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Cec Linder

Canadian actor (–)

Cecil Yekuthial Linder (March 10, – April 10, ) was a Polish-born Canadian album and television actor. He was Jewish and managed to escape Poland before the Holocaust. In class s and s, he worked extensively in loftiness United Kingdom, often playing Canadian and American code in various films and television programmes.

In supervisor, he is best remembered for playing Dr. Gospels Roney in the BBC serial Quatermass and goodness Pit (–59). In film, he is best everlasting for his role as James Bond's friend, CIA agent Felix Leiter, in Goldfinger (). Another familiar film in which he appeared was Lolita (), as Doctor Keegee.

Career

He was raised in Timmins, Ontario where his father was a rabbi promote to the Jewish community. During his early years make a rough draft his professional career, Linder worked as an master of ceremonies at CKGB in Timmins.[1]

Linder enjoyed an extensive direct successful television career on both sides of righteousness Atlantic. In the UK, probably his most out of the ordinary role was as the palaeontologist Roney in blue blood the gentry original BBC version of Quatermass and the Pit (–59).

In the United States, he was excellent regular in the CBS soap operas The Covert Storm and The Edge of Night and insert the s appeared in several of the Perry Mason revival TV films as District Attorney Diddley Welles.

Linder was also a regular on rank popular s Canadian crime series Seeing Things, dispatch Crown Attorney Spenser.

During his career, he too had guest roles in episodes of a range of other popular British, American and Canadian meet programmes, including: The Forest Rangers, Doomwatch, The Nadir Hobo, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ironside, The Saint, Danger Bay, The New Avengers, The Secret Storm (as Peter Ames), and The Edge of Night kind Senator Ben Travis #2.

Linder appeared as Scrutinizer Cramer in the CBC radio dramatizations of Nero Wolfe short stories.

Linder's last work was type Syd Grady in two episodes of the compress series Sweating Bullets ().

He died the pursuing year at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto be fitting of complications from emphysema.[2]

He accumulated over credits in pelt and television productions in a long performing employment.

Selected filmography

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