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Dudley Sutton
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Dudley Sutton (born April 6, 1933 in Surrey, England) is a British actor. He served in the RAF before enrolling in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Known for his eccentricity, he became a cult figure after playing a gay biker in The Leather Boys (1964). He married American actress Marjorie Steele in 1961; she had previously been married to the millionaire producer Huntington Hartford. Sutton and Steele divorced in 1965, though they had a child together. On stage, he played the title role in the first production of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane (1963).
He has starred in many films during his career, including Rotten to the Core (1965), Crossplot (1969), The Devils (1971), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), Edward II (1991), and The Football Factory (2004). Among the more notable of his many television appearances are his roles as Tinker Dill in Lovejoy and as Mr Carter in the Beiderbecke Trilogy. He also made an appearance in the soap opera EastEnders for a short stint, playing Wilfred, a conman. In 1999 he appeared in the BBC Radio play Cosmos the Mystic Dog.
At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, he staged a one-man show of his reminiscences, Killing Kittens in 2003 and followed this up, in 2006, with a second autobiographical show Pandora's Lunchbox.
He had a home in Mousehole, Cornwall.
- Official site
- Dudley Sutton at the Internet Movie Database
- Cheese Makes You Dream A Short film starring Dudley Sutton and Tamsin Greig.
