Donald Pleasence was good at being bad. I first remember him being the evil Doctor in "Fantastic Voyage" who was trying to sabotage the mission. Until he got killed by a white corpuscle, that is.
Of course, most of us remember the surgeon's assistant, Raquel Welch, looking quite fetching in her wet suit!
Pleasence was a fine actor. WWII RAF as well.
He served as aircraft wireless-operator with No. 166 Squadron in Bomber Command, with which he flew almost sixty raids against the Axis over occupied Europe. On 31 August 1944 Lancaster NE112, in which he was a crew member, was shot down during an attack upon Agenville,[8][9] and he was captured and imprisoned in the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft I, where he produced and acted in plays. He was discharged from the R.A.F. in 1946.
RE Corpuscle:
Holy crap I remember that scene. Scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.
RE Raquel:
She was - and still is - amazing. Sophia Loren too. Aged very well, both of them.
Jack Palance was always a pretty good villain too.
Another good actor.
I miss that generation of Americans.
Donald Pleasence was Satan in “The Greatest Story Ever Told”.