Wallace Bosco was born 31st January 31, 1880 in London. In addition to his acting career which spanned 6 decades from the silent film era through to the mid 1960’s he was also a writer.

The first film that he appeared in was in the 1913 version of Ivanhoe where he played the role of Sir Cedric, Ivanhoe’s father.  During the silent era he literally appeared in dozens of films – just a few of them are The Two Roads 1913, Saved from the Sea 1920, The House of Peril 1922, Rob Roy 1922, The School for Scandal 1923 (he appeared again in The School for Scandal in the 1930’s talkie version), The Fair Maid of Perth 1923, Whispering Gables 1927, Balaclava 1928,  The Man Who Changed His name 1928 – his final one being in The Dizzy Limit released in 1930.


Other films that he went on to appear in include; , The Wickham Mystery 1932, Dark Journey 1937, as Ted Holmes in 1941’s Ghost Train, as the ARP Worker in Canterbury Tales 1944, Brief Encounter 1945, The Small Back Room 1949, The Constant Husband 1955, A Night to Remember 1958, Village of the Damned 1960, The Day the Earth Caught Fire 1961, Carry on Regardless 1961 – he played the part of the Old Man in the Ruby Room, Murder at the Gallop 1963,  and Repulsion in 1965.

In 1938 he had a minor role in Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes – he played the uncredited part of a Guest (see rear of picture) staying at Gasthof Petrus – the same hotel that Charters and Caldicott got stranded at in Bandrika.

He died in 1973 in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey, England

The actor Torin thatcher was born 15th January 1905 in India to British parents. During World War II he served with the Royal Artillery and achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was an extremely imposing, powerfully built man and his physique offered him a number of tough and commanding roles over the years primarily in larger-than-life action sequences.

He appeared in a number of classic British films in the late 1930s and 1940s including Sabotage (1936), The Spy in Black (1939),  Contraband (1940), Let George Do it (1940), Major Barbara (1941), The Captive Heart (1946), I See A Dark Stranger (1946), When the Bough Breaks (1947), and The Fallen idol (1948).

Two of the films that he appeared in during this period were alongside Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne – in 1940 he had an uncredited role in Night Train to Munich and in 1942 he played the part of a German General (pictured) in Next of Kin.

In Hollywood from the 1950's onwards, his looming figure and baleful countenance were constantly called upon including roles in The Crimson Pirate (1952), as reformed pirate Sir Henry Morgan in The Robe (1953), Helen of Troy (1956) as the Duke of Wellington in  Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), and Hawaii (1966).

Also a steady fixture on TV, he appeared in productions such as The Great Adventure (1963), Star Trek (1967), Mission: Impossible (1968-1969), The Land of the Giants (1970) and made-for-TV films such as the Jack Palance version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Brenda Starr.

Torin Thatcher died of cancer on March 4, 1981 in Los Angeles.