Allan Darling Cuthbertson was an Australian actor. He was best known for playing stern-faced military officers in British films of the 1950s and 1960s.
The Guns of Navarone is a 1961 epic adventure war film directed by J. Lee Thompson, written and produced by Carl Foreman, and starring Gregory Peck, David Niven and Anthony Quinn, along with Stanley B
Allan Cuthbertson
…He was Captain Eric Simpson in Tunes of Glory (1960) as well as being cast as more stuffy regimental types in such films as Carrington V.C. (1954) and The Guns of Navarone (1961), (both of which starred David Niven) and as the callous and officious Colonel Cavendish in The 7th Dawn (1964) with William Holden. In 1961 he…
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Cliffs of 'Navarone', showing how the openings to gun positions were portrayed in the film by marble quarries on the island of Palmaria, off the west coast of Italy