Bernard Arthur Gordon Horsfall (20 November 1930 – 28 January 2013) was an English actor of stage and screen.

[1] Horsfall appeared in many television and film roles, including the title role in Campion (1959–1960), Pathfinders to Mars (1960), the second sequel to Target Luna, Guns at Batasi (1964),[2] The Avengers (three episodes in 1966 and 1967), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969),[3] Beasts, as Sir Christopher Hatton in the 1971 BBC miniseries Elizabeth R, Enemy at the Door (ITV, 1978–1980),[4][5] Gandhi (1982),[6] an episode of The Jewel in the Crown (ITV, 1984),[7] the character Frankland in The Hound of the Baskervilles (ITV, 1988),[8] and the character Balliol in Braveheart (1995).

[9] His other roles included portraying British barrister Melford Stevenson in a 1980 Granada Television dramatisation of the 1955 case of Ruth Ellis.

[11] His other appearances were as a Time Lord in The War Games (1969),[12] Taron in Planet of the Daleks (1973),[13] and Chancellor Goth in The Deadly Assassin (1976).

[16] Horsfall's stage work included performances at The Old Vic, with the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the National Theatre.