Alan Badel
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| Born |
Alan Fernand Badel 11 September 1923 Rusholme, Manchester, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 19 March 1982 (aged 58) Chichester, Sussex, England |
| Cause of death | heart attack |
| Years active | 1952–82 |
| Spouse(s) | Yvonne Owen (1942–1982; his death) |
| Children | Sarah Badel |
Alan Fernand Badel (/bəˈdɛl/; 11 September 1923 – 19 March 1982) 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 earliest film role was as John the Baptist in the Rita Hayworth version of Salome (1953), a version in which the story was altered to make Salome a Christian convert who dances for Herod in order to save John rather than have him condemned to death. He portrayed Richard Wagner in Magic Fire (1955), a biopic about the composer. He also played the role of Karl Denny, the impresario, in the film Bitter Harvest (1963). Around the same time, he played opposite Vivien Merchant in a television version of Harold Pinter's play The Lover (also 1963) and as Edmond Dantès in a BBC television adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo (1964).
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