Felix Aylmer(1889-1979)
- Actor
British character actor Felix Aylmer was educated at Oxford and later
studied drama, making his stage debut at the London Coliseum in 1911.
During World War I he served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and
resumed his stage career after the war ended. He entered films in 1930
and stayed in them for the next 40 years, specializing in elderly,
doddering characters (often clerics). Arguably his most memorable film
appearance is that of the Archbishop of Canterbury in
Laurence Olivier's
The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fifth with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944).
He is also well-known for his portrayal of Father Anselm in the
television series
Oh Brother! (1968).
