Career Highlights: The Taming of the Shrew, The Hill, Come L'Amore
First Major Screen Credit: Operation Snafu (1961)
Biography
British character actor Alfred Lynch was generally cast in roles calling for a cockney dialect and a pugnacious streak. Lynch made his first film, On the Fiddle, in 1961, after which he worked in medium-priced films until the all-star epic 55 Days at Peking (1965). In The Hill (1965), a POW drama, Lynch was but one of many actors (including Sean Connery) speaking in British vernacular so thick that one virtually needed subtitles to figure out what was going on! A more coherent Alfred Lynch could be seen in the Taylor-Burton The Taming of the Shrew (1967) and Sidney Lumet's 1968 filmization of Chekhov's The Seagull (1968). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Alfred Cornelius Lynch (26 January 1931 – 16 December 2003) was a British actor on stage, film and television.
Lynch was born in Whitechapel, London, the son of a plumber. After attending a Roman Catholic school, he worked in a draughtsman's office before entering national service. Then, whilst working in a factory, he attended theatre acting evening classes, at which he met his life partner, James Culliford.