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Although his eyesight failed almost completely in 1990, he continued to act, playing both blind and seeing characters.
Ranked #88 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
Father of actresses Juliet
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, Hayley
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and writer/producer Jonathan
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.
His grandson is Crispian
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, lead singer of Kula Shaker.
Supported the Labour Party during the 2001 General Election campaign.
At age 92, he and wife Mary, age 89, renewed their marriage vows at St. Mary's Church, next to their home, Hills House, in Denham, England. When they had wed 60 years earlier, he was denied a church service because he was serving in the Army during World War II. [January 2001]
He was voted ninth in the 2001 Orange Film Survey of greatest British actors.
Appointed a CBE in 1960 and knighted in 1976.
A council member of RADA, he was also a life patron of the Variety Club.
When he won the 1971 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award,
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was the only winner present at the ceremony to accept his acting award. The other three winners of Academy Awards for acting that year, George C. Scott, Glenda Jackson, and Helen Hayes, didn't attend the awards. ceremony.
Brother of Annette
His first wife, Aileen Raymond, survived him by five days and she was the mother of the actor Ian Ogilvy.
He was educated at Norwich Grammar School for Boys.
Was nominated for Broadway's 1962 Tony Award as Best Actor (Dramatic) for "Ross."
Hospitalised with a severe chest infection in August 2002.
Suffered a bad fall at his Buckinghamshire home, breaking two ribs, and was kept overnight in hospital as a precaution. (November 2001)
More than 400 stars of stage and screen took part in an event organized by the Lord's Taverners charity, of which he was the founding president in 1950, at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, south east London to honor his illustrious career and recent Diamond wedding anniversary. (21 February 2001)
He always maintained his favorite movie was Tunes of Glory (1960), in which he co-starred with Alec Guinness.
Prior to his death he had planed on attending The 32nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards (2005) (TV) where his daughter Juliet
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was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for playing Tabitha Lennox in "Passions" (1999)
Despite being two of Britain's most distinguished actors of their generation, he appeared in only two films with Alec Guinness: Great Expectations (1946) and Tunes of Glory (1960).
Enlisted in the Royal Engineers in 1940 but received a medical discharge after a year and a half due to a duodenal ulcer.
Died seven days after his In Which We Serve (1942), The October Man (1947), This Happy Breed (1944) and Tunes of Glory (1960) co-star, Kay Walsh.
Of the Oscar-winning father-daughter couples, he and his daughter Hayley
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are one of two couples (the other is Jane Fonda/Henry Fonda) where the daughter won an Academy award before the father did.
He was a close friend of the English actor/director Richard Attenborough, who read the eulogy at his funeral.
His wife of 64 years, Mary Hayley Bell, suffered from Alzheimer's disease for many years. Due to the advanced stage of her illness, she was unable to attend his funeral on April 27, 2005.