Victor Brooks (actor)

Victor Brooks (11 November 1918 – 19 January 2000) was a prolific English film and television actor. He specialised in character roles, police officers in particular. His best known roles in film were Goldfinger (1964), The Brides of Dracula (1960) and Billy Budd (1962). On television, he was noted for playing a pipe-smoking authority figure in crime series like Dixon of Dock Green, Gideon's Way, Detective, Z Cars and Crown Court. He also appeared in the television series Raffles, in the recurring role of the Albany porter.