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Torin Thatcher (15 January 1905 - 4 March 1981) was an English actor born in Bombay, British India, India), to English parents. He was an imposing, powerfully built figure noted for his flashy portrayals of screen villains.

He was educated in England at Bedford School and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He worked as a schoolmaster before first appearing on the London stage in 1927 and then entering British films in 1934. He appeared in the 1937 Old Vic stage production of Hamlet, in which Laurence Olivier made his first appearance in the title role, opposite Vivien Leigh as Ophelia. During the Second World War, he served with the Royal Artillery and was demobilized with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Thatcher appeared in classic British films of the late 1930s and 1940s, including Major Barbara (1941) and Great Expectations (1946), in which he played Bentley Drummle. He moved to Hollywood in the 1950s. He was constantly in demand, invariably lending his looming figure and baleful countenance to sinister or stern roles in popular costume thrillers such as The Crimson Pirate (1952), Blackbeard the Pirate (1952), The Robe (1953) (as the disapproving father of Richard Burton's character), The Black Shield of Falworth (1954), Helen of Troy (1956), Darby's Rangers (1958), and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958). He also appeared in the Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard 1962 remake of Mutiny on the Bounty.

He returned to the stage quite frequently, notably on Broadway, in such esteemed productions as Edward, My Son (1948), That Lady (1949) and Billy Budd (1951). In 1959, he portrayed Captain Keller in the award-winning play The Miracle Worker with Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke. All of these plays were filmed, but Thatcher did not appear in the movie versions.

Also a steady fixture on television, he appeared in such made-for-TV films as adaptations of A. J. Cronin's Beyond This Place (1957) and The Citadel (1960),Bonanza(1961), and Brenda Starr (1976). He also played the title role in a Philco Television Playhouse version of Othello and acted in a CBS production of Beyond This Place (1957).

Thatcher died of cancer on March 4, 1981, in Thousand Oaks, California, in the Los Angeles area.

托林·撒切尔（Torin Thatcher，1905 年 1 月 15 日 - 1981 年 3 月 4 日）是一名英国演员，出生于英属印度孟买，父母为英国人。 他是一个威风凛凛、体格健壮的人物，以其对银幕反派的华丽刻画而闻名。 他在英国贝德福德学校和皇家戏剧艺术学院接受教育。 在 1927 年首次登上伦敦舞台并于 1934 年进入英国电影界之前，他曾担任过校长。他出现在 1937 年老维克舞台剧《哈姆雷特》中，劳伦斯·奥利弗 (Laurence Olivier) 首次出演主角，与费雯·丽 (Vivien Leigh) 演对手戏 作为奥菲莉亚。 第二次世界大战期间，他在皇家炮兵部队服役，并以中校军衔复员。 撒切尔夫人出现在 1930 年代末和 1940 年代的经典英国电影中，包括芭芭拉少校 (1941) 和远大前程 (1946)，他在其中扮演宾利·德拉姆尔。 他在 1950 年代移居好莱坞。 他总是很受欢迎，总是把他若隐若现的身材和阴险的面容借给流行的古装惊悚片中阴险或严厉的角色，如深红海盗 (1952)、海盗黑胡子 (1952)、长袍 (1953)（作为不赞成的父亲） 理查德伯顿的角色）、法尔沃思的黑盾 (1954)、特洛伊的海伦 (1956)、达比的游骑兵 (1958) 和辛巴达的第七次航行 (1958)。 他还出现在马龙白兰度和特雷弗霍华德 1962 年翻拍的《叛变赏金》中。 他经常重返舞台，特别是在百老汇，出演了《爱德华，我的儿子》(1948)、《那位女士》(1949) 和《比利·巴德》(1951) 等备受推崇的作品。 1959 年，他与安妮·班克罗夫特和帕蒂·杜克在获奖剧《奇迹创造者》中饰演凯勒船长。 所有这些戏剧都被拍成电影，但撒切尔夫人并没有出现在电影版本中。 他也是电视上的常客，出现在改编自 A. J. Cronin 的 Beyond This Place (1957) 和 The Citadel (1960)、Bonanza (1961) 和 Brenda Starr (1976) 等电视电影中。 他还在 Philco Television Playhouse 版的《奥赛罗》中扮演主角，并在 CBS 制作的《超越此地》(1957) 中扮演角色。 撒切尔夫人于 1981 年 3 月 4 日在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶地区的千橡市因癌症去世。

Torin Herbert Erskine Thatcher (Bombai, Índia, 15 de gener de 1905 - Thousand Oaks, Califòrnia, 4 de març de 1981) va ser un actor britànic conegut per les seves cridaneres interpretacions de malvats a la pantalla.