From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Robert Flemyng OBE MC 3 January 1912 22 May 1995 was a British film and stage actor Flemyng was born in Liverpool the son of a doctor and was educated at Haileybury He began his career as a medical student before abandoning medicine to become an actor Flemyng made his stage debut in the early 1930s and worked steadily in both London and Broadway His first film appearance was in 1937 but he didnt appear steadily in films until after he served in World War II During the war he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with great distinction reaching the rank of full colonel at the age of 33 He was awarded the Military Cross in 1941 mentioned in despatches and was appointed OBE in 1944 He played the idealistic schoolmaster in the 1948 Roy Boulting film The Guinea Pig starring Richard Attenborough and the key role of Detective Sergeant Roberts in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp One memorable role was as a necrophiliac in the film The Horrible Dr Hichcock in 1962 He ably played a sardonic British Secret Intelligence Service chief his boss being George Sanders in the 1966 film The Quiller Memorandum The character actor worked in films and television until his death in 1995 Some of his later films include Kafka 1991 and Shadowlands 1993 Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Flemyng licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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