In his obituary of Tony Britton, Michael Coveney noted the intriguing disconnect between the actor’s humble Midlands origins and his subsequent “debonair” image.
However, there was a major film role, possibly the only one, where Britton was able to go undiluted working-class Brummie: as the tireless Inspector Thomas on the trail of the assassin in Fred Zinnemann’s The Day of the Jackal.
