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John Bailey is a Actor British born on 26 june 1912 at London (United-kingdom)
John Bailey (26 June 1912 - 18 February 1989) was a British screen and TV actor who had a long screen, stage and TV career. 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 High Treason. During the 1960s, he appeared in a number of high profile BBC TV roles such as in Doctor Who. Most famously, he played the artist Aubrey Green in The Forsyte Saga in (1967). He also took the lead in a highly acclaimed Wednesday Night Play.
One of his notable early films was High Treason by Roy Boulting (1951). 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. 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.
The BBC TV Wednesday Night Play about Sacco and Vanzetti (1967) addressed the topical issue of the death penalty. Written by Jean Benedetti the play was entitled The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Pedlar. John Bailey played Bartolomeo Venzetti, an Italian immigrant in America whose execution was widely regarded as having been a miscarriage of justice.
He also made various appearances in Doctor Who, including "The Sensorites" (1964), playing Edward Waterfield in "The Evil of the Daleks" (1967) and "The Horns of Nimon" (1979), as well as appearing in several episodes of The Avengers and as Hans Frank in the 1978 American television miniseries Holocaust.
Select filmography:
It Happened in Soho (1948)
Man on the Run (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)
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
Running Scared (1972)
Personal Services (1987)
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Birth name John Albert Bailey
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 26 june 1912 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 18 february 1989 (at 76 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 26 june 1912 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 18 february 1989 (at 76 years) at London (United-kingdom)
John Bailey (26 June 1912 - 18 February 1989) was a British screen and TV actor who had a long screen, stage and TV career. 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 High Treason. During the 1960s, he appeared in a number of high profile BBC TV roles such as in Doctor Who. Most famously, he played the artist Aubrey Green in The Forsyte Saga in (1967). He also took the lead in a highly acclaimed Wednesday Night Play.
One of his notable early films was High Treason by Roy Boulting (1951). 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. 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.
The BBC TV Wednesday Night Play about Sacco and Vanzetti (1967) addressed the topical issue of the death penalty. Written by Jean Benedetti the play was entitled The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Pedlar. John Bailey played Bartolomeo Venzetti, an Italian immigrant in America whose execution was widely regarded as having been a miscarriage of justice.
He also made various appearances in Doctor Who, including "The Sensorites" (1964), playing Edward Waterfield in "The Evil of the Daleks" (1967) and "The Horns of Nimon" (1979), as well as appearing in several episodes of The Avengers and as Hans Frank in the 1978 American television miniseries Holocaust.
Select filmography:
It Happened in Soho (1948)
Man on the Run (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)
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
Running Scared (1972)
Personal Services (1987)
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Personal Services (1987)
, 1h45Directed by Terry Jones
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Biography, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, BDSM in films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Julie Walters, Shirley Stelfox, Alec McCowen, Tim Woodward, Dave Aktins, Ewan Hooper
Roles Mr. Gardner
Rating62%
Christine Painter (Julie Walters) is a sexually naive waitress and single-mother who pays for her teenage son's tuition by renting flats to local tarts. She later becomes a call girl herself - joining her friend Shirley (Shirley Stelfox) and their "maid" Dolly (Danny Schiller) - and specializes in fetish/kink roleplay with older gentlemen. With her new family of friends and admirers, she becomes a huge sensation leading to wealth and infamy in the tabloids. The brothel business also brings out Christine's self-confidence, and leads to repairing a previously strained relationship with her father.
The 14 (1973)
, 1h45Directed by David Hemmings
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Actors Jack Wild, June Brown, John Bailey, Alun Armstrong, Cheryl Hall, Anna Wing
Roles Mr. Sanders
Rating60%
Moment of Danger (1960)
, 1h37Directed by László Benedek
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Trevor Howard, Dorothy Dandridge, Edmund Purdom, Michael Hordern, Helen Goss, John Bailey
Roles Cecil
Rating65%
Starting with a wordless jewel heist pulled-off by thief Peter Curran and locksmith John Bain, Curran then double-crosses his accomplice, dumps his lover Gianna and escapes with his ill-gotten gains. In the aftermath Gianna teams up with Bain and the two of them decide to even the score with Curran, developing feelings for each other along the way.
Never Let Go (1960)
, 1h30Directed by John Guillermin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Peter Sellers, Richard Todd, Elizabeth Sellars, Adam Faith, Carol White (actrice anglaise), Mervyn Johns
Roles Mackinnon
Rating70%
Lionel Meadows (Peter Sellers) a London garage owner who makes extra cash dealing stolen cars, asks young petty thief Tommy Towers (Adam Faith) to steal a 1959 Ford Anglia. The car Tommy steals belongs to struggling cosmetics salesman John Cummings (Richard Todd).
