Olaf Pooley was a British actor best known for his role as the villainous scientist Professor Stahlman in the 1970 Doctor Who serial “Inferno.”
Pooley performed in theater as well. On London's West End stage he played Chorley Bannister in the original cast of Noel Coward’s Peace in Our Time, and he had roles in productions of Twelve Angry Men, The Tempest and Othello. He also notably directed Sir Anthony Hopkins in The Waltz of the Toreadors at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Pooley made his film debut in the 1948 mystery Penny and the Pownall Case. He also appeared in the films The Lost People, Highly Dangerous, The Iron Petticoat, The Password is Courage and This Woman's Angle.
He moved to the U.S. in the 1980s and had roles on the television series MacGyver; Hill Street Blues; L.A. Law; Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and Star Trek: Voyager. In the latter, he played the Cleric in the episode “Blink of an Eye,” about the Voyager being trapped in orbit above a strange planet. It was directed by his then-wife, Gabrielle Beaumont.
Olaf Pooley was a British actor best known for his role as the villainous scientist Professor Stahlman in the 1970 Doctor Who serial “Inferno.”
Pooley performed in theater as well. On London's West End stage he played Chorley Bannister in the original cast of Noel Coward’s Peace in Our Time, and he had roles in productions of Twelve Angry Men, The Tempest and Othello. He also notably directed Sir Anthony Hopkins in The Waltz of the Toreadors at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
Pooley made his film debut in the 1948 mystery Penny and the Pownall Case. He also appeared in the films The Lost People, Highly Dangerous, The Iron Petticoat, The Password is Courage and This Woman's Angle.
He moved to the U.S. in the 1980s and had roles on the television series MacGyver; Hill Street Blues; L.A. Law; Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and Star Trek: Voyager. In the latter, he played the Cleric in the episode “Blink of an Eye,” about the Voyager being trapped in orbit above a strange planet. It was directed by his then-wife, Gabrielle Beaumont.
Pooley died July 14, 2015, in Santa Monica, California. He was 101.
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