John Rylett Salew (1902 (some sources state 1 January 1897)14 September 1961) was an English stage film and TV actor. Salew made the transition from stage to films in 1939, and according to
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, "the manpower shortage during WWII enabled the stout, balding Salew to play larger and more important roles than would have been his lot in other circumstances. He usually played suspicious-looking characters, often Germanic in origin." His screen roles included William Shakespeare in the comic fantasy ''
Time Flies
Time Flies may refer to:
* '' Tempus fugit'', a Latin phrase usually translated as "time flies"; an admonition against procrastination
Film
* ''Time Flies'' (1944 film), a British comedy directed by Walter Forde
* ''Time Flies'' (2013 film), a ...
'' (1944), Grimstone in the Gothic melodrama ''
Uncle Silas
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'' (1947), and the librarian in the supernatural thriller''
Night of the Demon
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'' (1957). He played Colonel Wentzel in the Adventures of William Tell "The Shrew" episode (1958).
John Salew was active into the TV era, playing the sort of character parts that
John McGiver
John Irwin McGiver (November 5, 1913 – September 9, 1975) was an American character actor who made more than a hundred appearances in television and motion pictures over a two-decade span from 1955 to 1975.
The owl-faced, portly character ac ...
played in the US
Selected filmography
* '' It's in the Air'' (1938) – RAF Radio Operator (uncredited)
* ''
Dead Men are Dangerous
''Dead Men are Dangerous'' is a 1939 British noir crime film directed by Harold French and starring Robert Newton, Betty Lynne, John Warwick, and Peter Gawthorne. It was released in the U.S. as ''Dangerous Masquerade''. Its plot concerns an u ...
'' (1939) – Tramp (uncredited)
* ''
The Silent Battle
''The Silent Battle'' is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Herbert Mason and starring Rex Harrison, Valerie Hobson and John Loder. It is also known by the alternative titles ''Continental Express'' and ''Peace in our Time''. It was insp ...
Pastor Hall
''Pastor Hall'' is a 1940 British drama film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Wilfrid Lawson, Nova Pilbeam, Marius Goring, Seymour Hicks and Bernard Miles. The film is based on the play of the same title by German author Ernst Toller who ...
'' (1940)
* ''
A Window in London
''A Window in London'' is a 1940 British thriller film directed by Herbert Mason and starring Michael Redgrave, Patricia Roc, Sally Gray, Paul Lukas and Hartley Power. It is a remake of the French film ''Metropolitan'' (1939). The plot focuses ...
'' (1940) – Reporter
* '' The Thief of Bagdad'' (1940) – Fish Peddler (uncredited)
* ''
Neutral Port
''Neutral Port'' is a 1940 British war film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Will Fyffe, Leslie Banks, Yvonne Arnaud, and Phyllis Calvert, with a supporting role for Wally Patch. It was produced and distributed by Gainsborough Picture ...
The Farmer's Wife
''The Farmer's Wife'' is a 1928 British silent romantic comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis and Gordon Harker.
It is adapted from a 1916 play of the same name by British novelist, poet an ...
Turned Out Nice Again
''Turned Out Nice Again'' is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring the Lancashire-born comedian George Formby.
Made at Ealing Studios, ''Turned Out Nice Again'' premiered at the London Pavilion Cinema on 29 June 194 ...
'' (1941) – Largos
* ''
Once a Crook
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'' (1941) – Solicitor
* ''
Atlantic Ferry
''Atlantic Ferry'' (alternate U.S. title: ''Sons of the Sea'') is a 1941 British film directed by Walter Forde and starring Michael Redgrave and Valerie Hobson. It was made at Teddington Studios.
Plot
In 1837 Liverpool, brothers Charles and ...
'' (1941) – Henry
* ''
Back-Room Boy
''Back-Room Boy'' is a 1942 British comedy film directed by Herbert Mason, produced by Edward Black for Gainsborough Pictures and distributed by General Film Distributors. The cast includes Arthur Askey, Googie Withers, Graham Moffatt and Moor ...
