Alfie Bass is one of the famous Movie Actor, who was born on the memorable day of April 10 in the year 1916. Hailing from the vibrant city of England, Alfie Bass is a proud citizen of United Kingdom.
Stage, film and radio actor who appeared in the 1951 film, The Lavender Hill Mob, and the 1958 film, A Tale of Two Cities. Later in his career, he played roles in Moonraker and Revenge of the Pink Panther.
Over the years, not only have skills been honed, but a significant impact has also been made in the professional field. Whether it's through work, public appearances, or contributions to the community, Alfie Bass continues to be an inspiration for many.
Personal Information
Details about Alfie Bass
Popular As:
Alfie Bass
First Name:
Alfie
Last Name:
Bass
Gender:
Male
Birthday:
April 10
Birth Year:
1916
Death Date:
1987-07-15
Death Day:
July 15
Death Year:
1987
Cause of Death:
Natural Causes
Manner of Death:
Myocardial Infarction
Place of Death:
London Borough of Barnet, United Kingdom
Career
He worked as a tailor’s apprentice, a messenger boy, and a shop-window display filler when he was 14.
He joined the Middlesex regiment as a dispatch rider after WWII began.
Family
He was married to Beryl Bryson until his death in 1987. They had two children together. He began his acting career with Paul Robeson in the late 1930s film, Plant in the Sun.
Alfie Bass Timeline
1930
Bass's acting career began at London's Unity Theatre in the late 1930s, appearing in Plant in the Sun alongside Paul Robeson, and as the pantomime King in Babes In the Wood.
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1936
In 1936 he took part in the Battle of Cable Street, in which activists attempted to prevent a march through the East End by the British Union of Fascists.
1946
In 1946, he married Beryl Bryson, a dressmaker, in Liverpool.
1950
During the 1950s, he continued to direct shows at Unity, and on one occasion appeared in court (along with Vida Hope), charged with putting on a play without a licence.
1951
He also appeared in a number of feature films including The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Hell Drivers (1957), A Tale of Two Cities (1958) and Alfie (1966) starring Michael Caine and Shelley Winters.
1955
In 1955, Bass recorded the novelty song "Pity the Downtrodden Landlord".
1956
His stage work also included an adaptation of Gogol's short story The Bespoke Overcoat, transposed to the East End of London, which was filmed by Jack Clayton in 1956, and won the Oscar for Best Short.
1957
He appeared in The Army Game (1957–61), a British TV comedy series, as Private Montague 'Excused Boots' Bisley, and its sequel Bootsie and Snudge from 1960–63 (there was also a one series revival in colour in 1974), working at a Gentlemen's club with Bill Fraser as 'Claude Snudge' and Clive Dunn as 'Henry Beerbohm Johnson'.
1958
With his fellow cast members from The Army Game, Bernard Bresslaw, Leslie Fyson and Michael Medwin, Bass was part of a vocal quartet who scored a number 5 hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1958 with "The Signature Tune Of The Army Game".
1960
In 1960, Pye Records issued two solo recordings by Bass on a single, "Villikens And His Dinah" and "Rat Catcher's Daughter".
1964
Bass additionally played the character in another spin-off, Foreign Affairs, in 1964.
1965
He has had many cameo roles, such as the Indian restaurant doorman in the Beatles' film Help! (1965), as Clouseau's seafaring informant in Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), and in Moonraker (1979), in which he was cast as a heavy smoking hard drinker.
1967
He starred in Roman Polanski's vampire film The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) (British title The Dance of the Vampires) as innkeeper Yoine Shagal with his daughter Sarah played by Sharon Tate.
1970
He continued working throughout the 1970s and 80s, particularly in the TV series' Till Death Us Do Part and Are You Being Served?, the latter as Mr.
1971
Bass also appeared in the "Pride" segment of The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971) and had a leading role in the 1977 sex comedy Come Play with Me.
1976
Bass played a memorable Silas Wegg in the BBC's 1976 adaptation of Dickens's Our Mutual Friend.
1979
He also played Isaac Rag in a notable recurring character role in the 1979-1980 Dick Turpin series, and Morrie Levin, a shrewd accountant, in the Minder episode The Son Also Rises (1982).
1982
In his book British Film Character Actors (1982), Terence Pettigrew remembers, "there was a time when no British film seemed complete without Alfie Bass popping up in some guise or other.
1987
Alfie Bass died on 16 July 1987 in Barnet General Hospital, north London, following a heart attack.
