![]() ![]() ![]() The blend of a thriller about smuggling and an inter-racial romance was in direct line with the documentary movement of the 1930s and the more realistic feature films of the war years. He settled in Britain and worked in repertory before his auspicious debut, produced and directed by the pioneering team of Michael Relph and Basil Dearden, at Ealing Studios, in London. His big screen roles ranged from James Bond’s secret service minder Pinder in Thunderball (1965) to the dictatorial president in Sydney Pollack’s thriller The Interpreter (2005).Ĭameron was born in Pembroke, Bermuda, the youngest of six children of Arthur and Edith, and began acting in his late teens, subsequently joining the merchant navy and becoming a member of the forces’ entertainment organisation Ensa – as a song-and-dance man – during the second world war. Cameron went on “against the odds”, he once remarked, to act in some 40 features, plus many TV series, including Danger Man and The Prisoner, dramas including Waking the Dead and TV movies, notably Edward Albee’s The Death of Bessie Smith (1965) and The Great Kandinsky (1995). ![]()
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