Operation Amsterdam (1959)
, 1h44Directed by Michael McCarthy
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton, Alexander Knox, Alfred Burke, Tim Turner
Roles Officer
Rating63%
In May 1940, as the German invasion of the Netherlands is under way, the British government decides to send a team to the Netherlands on board HMS Walpole to secure stocks of industrial diamonds before the invaders can get to them. Accordingly, two Dutch diamond experts, Jan Smit (Peter Finch) and Walter Keyser (Alexander Knox) with a British Army Intelligence officer, Major Dillon (Tony Britton), are dropped by ship off the Dutch coast. Dodging German bombs and suspicious Dutch police and soldiers, they commandeer a car driven by Anna (Eva Bartok), whom they have just saved from trying to commit suicide. The four of them drive to Amsterdam.
So Little Time (1952)
, 1h28Directed by Compton Bennett
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Marius Goring, Maria Schell, Lucie Mannheim, Gabrielle Dorziat, Barbara Mullen, John Bailey
Roles Phillipe de Malvines
Rating68%
In occupied Belgium during World War II, the chateau where Nicole de Malvines (Schell) lives with her mother (Gabrielle Dorziat) is partially requisitioned for use by German forces. Among those billeted there is Colonel Hohensee (Goring), a ruthlessly efficient officer. Having lost several male members of her family in the war, the proud and outspoken Nicole holds the Germans in contempt and has no hesitation in making her feelings clear.
Venetian Bird (1952)
, 1h35Directed by Ralph Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller
Actors Richard Todd, John Bailey, Eva Bartok, John Gregson, George Coulouris, Margot Grahame
Roles Lieutenant Longo
Rating62%
British private detective Edward Mercer (Richard Todd) is employed to travel to Venice and locate an Italian who is to be rewarded for his assistance to Allied airmen during the Second World War. Once he arrives in Italy, however, he becomes mixed up in an assassination and a great deal of mystery. The mystery revolves around whether Renzo Uccello (John Gregson) actually died a few years earlier in World War II or not. The city of Venice provides a familiar and magnificent backdrop for the story.
Circle of Danger (1951)
, 1h26Directed by Jacques Tourneur
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Ray Milland, Patricia Roc, Marius Goring, Hugh Sinclair, Naunton Wayne, Edward Rigby
Roles Pape Llewellyn
Rating64%
Clay Douglas enquête sur la mort mystérieuse de son frère. Ce dernier faisait partie des commandos britanniques pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et il a été tué par une balle anglaise. Clay est persuadé que l'assassin se trouve parmi les survivants.
The Franchise Affair (1951)
, 1h35Directed by Lawrence Huntington
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Anthony Nicholls, Athene Seyler, John Bailey, Kenneth More
Roles Detective Inspector Grant
Rating71%
In a quiet English town, schoolgirl Betty Kane (Ann Stephens) claims that the owners of an isolated house, spinster Marion Sharpe (Dulcie Gray) and Marion's mother (Marjorie Fielding), kidnapped and beat her. The police believe Betty's story, but local lawyer Robert Blair (Michael Denison), a bachelor, is sceptical. Risking ostracism from the community, Blair quietly sets about proving the innocence of the two women.
High Treason (1951)
, 1h30Directed by Roy Boulting
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Spy films, Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Liam Redmond, Anthony Bushell, André Morell, Kenneth Griffith, Joan Hickson, Anthony Nicholls
Roles Stringer
Rating66%
Enemy saboteurs infiltrate the industrial suburbs of London, intending to plant high-powered bombs at several factory sites. Their motivation is to cripple the British economy and enable subversive forces to insinuate themselves in the government. The saboteurs are thwarted not by the traditional counterintelligence agents but by workaday London police officers.
Cairo Road (1950)
, 1h35Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Laurence Harvey, Eric Portman, Maria Mauban, Grégoire Aslan, Karel Štěpánek, John Bailey
Rating54%
A team of Egyptian anti-narcotic agents try to prevent shipments of drugs crossing the southern Egyptian border. The film takes its name from the Cairo Road.
Man on the Run (1949)
Directed by Lawrence Huntington
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Derek Farr, Edward Chapman, Laurence Harvey, Howard Marion-Crawford, Alfie Bass, John Bailey
Roles Dan Underwood, burglar
Rating66%
A deserter from the British Army finds himself mistakenly wanted for murder, and is forced to go on the run while attempting to prove his innocence.