I checked and didn’t see a thread. He died September 21. He’s probably best known for playing Bond villain Hugo Drax.
But to me and all lovers of quality TV, he’s even better known as Gregoriev, the Russian diplomat in Switzerland who is turned by George Smiley in the 1982 BBC production of “Smiley’s People.” He was also marvelous as the detective in “The Day of the Jackel.”
In his career he worked on films by Orson Welles, Malle, Truffaut, Bunuel, Frankenheimer, Merchant/Ivory and Spielberg.
I hadn’t heard he had died. I just happened to google him while watching “Smiley’s People” to see what he was up to these days, to duscover the answer: not being alive.
