British leading actor whose tough, pockmarked features belied a soft voice and cultivated manner. Sewell was born in East London, the son of a printer. After brief service in the RAF during the closing stages of World War II, he held down a wide variety of short-lived jobs, including as carpenter, photographer, drummer and assistant roadie for a rumba band, steward on Cunard liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, and, for six years, as motor coach courier for a holiday travel agency. Not until a chance conversation in 1959 with actor Dudley Sutton in a pub did Sewell seriously contemplate an acting career. A successful audition with Joan Littlewood 's Theatre Workshop, led to him being cast in several cockney comedies and he ended up playing Field Marshal Haig in "Oh, What a Lovely War" in 1963. This was possibly the first of many stern authoritarians he would later portray on screen. Motion pictures saw him in gritty social dramas like Lockender Lorbeer (1963) and tough crime films like Polizeispitzel X 2 (1963) and Get Carter (1971), often alternating villainy with law enforcement. He also had a small role in the science fiction thriller Unfall im Weltraum (1969). This was something of a precursor to the cult series UFO (1970), in which he played the cool-headed second-in-command, Colonel Alec Freeman. More typically, his television characters tended to be hard-nosed, cynical cops, like his DI Brogan in Task Force Police (1962) or DCI Alan Craven in Die Spezialisten (1969). A former Littlewood alumnus, the writer Robin Chapman , picked Sewell for another plum role as a London gangster in Spindoe (1967). He was also on hand as Smiley's reliable, 'sharp-eyed' ex-Special Branch minder Mendel in the original miniseries König, Dame, As, Spion (1979). After 2000, Sewell scaled down his television appearances and spent more time at his holiday home in the south of France. He occasionally came out of semi-retirement, most notably for a well-received production of a play by Tudor Gates , "Who Killed Agatha Christie?", in which he starred as a playwright intent on exacting revenge against a waspish critic. A very capable actor, who never quite managed to become a major star, Sewell died in April 2007 at the age of 82. - IMDb Mini Biography By: I.S.Mowis
British character player who first performed at age 35 with Joan Littlewood 's Theatre Workshop in the 1960 stage musical "Fings Ain't Wot They Used to Be", and continued with the company in other productions. Served in the Royal Air Force during World War Two. However the war finished before he had the chance to complete his pilot training. Father George Sewell was a boxer known as "The Cobblestone Kid". Considered for Dr.Bukovsky and Lamson in Lifeforce (1985).
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In 1942 Czechoslovakia, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich is appointed to become the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia. The terror and oppression that follow cause Allied authorities in London to authorize a secret mission to kill the man who has come to be known as "The Butcher of Prague". The film explores shows the operation leading up to Heydrich's death as well as the massive German reprisals that followed it.