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Help me remember the actor's name

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PGmicstand · 29/08/2026 10:48

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?

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Pancakeflipper · 29/08/2026 12:39

Simon MacCorkindale ??

TomatoGlut · 29/08/2026 12:45

Michael Gambon?
Christopher Lee in Bond as Scaramanga? (A wild card I know, but he had a white suit, tall, a bit jowly)

TomatoGlut · 29/08/2026 12:48

Ian McKellen?

Mairzydotes · 29/08/2026 12:52

It's not John Cleese ,is it?

SilentBob · 29/08/2026 12:54

Peter Ustinov?

dairyfarmerswife · 29/08/2026 12:54

Hugh Fraser? (Captain Hastings to David Suchet's Poirot)

Summeriscumin · 29/08/2026 12:56

One of the Fox brothers? James or Edward.

Cucurella · 29/08/2026 12:56

John Thaw?

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 29/08/2026 12:57

Donald Sutherland?

DollopOfFun · 29/08/2026 13:02

Was it Samantha Bond?

(one for the old timeys there)

MamaBobo · 29/08/2026 13:03

PGmicstand · 29/08/2026 12:27

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.

The Agatha Christie thing with the cream three piece suit sounds very much like Peter Ustinov as Poirot in Death on the Nile.

He’d be about the right age, right build, right moustache, right hair…looks a bit like Richard Griffiths.

HoraceCope · 29/08/2026 13:03

tony Britton

HoraceCope · 29/08/2026 13:07

leslie philips

Pinkbox · 29/08/2026 13:08

Edward Woodward?

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 29/08/2026 13:09

Simon Callow, Richard Allam, Jim Broadbent? Apologies if repeating suggestions.

Roundthebend45 · 29/08/2026 13:14

James Mason
Donald Sinden
Michael Hordern

Clemdfandango · 29/08/2026 13:20

Alec Guinness?

humblesims · 29/08/2026 13:25

Kenneth Cranham?

heartsinvisiblefury · 29/08/2026 13:26

Leslie Phillips

Tarkan · 29/08/2026 13:30

Windsor Davies?

Crucible · 29/08/2026 13:31

David Yelland?

cheapskatemum · 29/08/2026 13:31

Ian Carmichael? He played Lord Peter Wimsey in the tv series & looked similar to how you describe.

Crucible · 29/08/2026 13:32

Or Nicholas Farrell - he got slightly jowlier with age

Squattee · 29/08/2026 13:37

William Gaunt?

DPotter · 29/08/2026 13:49

wore a cream suit - possibly a 3 piece suit

The Man from Del Monte!

Sorry - I'll see myself out...