Tom Bell (actor)

Tom Bell
Born
Thomas George Bell

(1933-08-02)2 August 1933
Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Died4 October 2006(2006-10-04) (aged 73)
Brighton, Sussex, England
OccupationActor
Years active1959– 2006
Notable credit(s)Albert Stokes in A Night Out
Toby in The L-Shaped Room
Adolf Eichmann in Holocaust
Bill Otley in Prime Suspect
Jack McVitie in The Krays
Spouse
Lois Daine
(m. 1960; div. 1976)
PartnerFrances Tempest (1976–his death 2006)
Children2

Thomas George Bell (2 August 1933 – 4 October 2006) was an English actor on stage, film and television. He often played "menacing or seedy roles, perhaps most memorably playing sexist Detective Sergeant Bill Otley, antagonist to Helen Mirren's DCI Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect.[1]

  1. ^ "Tom Bell". BFI. Archived from the original on 21 July 2012.