Cadaverous British character actor playing Northern English types; best
remembered as the senile Uncle Staveley in the UK sitcom I Didn't Know
You Cared. His only lines in this seemed to consist of "I heard that,
Pardon?"
Bert started acting in TV/Film in 1962 at the age of 61 or 62, and then continued appearing in TV and/or Film each year until the year before his death at the age of 79.
On July 7, 1965, one of his sons was killed in an R.A.F. parachutists' air crash disaster at Abingdon, England.