'' (1942) – Steve Mason
* ''
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
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'' (1942) – German Sentry
* ''
Suspected Person
''Suspected Person'' is a 1942 British drama film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Clifford Evans, Patricia Roc and David Farrar. The film was made at Welwyn Studios by Associated British, one of the two leading British studios of ...
'' (1942) – Jones
* ''
The Day Will Dawn
''The Day Will Dawn'', released in the US as ''The Avengers'', is a 1942 British war film set in Norway during World War II. It stars Ralph Richardson, Deborah Kerr, Hugh Williams and Griffith Jones, and was directed by Harold French from a s ...
'' (1942) – "Man-in-the-Street" in Fleet Street Pub
* '' The Young Mr. Pitt'' (1942) – Smith
* ''
Secret Mission
''Secret Mission'' is a 1942 British war film directed by Harold French and starring Hugh Williams, James Mason, Nancy Price, Carla Lehmann and Roland Culver.
Plot
During the Second World War, British Army Major Peter Garnett assembles a team ...
'' (1942) – Hauptmann Gruening
* ''
Squadron Leader X
''Squadron Leader X'' is a 1943 British World War II spy drama directed by Lance Comfort and starring Eric Portman and Ann Dvorak. The screenplay was adapted by Miles Malleson and Wolfgang Wilhelm from a short story by Emeric Pressburger.
Plo ...
'' (1943) – Sentry at Madame Berthelot's (uncredited)
* '' Tomorrow We Live'' (1943) – Marcel LaBlanc
* ''
We Dive at Dawn
''We Dive at Dawn'' is a 1943 war film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring John Mills and Eric Portman as Royal Navy submariners in the Second World War. It was written by Val Valentine and J. B. Williams with uncredited assistance from Fr ...
'' (1943) – Drake (uncredited)
* ''
The Bells Go Down
''The Bells Go Down'' is a 1943 black-and-white wartime film made by Ealing Studios. The reference in the title is to the alarm bells in the fire station that "go down" when a call to respond is made. The film is an ensemble piece that covers ...
'' (1943) – Landlord (uncredited)
* ''
Warn That Man
''Warn That Man'' is a 1943 British comedy thriller film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Gordon Harker, Raymond Lovell and Finlay Currie.
It was based on the 1941 play '' Warn That Man!'' by Vernon Sylvaine which had run for te ...
'' (1943) – Wilson
* ''
The Saint Meets the Tiger
''The Saint Meets the Tiger'' is the title of a crime thriller produced by the British unit of RKO Pictures, produced in 1941, but not released until 1943. This was to be the last of the eight films in RKO's film series about the crimefighter ...
'' (1943) – Merridon (curator of the Baycome Museum)
* ''
Millions Like Us
''Millions Like Us'' is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It starred Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anne Crawford, Eric Portman and Megs Jenkins. It was co-written and co-directed ...
'' (1943) – The Doctor
* ''
The Adventures of Tartu
''The Adventures of Tartu'' (alternate British title and American release title: ''Sabotage Agent'', also known as ''Tartu'') is a 1943 British Second World War spy film directed by Harold S. Bucquet and starring Robert Donat. It was a morale bo ...
'' (1943) – Heinrich Müller (uncredited)
* ''
The Night Invader
''The Night Invader'' is a 1943 British, black-and-white, drama, thriller, war film, directed by Herbert Mason, produced by Max Milder for Warner Bros. - First National Productions Ltd. the British subsidiary of Warner Bros. and starring Ronald ...
'' (1943) – Witsen
* ''
The Hundred Pound Window
''The Hundred Pound Window'' is a 1944 British crime film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Frederick Leister and Richard Attenborough. The film follows an accountant who has to take a second job work ...
'' (1944) – Walker
* ''
Tawny Pipit
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'' (1944) – Pickering
* ''
Time Flies
Time Flies may refer to:
* '' Tempus fugit'', a Latin phrase usually translated as "time flies"; an admonition against procrastination
Film
* ''Time Flies'' (1944 film), a British comedy directed by Walter Forde
* ''Time Flies'' (2013 film), a ...
