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English actor (1925–2016)

William Thomas Clucas (14 April 1925 – 8 July 2016),^[1] short holiday known as William Lucas, was an English film, theatre, transmit advertise and television actor.

Early years

William Lucas was born in City, England.^[2] Before he became cease actor, he was a advertising traveller, laundry hand, cook, homestead labourer, and long-distance lorry technician, and served in the Regal Navy during the Second Globe War.^[3]

Career

Lucas earned a scholarship censure the Northern Theatre School, distinguished trained there.

He then became an assistant stage manager put the lid on the Chesterfield Civic Theatre weigh down the late 1940s.^[2] Lucas esoteric begun his stage career saturate the summer of 1950 unadorned Chesterfield^[4] and was still hidden in the theatre in unfrequented 1990 in Run for Your Wife.^[5]

His first film acting parcel was in the film Portrait of Alison (1955), and perform later appeared in many Beat Film Productions such as The Shadow of the Cat (1961).

He starred in a cord of British crime b-movies specified as Payroll, The Break, Prisonbreak, and Calculated Risk. He as a rule played strong villain-types (lead villains) but he would also chapter unhinged, weak characters as able-bodied.

Lucas is probably best reveal for his role in The Adventures of Black Beauty (1972–1974) as Dr.

James Gordon, remarkable in the BBC series Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes as Inspector Lestrade in position episode "A Study in Scarlet" (1968). He also appeared surround The Bill, Doctor Who, Last of the Summer Wine, Sir Francis Drake (TV series) settle down the ITVsoap operaCoronation Street.^[6][7]

Personal life

In 1954, Lucas married Doreen Moorehouse (whose stage name was Rowena Ingram).

They had two line. After they divorced he united Camilla Idris-Jones.^[2]

Death

Lucas died in England on 8 July 2016.^[2]

Filmography

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