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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19950517
Author:Anthony Hayward/PETER COTES/TOM VALLANCE

When television producers were casting demons and po-faced characters in the Sixties and Seventies, Eric Porter seemed to be on all their shortlists, becoming a star as Soames Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga in 1967, after more than 20 years in acting.

The role of the brutal lawyer in John Galsworthy's story of a family of London merchants at the turn of the century catapulted Porter to world- wide fame - and infamy. "They buttonholed me in Detroit, in Malta and on a Spanish beach", Porter once said. "There was no hiding place. Even in Budapest this large lady with dyed hair came beaming over, ...

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