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Donald Houston would sometimes indulge his Welsh accent as well as hide it behind an English public school veneer. He had a solid career as a character actor in English film and television, with good parts in several well known films, including '' 633 Squadron '' ( 1964 ), '' The Longest Day '' ( 1962 ), and '' The Sea Wolves '' ( 1981 ). His forte tended to be authority figures, often military, such as the brilliant but tough David Caulder, the head of '' Moonbase 3 '' in a British miniseries. He could also handle comedy well, as he proved with '' Doctor In The House '' ( 1954 ) and the later '' Doctor In Distress '' ( 1963 ), both significant successes in Europe. Though preferring to take good parts, he was certainly not above journeyman in films such as '' Tales That Witness Madness '' ( 1973 ) and '' Maniac '' ( 1963 ) — indeed, much of his earlier work consists of potboilers. He was the brother of television actor Glyn Houston . In 1991, Donald Houston died quietly in Portugal at age 67, well-liked by the British but not too well-known in America . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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