Barry Foster
Pencil Portrait by Antonio Bosano.
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Recommended viewing
King and Country (1964)
The Gentle Spies (ITV Drama) 1965
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Towards the end of his career – cut so tragically short by a fatal heart attack – Barry Foster lamented that he had never had a significant film career. “My trouble is that I’m not big or pretty enough to be an old-fashioned screen idol, nor am I small enough or bizarre enough to be one of the new lot.”
A new production of “Van Der Valk” starring Marc Warren is in the works and the current re-screening of the highly successful ITV drama series on Talking Pictures is a timely reminder of the bar set by Foster’s original interpretaion of the Dutch Commissaris. Fame had come comparatively late to the Nottingham born actor – he was forty five when the series first screened – yet his fifty year career was littered with highly commendable stage work, solid supporting roles in some high profile British films, in addition to a superb performance as the rapist/murderer in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Frenzy.”
From the 1990s, Foster mainly performed on stage. He took on the role of Inspector Goole in J. B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls in a production directed by Stephen Daldry. In 2000 he starred as Prospero in The Tempest at Stafford Castle directed by Julia Stafford Northcote. From 2001–2002, he performed in a run of Yasmina Reza’s stage play ‘Art’ in London’s West End. Sadly, he would die on 11 February 2002 of a heart attack in his 75th year whilst at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, in Guildford in the county of Surrey, where he lived. A keen amateur jazz pianist, he can be seen exercising his musical “chops” in the “Van Der Valk” episode “Diane” (1977).