Creator / Alfie Bass

"Oy vey, have you got the wrong vampire!"

Alfie Bass, born Abraham Basalinsky, (10 April 1916 — 16 July 1987), was a British actor best known for playing Private "Bootsie" Bisley in The Army Game.

He began acting on stage in The '30s. Later on, he moved to film, first appearing in wartime documentaries, but later moving onto feature films such as The Lavender Hill Mob, Hell Drivers, A Tale of Two Cities, and Alfie. He also starred in The Army Game's first three series as Private "Bootsie" Bisley. He and Bill Fraser's characters later got two Spin-Off series, Bootsie and Snudge and Foreign Affairs.

He had starring roles as innkeeper Yoine Shagal in 1967 in The Fearless Vampire Killers and as Maurice Kelly in 1977 in Come Play with Me. In the late '70s, he joined the cast of Are You Being Served? in the seventh series as senior salesman Mr. Goldberg to fill the void left in the show once filled by James Hayter's Mr. Tebbs. Bass did not return for the eighth series, rumoured to have been due to ego problems on the set. He also played Bert Reed in several episodes of Till Death Us Do Part.

He died of a heart attack at the age of 71.

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Works on TV Tropes he appeared in:

Film

• Brief Encounter (1945) — Waiter at the Royal (Uncredited Role)
• The Hasty Heart (1949) — Orderly
• Pool of London (1951) — Alf
• The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) — Shorty Fisher
• Murder by Proxy (1954) — Ernie
• The Bespoke Overcoat (1955) — Fender
• Hell Drivers (1957) — Tinker
• A Tale of Two Cities (1958) — Jerry Cruncher
• Help! (1965) — Doorman
• Doctor in Clover (1966) — Fleming
• Alfie (1966) — Harry Clamacraft
• Fahrenheit 451 (1966) — Book Person (Uncredited Role)
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) — Gatekeeper
• The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) — Yoine Shagal
• The Fixer (1968) — Potseikin (Uncredited Role)
• Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) — Fernet

Series

• The Adventures of Robin Hood, 5 episodes:
  • 3 episodes^{show list}"The Coming of Robin Hood", "The Moneylender", "The Ordeal" (1955) — Edgar
  • 2 episodes^{show list}"The Goldmaker", "The Goldmaker's Return" (1956-57) — Lepidus
• The Army Game, 110 episodes (1957-60) — Private Montague "Bootsie" Bisley
• Z Cars, episode "Bring Back the Cat" (1964) — George Hasty
• Arthur of the Britons, episode "The Swordsman" (1973) — Trader
• The Goodies, 2 episodes:
  • "Camelot" (1973) — Town Planner
  • "The Goodies and the Beanstalk" (1973) — Giant
• Till Death Us Do Part, 12 episodes (1975) — Bert Reed
• Return of the Saint, episode "Tower Bridge Is Falling Down" (1978) — Sammy
• Danger: UXB, episode "Just Like a Woman" (1979) — Reg Preston
• Are You Being Served?, 8 episodes^{show list}"The Junior", "Strong Stuff This Insurance", "The Apartment", "Mrs. Slocombe, Senior Person", "The Hero", "Anything You Can Do", "The Agent", "The Punch and Judy Affair" (1979) — Mr. Harry Goldberg
• Minder, episode "The Son Also Rises" (1982) — Morrie Levin

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