A Tribute to Alan Badel

Описание: Alan Badel was an English stage actor who also appeared frequently in the cinema, radio and television and was noted for his richly textured voice which was once described as "the sound of tears".

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.

In his early career, he played leading parts, including Romeo and Hamlet, with the Old Vic and Stratford companies.

Badel's most notable early screen role was as John the Baptist in the Rita Hayworth version of "Salome "(1953)

Badel portrayed Richard Wagner in "Magic Fire" (1955), a biopic about the composer, and Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg in the Paramount film "Nijinsky" (1980).

He also played the role of Karl Denny, the impresario, in the film "Bitter Harvest" (1963) In the film he engages a young Welsh girl called Jennie Jones who, under his control, becomes a high class prostitute who commits suicide.

Also in 1963 he played opposite Vivien Merchant in the TV production of Harold Pinter's play "The Lover".

He also played the French Interior Minister in "The Day of the Jackal" (1973), a political thriller about the attempted assassination of President Charles de Gaulle. Badel also played the villainous sunglasses-wearing Najim Beshraavi in" Arabesque" (1966) with Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren. One of Badel's most noted roles was that of Edmond Dantès in the 1964 BBC television adaptation of "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas.

Badel married the actress Yvonne Owen in 1942 and they remained married until his sudden death in Chichester, aged 58. Their daughter Sarah Badel is an actress.

(Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

In memoriam: https://www.gedenkseiten.de/alan-badel

Music: Symphony No. 5 (Adagietto) by Gustav Mahler