And now his watch has ended: Peter Vaughan, of Game of Thrones and Porridge, dead at 93

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I knew him as Maester Aemon. And now his watch is ended for reals. :frowning:

RIP buddy.

Sad. I will always associate him with the comedy Citizen Smith. I was young when I watched CS(late 1970’s) and even back then he looked an old man to me. He rarely seemed to appear on our screen for years after that.

I know I had seen him in tons of stuff. He was never out of work for 60 years. Until I saw Terry Gilliam’s Facebook post I had no idea he was the ogre with the bad back in *Time Bandits. *

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Fixed typo in title at OP’s request.

Ah, yes. I remember him as the ogre in Time Bandits. He worked for Terry Gilliam again as Mr. Helpmann in Brazil. and was also in “The Boscombe Valley Mystery,” one of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes stories.


Aww. To me he’ll always be Mr. Boffin, from Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend.

He was wonderful as Anthony Hopkins’ father in The Remains of the Day. I almost didn’t recognize him when I first started watching GOT.