Alan Badel
{{Short description|English actor (1923–1982)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Alan Badel
| image = Alan_Badel.jpg
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1923|09|11|df=y}}
| birth_place = Rusholme, Manchester, Lancashire, England
| birthname = Alan Fernand Badel
| death_date = {{death date and age|1982|3|19|1923|9|11|df=y}}
| death_place = Chichester, Sussex, England
| yearsactive = 1952–82
| spouse = {{marriage|Yvonne Owen|1942}}
| children = Sarah Badel
}}
Alan Fernand Badel{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/67748 |title=Alan Badel|publisher=British Film Institute |website=Film and TV Database|access-date=14 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021173424/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/67748 |archive-date=21 October 2012 |url-status=dead }} ({{IPAc-en|b|ə|ˈ|d|ɛ|l}};G. M. Miller, BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names (Oxford UP, 1971), p. 9. 11 September 1923 – 19 March 1982) was an English actor who appeared frequently on stage, in film, on radio and on television.
Early life
Badel was born in Rusholme, Manchester, and educated at Burnage High School. He fought in France and Germany during the Second World War, serving as a paratrooper on D-Day.{{cite web|url=http://www.paradata.org.uk/people/alan-f-badel |title=Sergeant Alan F Badel |website=ParaData |access-date=14 January 2016}} He partially lost his hearing when a shell exploded near him.TV Times, 1973, 71 (22), p.7
Career
Badel's earliest film role was as John the Baptist in the Rita Hayworth version of Salome (1953), a version in which the story was altered to make Salome a Christian convert who dances for Herod in order to save John rather than have him condemned to death. He portrayed Richard Wagner in Magic Fire (1955), a biopic about the composer. He also played the role of Karl Denny, the impresario, in the film Bitter Harvest (1963). Around the same time he played opposite Vivien Merchant in a television version of Harold Pinter's play The Lover (also 1963) and as Edmond Dantès in a BBC television adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo (1964).
Badel also played the villainous sunglasses-wearing Najim Beshraavi in Arabesque (1966) with Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren. He played the French Interior Minister in The Day of the Jackal (1973), a political thriller about the attempted assassination of President Charles de Gaulle. In the political television drama Bill Brand (1976) he played David Last, the government's Employment Minister, a left-wing former backbench MP who had recently joined the front bench after 30 years in the House of Commons. One of his last roles was that of Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg in the Paramount film Nijinsky (1980). A television adaptation for the BBC of The Woman in White (1982) by Wilkie Collins, in which Badel played the role of Count Fosco, was shown posthumously.{{cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba11f06a1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310121940/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba11f06a1|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 March 2016|title=Alan Badel|website=Film Forever|publisher=British Film Institute|access-date=5 June 2016}}
Personal life
Badel married the actress Yvonne Owen in 1942 and they remained married until his death from a heart attack in Chichester, aged 58. Their daughter, Sarah Badel, is an actress.
Filmography
=Film=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 1952
| Stranger | Short film |
| rowspan="2"|1953
| Salome | |
| Will Any Gentleman...?
| The Great Mendoza | |
| rowspan="2"|1955
| Owen/Mr. X/Harry | |
| Magic Fire
| Richard Wagner | |
| 1961
| Clive Root | TV film |
| rowspan="3"|1963
| Weaver | |
| The Lover
| Richard | TV film |
| Bitter Harvest
| Karl | |
| 1964
| Dr. David Neville | |
| 1966
| Beshraavi | |
| rowspan="3"|1969
| Otley | Alec Hadrian | |
| Where's Jack?
| The Lord Chancellor | |
| The Siegfried Idyll
| TV film |
| 1970
| President Rojo | |
| 1973
| The Minister | |
| 1974
| Luther | |
| 1976
| Philip Gosse | TV film |
| 1977
| Telefon | Colonel Malchenko | |
| rowspan="2"|1978
| Quinton | |
| Force 10 from Navarone
| Major Petrovitch | |
| rowspan="2"|1979
| Agatha | Lord Brackenbury | |
| The Riddle of the Sands
| Dollmann | |
| rowspan="2"|1980
| Nijinsky | |
| Shōgun
| Father Dell'Aqua | TV film |
=Television=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes |
|---|
| 1951
| Michèle and René | Poins | Episode: "Up the River" |
| 1953
| Omnibus | Fool/Napoleon | Episodes: "King Lear" & "The Man of Destiny" |
| 1956–1957
| Rawdon Crawley | Series regular, 6 episodes |
| 1957
| Fouguier-Tinville | Episode: "The Public Prosecutor" |
| rowspan="2"|1958
| Fitzwilliam Darcy | Series regular, 6 episodes |
| Armchair Theatre
| Don Juan | Episode: "Death of Satan" |
| 1961
| Roger Webb | Episode: "The Substitute" |
| rowspan="2"|1962
| Don Juan | Episode: "Don Juan in Hell" |
| Thirty-Minute Theatre
| Don Juan | Episode: "Don Juan in Hell" |
| rowspan="3"|1963
| The Prisoner | Episode: "The Prisoner" |
| ITV Play of the Week
| Hero | Episode: "The Rehearsal" |
| Chronicle
| Julius Caesar | Episode: "Four Views of Caesar" |
| 1964
| Edmond Dantès | Series regular, 12 episodes |
| rowspan="2"|1965
| Tom | Episode: "A Couple of Dry Martinis" |
| Famous Gossips
| Episode: "Oscar Wilde: Monsieur Sebastien Melmoth" |
| 1966
| General Gordon | Episode: "Gordon of Khartoum" |
| 1967
| Episode: "Henry IV" |
| rowspan="3"|1968
| Father | Episode: "The Parachute" |
| The Wednesday Play
| Rory Farquhar | Episode: "Toggle" |
| Theatre 625
| David de Beaudrigue | Episode: "The Fanatics" |
| rowspan="2"|1970
| Edward Kimberley | Episode: "The Creeper" |
| Biography
| Episode: "A King and His Keeper" |
| 1974
| A Raging Calm | Tom Simpkins | Series regular, 7 episodes |
| rowspan="2"|1976
| David Last | Series regular, 6 episodes |
| Play of the Month
| Svengali | Episode: "Trilby" |
| rowspan="2"|1977
| BBC2 Play of the Week | Michael Arlen | Episode: "Exiles" |
| Play of the Month
| Sir Robert Morton | Episode: "The Winslow Boy" |
| rowspan="3"|1978
| Horizon | Episode: "The Eddystone Lights" |
| The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People
| Episode: "The Secret of Charles Dickens" |
| The Sunday Drama
| Buster Barnes | Episode: "The One and Only Buster Barnes" |
| 1980
| Shōgun | Father Dell'Aqua | Series regular, 5 episodes |
| rowspan="3"|1982
| Count Fosco | Series regular, 5 episodes |
| Play of the Month
| Sir Fretful Plagiary | Episode: "The Critic" |
| The Agatha Christie Hour
| Sir Alington West | Episode: "The Red Signal" |
References
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External links
{{Portal|Biography}}
- {{IMDb name|0045996}}
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{{British Academy Television Award for Best Actor 1960–1979}}
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Category:20th-century English male actors
Category:Best Actor BAFTA Award (television) winners
Category:British Army personnel of World War II
Category:British Parachute Regiment soldiers
Category:English male film actors
Category:English male stage actors
Category:Male actors from Manchester