Remembering Roy Mitchell Kinnear (1934-88), the great English film, theatre and television character actor, born in Wigan #OnThisDay. RADA-trained and particularly adept at comic roles, his many screen credits included the rubber-averse Plastic Mac Man in The Bed Sitting Room (1969), instigator of the Count's resurrection in Hammer's Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)...

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...as Moriarty's assistant in Gene Wilder's The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975), the escaped axe murderer in Paul Morrissey's The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978) and the Innkeeper in Hawk the Slayer (1980).

#RoyKinnear #BornOnThisDay #BOTD #OTD #HammerHorror #BritishCinema

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