CLINTON GREYN

(29 September 1933 - 19 March 2019)

The Welsh actor Clinton Greyn, who has died aged 85, was mainly a stage actor who also worked in films and television. His career began in repertory until his West End debut in 1960 in Durrenmatt’s The Visit, with Lunt and Fontanne. Following further provincial theatre work, he arrived in films in an uncredited role in Otto Preminger’s Exodus (1960). Television included Z Cars, Compact and The Newcomers, until a role in Vittorio De Sica’s Woman Times Seven, with Shirley MacLaine. Further films included Peter Yates’s Robbery, Herbert Ross’s Goodbye, Mr Chips, Henry Hathaway’s Raid on Rommel, The Love Machine, Swedish Fly Girls and Jack Cardiff’s Penny Gold, Greyn’s last film in 1973. The rest of his career was on stage or television. With an interest in architecture, Greyn designed and built his own London flat. He was married twice and has a son from his first marriage.

MICHAEL DARVELL