'' (1944) –
William Shakespeare
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* ''
The Way Ahead
''The Way Ahead'' (also known as ''Immortal Battalion'') (1944) is a British Second World War drama film directed by Carol Reed. The screenplay was written by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov. The film stars David Niven, Stanley Holloway and Willi ...
'' (1944) – Sam – Friend of Pvt Lloyd in Pub Scene (uncredited)
* ''
Give Us the Moon
''Give Us the Moon'' is a 1944 British comedy film directed and written by Val Guest and starring Vic Oliver, Margaret Lockwood and Peter Graves.
Plot
Made in 1943-44, the film is set in a future peacetime Britain, after the end of World War ...
'' (1944) – (uncredited)
* ''
Don't Take It to Heart
''Don't Take It to Heart'' is a 1944 British comedy film directed by Jeffrey Dell and starring Richard Greene, Alfred Drayton, Patricia Medina, Moore Marriott and Richard Bird.
It was shot at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith with sets de ...
'' (1944) – Dr. Rose, witness
* ''
Candles at Nine
''Candles at Nine'' is a 1944 British mystery film directed by John Harlow and starring Jessie Matthews, John Stuart and Beatrix Lehmann.
A wealthy man taunts his relations and staff about which of them shall inherit his estate after he chang ...
'' (1944) – Griggs – Everard's Butler
* ''
Murder in Reverse?
''Murder in Reverse'' (also styled ''Murder in Reverse?'') is a 1945 British thriller film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring William Hartnell, Jimmy Hanley and Chili Bouchier. It is based on the story ''Query'' by "Seamark" ( Austin J. ...
'' (1945) – Blake King's Counsel
* ''
The Rake's Progress
''The Rake's Progress'' is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings '' A Rake's Prog ...
Beware of Pity
''Beware of Pity'' is a 1946 British romantic drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Lilli Palmer, Albert Lieven and Cedric Hardwicke. It is based on the novel of the same name by Stefan Zweig. A paraplegic young baroness mistakes co ...
'' (1946) – Col. Franz Bubencic
* ''
Wanted for Murder
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This book was part of an ongoing series of novels and novellas by Charteris featuring ...
'' (1946) – Det. Walters
* ''
I See a Dark Stranger
''I See a Dark Stranger'' – released as ''The Adventuress'' in the United States – is a 1946 British World War II spy film with touches of light comedy, by the team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, and starring Deborah Kerr and T ...
'' (1946) – Man in Bookshop
* '' Bedelia'' (1946) – Alec Johnstone
* ''
A Girl in a Million
''A Girl in a Million'' is a 1946 British comedy film. It is notable for featuring Joan Greenwood in an early starring role; and Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne in their comedy double act as two cricket-obsessed Englishmen, this time called Fot ...
'' (1946) – Jenkins
* ''
Meet Me at Dawn
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'' (1947) – 2nd Client
* ''
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
''Nicholas Nickleby'' or ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'' (or also ''The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings, and Complete Career of the ...
'' (1947) – Mr. Lillyrick
* ''
Dancing with Crime
''Dancing with Crime'' is a 1947 British film noir film directed by John Paddy Carstairs, starring Richard Attenborough, Barry K. Barnes and Sheila Sim. It was shot at Southall Studios with sets designed by the art director Andrew Mazzei.
P ...
'' (1947) – Pogson (uncredited)
* '' The October Man'' (1947) – Ticket Inspector
* ''
Uncle Silas
''Uncle Silas'', subtitled "A Tale of Bartram Haugh", is an 1864 Victorian Gothic mystery-thriller novel by the Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Despite Le Fanu resisting its classification as such, the novel has also been hailed as a work ...
'' (1947) – Grimstone
* ''
It Always Rains on Sunday
''It Always Rains on Sunday'' is a 1947 British film adaptation of Arthur La Bern's novel by the same name, directed by Robert Hamer. The film has been compared with the poetic realism movement in the French cinema of a few years earlier by the ...
