Patrick Wymark - Welles lookalike

[Harvey Chartrand]

Last night, I saw BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW, a fairly decent horror picture made in England in 1970. It starred the wonderful Patrick Wymark, who bore a startling resemblance to Orson Welles. Wymark is best remembered for his roles as the landlord murdered by Catherine Deneuve in Roman Polanski's REPULSION and as Oliver Cromwell in Michael Reeves' MATTHEW HOPKINS: WITCHFINDER GENERAL/THE CONQUEROR WORM.
Wymark and Welles both played Winston Churchill: Wymark in THE FINEST HOURS and A KING'S STORY (both of which were narrated by Welles); and Welles in the rarely seen Yugoslavian WW2 epic SUTJESKA.
Sadly, Wymark died shortly after completing BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW. He was only 44.

[Cole]

I don’t know, Harvey. I just rewatched REPULSION about a week ago, and the landlord did remind me of someone, but it wasn’t Welles. To me he looked an awful lot like Anthony Hopkins.

[Welles Fan]

Interesting that Wymark played Oliver Cromwell. He also appeared in the movie Cromwell (in which Richard Harris played Cromwell) as Lord Strafford.

Actually, I mainly remember him in the fun Richard Burton/Clint Eastwood WW2 action flick Where Eagles Dare.