Mr. Bronson, scariest fictional schoolteacher ever, played by Aberdonian actor Michael Sheard, has died, aged 65. Best remembered for Mr. Bronson in Grange Hill, Admiral “You have failed me for the last time …” Ozzel in The Empire Strikes Back and also for playing Adolf Hitler five times (in Rogue Male, The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Tomorrow People and Hitler of the Andes) and Heinrich Himmler twice (in The Bunker and Space). Oh, and he played Goering’s double in Allo ‘Allo!

Everso slightly typecast, but we loved him all the same. So long, Mr. Bronson, the bell’s ringing.