Andrew Keir
Andrew Keir (3 April 1926 – 5 October 1997) was a Scottish actor, who rose to prominence featuring in a number of films from Hammer Film Productions in the 1960s. He was also active in television, and particularly in the theatre, in a professional career that lasted from the 1940s to the 1990s. He is most remembered for starring as Professor Bernard Quatermass in Hammer's film version of Quatermass and the Pit (1967). He also originated the role of Thomas Cromwell in Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons in 1960. His obituary in The Times newspaper described him as possessing "considerable range and undeniable distinction." Keir was born Andrew Buggy in Shotts, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was the son of a coalminer, and had five brothers and one sister. When he was fourteen years old he left school and began working down the coal mine alongside his father. He began acting by chance, when he went to meet a friend at the Miners' Welfare Hall, and one member of the cast of an amateur dramatics production being performed at the Hall had failed to turn up.
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The Catholics
Controversial for its time, THE CATHOLICS stars Trevor Howard in a powerhouse performance as an Abbot who heads the remote Irish monastery of Mork in Eire. Along with his monks, the Abbot has decided to defy an edict from Rome forbidding all Catholics to celebrate the Mass in Latin. Refusing to...Watch Movie

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