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Character actor, Joss Ackland, was born Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland on Feb 29, 1928 in North Kensington, England. As of December 2025, Joss Ackland was 97 years old.

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Fair-haired, heavily-built British stage actor hardly seen in films until the 1970s, when he played a string of characters who often had various shades of wickedness beneath a florid complexion and a beaming smile. But the stage gave him his biggest hit - as Peron in the London production of Evita. In the late 1980s and early 1900s, he mixed scene-stealing character roles with some really nasty villains. His hearty tones are frequently used for narrations, voice-overs, and commercials.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Character Actors: an Illustrated Directory).

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Frequently cast as Russian dignitaries or bureaucrats.

Grandfather-in-law of Shaun Dooley.

On the "BBC Desert Island Discs" radio program broadcast in August 2001, Ackland picked the music he would want with him if he was stranded on a desert island. His picks were, in apparently ascending order: - 1. Ralph Vaughan Williams' "The Lark Ascending", Nigel Kennedy with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle - 2. "Bailero" from "Songs of the Auvergne", Victoria de los Angeles with Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux conducted by Jean-Pierre Jacquillat - 3. "Moon River" sung by Audrey Hepburn - 4. 'Stephen Sondheim''s "Children Will Listen" from "Into the Woods", performed by Bernadette Peters - 5. Nina Simone's cover of "Mr. Bojangles" - 6. Sondheim's "Losing My Mind", sung by Barbara Cook - 7. Jean Sibelius' "Violin Concerto", Ivry Gitlis with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra conducted by
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