Background
Foster was born in Brighouse, West Riding of Yorkshire.
Foster was born in Brighouse, West Riding of Yorkshire.
In her autobiography Joan"s Book Littlewood later recalled that Foster had a wealthy father who financed some of the troupe"s productions. On television he appeared in such series as Danger Manitoba, The Saint, The Avengers - notably in "The Hour That Never Was" (1965), "Something Nasty in The Nursery" (1967) and "Wish You Were Here" (1969 – playing a perfect mannered yet sinister hotel manager in a parody of the television series The Prisoner), Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) - in "All Work and Number Pay" as villain "George Foster", The Persuaders ! In Z-Cars in the early 1960s he played a police detective, Inspector. (later Superintendent) Dunn.
He was also in the British Broadcasting Corporation serial of Francis Durbridge, "Bat Out of Hell", playing a formidable Police Inspector.
Foster also had earlier made educational films for use in schools playing gas engineers, et cetera He occasionally appeared in films.
He was notable for his sharp facial features, his long pointed nose and curiously piercing eyes. His early death was the result of suicide by hanging.
In 1965 he appeared in the films The Little Ones as Superintendent Carter alongside Derek Newark and in A Study in Terror as Home Secretary Henry Matthews.
In 1974 he played Jonathan in Mistress Pamela. He also participated in a 30-minute documentary titled Two in a Tiger. This film follows his training as he learns to fly a De Havilland Tiger Moth.
In 1970 he provided the voice-over for an edition of the British Broadcasting Corporation documentary series Chronicle: "The Great Iron Ship", about the salvage and return from the Falkland Islands of the Isambard Kingdom Brunel ship Steamship Great Britain.
Dudley Foster died in London. Moon Zero Two That"s Your Funeral.
In the 1960s he was a member of Joan Littlewood"s ground-breaking Theatre Workshop.