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Appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Tom Jones (1963), Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964) and Doctor Dolittle (1998). Of those, Tom Jones (1963) is a winner in the category.

In between times he used his journalism experience to write a number of books, including "To Sea in a Sieve" (1956) "Bulls in the Meadow" (1957), "I Know the Face But. . .

He has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The African Queen (1951) and Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964).

He left the service in 1948 and returned to acting both on stage and in films.

Served with the Royal Navy during World War II, commanding an anti-aircraft vessel in the Mediterranean. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in 1945.

In 1941 he joined the navy as an ordinary seaman, eventually becoming a commander of a landing craft in the Mediterranean during which time he was promoted to Lt. Commander and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

He often claimed that his first film had been made in Hollywood - "Marie Antoinette" (1938), also the debut in films of his friend Robert Morley. He also usually added that he had been entirely cut out from the film. In fact, he had been in eight previous films in Britain (all in uncredited roles) and can still be seen briefly in the Hollywood film.

Educated at Winchester College, he started in journalism before studying for the stage with Elsie Fogerty and made his stage debut at London's Shaftsbury Theatre in As You Like It on 15th June 1933.

In the early 1930s, playing a tiny role in a play called "England Expects", Bull was startled, whilst changing in his dressing-room after the performance, by a stranger, who told him that his performance that night had been the worst he, the stranger, had ever seen. The stranger was Robert Morley; they became close friends immediately, a friendship which lasted until Bull's death over fifty years later.

He was born 21st March 1912 in London, the fourth son of Sir William James Bull M. P. and Lillian Heather Brandon.