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Robert Flemyng

Robert Flemyng OBE
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Robert Flemyng (center) with Katharine Cornell and John Emery
Born (1912-01-03)3 January 1912
Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Died 22 May 1995(1995-05-22) (aged 83)
London, England
Cause of death Pneumonia
Nationality British
Alma mater Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Occupation Actor
Years active 1936–1993
Spouse(s) Carmen Martha Sugars (?-1994) (her death) 1 child

Robert Flemyng OBE, MC (3 January 1912 – 22 May 1995) was an English film and stage actor.

Flemyng was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, the son of a doctor, and was educated at Haileybury. He began his career as a medical student before abandoning medicine to become an actor. Flemyng made his stage debut in the early 1930s, and worked in both London and Broadway. His first film appearance was in 1937, but he didn't appear steadily in films until after he served in the Second World War.

During the war he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps, reaching the rank of colonel at the age of 33. He was awarded the Military Cross in 1941, mentioned in despatches and was appointed OBE (military) in 1944.

Flemyng was married to Carmen Sugars, who died in 1994, and they had one daughter. According to Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography, a biography of Alec Guinness by Piers Paul Read, he "[fell] in love with a younger man in [his] middle age." He could not act upon his repressed feelings because male homosexuality was illegal in the United Kingdom (until 1967) and because he was married. Therefore, "he had a nervous breakdown and then a stroke and had a really terrible time."

He played the idealistic schoolmaster in the 1948 Roy Boulting film, The Guinea Pig, starring Richard Attenborough, and the role of Detective Sergeant Roberts in the 1950 film The Blue Lamp.

He played a sardonic British Secret Intelligence Service chief in the 1966 film The Quiller Memorandum. As a character actor he worked in cinema and television until his death in 1995. Some of his later films include Kafka (1991) and Shadowlands (1993).


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