'' (1947) – Caleb Neesley
* ''
Anna Karenina
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'' (1948) – Lawyer
* ''
My Brother Jonathan
''My Brother Jonathan'' is a 1948 British drama film directed by Harold French and starring Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Ronald Howard and Beatrice Campbell. It is adapted from the 1930 novel '' My Brother Jonathan'' by Francis Brett Young, ...
'' (1948) – Wilburn
* ''
Counterblast
''Counterblast'' is a 1948 British thriller film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Robert Beatty, Mervyn Johns and Nova Pilbeam. It was made by British National Films at Elstree Studios.
Plot
A Nazi scientist escapes from prison, murders ...
'' (1948) – Padre Latham
* ''
Bond Street
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Noose
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'' (1948) – Greasy Anderson
* ''
Quartet
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Classical String quartet
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'' (1948) – John Coleman, critic (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
* ''
It's Hard to Be Good
''It's Hard to Be Good'' is a 1948 British comedy film directed by Jeffrey Dell and starring Jimmy Hanley, Anne Crawford and Raymond Huntley. In the film, an ex-army officer finds his altruistic attempts to improve the world are unsuccessful.
...
All Over the Town
''All Over the Town'' is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Derek N. Twist and starring Norman Wooland, Sarah Churchill (actress), Sarah Churchill and Cyril Cusack. It was based on the 1947 novel by R. F. Delderfield.
Premise
After serving ...
'' (1949) – George Sleek
* ''
Cardboard Cavalier
''Cardboard Cavalier'' is a 1948 British historical comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.
It was the last film for Forde and Field. Field died of a heart attack shortly after the f ...
'' (1949) – Smug
* ''
The Bad Lord Byron
''The Bad Lord Byron'' is a 1949 British historical drama film about the life of Lord Byron. It was directed by David MacDonald and starred Dennis Price as Byron with Mai Zetterling, Linden Travers and Joan Greenwood.
Plot
The film sees life ...
'' (1949) – Samuel Rogers
* ''
For Them That Trespass
''For Them That Trespass'' is a 1949 British crime film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti and starring Richard Todd, Patricia Plunkett and Stephen Murray (actor), Stephen Murray. It is an adaptation of the 1944 For Them That Trespass (novel), novel ...
'' (1949) – Prosecutor Ainsley
* ''
Kind Hearts and Coronets
''Kind Hearts and Coronets'' is a 1949 British crime black comedy film. It features Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness; Guinness plays nine characters. The plot is loosely based on the novel ''Israel Rank: The Auto ...
'' (1949) – Mr. Perkins
* '' No Way Back'' (1949) – Sammy Linkman
* ''
Don't Ever Leave Me
''Don't Ever Leave Me'' is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Arthur Crabtree and starring Petula Clark, Jimmy Hanley, Hugh Sinclair, Edward Rigby, and Anthony Newley. Produced by Betty Box during her stint at Gainsborough Pictures, it wa ...
The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
''The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery'' is a 1950 British crime film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Robert Beatty, Rona Anderson, and Clifford Evans.
The film is a strange hybrid: with the Twenty Questions sections being a true studi ...
'' (1950) – John Grimshaw
* ''
The Blue Lamp
''The Blue Lamp'' is a 1950 British police procedural film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Jack Warner as PC Dixon, Jimmy Hanley as newcomer PC Mitchell, and Dirk Bogarde as criminal Tom Riley. The title refers to the blue lamps that t ...
'' (1950) – Officious Man (uncredited)
* '' The Astonished Heart'' (1950) – Mr. Bowman
* ''
The Lavender Hill Mob
''The Lavender Hill Mob'' is a 1951 comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T. E. B. Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton, starring Alec Guinness and Stanley Holloway and featuring Sid James and Alfie Bass. The title refers to Lavend ...
