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Nigel Green

British / South African actor

Born
15 October 1924
in PretoriaGautengSouth Africa

Died
15 May 1972

South African-born English character actor. Because of his strapping build and commanding demeanour he would often be found playing military types and men of action in such classic sixties films as Jason and the Argonauts, Zulu, Tobruk and The Ipcress File. The son of a professor, Green attended King’s College School, Wimbledon and the University of London followed by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. During the Second World War, he trained as an Observer in the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm. Known for The Masque of the Red Death, Countess Dracula Countess Dracula, The Skull, The Face of Fu Manchu, The Kremlin Letter. He built and raced his own Formula Vee race cars.


1964

Zulu

as Colour Sergeant Frank Bourne

Dances with Wolves 1964

British soldiers in the secluded outpost in the middle of Africa have to face the army of Zulus.

1965

The Ipcress File

as Major Dalby

Dances with Wolves 1965

Agent Harry Palmer is assigned to a new unit that is trying to find a kidnapped British scientist. But in the world of counter espionage nothing is simple.

1969

Play Dirty

as Colonel Masters

Dances with Wolves 1969

British special forces in North Africa prepare for another raid behind enemy lines, but the choice of people involved puts the whole operation in the risk.




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