Hugh Armstrong (actor)

Hugh Armstrong
Born3 June 1944[1]
East Retford, Nottinghamshire[2]
Died26 January 2016(2016-01-26) (aged 71)
London, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationActor

Hugh Armstrong (3 June 1944 – 26 January 2016) was a British stage, television and film actor.[3] He is best known for his portrayal of the monster in the 1972 cult British horror movie, Death Line, and as Harry Wax in How to Get Ahead in Advertising, acting alongside Richard E. Grant.[4] His obituary, written in the magazine of his old school by Clive Akass, stated that 'life was Hugh's theatre. He was a travelling entertainment and until the illness that marred his later years, and sometimes even then, he brought laughter wherever he went'.[4]

  1. ^ England and Wales, Death Index, 2007-2017
  2. ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007
  3. ^ Obituary in Eagle News, The Magazine of the Old Bedford Modernians' Club, Issue 113, Summer 2016
  4. ^ a b Obituary in Eagle News, The Magazine of the Old Bedford Modernians' Club, Issue 113, Summer 2016, p.24