I know him best from Three Cases of Murder (1955) and am curious to hear about his Sir Robert!
My first encounter with him was very funny because I saw Children of the Damned for the Alfred Burke content, which starred Ian Hendry and Alan Badel. I don't know how long it took me until I finally realised that I'd mistakenly assumed Ian Hendry was Alan Badel and Alan Badel was Ian Hendry, but it was probably not until I made a picspam here and my flist pointed out my error and I still nearly didn't believe them. But basically, Alan Badel carried almost the entire film by sheer force of charisma, and then he was also v eccentric and OTT in Otley in a more minor role, so I'd kind of assumed he was just Like That. (My flist told me Ian Hendry was awesome, but unfortunately CotD is a definite off-day for him, indeed, a whole wet weekend in November, and that was how I came to muddle them up so hard.)
Anyway, his Sir Robert is very downplayed - he's very much taken the cold/dry/unfeeling surface thing to heart. I'm liking what he's doing so far very much.
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My first encounter with him was very funny because I saw Children of the Damned for the Alfred Burke content, which starred Ian Hendry and Alan Badel. I don't know how long it took me until I finally realised that I'd mistakenly assumed Ian Hendry was Alan Badel and Alan Badel was Ian Hendry, but it was probably not until I made a picspam here and my flist pointed out my error and I still nearly didn't believe them. But basically, Alan Badel carried almost the entire film by sheer force of charisma, and then he was also v eccentric and OTT in Otley in a more minor role, so I'd kind of assumed he was just Like That. (My flist told me Ian Hendry was awesome, but unfortunately CotD is a definite off-day for him, indeed, a whole wet weekend in November, and that was how I came to muddle them up so hard.)
Anyway, his Sir Robert is very downplayed - he's very much taken the cold/dry/unfeeling surface thing to heart. I'm liking what he's doing so far very much.