Biography
Percy Herbert (31 July 1920 – 6 December 1992) was an English character actor. Born in London, he served in the British Army during the Second World War and spent four years as a Japanese prisoner of war after the fall of Singapore. After the war, Dame Sybil Thorndike helped him secure a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He began his career in the theatre, including work with John Gielgud’s Old Vic Company, before moving into film in the early 1950s.
Herbert frequently played soldiers and appeared in more than seventy films. He is known for roles in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) as Grogan, for which he also acted as a consultant, The Guns of Navarone (1961) as Sgt. Grogan, Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), Becket (1964), One Million Years B.C. (1966) and The Wild Geese (1978). He was a regular on the television series Cimarron Strip (1967–1968).
