- Anthony Bate, The Avengers (Tunnel of Fear, TV, 1961. Who played Harry Kane… ? Hayne said the TV Times when the chapter went out that August. And so everyone blindly confirmed across 50 years. Until IMDb pointed out that Hayne fell out and was subbed by Bate after the tele guide was printed. As if anyone could fail to recognise Bate, the Cary Grant of UK character actors. always supremely cultivated, groomed, booted and suited. As, for example, the definitive Oliver Lacon, opposite Alec Guinness’s George Smiley, in John Le Carré’s TV twin-set: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 1979, and Smiley’s People, 1982.
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