Star Wars fans know him when Admiral Ozzel from The Empire Strikes Back, whereas those of Grange Hill will remember his performance as a terrific deputy schoolmaster Mr Maurice Bronson. Inside 1983, he played Herr Grunwald, the German manager of a vacant lot in the 1st series of Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. He portrayed Adolf Hitler five times, including in The Tomorrow People (1978) and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). around a early Nineties he was likewise the original actor to play solicitor Marcus Christie in EastEnders. Within 1980 he had the major supporting role within Stephen Poliakoff's esteemed BBC television play Caught on a Train.

He manufactured appearances around captain hicks stories in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, with a First, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Seventh Doctors. Supplementary recently he appeared by having Eighth Doctor Paul McGann, in The Stones of Venice — a Doctor Who audio drama produced by Big Finish Productions.

He wrote many memoirs including Yes, Mr Bronson: Memoirs of the Cheesy Actor (ISBN 1840240075) published within 1997, Yes, Admiral (ISBN 1840241039) published in 1999, ''Yes, School's Out! (ISBN 9076953422) published 2001 and Yes, It's Photographic! published inside 2004.

He died 31 August 2005, aged 67, at his home on the Isle of Wight. He got been suffering from either cancer. Two or three weeks antecedently (9 August 2005) he appeared via telephone on the Iain Lee show on LBC & talked about his numerous appearances within film and television.

Selected Filmography
Coronation Street (1960) (TV series) (1989) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (uncredited) Grange Hill (1978) (TV series) (1985–1989) The Invisible Man (1984) (TV) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (uncredited) The Bunker (1981) (TV) Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Take the High Road (1980) (TV series) Les Misérables (1978) (TV) Force 10 from Navarone (1978) Lillie (1978) (miniseries) Fall of Eagles (1974) (miniseries) Crossroads (1964) (TV series)

Notes
Date of birth from either necrology printed in The Independent''.