Guy Doleman (22 November 1923 – 30 January 1996) was a New Zealand-born actor, active in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States from 1948 to 1992. He portrayed criminal operative Count Lippe in the 1965 James Bond film, Thunderball, alongside Sean Connery, Molly Peters and Luciana Paluzzi.
1965 also saw Doleman play Colonel Ross, the manipulating boss of secret agent Harry Palmer (Michael Caine) in the film The Ipcress File, whose production team included many involved with the 007 films, such as Harry Saltzman, Peter R. Hunt and John Barry. He would also play the part in Funeral in Berlin (1966) and Billion Dollar Brain (1967).
In Thunderball, Doleman's Lippe is employed by SPECTRE's Number 2. Doleman himself would portray a character referred to as "Number 2" in the first episode of the fantasy spy drama The Prisoner (1967).
External Links[]
- Guy Doleman at the Internet Movie Database.
- Guy Doleman on Wikipedia