Olaf Pooley

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{{short description|English painter}}

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{{Infobox person
| name = Olaf Pooley
| birth_name = Ole Krohn Pooley
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1914|3|13}}
| birth_place = [[Parkstone]], [[Dorset]], England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2015|7|14|1914|3|13}}
| death_place = [[Santa Monica, California]], U.S.
| yearsactive = 1948–2005
| occupation = Actor, screenwriter, painter
| spouse = {{ubl|{{marriage|Irlin Hall|1946||end=divorced}}|{{marriage|[[Gabrielle Beaumont]]|1982||end=separated}}}}
| children = 2
}}

'''Oloe Krohn "Olaf" Pooley''' (13 March 1914 – 14 July 2015) was an English actor, screenwriter and painter. As an actor, he appeared as Professor Stahlman in the seven-part ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[Inferno (Doctor Who)|Inferno]]'' (1970).

==Early life==
Pooley was born to an English father and Danish mother in [[Parkstone]], [[Dorset]]. He studied painting at [[Chelsea College of Arts]] and at the [[Académie Colarossi]] in Paris under the tutelage of [[Marcel Gromaire]], before training at the [[Architectural Association School of Architecture]] to enable a more financially secure career option. His paternal uncle Sir [[Ernest Pooley]], the future Chairman of the [[Arts Council of Great Britain]], secured him a job as a set designer at [[Pinewood Studios]]. During World War II, Pooley registered as a [[conscientious objector]] and volunteered as a [[Firefighter|fireman]]; he was subsequently discharged on medical grounds and began his acting career on stage.<ref name="Farquhar">{{cite news|title=Olaf Pooley: Versatile character actor, especially adept at portraying restrained menace, who also wrote, directed and painted|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/olaf-pooley-versatile-character-actor-especially-adept-at-portraying-restrained-menace-who-also-10488668.html|first=Simon|last=Farquhar|date=6 September 2015|access-date=9 July 2020|newspaper=The Independent|location=London}}</ref>

==Career==
He wrote and appeared in the film ''[[Crucible of Horror|The Corpse]]'' (released in the United States as ''Crucible of Horror''), starring [[Michael Gough]], and wrote, directed and appeared in ''The Johnstown Monster''. He also wrote the screenplay for a film version of [[Bernard Taylor (author)|Bernard Taylor]]'s novel ''The Godsend'' (1980). Beaumont directed the film. Pooley's other writing credits include the television film ''Falcon's Gold'' (1982) and being an uncredited writer on the sci-fi horror film ''[[Lifeforce (film)|Lifeforce]]'' (1985).

Pooley's TV guest appearances from the 1950s onwards include ''[[Dixon of Dock Green]]'', ''[[Paul Temple (TV series)|Paul Temple]]'', ''[[Jason King (TV series)|Jason King]]'', ''[[MacGyver (1985 TV series)|MacGyver]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''.<ref name="Star Trek"/> He played Professor Stahlman and his parallel Earth counterpart Director Stahlmann in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[Inferno (Doctor Who)|Inferno]]'' (1970). He also played Lars Torvik in the first episode of ''[[The Sandbaggers]]'' ("First Principles", 1978). His other appearances include the [[BBC Radio]] play ''Ambrose in Paris'' (1958) and Sebastian in a BBC Television ''[[Sunday Night Theatre]]'' production of [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Tempest (play)|The Tempest]]'' (1956). Pooley had a major career in West End theatre appearing in such notable productions as [[Noël Coward]]'s ''[[Peace in Our Time (play)|Peace in Our Time]]'' and revivals of ''[[The Tempest]]'' and ''[[Othello]]''. He was also a member of the [[BBC Radio]] repertory company.<ref name="Farquhar"/>

==Personal life==
In 1946, Pooley married actress Irlin Hall and together they had a daughter, the actress Kirstie Pooley (born 1954) and a son, comedian Seyton Pooley and later divorced. In 1982, he married director [[Gabrielle Beaumont]], although they later separated.<ref>Scott, Vernon (21 July 1986). "Woman director faces screen barrier". ''UPI Arts & Entertainment''. Retrieved 28 June 2015</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/54/Gabrielle-Beaumont.html|title=Gabrielle Beaumont|publisher=filmreference.com|access-date=28 June 2015}}</ref> Pooley moved to the United States in 1986 and lived in [[Southern California]], with an art studio in [[Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica]] where he devoted his time to painting.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}} He turned 100 on 13 March 2014.

