Cec Linder


Cecil Yekuthial Linder was a Polish-born Canadian film and television actor. In the 1950s and 1960s, he worked extensively in the United Kingdom, often playing Canadian and American characters in various films and television programmes.
In television, he is best remembered for playing Dr. Matthew Roney in the BBC serial Quatermass and the Pit. In film, he is best remembered for his role as James Bond's friend, CIA agent Felix Leiter, in Goldfinger. Another well-known film in which he appeared was Lolita, as Doctor Keegee.

Career

Linder enjoyed an extensive and successful television career on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, probably his most prominent role was as the palaeontologist Roney in the original BBC version of Quatermass and the Pit.
In the United States, he was a regular in the CBS soap operas The Secret Storm and The Edge of Night and in the 1980s appeared in several of the Perry Mason revival TV films as District Attorney Jack Welles.
Linder was also a regular on the popular 1980s Canadian crime series Seeing Things, playing Crown Attorney Spenser.
During his career, he also had guest roles in episodes of a variety of other popular British, American and Canadian television programmes, including: The Forest Rangers, Doomwatch, The Littlest Hobo, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ironside, The Saint, Danger Bay, The New Avengers, The Secret Storm, and The Edge of Night as Senator Ben Travis #2.
During his early years in Canada, Linder worked as an announcer at CKGB in Timmins.
Linder appeared as Inspector Cramer in the CBC 1982 radio dramatizations of Nero Wolfe short stories.
Linder's last work was as Syd Grady in two episodes of the television series Sweating Bullets.
He died the following year at home in Toronto, Ontario, of complications from emphysema.
He accumulated over 225 credits in film and television productions in a long performing career.

Selected filmography