Character: Robert Woolton (Wolf)
Actor: Bernard Kay
Episode: The White Feather

Veteran actor Bernard Kay was delighted to appear in Foyle's War - which is set in the period he grew up in.

"So much has happened this last century and World War Two adds its own resonance to the series. I started acting after the war, in 1950. I don't do so much now so I was delighted to be offered a role in The White Feather."

Bernard plays Robert Woolton, a man who goes to the hotel run by Margaret Ellis (Maggie Steed) with a mission - but things do not go according to plan.

"The role requires everything to be bitten back emotionally, yet you have to understand what he is going through. He has great intensity of family feeling but he's extremely well disciplined mentally.

"I enjoyed the challenge of playing him and I thought the script was very intriguing. Jeremy Silberston is one of those directors who likes actors. We are egocentric, but he takes what we give and shapes it to the story very gently."Bernard's first big break came with his second job, when the actor playing MacBeth broke his ankle at the dress rehearsal. "I learned the role in 24 hours and got on the stage. I was young and impetuous."

Since then, his many roles have included Minder, Bomber Harris, A Very British Coup, Rockcliffe's Babies and Jonathan Creek on TV, as well as film roles in Dr Zhivago, A Ghost at Monte Carlo and The Hunting Party.

"I've been very lucky in my career - I have played Galileo and Thomas Moore. And I've just done a Casualty, playing a dirty old man, which is a bit of a change. I've been acting two years longer than the run of The Mousetrap and there have been some wonderful highs. It is all so different and more complicated now so I'm full of admiration for the youngsters going into the business."

September 2002; Publicity Release