'' (1951) – Parkin
* ''
No Highway in the Sky
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Hotel Sahara
''Hotel Sahara'' is a 1951 British war comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Ustinov and David Tomlinson. It was produced and co-written by George Hambley Brown.
Plot
The Hotel Sahara, situated in a desert oasi ...
'' (1951) – American Husband (uncredited)
* ''
Mystery Junction
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* ''
Night Was Our Friend
''Night Was Our Friend'' is a 1951 British drama film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Elizabeth Sellars, Michael Gough and Ronald Howard. The title references a line from Virgil's epic poem ''The Aeneid''.
Plot
A young woman is acq ...
'' (1951) – Mr. Lloyd
* ''
His Excellency
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Father Brown
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'' (1954) – Station Sergeant
* ''
Duel in the Jungle
''Duel in the Jungle'' is a 1954 British adventure film combining the detective film with the jungle adventure genres directed by George Marshall and starring Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain and David Farrar. It was shot at the Elstree Studios near ...
'' (1954) – Clerk – Henderson's Office
* ''
Lease of Life
''Lease of Life'' is a 1954 British drama film made by Ealing Studios and directed by Charles Frend. The film was designed as a star-vehicle for Robert Donat, representing his return to the screen after an absence of over three years during whi ...
'' (1954) – A Doctor
* ''
Three Cases of Murder
''Three Cases of Murder'' is a 1955 British horror omnibus film comprising three stories: "The Picture," "You Killed Elizabeth," and "Lord Mountdrago." Eamonn Andrews introduces each. Alan Badel appears in all three.John Hamilton, ''The British ...
'' (1955) – Rooke ("The Picture" segment)
* ''
Wicked as They Come
''Wicked as They Come'' (''Portrait in Smoke'' in the United States) is a 1956 British film noir directed by Ken Hughes and starring Arlene Dahl, Philip Carey and Herbert Marshall.
Plot
Poor girl from the slums Katherine Allenbourg trades on ...
It's Great to Be Young
''It's Great to Be Young'' is a 1956 musical Technicolor comedy film about a school music teacher, starring Cecil Parker and John Mills.
Plot
Mr Dingle (John Mills) seeks to interest his pupils in music in order to enjoy life, while the new ...
'' (1956) – Routledge, a senior Master
* ''
The Good Companions
''The Good Companions'' is a novel by the English author J. B. Priestley.
Written in 1929, it follows the fortunes of a concert party on a tour of England. It is Priestley's most famous novel and established him as a national figure. It won ...
'' (1957) – Mr. Joe Brundit
* ''
Night of the Demon
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'' (1957) – Librarian
* ''
Rogue's Yarn
''Rogue's Yarn'' is a 1957 British crime drama film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond and Elwyn Brook-Jones. It was shot as a second feature at Brighton Studios.Chibnall & McFarlane p.125 The film's sets were design ...
'' (1957) – Sam Youles
* ''
The Gypsy and the Gentleman
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'' (1958) – Duffin the Butler
* ''
Tread Softly Stranger
''Tread Softly Stranger'' is a 1958 British crime drama directed by Gordon Parry and starring Diana Dors, George Baker and Terence Morgan. The film was shot in black-and-white in film noir style, and its setting in an industrial town in northe ...
The Heart of a Man
''The Heart of a Man'' is a 1959 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Frankie Vaughan, Anne Heywood and Tony Britton. Its plot concerns a millionaire in disguise who gives a young man money to help him pursue his singing c ...
The Impersonator
''The Impersonator'' is a 1961 low-budget black and white British thriller film directed and co-written by Alfred Shaughnessy. An American angle and U.S. character actor John Crawford were incorporated to give this second feature some transa ...
'' (1960) – Harry Walker
* ''
Three on a Spree
''Three on a Spree'' is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Jack Watling, Carole Lesley and John Slater. It is based on the 1902 novel ''Brewster's Millions'' by George Barr McCutcheon, which became the hit 19 ...
'' (1961) – Mr. Monkton
* ''
Scotland Yard
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'' (1961) - The Never Never Murder- Wilkes
* ''
Maigret
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