Jack Wynne May (23 April 1922 â€" 19 September 1997) was an English
actor.May was born in 1922 in Henley-on-Thames, and was educated at
Forest School in Walthamstow. After war service with the Royal Indian
Navy in British India, he was offered a place at RADA, but instead
went to Merton College, Oxford. Here, with the OUDS, he played parts
that included John of Gaunt in Richard II and Polonius in Hamlet.May
became familiar on television as the butler William E. Simms in two
series of the BBC 1 fantasy/adventure television series Adam Adamant
Lives! from 1966 to 1967.
actor.May was born in 1922 in Henley-on-Thames, and was educated at
Forest School in Walthamstow. After war service with the Royal Indian
Navy in British India, he was offered a place at RADA, but instead
went to Merton College, Oxford. Here, with the OUDS, he played parts
that included John of Gaunt in Richard II and Polonius in Hamlet.May
became familiar on television as the butler William E. Simms in two
series of the BBC 1 fantasy/adventure television series Adam Adamant
Lives! from 1966 to 1967.
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