He deserves remembrance for services rendered, for the standards by which he lived and worked, perhaps most of all for being such a delight.

In Tynan's striking phrase for those remarkable character-actors who made otherwise unremarkable works lively and admirable, Tinoo Sen was one of those "forgotten irreplaceables' who never sought matinee-idol stardom (even refusing the foreign secretaryship) but who, in role after role, raised their stature and effect. Read more