Richard Vernon as Sir Desmond Glazebrook, who appears in various episodes of Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister

Richard Vernon (March 7, 1925 – December 4, 1997) was a British actor. He appeared in many feature films and television programmes, often in aristocratic roles (for example as Lord Bartelsham in the Ripping Yarns episode Roger of the Raj and, in a serious mode, as Squire Dale in the BBC radio 4 adaptation of The Small House at Allington). Image File history File links Sir Desmond Glazebrook from the British sitcom Yes, Minister. ... Image File history File links Sir Desmond Glazebrook from the British sitcom Yes, Minister. ... is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... December 4th redirects here. ... Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... Aristocracy is a form of government in which rulership is in the hands of an upper class known as aristocrats. ... Ripping Yarns (BBC video cover) Ripping Yarns was a British television comedy series, written by former Pythons Michael Palin and Terry Jones. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ... The Small House at Allington is the fifth of Anthony Trollopes Barsetshire series of novels, and was first published in 1864. ...

An early leading role was as wartime agent-turned-criminologist Edwin Oldenshaw in the TV series The Man in Room 17 (1965-66) and its sequel The Fellows (1967). The Man in Room 17 was a British television series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s, produced by the Northern ITV franchise, Granada TV. Key to the series success was the involvement of writer/producer Robin Chapman. ... The Man in Room 17 was a British television series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s, produced by the Northern ITV franchise, Granada TV. Key to the series success was the involvement of writer/producer Robin Chapman. ...

He is also remembered for his parts as an unnamed man on a train reluctantly sharing a seat with the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night, the planetary designer Slartibartfast (designer of fjords) in the BBC radio and TV series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as Sir James Greenley ("C") in The Sandbaggers, as Lord Salisbury in Edward the Seventh, as Major Toby Smith-Barton in The Duchess of Duke Street, as the Duke of Broughton in Nanny, as the occasional character Sir Desmond Glazebrook in the TV series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister and his role as Mr Becket in Sammy's Super T-Shirt. The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 as part of their first tour of the United States, promoting their first hit single there, I Want To Hold Your Hand. ... A Hard Days Night (1964) is a British comedy film originally released by United Artists, written by Alun Owen and starring The Beatles during the height of Beatlemania. ... There are many minor characters in the 5-part fictional trilogy The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... Roy Marsden as Neil Burnside in The Sandbaggers The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. ... Edward the Seventh was a TV drama series, made by Granada in 13 one-hour episodes. ... The Duchess Of Duke Street is a British television drama series transmitted by the BBC. The programme lasted for two series, shown between 1976 and 1977. ... Yes Minister is a satirical British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted by BBC television and radio between 1980 and 1984. ... Yes, (prime) minister: Sir Humphrey Appleby, James Jim Hacker, Bernard Woolley Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister are British sitcoms about the struggle between (Dr) James Jim Hacker (played by Paul Eddington), the government minister of the (fictional) Department of Administrative Affairs (and later as Prime Minister) and... Sammys Super T-Shirt is a 1978 film about a boy who gains super powers through the wearing of his favourite T-shirt. ...

External links

• Richard Vernon at the Internet Movie Database