in The Baron, Adam Adamant Lives! and in 1959, in the Case of the Deadly Toy Perry Mason. He also appeared in the Doctor Who story The Myth Makers as King Priam. He played the part of the Baron de Charlus in the BBC radio plays Six Proust Reconstructions by Pamela Hansford Johnson. His voice and acting style were notably distinctive. The Times referred to his "Osric-like elaborations of manner", and his voice "like no other heard on the English stage of his day, vestigially Irish and harshly attractive." The Times also described his 1934 performance in England Expects (Embassy Theatre) as "a gilded habitué of the backstairs" as outstanding. Death Adrian died at age 69 from a heart attack, at his and Lister's home, Smarkham Orchard, Shamley Green, near Guildford, Surrey, after returning from the television studios where he had been recording Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle for the BBC. At his memorial service, at which the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography said the great names of British theatre paid tribute to Max Adrian's style and professionalism, the lessons were read by Alec Guinness and Laurence Olivier and the eulogy was given by Joyce Grenfell. Personal life His elder brother was the botanist Dr. Norman Loftus Bor, who predeceased him by four weeks. Another brother, Lieutenant Thomas Humphrey Bor, RNR, was killed when his E-class submarine struck a mine in the North Sea in 1916. His younger brother, Fetherston Briscoe Bor, remained a farmer in Ireland until his death in 1965. Filmography References Bibliography Gaye, Freda: Who's Who in the Theatre, fourteenth edition, 1967, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, London Morley, Sheridan: The Great Stage Stars, Angus & Robertson, London, 1986. External links , read by Max Adrian Performances in the Theatre Archive University of Bristol 1903 births 1973 deaths Irish LGBT actors People educated at Portora Royal School People from Kilkenny (city) Royal Shakespeare Company members Irish LGBT singers Gay singers 20th-century British male actors Irish male stage actors Irish male television actors Irish male film actors Irish people of Dutch descent Royal National Theatre 20th-century LGBT people