Guy Rolfe (born Edwin Arthur Rolfe, 27 December 1911 â€" 19 October
2003) was a British leading man and later character actor.Rolfe was
born in Kilburn, London. Before turning to acting at the age of 24 he
was a professional boxer and racing driver, making his stage debut in
Ireland in 1935. Repertory theatre led to his screen debut in 1937
with an uncredited appearance in Knight Without Armour.After the
Second World War he re-appeared in a number of bit parts throughout
1947 in films like Hungry Hill and Odd Man Out, which in turn led to
larger roles in movies such as Uncle Silas (1947), Easy Money (1948)
and in particular Ken Annakin's 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.
2003) was a British leading man and later character actor.Rolfe was
born in Kilburn, London. Before turning to acting at the age of 24 he
was a professional boxer and racing driver, making his stage debut in
Ireland in 1935. Repertory theatre led to his screen debut in 1937
with an uncredited appearance in Knight Without Armour.After the
Second World War he re-appeared in a number of bit parts throughout
1947 in films like Hungry Hill and Odd Man Out, which in turn led to
larger roles in movies such as Uncle Silas (1947), Easy Money (1948)
and in particular Ken Annakin's 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.
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