Guy Domville Siner (born October 16, 1947) is an English-American actor best known for his role as Lieutenant Hubert Gruber in ''

'Allo 'Allo! ''Allo 'Allo!'' is a British sitcom television series, created by David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd, starring Gorden Kaye, Carmen Silvera, Guy Siner and Richard Gibson. Originally broadcast on BBC1, the series focuses on the life of a Frenc ...

'' and Dr. Mittenhand in '' Leprechaun 4: In Space''.

Early life

Guy Domville Siner was born in

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on October 16, 1947, the son of an English mother from

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and an American father from

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. He is a cousin of English actors Simon and Selina Cadell. His mother wanted him to be educated in England, so the family settled there when he was five years old. After attending St Edmund's School in Hindhead, he moved to

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to receive training as an actor at the

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Career

Siner's TV credits include '' Z Cars'', '' Softly, Softly: Taskforce'', ''

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'' ('' Genesis of the Daleks''), '' I, Claudius'', '' Secret Army'', '' You Rang, M'Lord?'', ''

'', '' The Brittas Empire'', ''

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'', '' Knots Landing: Back to the Cul-de-Sac'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Diagnosis: Murder'', ''

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'', '' Star Trek: Enterprise'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. Siner is one of ten actors to appear in both the ''

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'' and ''

'' franchises. One of his early television roles was a 1979 episode of ''Secret Army,'' of which ''Allo 'Allo!'' was a

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. The episode was entitled ''"A Safe Place",'' with Siner appearing as a German Intelligence Officer. In 1980, Siner portrayed director

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in '' The Biograph Girl'', a short-lived West End musical about the

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era. He was originally set to voice the villain Man Ray in the ''

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episode "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III", but was replaced by

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. In 2006, Siner appeared in two films by writer-director David Roden, ''Beginner's Please'' and ''The Resurrectionist''. From June to July 2007, he reprised his role of Lieutenant Gruber in the stage play of ''Allo 'Allo!'', for

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, alongside

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and

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, playing their original roles of René Artois and

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. The other characters were portrayed by various Australian actors, including

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and

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Personal life

After ''Allo 'Allo!'' ended in 1992, Siner moved to

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. He later returned to England and settled in

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, where he was reportedly engaged to a local actress in 2004.

Other ventures

Siner voiced several

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: *'' Star Wars: TIE Fighter'' (1994) *'' Star Wars: Force Commander'' (2000) *'' Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds'' (2001) *'' Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast'' (2002) He worked as a script editor on two expanded universe Doctor Who stories in 2008.

Filmography

References

External links

*
Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Siner, Guy 1947 births Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art English male film actors American people of English descent English male stage actors English male television actors English male voice actors Living people Male actors from Manhattan People educated at St Edmund's School, Hindhead People from Chesham American emigrants to England 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors