| farah ashraf |
An English actor born in London on May 21, 1918. He was married three times and had no children. His most important works are The Master of Ballantine (1953), Ivory Hunter (1951), West of Zanzibar (1954) and Storm Over the Nile (1955). He is a British actor and singer, best known for appearing in British war films in the 1950s. He was married to the Swedish star Anita Ekberg. He was the son of an officer in the British Indian Army, who later became an actor. He spent most of his early childhood in India, where his father worked as an officer in the army. He received his education at Alexander House Preparatory School, and continued his studies at home. Until he joined Trinita College in Ireland, then in Cambridge. A year after World War II broke out, he joined the Grenadier Guard, trained as a paratrooper, and ended the war with the rank of major. After presenting 28 films in British cinema. After finding that Hollywood was unsatisfactory and even hostile, he returned to Europe, in the early sixties. Where the war films that made him famous, had gone out of fashion, and his career declined. He died of a heart failure in 2001 at the age of 80.
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