Mark Dignam


Cuthbert Mark Dignam was an English actor.
Born in London, the son of a salesman in the steel industry, Dignam grew up in Sheffield, and was educated at the Jesuit College, where he appeared in numerous Shakespearean plays.
He learned his craft touring Britain and America with Ben Greet's Shakespeare company. His range extended from the Louis Macneice radio play, The Dark Tower in the 1940s to the TV thriller, The XYY Man in the late 1970s.
Along with Philip Guard and John Bryning, Dignam can be heard on the fade-out of the Beatles' song "I Am the Walrus", during which is played a 1967 BBC radio broadcast of King Lear, with Dignam in the role of the Earl of Gloucester.
Dignam was married three times, divorced twice.

Family

His brother Basil was also a well-known character actor and his sister-in-law was the actress Mona Washbourne.

Dollis Hill

Dignam lived in Dollis Hill, north-west London, from 1967 until his death in 1989.

Selected filmography

Train of Events − Bolingbroke Murder in the Cathedral − First KnightThe Maggie − The LairdDoctor in the House − Examiner at Microscope Beau Brummell − Mr. BurkeLease of Life − Mr. BlackThe Passing Stranger − InspectorCarrington V.C. − ProsecutorThe Prisoner − The GovernorEscapade − SykesThey Can't Hang Me − Prison GovernorThe Adventures of Quentin Durward − Innkeeper Sink the Bismarck! − Captain The Pure Hell of St Trinian's − Prosecuting CounselNo Love for Johnnie − Earnley Constituent In Search of the Castaways − Rich Man at Yacht PartyLancelot and Guinevere − MerlinSiege of the Saxons − King ArthurTom Jones − LieutenantDr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow − The BishopThe Eyes of Annie Jones − Orphanage directorClash by Night − Sydney SelwynA Jolly Bad Fellow − The MasterGame for Three Losers − Attorney GeneralThe Taming of the Shrew − VincentioFrozen Flashes − Sir JohnThe Charge of the Light Brigade − Gen. AireyIsadora − Hamlet − PoloniusThe Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder − Lord NettlefoldThere's a Girl in My Soup − Wedding Guest Jude the Obscure − Vicar Dead Cert − Clifford TudorMemoirs of a Survivor − NewsvendorThe Chain − AmbroseOn the Black Hill − Reverend Latimer

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