Guy Rolfe

GUY ROLFE d2003. British character actor best known for portraying villains. After the Second World War he had larger roles in movies such as ; Uncle Silas (1947) / Easy Money (1948) and Broken Journey (1948) where he played the pilot of an aeroplane that crashes in the Alps. He then graduated to leading man status in Terence Fisher's Portrait from Life (1948) as a British army officer who helps an Austrian professor track down his missing daughter. 1949 saw perhaps his best role, that of safe cracker turned spy Philippe Lodocq in Robert Hamer's The Spider and the Fly. He was cast as a British Army major dying of tuberculosis for the film Trio (1950), but actually contracted the disease and had to be replaced by Michael Rennie. He recovered but then starred in less prestigious B movies including ; Home to Danger (1951) and Operation Diplomat (1953) as well as the Hammer films Yesterday's Enemy and The Stranglers of Bombay (both 1959). A major part was the title role in William Castle's cult horror film Mr Sardonicus (1961) which several decades later led director Stuart Gordon to cast him in his horror film Dolls (1987)