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Cecil Yekuthial Linder (March 10, 1921 – April 10, 1992) was a Polish-born Canadian film and television actor. He was Jewish and managed to escape Poland before the
Holocaust
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. In the 1950s and 1960s, he worked extensively in the United Kingdom, often playing Canadian and American characters in various films and television programmes.
In television, he is best remembered for playing Dr. Matthew Roney in the
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serial ''
Quatermass and the Pit'' (1958–59). In film, he is best remembered for his role as
James Bond
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's friend,
CIA
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agent
Felix Leiter
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, in ''
Goldfinger'' (1964). Another well-known film in which he appeared was ''
Lolita
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'' (1962), as Doctor Keegee.
Career
He was raised in
Timmins, Ontario
Timmins ( ) is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the Mattagami River. The city is the fourth-largest city in the Northeastern Ontario region with a population of 41,145 (2021). The city's economy is based on natural resource ex ...
where his father was a
rabbi
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to the
Jewish
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community. During his early years of his professional career, Linder worked as an announcer at
CKGB in Timmins.
Linder enjoyed an extensive and successful television career on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, probably his most prominent role was as the palaeontologist Roney in the original BBC version of ''
Quatermass and the Pit'' (1958–59).
In the United States, he was a regular in the CBS soap operas ''
The Secret Storm
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'' and ''
The Edge of Night
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It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran as a live broadcast on that networ ...
'' and in the 1980s appeared in several of the ''
Perry Mason
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'' revival TV films as District Attorney Jack Welles.
Linder was also a regular on the popular 1980s Canadian crime series ''
Seeing Things'', playing Crown Attorney Spenser.
During his career, he also had guest roles in episodes of a variety of other popular British, American and Canadian television programmes, including: ''
The Forest Rangers'', ''
Doomwatch
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'', ''
The Littlest Hobo
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'', ''
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
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'', ''
Ironside'', ''
The Saint
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'', ''
Danger Bay
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'', ''
The New Avengers'', ''
The Secret Storm
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'' (as Peter Ames), and ''
The Edge of Night
''The Edge of Night'' is an American television mystery crime drama series and soap opera, created by Irving Vendig and produced by Procter & Gamble Productions.
It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran as a live broadcast on that networ ...
'' as Senator Ben Travis #2.
Linder appeared as Inspector Cramer in the
CBC 1982 radio dramatizations of
Nero Wolfe
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short stories.
Linder's last work was as Syd Grady in two episodes of the television series ''
Sweating Bullets'' (1991).
He died the following year at
Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto of complications from
emphysema
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.
He accumulated over 225 credits in film and television productions in a long performing career.
Selected filmography
*''
Flaming Frontier'' (1958) as Capt. Dan Carver
*''
Subway in the Sky
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'' (1959) as Carson
*''
Jet Storm
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'' (1959) as Colonel Coe
*''
SOS Pacific'' (1959) as Willy
*''
Too Young to Love
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'' (1959) as Mr. Bill
*''
Crack in the Mirror
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'' (1960) as Murzeau
*''
Lolita
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'' (1962) as Dr. Keegee
*''
Goldfinger'' (1964) as
Felix Leiter
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* ''
The Verdict
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'' (
Edgar Wallace Mysteries
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)(1964) as Joe Armstrong
*''Tecnica di un omicidio'' (1966) as Gastel
*''
Quentin Durgens, M.P.
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'' (1967)
*''Explosion'' (1969) as Mr. Evans
*''
Innocent Bystanders'' (1972) as Mankowitz
*''
The Sloane Affair
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'' (1973) as Roy Maxwell
*''
Super Bitch'' (1973) as American Ambassador
*''
A Touch of Class'' (1973) as Wendell Thompson
*''To Kill the King'' (1974) as Stephen Van Birchard
*''Old God Knows'' (1974) as Mr. Klein
*''
Why Rock the Boat?
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'' (1974) as Carmichael
*''Sunday in the Country'' (1974) as Ackerman
*''
Second Wind'' (1976) as Graham
*''Point of No Return'' (1976) as Professor Johns
*''
The Clown Murders
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'' (1976) as The Developer
*''
Age of Innocence'' (1977) as Dr. Hogarth
*''Deadly Harvest'' (1977) as Henry the Chairman
*''
Three Dangerous Ladies
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'' (1977) as Dr. Carstairs (segment: "The Mannikin")
*''The Case of Barbara Pasons'' (1978) as Loren Bowley
*''Drága kisfiam'' (1978) as Mr. George
*''
Tomorrow Never Comes
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Plot
Coming back from an extended business trip, Frank (Stephen McHattie) discovers that his girlfriend Ja ...
'' (1978) as Milton
*''
High-Ballin'
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Plot
Jerry Reed plays the "Iron Duke", an independent trucker who stands up to the local t ...
'' (1978) as Policeman
*''
I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses
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'' (1978) as Chief Parker
*''
Something's Rotten'' (1979) as Alexis Alexander
*''
City on Fire'' (1979) as Councilman Paley
*''
Lost and Found
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'' (1979) as Mr. Sanders
*''
An American Christmas Carol
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Plot
In Depression-era Concord, New Hampshire, a miserly ...
'' (1979) as Auctioneer
*''
Virus
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Since Dmitri Ivanovsky's 1 ...
'' (1980) as Dr. Latour
*''
Atlantic City
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'' (1980) as President of Hospital
*''
Deadly Eyes'' (1982) as Dr. Louis Spenser
*''
Heavenly Bodies'' (1985) as Walter Matheson
*''
Honeymoon
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'' (1985) as Barnes
References
External links
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Cec Lindera
FelixLeiter.com
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1921 births
1992 deaths
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male voice actors
Canadian male soap opera actors
Polish emigrants to Canada
Deaths from emphysema
Male actors from Toronto
People from Timmins
20th-century Canadian male actors