performed. He was the uncle of the academic Adam Swift and the television personality Joe Swift and their sister Rebecca. He was married to the actress Paula Jacobs, was the father of actress Julia Swift and father-in-law of actor David Bamber. He died from complications of Alzheimer's disease on 8 April 2016, just 5 days after his 85th birthday. He is buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery with his wife Paula. Selected filmography Film Travels with My Aunt (1972) - Detective The Day of the Jackal (1973) - Montclair No Sex Please, We're British (1973) - Inspector Paul Who Killed Lamb? (1974, TV film) - Inspector Havelock The Internecine Project (1974) - Chester Drake The Assignment (1977) - Zaforteza The Black Panther (1977) - Detective Chief Superintendent We Think the World of You (1988) - Bill Jack the Ripper (1988) - Lord Salisbury Jack & Sarah (1995) - Michael Television Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) - Player King The Avengers (1966) - Barber Budgie (1971) - Sergeant Oxley Another Sunday and Sweet F.A. (1972) - Eric Armitstead War and Peace (1972) - Napoleon Bonaparte Fall of Eagles (1974) - Trepov Father Brown (1974) - Stephen Aylmer The New Avengers (1976) - Turner Richard II (1978) - Duke of Northumberland Les Misérables (1978) - Troufiat Going Straight (1978) - Mr. McEwan Bloomers (1979) - Dingley Turtle's Progress (1980) (Series 2 only) - Superintendent Rafferty The Bunker (1981) - Johann Rattenhuber The Day of the Triffids (1981) - Beadley Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981) - Professor Lindemann Freud (1984) - Joseph Breuer Bergerac (1987) - Dr. Barnard The Storyteller (1987) - King Vanity Fair (1987) - Mr. Sedley Agatha Christie's Poirot (1988) - Henry Reedburn Countdown to War (1989) - Édouard Daladier Drop the Dead Donkey (1990–1998) - Henry Davenport Holby City (2002) - Bill Hoskins Born and Bred (2004) - Euphrates References External links 1931 births 2016 deaths Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Burials at Highgate Cemetery English male film actors English male television actors Jewish English male actors Male actors from Liverpool People educated at Clifton College David