Guy Doleman as Count Lippe in ‘Thunderball’.

Guy Doleman (November 22, 1923 – January 30, 1996) was an actor born in Hamilton, New Zealand. He is perhaps best known from his role as Count Lippe, a henchman in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball, and as “Colonel Ross” in the three film adaptations of Len Deighton’s “Harry Palmer” novels, starring Michael Caine, in the 1960s. He also played Number Two in the 1967 TV series ‘The Prisoner’. Doleman’s was the first of a pair of Number Twos who appeared in the first episode, “Arrival”; the second being played by George Baker.