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Anthony Maitland Steel (21 May 1920 – 21 March 2001) was an English actor and singer. Anthony Steel was born in Chelsea the son of an Indian army officer and educated at Alexander House Prep School, Broadstairs, Kent. After serving as an officer in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, he decided to become an actor and got some parts on stage. He was dating a niece of J. Arthur Rank who introduced Steel to her uncle at a party. Rank subsequently signed the actor to a long-term contract with his company. Steel was trained at Rank's "charm school" and given a slow build up with... MORE

Anthony Maitland Steel (21 May 1920 – 21 March 2001) was an English actor and singer. Anthony Steel was born in Chelsea the son of an Indian army officer and educated at Alexander House Prep School, Broadstairs, Kent. After serving as an officer in the Grenadier Guards during the Second World War, he decided to become an actor and got some parts on stage. He was dating a niece of J. Arthur Rank who introduced Steel to her uncle at a party. Rank subsequently signed the actor to a long-term contract with his company. Steel was trained at Rank's "charm school" and given a slow build up with small parts in several films, starting with Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948). Steel became a star playing a prisoner of war in The Wooden Horse (1950), which was a large hit. He followed this with the even more successful Where No Vultures Fly (1951), which was the most popular British film of its year, was selected as the Royal Command Performance Film, and led to a sequel, West of Zanzibar (1954). Although Steel occasionally appeared in comedies and dramas he was best known for war films, such as The Planter's Wife (1952), The Malta Story (1953) and Storm Over the Nile (1956). He rarely carried a LESS