John Bailey (British actor)
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John Bailey | |
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 in Adam Adamant Lives! episode "The Village of Evil" (1966) | |
| Born | John Albert Bailey 26 June 1912 |
| Died | 18 February 1989 (aged 76) London, England |
| Occupation | Actor |
John Albert Bailey (26 June 1912 – 18 February 1989) was a British screen and TV actor who had a long screen, stage and TV career.[1][2] He was born in South East London.
He took a number of film roles during the late 1940s and early 1950s which included a sinister role, Stringer, in Wednesday Play.[5]
One of his notable early films was High Treason by
Roy Boulting (1951).[6] Set in a tense and austere London during the early Cold War, the tense plot follows the secret services MI5 pursuing a terrorist cell group.[7]
John Bailey's cold and ruthless assassin, Stringer, speaks with a convincing Russian accent. As an actor, he had considerable vocal range, notably employing a clipped, upper class English accent as Inspector Grant in Josephine Tey's The Franchise Affair (1951). His dark looks and convincing accents led to roles as Italians or Eastern Europeans.
BBC TV's Bartolomeo Vanzetti, an Italian immigrant in America whose execution was widely regarded as having been a miscarriage of justice.
He also made various appearances in
Selected filmography
- It Happened in Soho (1948)
- Meet Simon Cherry (1949)
- Man on the Run (1949)
- Celia (1949)
- Cairo Road (1950)
- Circle of Danger (1951) as Pape Llewellyn
- The Franchise Affair (1951) as Inspector Grant
- High Treason (1951) as Stringer
- Venetian Bird (1952) as Lieutenant Longo
- The Night Won't Talk (1952) as Clayton Hawkes
- So Little Time (1952)
- The Hostage (1956)
- Operation Amsterdam (1959) as an officer
- Moment of Danger (1960)
- Never Let Go (1960) as MacKinnon
- Rasputin, the Mad Monk(1966) as the royal physician
- A Choice of Kings (1966) as FitzOsbern
- Running Scared (1972) as Inspector
- The 14 (1973) as Mr. Sanders
- Personal Services (1987) as Mr. Gardner
References
- ^ "John Bailey - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- ISBN 9781526111975– via Google Books.
- ^ "John Bailey". BFI. Archived from the original on 24 August 2017.
- ^ "BFI Screenonline: Forsyte Saga, The (1967) Credits". www.screenonline.org.uk.
- ^ "The Wednesday Play: S". www.aveleyman.com.
- ^ "High Treason (1951)". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 October 2016.
- ^ "High Treason (1951) - Roy Boulting - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.
- ^ "The Good Shoemaker and the Poor Fish Peddler (1965)". BFI. Archived from the original on 26 February 2019.
- ^ "BBC One - Doctor Who, Season 17, The Horns of Nimon - The Fourth Dimension". BBC.
- ^ "John Bailey". www.aveleyman.com.
- ^ "Holocaust (1978)". BFI. Archived from the original on 13 December 2017.
External links
- John Bailey at IMDb
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