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William Squire

William Squire

William Squire (29 April 1917 – 3 May 1989) was a Welsh actor of stage, film and television. Squire was born in Neath, South Wales, the son of William Squire and his wife Martha (née Bridgeman). As a stage actor, Squire performed at Stratford-upon-Avon and at the Old Vic, and notably replaced his fellow-countryman Richard Burton as King Arthur in Camelot at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. One of his first film appearances was in the 1956 film Alexander the Great, which starred Burton in the title role. His varied screen roles included Thomas More in the 1969 film version of Maxwell Anderson's play Anne of the Thousand Days, Sir Daniel Brackley in the 1972 television adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Black Arrow, the voice of Gandalf in the 1978 animated version of The Lord of the Rings and the Shadow in the 1979 Doctor Whoserial The Armageddon Factor. Perhaps his best-known role was as Hunter, the superior of secret agent David Callan in the spy series Callan in the early 1970s; Squire took over the role from Derek Bond. In a set of Encyclopædia Britannica-produced educational films about William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Squire played the role of Macbeth. This was in keeping with his long career as a Shakespearean actor, which included roles in the classic 1960s TV series, An Age of Kings.

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2016

as Himself (archive)

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1988

as Khatchaturyan

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1988

as Self

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1984

as Giacchi, the Doctor

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1982

as Narrator

Marco Polo

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1982

as Locandiere

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1982

as Frankland

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1981

as Dr Clifford

Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor

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1979

as The Shadow

Les Misérables

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1978

as Magistrate

The Lord of the Rings

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1978

as Gandalf (voice)

The Thirty Nine Steps

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1978

as Harkness

All Creatures Great and Small

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1978

as Roderick Perowne

Blake's 7

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1978

as Kommissar

The Portable Phonograph

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1977

as The Actor

Buffet

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1976

as Arnold

The XYY Man

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1976

Rumpole of the Bailey

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1975

Prometheus: The Life of Balzac

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1975

Snooker

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1975

as Humphrey

The Venturers

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1975

The Venturers

The Venturers

1975

as Sir George Fielding

The Black Arrow

The Black Arrow

1972

as Sir Daniel Brackley

The Black Arrow

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1972

as The Stranger

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1971

Anne of the Thousand Days

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1969

as Thomas More

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1968

as Thomas

The Champions

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1968

as Duncan

The Jazz Age

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1968

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1967

as Alex

Callan

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1967

Callan

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1967

as Hunter

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1967

as Sir John

The Wars of the Roses

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1965

as Duke of Suffolk

Doctor Who

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1963

as The Shadow

An Age of Kings

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1960

Innocent Sinners

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1958

as Father Lambert

Dunkirk

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1958

as Captain (uncredited)

Pride and Prejudice

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1958

as Mr. Bingley

The Film That Never Was

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1957

The Battle of the River Plate

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1956

as Ray Martin

The Man Who Never Was

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1956

as Lt. Jewell

Alexander the Great

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1956

as Aeschenes

The Adventures of Robin Hood

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1955

as Vef

The Long Dark Hall

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1951

as Sergeant Cochcran

Sunday Night Theatre

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1950

as Hector