===Death===
He died from [[Congestive heart disease|congestive heart failure]] on 14 July 2015, aged 101, at his home in [[Santa Monica, California]].<ref name="Star Trek">{{cite web|url=http://www.startrek.com/article/remembering-olaf-pooley-1914-2015|title=Remembering Olaf Pooley, 1914–2015|publisher=startrek.com|date=16 July 2015|access-date=16 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://tobyhadoke.com/doctor-who/olaf-pooley-rip/|title=Olaf PooleRIP|publisher=tobyhadoke.com|date=15 July 2015|access-date=16 July 2015}}</ref> Pooley was survived by his two children, Seyton and Kirstie, and four grandchildren.<ref name="Star Trek"/>

== Filmography ==
:n.b. for credit listings reference<ref name="TV">{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/people/olaf-pooley/|title=Olaf Pooley : Credit Listings |publisher=TV.com|access-date=17 July 2015}}</ref>

===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
! ref
|-
| 1948
| ''[[Penny and the Pownall Case]]''
| Von Leicher
|
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1949
| ''[[The Huggetts Abroad]]''
| Straker
| The final film of [[The Huggetts (film series)|The Huggetts]]
|
|-
| ''[[The Lost People]]''
| Milosh
| Set after the Second World War
|<ref name="Film">{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/268074|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113221212/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/268074|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 January 2009|title=The Lost People|work=BFI|access-date=17 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1950
| ''[[She Shall Have Murder]]''
| Mr. White
| British drama film
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/50414|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113212643/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/50414|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 January 2009|title=She Shall Have Murder|access-date=17 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Highly Dangerous]]''
| Detective-Interrogator
| British [[spy film]]
|
|-
| 1951
| ''[[Hell Is Sold Out]]''
| Cheri
| British drama film
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/36078|title=Hell is Sold Out|access-date=17 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022120124/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/36078|archive-date=22 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" | 1952
| ''[[The Woman's Angle]]''
| Fudolf Mansell
| British drama film
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/58479|title=The Woman's Angle|access-date=17 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022203534/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/58479|archive-date=22 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[Gift Horse (film)|Gift Horse]]''
| German Interrogation Officer
| Uncredited
|
|-
| ''[[Top Secret (1952 film)|Top Secret]]''
| Professor Roblettski
| [[British comedy]] film
|<ref>{{cite news|author=O. A. G. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B0DE6DD143DE23BBC4B53DFBF668388649EDE |title=Movie Review – Mr Potts Goes to Moscow – 'Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow,' an Import|work=The New York Times |date=3 September 1953|access-date=17 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" |1956
| ''[[The Gamma People]]''
| Bikstein
|
|<ref>F Maurice Speed, ''Film Review 1956–57'', Macdonald & Co 1956</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Iron Petticoat]]''
|
|
|
|-
| ''[[Anastasia (1956 film)|Anastasia]]''
| Zhadanov
| Uncredited
|
|-
| 1957
| ''[[Windom's Way]]''
| Colonel Lupat
| {{Plain list |
* Uncredited
* British [[Thriller (genre)|thriller]] film
}}
|<ref>{{cite news|title=BRITISH SCREEN SCENE.: Televised Feature Results in Lawsuit --New Projects—Bright Inventory Work in Progress "Comeback" Rebuttal|author=STEPHEN WATTS|work=New York Times|date=23 June 1957|page=93}}</ref>
|-
| 1959
| ''[[Left Right and Centre]]''
| TV newscaster
|
|
|-
| 1960
| ''[[Sink the Bismarck!]]''
| Officer of the Watch on Sheffield
| Uncredited
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1962
| ''[[The Password Is Courage]]''
| German doctor
| Based on John Castle's 1954 Second World War memoir of the same name
|
|-
| ''The Battleaxe''
|
|
|
|-
| 1966
| ''[[Naked Evil]]''
| Father Goodman
| British [[horror film]]
|<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/43738|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116054543/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/43738|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 January 2009|title=BFI – Film & Television Database – Naked Evil (1966)|access-date=17 July 2015}}</ref><ref name="x cert"/>
|-
| 1969
| ''[[The Assassination Bureau]] Limited''
| Swiss Cashier
