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Brian Bedford has passed away, aged 80.

The British theatre actor died on Wednesday, after a two-year battle with cancer, in Santa Barbara, Califonia.

Bedford voiced Robin Hood in the 1973 Disney film of the same name and also appeared in the 1966 film Grand Prix , alongside James Garner.

He was also involved in television in 1967 with CBS’ Coronet Blue, although it was short-lived.

Bedford was forced to withdraw from a touring production of The Last Confession in 2014 and from a production of The Merchant of Venice at the festival in 2013, both due to illness, according to CBC News.

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Born in Morley, West Riding of Yorkshire, Bedford left school at 15 and joined an amateur theater group in Bradford.

He eventually made his Broadway debut in 1959 in a production of Peter Shaffer’s Five Finger Exercise.

His rise to fame included the attendance of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London from 1952-54; his classmates included Peter O’Toole, Albert Finney and Alan Bates.

Brian was “subsequently part of a glittering West End clique that included John Gielgud and the all-powerful theater mogul Hugh Beaumont,” according to the New York Times.

Gielgud was his most influential mentor.