- Attended Bristol Grammar School. First acted at the Little Repertory Theatre in Bristol, earning six shillings a week. Debut aged sixteen in 'A School for Scandal'. A year into his scholarship at RADA, he won the Bancroft Gold Medal. Joined the Royal Shakespeare Company, but his career was interrupted by World War II. Wartime service with the Royal Army Medical Corps. After the war, made his reputation on the classical stage in the West End. Prolific supporting roles on screen, often as scowling or austere establishment figures.
- He appeared in six films with Lois Maxwell: Scotland Yard Inspector (1952), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983) and A View to a Kill (1985).
- Balding British character player who often portrayed cultured snobs and irate bosses. Made a few appearances as Freddie Gray, Minister of Defence, in the James Bond series.
- He appeared in ten films with Robert Brown: The Third Man (1949), Passage Home (1955), The Man Who Never Was (1956), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Live Now - Pay Later (1962), Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Octopussy (1983), A View to a Kill (1985) and The Living Daylights (1987).
- Son of Malcolm Keen.
- Father, with Hazel Terry, of Jemma Hyde.
- Attended RADA
- The character he plays in "Doctor Zhivago" is clearly named as "Professor Boris Kurt" more than once, but is curiously identified simply as "Medical Professor" in the end cast-list.
- Retired in 1991.
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