Victor Brooks (actor)

Victor Brooks (11 November 1918 – 19 January 2000) was a prolific English film and television actor.[1] He specialised in character roles, police inspectors in particular, in British thrillers such as Cover Girl Killer (1959), Witchcraft (1964), and Devils of Darkness (1965). In 1961, he narrated the fifteen minute instructional Short, 'The Warden, His Duties and Training'. He also appeared in eight of the thirty-two episodes of 1964's 'Open House', playing himself, and The Host. [2]

Victor Brooks
in The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Born	Victor Ronald Brooks (1918-11-11)11 November 1918 London, (Woolwich), England
Died	19 January 2000(2000-01-19) (aged 81) Dorset, England, UK
Years active	1956–1994

His best known films are probably Goldfinger (1964), The Brides of Dracula (1960) and Billy Budd (1962).[2] On television, he was noted for playing a pipe-smoking authority figure in crime series like Dixon of Dock Green, Gideon's Way, Detective, Z Cars and Crown Court.[2] He also appeared in the television series Raffles, in the recurring role of the Albany porter.[3][4][5]