William Squire
Birthday
1916/04/29
Day of death
1989/05/03 (73 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Neath - Glamorgan - Wales - UK
Also know as
William Arthur Squire
Biography
William Squire (29 April 1917 – 3 May 1989) was a Welsh actor of stage, film and television. Squire was born in Neath, South Wales, the son of William Squire and his wife Martha (née Bridgeman). As a stage actor, Squire performed at Stratford-upon-Avon and at the Old Vic, and notably replaced his fellow-countryman Richard Burton as King Arthur in Camelot at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway. One of his first film appearances was in the 1956 film Alexander the Great, which starred Burton in the ...Read more
Acting
(1978) The Lord of the Rings
as Gandalf (voice)
(1968) Where Eagles Dare
as Thomas
(1969) Anne of the Thousand Days
as Thomas More
(1978) Les Misérables
as Magistrate
(1956) The Battle of the River Plate
as Ray Martin
(1984) Puccini
as Giacchi, the Doctor
(1988) Testimony
as Khatchaturyan
(1967) A Challenge for Robin Hood
as Sir John
(1958) Innocent Sinners
as Father Lambert
(1975) Snooker
as Humphrey
(1958) Dunkirk
as Captain (uncredited)
(1956) Alexander the Great
as Aeschenes
(1977) The Portable Phonograph
as The Actor
(1981) The Life and Times of David Lloyd George
as Dr Clifford
(1982) The Ghost Downstairs
as Narrator
(1978) The Thirty Nine Steps
as Harkness
(2016) Callan: This Man Alone
as Himself (archive)
(1951) The Long Dark Hall
as Sergeant Cochcran
(1965) The Wars of the Roses
as Duke of Suffolk
(1956) The Man Who Never Was
as Lt. Jewell
(1957) The Film That Never Was
as ---
(1976) Buffet
as Arnold
(1988) In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
as Self
(1979) Doctor Who: The Armageddon Factor
as The Shadow
(1976) The XYY Man
as ---
(1978) Blake's 7
as Kommissar
(1971) Jason King
as ---
(1975) Rumpole of the Bailey
as ---
(1967) Callan
as ---
(1968) The Champions
as Duncan
(1975) The Venturers
as ---
(1955) The Adventures of Robin Hood
as Vef
(1960) An Age of Kings
as ---
(1975) Prometheus: The Life of Balzac
as ---
(1968) The Jazz Age
as ---
(1963) Doctor Who
as The Shadow
(1982) The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Frankland
(1972) The Black Arrow
as Sir Daniel Brackley
(1972) The Black Arrow
as The Stranger
(1978) All Creatures Great and Small
as Roderick Perowne
(1967) Callan
as Hunter
(1982) Marco Polo
as Locandiere
(1975) The Venturers
as Sir George Fielding
(1958) Pride and Prejudice
as Mr. Bingley