Biography
Michael Aldridge was an English actor. Born on 9 September 1920 in Glastonbury, Somerset, he died on 10 January 1994 in London. He began his stage career in 1939 and worked as a character actor in theatre and on screen from the 1940s onwards, with roles in Shakespeare productions and at festivals including Chichester.
He played Percy Alleline in the BBC series Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) and Seymour Utterthwaite in Last of the Summer Wine (1986–1990). Other screen credits include Pistol in Chimes at Midnight (1965), a role in Yes, Prime Minister (1986) and appearances in Tales of the Unexpected (1979) and Inspector Morse (1989). After a stage musical flop in the mid-1970s he focused more on television and film.
