Editing Cec Linder (section)

==Career==
He was raised in [[Timmins|Timmins, Ontario]] where his father was a [[rabbi]] to the [[Jewish]] community. During his early years of his professional career, Linder worked as an announcer at [[CKGB-FM|CKGB]] in Timmins.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.news/local-news/tales-from-the-porcupine-told-first-hand|title=Tales from the Porcupine told first-hand|newspaper=[[Timmins Daily Press]]|last=Bachmann|first=Karen|date=10 January 2020|access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref>

Linder enjoyed an extensive and successful television career on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, probably his most prominent role was as the palaeontologist Roney in the original BBC version of ''[[Quatermass and the Pit]]'' (1958–59).

In the United States, he was a regular in the CBS soap operas ''[[The Secret Storm]]'' and  ''[[The Edge of Night]]'' and in the 1980s appeared in several of the ''[[Perry Mason (TV film series)|Perry Mason]]'' revival TV films as District Attorney Jack Welles.

Linder was also a regular on the popular 1980s Canadian crime series ''[[Seeing Things (TV series)|Seeing Things]]'', playing Crown Attorney Spenser.

During his career, he also had guest roles in episodes of a variety of other popular British, American and Canadian television programmes, including: ''[[The Forest Rangers (TV series)|The Forest Rangers]]'', ''[[Doomwatch]]'', ''[[The Littlest Hobo]]'', ''[[Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985 TV series)|Alfred Hitchcock Presents]]'', ''[[Ironside (1967 TV series)|Ironside]]'', ''[[The Saint (TV series)|The Saint]]'', ''[[Danger Bay]]'', ''[[The New Avengers (TV series)|The New Avengers]]'', ''[[The Secret Storm]]'' (as Peter Ames), and ''[[The Edge of Night]]'' as Senator Ben Travis #2.

Linder appeared as Inspector Cramer in the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] 1982 radio dramatizations of [[Nero Wolfe]] short stories.

Linder's last work was as Syd Grady in two episodes of the television series ''[[Tropical Heat|Sweating Bullets]]'' (1991).

He died the following year at [[Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto)|Mount Sinai Hospital]] in Toronto of complications from [[emphysema]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://search.ontariojewisharchives.org/Permalink/descriptions21234|title=Cec Linder died|newspaper=[[Canadian Jewish News]]|last=Morris|first=Gerry|date=23 April 1992|access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref>

He accumulated over 225 credits in film and television productions in a long performing career.