieutenant Rahms
	The Legend of Robin Hood	Sir Richard of the Lea	Miniseries
1976	Smuga Cienia	Captain Elis
1977	Philby, Burgess and Maclean	Graves	TV movie
1979	Churchill and the Generals	Edward, Lord Halifax	TV movie
1980	'Tis Pity She's a Whore	Donado	TV movie
	The Sea Wolves	Underhill
	A Tale of Two Cities	Court President	TV movie
1982	Inside the Third Reich	Dr. Hans Flachsner	TV movie
1983	Separate Tables	Mr. Fowler
	Krull	Eirig
	Al-Mas' Ala Al-Kubra	Sir Percy Cox
	Number 10	Duke of Wellington
1985	King Solomon's Mines	Professor Huston	Uncredited
1986	God's Outlaw	Thomas More
1990	Hidden Agenda	Sir Robert Neil
1991	Keeping Up Appearances	Hotel Guest	Episode: Golfing with the Major
1992-1994	Emmerdale	Leonard Kempinski	23 episodes

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External links

• Obituary at The Independent
• Obituary at The Guardian
• Obituary at The Times

Categories: 1916 Births, 2008 Deaths, 20th-century English Lgbtq People, 21st-century English Lgbtq People, Actors From The London Borough Of Hammersmith And Fulham, Alumni Of The Royal Academy Of Dramatic Art, English Conscientious Objectors, English Gay Actors, English Male Film Actors, English Male Television Actors, Male Actors From London, People From Fulham

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