As per our current Database, Alan Wheatley has been died on 30 August, 1991 at London, England, UK.
When Alan Wheatley die, Alan Wheatley was 84 years old.
| Popular As | Alan Wheatley |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Age | 84 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Aries |
| Born | April 19, 1907 (Tolworth, Surrey, England, UK) |
| Birthday | April 19 |
| Town/City | Tolworth, Surrey, England, UK |
| Nationality | UK |
Alan Wheatley’s zodiac sign is Aries. According to astrologers, the presence of Aries always marks the beginning of something energetic and turbulent. They are continuously looking for dynamic, speed and competition, always being the first in everything - from work to social gatherings. Thanks to its ruling planet Mars and the fact it belongs to the element of Fire (just like Leo and Sagittarius), Aries is one of the most active zodiac signs. It is in their nature to take action, sometimes before they think about it well.
Alan Wheatley was born in the Year of the Goat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Goat enjoy being alone in their thoughts. They’re creative, thinkers, wanderers, unorganized, high-strung and insecure, and can be anxiety-ridden. They need lots of love, support and reassurance. Appearance is important too. Compatible with Pig or Rabbit.
Sharp-featured, incisive Surrey-born actor whose chief trademark was a memorably mellifluous voice. This, he used to maximum effect as a tool for impersonating a gallery of suave, urbane - usually rather likeable - villains, rogues and assorted shady types.
He generally tended to imbue these characters with a distinct air of smugly superior disdain. Alan had reinvented himself as an actor after abandoning his first profession as industrial psychologist. He made his theatrical debut in 1928 in "Heartbreak House" by George Bernard Shaw and appeared on the London stage two years later.
For the remainder of the decade he made a living as a supporting player (with a penchant for period costume) in works by Shakespeare, John Galsworthy, J.M. Barrie, and Oscar Wilde. While preferring the intimacy offered by provincial theatre he also shone on the grander stage of the Old Vic, and, in 1936, appeared in "St.
Helena" on Broadway. That same year, he made his feature film debut in The Conquest of the Air (1936).During World War II, Alan's voice was heard regularly as announcer and newsreader for the BBC European Service.
This led to a constant stream of work as a radio actor and reader of English literature and poetry. In the course of the next three decades he impersonated the good (detective Lord Peter Wimsey) and the bad (Othello, Judas, Richard III) with equal verve.
His television career -- beginning in 1938 -- went along a similar path. Alan was the very first 'BBC Sherlock Holmes' in 1951, taking his cue for the role from the drawings of Sidney Paget and the descriptions by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The six instalments (all live transmissions) were well-received but did Alan no favour: the resulting publicity led his agent to ask for higher salaries and this, in turn, led to fewer job offers.On the big screen, Alan was best served by being the ill-fated Fred Hale in Brighton Rock (1948); the duplicitous traveller on the Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948); and the corrupt financier Mark Cruden in Delayed Action (1954).
On television, he will remain the definitive incarnation of the Sheriff of Nottingham in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955). Alan's sheriff is devious and cunning, a sophisticated arch villain of great clarity, an equal to the hero - if it were not, of course, for the ineptitude of his minions.
After the end of his tenure as Richard Greene's nemesis, Alan popped up as assorted police inspectors, professional types, legal eagles and men of the cloth, in anything, from Danger Man (1960) to Department S (1969).
He retired from the screen in 1970, and died in August 1991 in London at the age of 84.
