Bernard Horsfall

Who was Bernard Horsfall?

Bernard Arthur Gordon Horsfall was a British actor.

Horsfall was born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, and educated at Rugby School. He trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Horsfall appeared in many television and film roles including: Pathfinders to Mars, a second sequel to Target Luna and Pathfinders in Space, Guns at Batasi, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Enemy at the Door, Gandhi, an episode of The Jewel in the Crown, the character Frankland in The Hound of the Baskervilles and the character Balliol in Braveheart. His other roles included portraying British barrister Melford Stevenson in a 1980 Granada TV dramatisation of the 1955 case of Ruth Ellis.

Horsfall made several guest appearances in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. His first was as Lemuel Gulliver in The Mind Robber. His other appearances were as a Time Lord in The War Games, Taron in Planet of the Daleks, and Chancellor Goth in The Deadly Assassin. All four of these serials were directed by David Maloney. Horsfall also appeared, with a Swedish accent, as "Christianson" in an episode of The Persuaders! titled "The Morning After" during 1972.