Nigel Stock was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Stock's earliest roles were in film, including the Robert Donat drama "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" (1939), the Googie Withers drama "It Always Rains on Sunday" (1949) and the dramatic adaptation "Brighton Rock" (1951) with Richard Attenborough. He also appeared in "Malta Story" (1953) with Alec Guinness, "The Night My Number Came Up" (1955) with Michael Redgrave and the Richard Todd dramatic adaptation "The Dam Busters" (1955). He kept working in film throughout the sixties, starring in "Never Let Go" (1960), "Victim" (1961) and the dramatic adaptation "The Password Is Courage" (1962) with Dirk Bogarde. He also appeared in "H.M.S. Defiant" (1962). Film continued to be his passion as he played roles in the dramatic adaptation "The Lion in Winter" (1968) with Peter O'Toole, the dramatic biopic "Cromwell" (1970) with Richard Harris and "Operation Daybreak" (1975). He also appeared in the thriller "Russian Roulette" (1975) with George Segal and "The Mirror Crack'd" (1980) with Angela Lansbury. Stock more recently acted in the Nicholas Rowe action flick "Young Sherlock Holmes" (1985).