| {{Plain list |
* Released in North America as '''''The Assassination Bureau'''''
* A [[black comedy]] film
}}
|
|-
| 1971
| ''[[Crucible of Horror|The Corpse]]''
| Reid
| {{Plain list |
* Originally known as '''''The Velvet House''''' in the United Kingdom
* Released as '''''Crucible of Horror''''' in the United States
|<ref name="x cert">John Hamilton, ''The British Independent Horror Film 1951–70'' Hemlock Books 2013 p 203-207. Retrieved 17 July 2015.</ref>
|-
| 1979
| ''[[Charlie Muffin]]''
| Soviet First Secretary
|
|
|-
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
! ref
|-
|1952
|''Dial M for Murder''
|Captain Lesgate
|Original production BBC Television, 23 March 1952 20.30
|
|-
| 1958
| ''[[The Adventures of Ben Gunn (TV series)|The Adventures of Ben Gunn]]''
| Billy Bones
| 4 episodes
|-
| 1958
| ''[[Colonel March of Scotland Yard]]''
| Carlmeddy
| Episode: "The Abominable Snowman" (S 1:Ep 3)
|
|-
| 1958
| ''[[The Invisible Man (1958 TV series)|The Invisible Man]]''
| Casino Manager
| Episode: "Odds Against Death" (S 1:Ep 12)
|
|-
| 1960
| ''[[The Four Just Men (TV series)|The Four Just Men]]''
| Lorenzo
| Episode: "The Rietti Group" (S 1:Ep 21)
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1963
| ''[[Ghost Squad (TV series)|Ghost Squad]]''
| Kobelik
| Episode: "The Menacing Mazurka" (S 2:Ep 10)
|
|-
| ''[[Hancock (1963 TV series)|Hancock]]''
| Ron Roberts
| Episode: "The Reporter" (S 1:Ep 11)
|
|-
| 1965
| ''[[Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series)|Sherlock Holmes]]''
| Lascar
| Episode: "The Man with the Twisted Lip" (S 1:Ep 7)
|
|-
| 1966
| ''[[The Master: An Adventure Story|The Master]]''
| The Master
| Southern Television six-part adaptation of [[T. H. White]] novel
|
|-
| 1967
| ''[[The Troubleshooters]]''
| Aircraft Captain
| Episode: "Think Big (S 2:Ep 6)
|
|-
| rowspan="3" | 1968
| ''Detective''
| Mr. Nash
| Episode: "Crime of Passion" (S 2:Ep 14)
|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0558784/fullcredits/|title=Detective (TV series) Crime of Passion (1968) Full Cast & Crew|publisher=[[Internet Movie Database|IMDb]]|access-date=19 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
| ''[[The Expert (TV series)|The Expert]]''
| Adams
| Episode: "He's Good for It" (S 1:Ep 10)
|
|-
| ''[[Dixon of Dock Green]]''
| Captain Bailey
| Episode: "Berserk" (S 15:Ep 16)
|
|-
| 1969
| ''[[Paul Temple (TV series)|Paul Temple]]''
| John Blight
| Episode: "Who Dies Next" (S 1:Ep 1)
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1970
| ''[[Codename (TV series)|Codename]]''
| Istov
| Episode: "The Quickness of the Hand" (S 1:Ep 8)
|
|-
| ''[[Doctor Who]]''
| Professor Stahlman
| Serial: ''[[Inferno (Doctor Who)|Inferno]]'' (7 episodes)
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1971
| ''[[Doomwatch]]''
| Ensor
| Episode: "By the Pricking of My Thumbs..." (S 2:Ep 5)
|
|-
| ''[[Jason King (TV series)|Jason King]]''
| Gorini
| Episode: "A Page Before Dying" (S 1:Ep 2)
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1973
| ''[[Pathfinders (TV series)|Pathfinders]]''
| Leidig
| Episode: "Operation Pickpocket" (S 1: Ep 11)
|
|-
| ''[[The Protectors]]''
| Commissioner Braun
| Episode: "WAM, Part Two" (S 2:Ep 9)
|
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1974
| ''[[Special Branch (TV series)|Special Branch]]''
| Eastry Senior
| Episode: "Jailbait" (S 1:Ep 1)
|
|-
| ''[[The Zoo Gang]]''
| Inspector
| Episode: "The Twisted Cross" (S 1:Ep 6)
|
|-
| 1978
| ''[[The Sandbaggers]]''
| Lars Torvik
| Episode: "First Principles" (S 1:Ep 1)
|
|-
| 1984
| ''[[Scarecrow and Mrs. King]]''
| Claude
| Episode: "The Artful Dodger" (S 1:Ep17)
|
|-
| 1985
| ''[[MacGyver (1985 TV series)|MacGyver]]''
| Dr. Sidney Marlow
| Episode: "Pilot" (S 1:Ep 1)
|
|-
| 1986
| ''[[Hill Street Blues]]''
| Jaeger
| Episode: "Suitcase" (S 7:Ep 1)
|
|-
| 1992
| ''[[L.A. Law]]''
| Dr. Stanley Schulan
| Episode: "Great Balls Afire" (S 6:Ep 15)
|
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman]]''
| Judge
| Episode: "Eye for an Eye" (S 4:Ep 20)
|
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''
| Cleric
| Episode: "[[Blink of an Eye (Star Trek: Voyager)|Blink of an Eye]]" (S 6:Ep 12)
|<ref name="Star Trek"/>
|-
|}

==See also==
* [[List of centenarians (actors, filmmakers and entertainers)]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0690905}}
* {{TV Guide person|261275}}
* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=57336 Olaf Pooley] on [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=57336 the New York Times website]
* [http://www.tv.com/olaf-pooley/person/4102/appearances.html Olaf Pooley] at [http://www.tv.com/olaf-pooley/person/4102/appearances.html TV.com]
* [https://theatricalia.com/person/rsk/olaf-pooley Olaf Pooley] at Theatricalia

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