Robin Bailey
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Robin Bailey (5 October 1919 – 14 January 1999) was an English actor. He was born in Hucknall, Nottingham.
Although often chosen for upper class and tradition-bound roles such as Judge (Death's Head) Graves in Thames Television's Rumpole Of The Bailey, Bailey is perhaps most fondly remembered for his portrayal of the Uncle Mort in I Didn't Know You Cared, the BBC's adaptation of Peter Tinniswood's stories about an extended Yorkshire family. He also played Charters in the 1985 miniseries Charters and Caldicott (the supposed latter-day adventures of two supporting characters from The Lady Vanishes) co-starring Michael Aldridge as Caldicott.
Bailey's Broadway theatre experience consisted of two flops, the 1963 musical Jennie and the 1964 comedy A Severed Head.
Other notable roles included suave civil servant Grainger in The Power Game (1966), the Brigadier in Tinniswood's Tales from a Long Room (BBC radio series in 1980 and Channel 4 television series in 1985), Neville Chamberlain in The Gathering Storm and Percy Pocklington in The Pallisers. His final television appearance was as Lord Probyn (Kavanagh's wife's father) in Kavanagh QC in 1997.
He read, many mystery novels for Chivers Audio.
Catherine Aird: A Religious Body. Henrietta Who?, A Late Phoenix, Parting Breath, The Stately Home Murder.
Agatha Christie: The Clocks, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Ordeal by Innocence, Sparkling Cyanide
Nevil Shute: Ruined City
Ruth Rendell: Murder Being Once Done, The Veiled One, Wolf to the Slaughter, No More Dying Then
He died in 1999 in London of respiratory failure.
