English actor
Son of Malcolm Keen.
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.
Attended RADA
Father, with Hazel Terry, of Jemma Hyde.
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 ten films with Robert Brown : The Third Man , Passage Home , The Man Who Never Was , Sink the Bismarck! , Live Now - Pay Later , Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow , The Spy Who Loved Me , Octopussy , A View to a Kill and The Living Daylights .
He appeared in ten films with Bernard Lee : The New Lot , The Fallen Idol , The Third Man , The Spanish Gardener , Nowhere to Go , Beyond This Place , Sink the Bismarck! , The Angry Silence , The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker .
He appeared in six films with Lois Maxwell : Lady in the Fog (1952) , The Spy Who Loved Me , Moonraker , For Your Eyes Only , Octopussy and A View to a Kill .
