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.
