Jack Hedley, actor who was cast to perfection as the senior British officer in the classic prisoner-of-war series Colditz – obituary

• Jack Hedley, the actor, who has died aged 92, epitomised the self-assured exponent of the British stiff upper lip during a screen career spanning nearly 50 years, and was perhaps best known as Lt Col John Preston in Colditz (BBC, 1972-74).