Born in Canada, he began his acting work after moving to the United Kingdom, where he gained a reputation for portraying tough American characters in 1950s British movies such as The Good Die Young, Reach for the Sky, Jack the Ripper and The 3 Worlds of Gulliver, and later performed on the London stage as Captain Randolph Southard in a 1985 production of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial directed by…