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-).