Peter Bull

Peter Cecil Bull, DSC (21 March 1912 – 20 May 1984) was a British actor who appeared in supporting roles in such films as The African Queen, Tom Jones, and Dr. Strangelove.

He served as an officer in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, later commanding Landing Craft (Flak) 16 in the Mediterranean.

[2] Returning to acting after the war, he narrated and had a small role in Scrooge (1951) and portrayed the captain of the ship that Katharine Hepburn's and Humphrey Bogart's characters set out to destroy, whom they persuade to marry them just before they are to be executed, in The African Queen (1951).

Bull was the first actor to portray Pozzo in the English-language version of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot when it opened on 3 August 1955.

[3] He was also the author of a non-fiction book about his experiences during the Second World War as commander of a Tank Landing Craft (LCT), To Sea in a Sieve (1956), the best-selling I Say, Look Here!

Landing Craft Flak with 20 mm Oerlikon and four QF 2-pounder "pom-pom" anti-aircraft guns