Dudley Sutton Movies and Career Information

Dudley Sutton (born 6 April 1933, Surrey) is an English 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 had one child together, later divorcing in 1965. On stage, he played the title role in the first production of Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane (1963). He has appeared in many films during his career, including Rotten to the Core (1965), Crossplot (1969), The Devils (1971), Madame Sin (1972), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), Fellini's Casanova (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, the Sweeney episode Golden Boy, as Mr Carter in the Beiderbecke Trilogy and as Oleg Kirov in Smiley's People (1982). He also starred with Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale in a Christmas Special of Porridge 1976 as Reg Urwin. In 1988 he appeared in James Clavell's television miniseries