Andrew Keir

He was considered for the roles of Dr. Hans Fallada, Dr. Armstong, Dr. Bukovsky and Sir Percy Heseltine in Lifeforce (1985).

One of his best-known and most popular performances was that of the title role in Quatermass and the Pit (1967).

, Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) and Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971).

Although he played John Cairney's father in The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964), he was less than four years his senior in real life.

His bluff, no-nonsense demeanor was perfect for authoritarian and military roles, especially Roman soldiers, as in Cleopatra (1963), The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), and The Viking Queen (1967). He hooked up with Hammer Productions early on (his debut film) and continued the association in a number of horror films, e. g.

Although he played Kerwin Mathews's father in The Pirates of Blood River (1962), Mathews was three months his senior in real life.

Shortly thereafter, Keir established himself professionally in British theater, television, and film, debuting in The Lady Craved Excitement (1950).

The character actor Andrew Keir (originally Andrew Buggy) was born in 1926 in the coal-mining town of Shotts in Lanarkshire, Scotland, of Irish Catholic extraction, and raised there with his five brothers John, Tom, Michael, Patrick, and Hugh, and a sister, Maggie. The son of a coal miner, Keir worked in the coal mines from age 14 to 20, at which point he joined the Glasgow Citizen's Theatre to train as an actor.