Clifford Evans

For the rugby league footballer of the 1930s and '40s for Wales, and Leeds, see Clifford Evans (rugby league).

Clifford Evans
Born	17 February 1912(1912-02-17) Caerphilly, Wales
Died	9 June 1985(1985-06-09) (aged 73) Welshpool, Wales

Clifford Evans (17 February 1912 – 9 June 1985) was a Welsh actor. As a conscientious objector he served in the Non-Combatant Corps in World War II.

During the summer of 1934 he appeared in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Open Air Theatre in London.

Evans played many parts in British films of the 1930s, before starring in the film The Foreman Went to France in 1942. His most well-known later film roles were the two he played for Hammer Studios: Don Alfredo Carledo in The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) and the inebriated vampire-hunter, Professor Zimmer, in The Kiss of the Vampire (1963).

On television, he appeared with George Woodbridge and Tim Turner in 1957 in the 15-episode series Stryker of the Yard. Between 1965 and 1969, he played a major role in the TV boardroom drama The Power Game, playing building tycoon Caswell Bligh. He is also notable for having been among several British actors to play the character of Number Two in the sixties cult TV series The Prisoner (1967/68). He also appeared in The Avengers, The Champions, The Saint, and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) in the tenth episode "When did You Start to Stop Seeing Things?" in 1969. In 1970, he featured in the BBC TV series Codename

Selected filmography

• The River House Mystery (1935)
• Ourselves Alone (1936)
• Calling the Tune (1936)
• The Tenth Man (1936)
• Luck of the Navy (1938)
• The Proud Valley (1940)
• Freedom Radio (1941)
• Love on the Dole (1941)
• Penn of Pennsylvania (1941)
• The Foreman Went to France (1942)
• Stryker of the Yard (1953)
• At the Stroke of Nine (1957)
• Violent Playground (1958)
• A Twist of Sand (1968)
• One Brief Summer (1970)

External links

• Clifford Evans at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Evans, Clifford
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Date of birth	17 February 1912
Place of birth	Caerphilly, Wales
Date of death	9 June 1985
Place of death	Welshpool, Wales