Alfie Bass

He also had success on the stage, in particular with The Bespoke Overcoat which was filmed in 1956. In 1994 Branagh declined becoming a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Both series were very popular in Britain. He married again in 2003, to film art director Lindsay Brunnock. comedy series of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and then co-starred in its sequel Bootsie and Snudge as a tramp with Bill Fraser and Clive Dunn. He starred several times with his then wife, Emma Thompson, whom he married in 1989 and divorced in 1996. He starred in The Army Game a British T.V. He has also won an Emmy Award for his performance in the 2001 TV film Conspiracy.

He sometimes emphasised his Jewish background in the accent he used on screen. He has been nominated for four Academy Awards, including two for directing and acting in Henry V and another for the screenplay of Hamlet. series Till Death Us Do Part and Are You Being Served?. He has starred in a number of other successful films unrelated to Shakespeare. He continued working until the turn of the 1980s and had roles in the T.V. He is probably best known for his popular film adaptations of the works of William Shakespeare, beginning with Henry V in 1989, and including versions of Much Ado About Nothing (1993) and Hamlet (1996). Among his most often seen films (by modern audiences), are The Lavender Hill Mob and A Tale Of Two Cities. Branagh has worked on both stage and screen.

He also died in London in 1987. Branagh received a honorary doctorate in Literature from Queen's University, Belfast in 1990. Often seen in classic British films Alfie Bass was a small cockney-accented actor, born in London's Bethnal Green in 1920. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, but when he was nine his family moved to England. Kenneth Charles Branagh (born December 10, 1960) is a versatile British actor and film director. The Science of Walking with Beasts (Australia) (Two-part TV special) (2001).

Walking with Beasts (UK version) (TV series) (2001)