Brian Bedford, Versatile Actor Of The Old School, Is Dead At 80
Brian Bedford, a British-born actor of formal elegance, contagious modesty and impish spontaneity, died Wednesday in Santa Barbara after a long battle with cancer. He was 80. In a career spanning more than half a century and traversed stages from Broadway to Stratford, Ontario to Los Angeles, Bedford was revered as an actors’ actor, comfortable in Shakespearean tragedy, French farce and modern comedy from Oscar…