John Bailey (actor)

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John Bailey (born June 26, 1914 in New Cross , London , England , † February 18, 1989 in London, England) was a British actor .

Life

Bailey received a grant from the LLC Foundation for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where he his acting training completed. He began his career as a theater actor in the 1930s and often appeared in so-called repertory theater productions. He made his London debut in the play Robert's Wife alongside Edith Evans and Owen Nares . During the rehearsal work on the play Present Laughter by Noël Coward , Bailey's career was interrupted by the beginning of the Second World War.

After the Second World War, Bailey returned to the theater, where he appeared at the Bristol Old Vic Theater, among others . Bailey played the role of Romeo in William Shakespeare's tragedy Romeo and Juliet on October 5, 1947 in the first BBC live broadcast after World War II ; his partner as Julia was Rosalie Crutchley . He has worked several times as a stage actor in productions of the Prospect Theater Company , such as Don Armado in Lost Love Labor ' 1972 at the Aldwych Theater in London with Prunella Scales , and as Gloucester in King Lear . In May 1979 he played the Provost in Maß für Maß in London in a Riverside Studios production directed by Peter Gill . At the end of the 1970s he could also be seen at the Bristol Old Vic as doctor Sergejewitsch Dorn in Anton Chekhov's drama The Seagull .

Bailey also worked in film and television . In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Bailey made a number of movies in different genres in Great Britain . In the British drama Man on the Net , he played a burglar and thief, directed by Lawrence Huntington . In 1952 he played the Belgian aristocrat Philipe de Malvines at the side of Maria Schell in the British war drama When the Heart Speaks . In the spy thriller Venetian Bird , he played the role of the opaque, patriotic officer Longo . In the historical melodrama Rasputin - The Mad Monk , he took on the role of court doctor in 1966.

In the course of his career, Bailey later worked mainly for British television , where he appeared in numerous television series , including Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone , Simon Templar , Doctor Who , Coronation Street and Van der Valk . He also played the role of the artist Aubrey Greene in the 1967 film adaptation of the novel The Forsyte Saga . In 1978 he took on the role of Hans Frank in the miniseries Holocaust - The History of the Weiss Family .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Romeo and Juliet On Screen www.screenonline.org.uk
  2. ^ Prunella Scales www.imdb.com
  3. ↑ British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference So Little Time (1952)
  4. ↑ www.britishpictures.com The Venetian Bird (1952)
  5. ↑ The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)
personal data
SURNAME Bailey, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH New Cross , London , England
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 1989
Place of death London , England