Obituary from “The Telegraph:
The actor Lyndon Brook, who has died aged 77, made a powerful impression in stage classics in the 1950s, and in such films as Reach For The Sky (1956) and The Gypsy And The Gentleman (1958).His stage appearances included Mary Hayley Bell’s The Uninvited Guest (1953); Julian Green’s South, an American tragedy about homosexuality, directed by Peter Hall (1955); Donald Ogden Stewart’s American satire, The Kidders (1958) – in which he was partnered by his sister Faith Brook – and Strindberg’s Creditors (1959), with Michael Gough and Mai Zetterling.
His film appearances included the role of the navigator, to Gregory Peck’s neurotic wartime pilot, in The Purple Plain (1954); The Spanish Gardener (1956), with Dirk Bogarde; and Song Without End (1960), in which he played Wagner. His last film appearance was in the thriller Defence Of The Realm (1985).
The son of film star Clive Brook and actor Mildred Evelyn, Lyndon was born in Los Angeles, and educated at Stowe school and Cambridge University.
He was also a director and writer for stage and television. In 1958, he directed The Ark by James Saunders (obituary, February 3); in Mixed Doubles (1969), he wrote one of the funniest of the eight dramatic monologues that comprise the play. On television, he featured in the Avengers (1961), Danger Man (1964), I Claudius (1976), and Churchill And The Generals (1979), in which he played George VI.
He met his wife, the actor Elizabeth Kentish when both were playing small parts in Laurence Olivier’s season at St James’s theatre in 1951. She survives him, as do their two daughters.
· Lyndon Brook, actor, born April 10 1926; died January 9 2004
