Grandfather of Sky Macaskill.
Shakespearean repertory player with trademark deep voice who appeared on the classical stage ("Macbeth," "King Lear," "Romeo and Juliet," "Much Ado About Nothing," "A Midsummer Night's Dream") and occasionally supported on film as various dignitaries. He also played Brackenbury, the jailkeeper, in Laurence Olivier's film of "Richard III" (1955).