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name: "Guy Doleman"
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born: "22 November 1923"
died: "30 January 1996"
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average_fi1m_score: 82
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# Guy Doleman

Actor. Born 22 November 1923 in Hamilton, New Zealand. Died 30 January 1996.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 22 November 1923, Hamilton, New Zealand
- **Died:** 30 January 1996
- **Active:** 1954–1967

## Biography

Guy Doleman (22 November 1923 – 30 January 1996) was a New Zealand-born actor who worked in Australia, Britain and the United States. He began his career in Australian film and radio in the late 1940s, appearing in titles such as *Always Another Dawn* (1948) and *Strong Is the Seed* (1949), and became a regular on radio drama including *Hagen's Circus*.

In 1952 he won an Actor's Choice award for a radio performance and used the prize to travel to Hollywood, where he took an uncredited role as a detective in Alfred Hitchcock's *Dial M for Murder* (1954). He later moved to Britain and gained recognition in the 1960s for playing Count Lippe in the James Bond film *Thunderball* (1965), Colonel Ross in the Harry Palmer spy films *The Ipcress File* (1965), *Funeral in Berlin* (1966) and *Billion Dollar Brain* (1967), and the first Number Two in *The Prisoner* (1967). He returned to Australia periodically and eventually settled in Los Angeles, where he died of lung cancer.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Prisoner* (1967), Fi1m 84, as Number Two — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-prisoner.md)
- *Dial M for Murder* (1954), Fi1m 80, as Detective (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/dial-m-for-murder.md)

## Also known for

- *Thunderball* (1965), Count Lippe
- *Murder, She Wrote* (1984), Corsair
- *The Six Million Dollar Man* (1974), Henry Bulman
- *The Ipcress File* (1965), Colonel H.L. Ross
- *On the Beach* (1959), Lt. Cmdr. Farrel
- *Funeral in Berlin* (1966), Ross
- *The Avengers* (1961)
- *Billion Dollar Brain* (1967), Colonel Ross

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