Trivia

He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1950 King's Birthday Honours List and appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1965 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to drama.

He played the Archbishop of Canterbury in both Henry V (1944) and Becket (1964).

Appeared in seven Best Picture Oscar nominees: The Citadel (1938), Henry V (1944), Hamlet (1948), Quo Vadis (1951), Ivanhoe (1952), Separate Tables (1958) and Becket (1964).

He played Lord Palmerston in three different films: Victoria the Great (1937), Queen of Destiny (1938) and The Lady with a Lamp (1951).

He made five films with Laurence Olivier: The Temporary Widow (1930), As You Like It (1936), Adventure for Two (1943), Henry V (1944) and Hamlet (1948). Olivier also directed the latter two films.

He appeared in ten films with John Laurie: Her Last Affaire (1935), Nine Days a Queen (1936), As You Like It (1936), The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Adventure for Two (1943), Henry V (1944), Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), Hamlet (1948) and Trio (1950).

Is one of Kenneth Williams' impressions of "people you've never heard of".

His part was cut from the 1970 film Cromwell along with those of William Lucas, Bryan Pringle, George A Cooper, Tony Caunter and Peter Bennett due to the film being too long.

Father of David Aylmer and Jennifer Aylmer.

His last major screen role was as the Abbot in the sitcom Oh, Brother!, opposite Derek Nimmo (1968-70).

At the age of 80 Felix Aylmer played a villain in an episode of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) entitled "It's Supposed to be Thicker than Water".

His memorable style of delivery-dignified and learned- was frequently mimicked by comedians such as Peter Sellers and Kenneth Williams. Indeed, as dramatist and barrister John Mortimer noted, the mannerisms Aylmer brought to bear in his roles came to be imitated in real life by judges on the bench. Williams observed that although his impersonation of Aylmer was a speciality during his days with ENSA, the Armed Forces Entertainment Association, he came to the conclusion that none of the troops knew who was being impersonated.

Aylmer was President of Equity from 1950 to 1969.

He was also the narrator in the original version (and recobbled cut) of Richard Williams' unfinished animated project, The Thief and the Cobbler (1993).

He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1950 King's Birthday Honours and knighted in the 1965 Queen's Birthday Honours.