Patrick Wymark
Overview
- Occupation Actor
- Birthname Patrick Cheeseman
- Birthdate July 11, 1926
- Birthplace Cleethorps, Great Britain
- Died October 20, 1970 (Melbourne, Australia)
- Character Colonel Wyatt Turner
Biography
Patrick Wymark is born in Cleethorps, Great Britain, 1926 and started as an actor 1951 stages in Great Britain. He is probably most famous for his frequent voiceover “appearances” as Prime Minister Winston Churchill. His Churchill sound-a-like voice were used in the documentary features The Finest Hours and A King’s Story. He also appears on screen as the Prime Minister in Operation Crossbow.
He had also other roles, often playing equally authoratives. So he did as Oliver Cromwell in The Conquerer Worm and as Earl of Stafford in Cromwell. Those who like films by Roman Polanski will immediately recognize Patrick Wymark as Catherine Deneuve’s landlord in Polanski’s Repulsion.
Selected films
- League of Gentlemen, The - 1959
- Criminal, The - 1960
- Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow - 1962
- Children of the Damned - 1963
- West II - 1963
- As You Like It (TV) - 1963
- Finest Hours, The - 1964
- Secret of Blood Island, The - 1965
- Skull, The - 1965
- Repulsion - 1965
- Operation Crossbow - 1965
- Psychopath, The - 1966
- Other World of Winston Churchill - 1967
- Woman Times Seven - 1967
- King's Story - the Love Story of the Century, A - 1967
- Tell Me Lies - 1968
- Conqueror Worm, The - 1968
- Where Eagles Dare - 1969
- Journey to the Far Side of the Sun - 1969
- Battle of Britain - 1969
- Cromwell - 1970
- Chelovek's Drugoy Storony - 1971
- Blood on Stan's Claw - 1971
Curiosa
- Patrick Wymark hade four children: Jane (1952-), Rowan (1954-), Dominic (1960-) and Tristram (1962-).
He also appeared in the 60’s star trek television series as Captain Decker in the ‘Doomsday machine’ episode.
That was William Windom, not Patrick Wymark. They look a little similar perhaps.
IF HE DIED IN 1970 WERE THE FILMS IN 1970 AND 1971 RELEASED AFTER HIS DEATH OR ARE THE FACTS WRONG ABOUT THE YEAR. I HAVE SEEN ELSEWHERE THAT HE WAS 50 WHEN HE DIED AND NOT 44.
He was my great uncle never met him but he sounded like a great man.
I saw him appear in Sleuth in Sydney, I think in 1970 before the production was due to reopen in Melbourne where he apparently died of a heart attack. He gave an extraordinary performance, receiving a standing ovation, and afterwards an equally extraordinary speech in which he forcast his own immanent death. This fact has, to my knowledge, never been reported.
I read somewhere his death at 44 was suicide..he was spectacular in The Power Game and BBC did a set of 6 plays in which he was the lead…I would love to see them again, his early death robbed us of a wondeful actor who would have gone from strength to strength.