Victor Brooks (actor)

Victor Brooks (11 November 1918 – 19 January 2000) was a prolific English film and television actor.[1] He specialized in character roles, police inspectors in particular, in British thrillers such as Cover Girl Killer (1959), Witchcraft (1964), and Devils of Darkness (1965).[1] In 1961, he narrated the fifteen minute instructional Short, 'The Warden, His Duties and Training'.[2] He also appeared in eight of the thirty-two episodes of 1964's 'Open House', playing himself, and The Host. [3][4]

Victor Brooks
in The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Born	Victor Ronald Brooks (1918-11-11)11 November 1918 London, (Woolwich), England
Died	19 January 2000(2000-01-19) (aged 81) Dorset, England, UK
Years active	1956–1994

His best known films are Goldfinger (1964), The Brides of Dracula (1960), and Billy Budd (1962).[3] On television, he was noted for playing a pipe-smoking authority figure in crime series like Dixon of Dock Green, Gideon's Way, Detective, Z Cars, and Crown Court.[3] He also appeared in the television series Raffles, in the recurring role of the Albany porter.[1][5][6]