Bafta-winning actor Lee Montague has died at the age of 97.
Best known for appearing in shows including Bergerac, in which he played Henri Dupont in several episodes, he also featured in Espionage, Bird of Prey, Jekyll and Hyde, Casualty and Waking the Dead.
With a career spanning six decades, his first role came in 1952’s Moulin Rogue.
A student of the Old Vic School, Montague also had a string of film credits, including The Secret of Blood Island, Brother Sun and The Legacy.
Meanwhile, on stage he played John Rawlings in the 1971 production of Who Saw Him Die by Tudor Gates staged at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket, Gregory Hawke in The Climate of Eden on Broadway in 1952 and as Ed in Entertaining Mr. Sloane in 1965.
Born in Bow in 1927, throughout his career the actor played figures including Karl Marx, Lenin and Charles Darwin.
In 1965 he also became the first storyteller on the BBC children’s programme Jackanory – going on to narrate 15 episodes.
Montague was married fellow actor Ruth Goring for 67 years until her death in 2023, with the pair sharing two children.
In an interview with Ham&High in 2014, he was asked what it would say on his epitaph. His response was: ‘God knows, he tried.’
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