"Usually when you cave in to the USA, you do it because you just want to get rid of it, " said Dr PeterV Kunz, an economic law professor at the University of Bern.
On film Branagh cast him as Bardolph in Henry V (1989), as Stephen Fry's father in the comedy Peter's Friends (1992), Don Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing (1993), the blind grandfather - playing opposite Robert De Niro's Creature - in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994).