Welsh actor with a flair for playing different nationalities " not least his own, as Lloyd George and DCI Noel BainThe actor Philip Madoc, who has died aged 77 after a short illness, became one of Wales's best-known faces through playing villains and officers on television for half a century. His rich, sonorous voice was heard to marvellous effect when he took the role of King Lear in a 2007 BBC radio broadcast: it w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24PM on March 5, 2012