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?

Maybe a middle aged Brian Cox?

I think we’ve gone through the entirety of Equity haven’t we? There’s none left!

Ian Lavender?

Stupid boy

Michael Hordern
Robert Bathurst
Simon Russell Beale
Tony Britton
Michael Aldridge
Nicky Henson

This is painful desperate stuff but a few more

Nickolas Grace
https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/nickolas-grace/

Patrick Ryecart
https://dundeerep.co.uk/profile/patrick-ryecart

Bernard Hill

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/bernard-hill-dead-lord-of-the-rings-1235992436/

Dh has suggested Warren Oates

Benjamin Whitrow
Charles Gray

Robert Pugh
Clifford Rose

Couple more suggestion
dennis quilley
donald hewlett

Bernard Cribbens?
Ray Brookes
Albert Finney

OP I am impressed with your ability to remember dreams. I wake up knowing I have been dreaming and think, "What was that?"

are you sure it isnt an actual hotel Concierge that you can remember?

Patrick Godfrey?

@WhyReindeerthank you, sorry I somehow missed that. Back to the drawing board!

Ian Richardson, original House of Cards?

A couple more ideas -
Mark Bonnar
Tom Courtenay
Andrew Cruickshank
Patrick Mower

Gavan O'Herlihy

he was in The Secret Adversary - an Agatha Christie

I say 'jowls' but maybe I'm using the wrong terminology. I mean that there's not much definition between the chin and the neck. So, maybe 'prominent double chin' might be a better descriptor.

Fairly sure about the moustache. I might have a go at making a sort of photofit later if I can muster up the energy. But I suspect this may well be like the time I was trying to think of an author to tell my DC about and it took me 3 days until I could actually remember their name, despite being someone I'd read a lot in my youth.

Shall dive back into this thread and update asap.

I'm browsing the link that @cariadlet sent but so far, nobody. I'll keep chipping away.

Orson Welles?
although he died in 1985

No, but the moustache may be similar, as per the picture here.

No. Charles Gray's forehead is too high and he looks too much like a Thunderbird. His face isn't long enough.

David Suchet already discounted - ditto Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, David Yelland & Albert Finney.

Jason Isaacs - No, too young looking, hair too dark

Alfred Molina - No, too young, hair too dark, nose wrong, chin wrong

Ian Holm - pretty sure already mentioned. Not him. Hairline too high, face wrong shape.

Rupert Everett - No. Not someone this well-known. Hairline maybe a bit too high. A bit too young. Ditto Martin Freeman.

Toby Jones- No. Too short. Hair wrong. Just not him (despite him being in everything, ever!)

Alex Macqueen - No. Too young. Too bald, eyes wrong

Bill Nighy - No. Nothing at all like the person I'm trying to think of - and not someone as well-known. Could possibly be the right sort of age though. But always worth checking out pics of Bill :)

Geoffrey Rush. Doesn't normally have a moustache but did when he played Einstein