Bernard Horsfall (Actor)
By: Anders Frejdh
Published:
2009-10-01
Campbell in ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE 1969
Our good man in Belgium,
Bernard VandenDriessche, met up with Bernard Horsfall at London Film and Comic Con in July 2009.
Bernard kindly provided two of the pictures below from when Bernard H. signed his original Belgium
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) poster. He mentioned that Bernard is a really nice and friendly person and that it was wonderful to meet him.
About Bernard Horsfall:
Horsfall was born in Hertfordshire in 1930 and has balanced an exciting film and tv career, with one on the stage.
He made his film debut in 1957 in the Ray Milland drama High Flight. This was swiftly followed by roles in The Steel Bayonet (1957), Critical Point (1957), and Man in the Moon (1960) with Kenneth More and Shirley Anne Field.
In 1964 he appeared in Guns at Batasi and started clocking up a vast number of tv appearances including The Avengers (1965-1968), Dixon Of Dock Green (1966), Softly Softly (1966-1967), The Saint (1967), Doctor Who (1968-1976), Department S (1969), Ivanhoe (1970), Doomwatch (1970), The Persuaders (1972), Juliet Bravo (1982), Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (1984), The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Casualty (1988-1995), The Bill (1989), Agatha Christie's Poirot (1991), Between the Lines (1992) och Murder Rooms (2000).
His film career in the late 1960s and early 1970s saw him appear in
On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Gold (1974), and Shout at the Devil (1976) - all directed by
Peter Hunt.
(The last two starred
Roger Moore which Bernard previously had worked with on The Saint and The Persuaders.)
In OHMSS he played Campbell, Bond's ally up near the snowy peaks of Piz Gloria - who sadly came to a sticky end.
Other film appearances include Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988), and Mel Gibson's Braveheart (1995).
Other cast & crew from OHMSS that we've met:
>Bill Weston (Stuntman)
>Catherine Schell as Nancy
>Desmond Llewelyn as Q
>Diana Rigg as Tracy Di Vicenzo
>George Lazenby as James Bond
>George Leech (Stuntman)
>Gordon McCallum (Dubbing mixer)
>Jenny Hanley as The Irish Girl
>Joanna Lumley as The English Girl
>John Barry (Film soundtrack composer)
>John Glen (Second unit director/Editor)
>Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny
>Michael Reed (Director of Photography)
>Monty Norman (Composer of the James Bond theme)
>Rocky Taylor (Stuntman)
>Stefan Zürcher (Location manager)
>Sylvana Henriques as The Jamaican Girl
>Terence Mountain as Raphael
>Terry Richards (Stuntman)
>Vic Armstrong (Stunt double for Lazenby)
This article was written and published by Anders Frejdh in August 2009.
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