Help me remember the actor's name

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Just to satisfy my itching brain!
Had a dream last night which featured an actor walking across a car park. He seemed familiar and I'm sure he's a real person.
The problem is, I can't think of much detail.
He's the sort of person who'd be in drama things like murder mysteries or maybe period dramas of the 1920s/1930s - he'd be playing a hotel proprietor type character.
I think he's fairly tall. He's an older actor - or at least, was then - he may have died.
White hair, with a bit of a wave, sometimes worn slicked back. A bit 'jowly' but not with a particularly wide face and has a moustache.
It's NOT Richard Griffiths. There's a similarity but the actor I'm thinking of has a narrower face than that and I don't think he has glasses.

Any ideas?

Henry Goodman?

Geoffrey Whitehead?

Neither of those unfortunately.
Paler complexion than Henry Goodman, chubbier than Henry Goodman.
Richard Griffiths looks most like him but doesn't seem to be the right person.

I'm not sure he's acting now. I have a notoriously bad memory but would think that he's someone who'd have been in dramas in the 1990s/early 2000s, rather than being contemporary.

Ballard Berkeley
Simon Callow.
Jonathan Pryce
Jim Broadbent
Peter Bowles
Timothy West

John Sessions?

Frank Thornton?

Geoffrey Palmer?

I know who you mean but I can’t remember his name either!

Timothy Spall!

Alex Jennings? He played rhe queens uncle who abdicated the throne in The Crown

Your description of white hair with a wave brought Michael Cochrane to mind but he’s not chubby.

Peter Ustinov? He was more stocky and did a fair few period dramas.

Sadly none of these

Older than John Sessions - someone who'd have been in their 50s or 60s in the later 1990s

No, not Captain Peacock! :)

No. Chubbier in the face and not as suave.

Frank Finlay

No. Not Timothy Spall. Whoever 'my' actor is, he'd be older than TS now.

No. Whiter hair, chubbier, moustache - I think he had it anyway, aside from his acting roles. Probably a bit older.

No, not him. Longer face and more jowly. Paler complexion.

Ian McNeice?

David Suchet.

Derek Jacobi?

Chat GPT suggests Roy Kinnear.

Unfortunately none of those either.
Ian McNiece has the right sort of neck/chin.
I can see this person so clearly in my mind's eye but I just cannot put a name to him, or think of anything he's been in.
I have a vague recollection that he may have been in an Agatha Christie type thing, and wore a cream suit - possibly a 3 piece suit.

I feel as though I'm wasting everyone's time but it's really annoying me that I can't think of him. I'm sure he's a real person and not a dream-generated one.

I'm loving this thread OP.