John Welsh (actor)
| John Welsh | |
|---|---|
| Born |
7 November 1914 Wexford, County Wexford, Ireland, UK |
| Died |
21 April 1985 (aged 70) London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1953-1985 |
John Welsh (7 November 1914 in Wexford – 21 April 1985 in London) was an Irish actor.
After an early stage career in Dublin, Welsh moved into British film and television in the 1950s. His roles included James Forsyte in the 1967 BBC dramatisation of John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga, as well as the butler Merriman in The Duchess of Duke Street, Sgt. Cuff in The Moonstone and a brief scene as the barber in Brideshead Revisited. He also appeared in Hancock's Half Hour, The Brothers, Prince Regent, To Serve Them All My Days and The Citadel, and played the assistant chief constable in the early series of Softly, Softly.
Filmography
- The Dark Avenger (1955)
- Confession (1955)
- The Long Arm (1956)
- The Birthday Present (1957)
- The Long Haul (1957)
- The Surgeon's Knife (1957)
- The Man in the Road (1957)
- Lucky Jim (1957)
- The Safecracker (1958)
- Dunkirk (1958)
- Next to No Time (1958)
- Indiscreet (1958)
- Nowhere to Go (1958)
- Behind the Mask (1958)
- Room at the Top (1959)
- The Rough and the Smooth (1959)
- The Night We Dropped a Clanger (1959)
- Operation Bullshine (1959)
- Bobbikins (1959)
- Beyond the Curtain (1960)
- Follow That Horse! (1960)
- A Circle of Deception (1960)
- Konga (1961)
- Francis of Assisi (1961)
- Johnny Nobody (1961)
- Go to Blazes (1962)
- Life for Ruth (1962)
- The Quare Fellow (1962)
- The Wild and the Willing (1962)
- Nightmare (1964)
- Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)
- Attack on the Iron Coast (1968)
- Subterfuge (1968)
- The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)
- Cromwell (1970)
- Yellow Dog (1973)
- Edward the King (1975)
- The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
- Krull (1983)
- Blott on the Landscape (1985)
References
External links
- John Welsh at the Internet Movie Database
- [John Welsh] at Allmovie.com
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