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John Welsh (7 November 1914 – 21 April 1985) was an
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actor.


Biography

Welsh was born in
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. After an early stage career in
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, he moved into
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and
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in the 1950s. His roles included James Forsyte in the 1967
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dramatisation of John Galsworthy's ''
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'' and Sir Pitt Crawley in
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's Vanity Fair, as well as the waiter, Merriman in ''
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'', Sgt. Cuff in ''
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'' and a brief scene as the barber in ''
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''. He also appeared in ''
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'', '' The Brothers'', ''
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'', ''
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'', 'The Frighteners' ('Bed and Breakfast' episode, 1972), and ''
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'', and played the assistant chief constable in the early series of '' Softly, Softly''. Welsh also appeared in a number of different roles in ''
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'' that included British diplomats and butlers. He died in
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.


Filmography

* ''The Accused'' (1953) - Mr. Tennant * '' The Clue of the Missing Ape'' (1953) - Army Intelligence Officer (uncredited) * ''
An Inspector Calls ''An Inspector Calls'' is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in the Soviet Union in 1945 and at the New Theatre in London the following year. It is one of Priestley's best-known works for the stage and is c ...
'' (1954) - Shop Walker * ''
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'' (1954) - US Embassy Official (uncredited) * ''
The Divided Heart ''The Divided Heart'' is a 1954 British black-and-white drama film directed by Charles Crichton and starring Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell and Armin Dahlen. The film is based on a true story of a child, whose father was a member of Slove ...
'' (1954) - Chief Marshall * ''
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'' (1954) - Uncle James * ''
The Dark Avenger ''The Dark Avenger'' is a 1955 British historical action adventure film directed by Henry Levin. The screenplay was written by Daniel B. Ullman (and an uncredited Phil Park). The film stars Errol Flynn, Joanne Dru and Peter Finch. The music ...
'' (1955) - Gurd * ''
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'' (1955) - Father Neil * '' Track the Man Down'' (1955) - 'Smiling' Sam (uncredited) * ''
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'' (1956) - Police Scientist (uncredited) * ''
The Man in the Road ''The Man in the Road'' is a 1956 British thriller film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Derek Farr, Ella Raines, Donald Wolfit and Cyril Cusack. The film was shot at Beaconsfield Studios. It was based on a popular contemporary novel ''H ...
'' (1956) - George White - the Gamekeeper * ''
The Man Who Never Was ''The Man Who Never Was'' is a 1956 British espionage thriller film produced by André Hakim and directed by Ronald Neame. It stars Clifton Webb and Gloria Grahame and features Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin and Stephen Boyd. It is base ...
'' (1956) - Bank Manager (uncredited) * '' Women Without Men'' (1956) - Prison Chaplain * '' The Long Arm'' (1956) - House Agent at Shepperton * ''
The Counterfeit Plan ''The Counterfeit Plan'' is a 1957 British crime film directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Zachary Scott and Peggie Castle.The Secret Place'' (1957) - Mr. Christian (uncredited) * '' Brothers in Law'' (1957) - Mr. Justice Fanshawe * '' The Long Haul'' (1957) - Doctor * '' Man in the Shadow'' (1957) - Inspector Hunt * ''
Lucky Jim ''Lucky Jim'' is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The novel follows the exploits of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctan ...
'' (1957) - The Principal * ''
The Surgeon's Knife ''The Surgeon's Knife'' is a 1957 British crime film directed by Gordon Parry and starring Donald Houston, Adrienne Corri and Lyndon Brook. It is an adaptation of the 1940 novel '' The Wicked Flee'' by Anne Hocking. Synopsis When his patient ...
'' (1957) - Insp. Austen * ''
The Birthday Present ''The Birthday Present'' is a 1957 British drama film directed by Pat Jackson. The film also featured Thorley Walters and Ian Bannen in small roles. Plot Simon Scott, a top toy salesman, returns from a business trip to Germany with a watch hidd ...
'' (1957) - Chief Customs Officer * ''The Man Who Wouldn't Talk'' (1958) - George Fraser (uncredited) * '' The Safecracker'' (1958) - Inspector Owing * '' Dunkirk'' (1958) - Staff Colonel * '' Indiscreet'' (1958) - Passport Official (uncredited) * ''
The Revenge of Frankenstein ''The Revenge of Frankenstein'' is a 1958 Technicolor British horror film made by Hammer Film Productions. Directed by Terence Fisher, the film stars Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Michael Gwynn and Eunice Gayson. In the United States, it wa ...
'' (1958) - Bergman * '' Next to No Time'' (1958) - Steve, Bar Steward * ''
She Didn't Say No! ''She Didn't Say No!'' is a 1958 British comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Eileen Herlie, Perlita Neilson and Niall MacGinnis. Based on the 1955 novel ''We Are Seven'' by Una Troy, an attractive young Irishwoman has six children ...
'' (1958) - Inspector * '' Behind the Mask'' (1958) - Colonel Langley * '' Nowhere to Go'' (1958) - Second Mr. Dodds (uncredited) * '' Room at the Top'' (1959) - Mayor (uncredited) * ''
Operation Bullshine ''Operation Bullshine'' is a 1959 British colour comedy film directed by Gilbert Gunn and starring Donald Sinden, Barbara Murray and Carole Lesley. The working title of the film was ''Girls in Arms'' that features as a marching song in the fil ...
'' (1959) - Brigadier * ''
Bobbikins ''Bobbikins'' is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Robert Day and starring Shirley Jones and Max Bygraves. It was made in CinemaScope and released by 20th Century Fox. It was produced by the British subsidiary of 20th Century Fox and sho ...
'' (1959) - Admiral * ''
The Rough and the Smooth ''The Rough and the Smooth'' (alternative title: ''Portrait of a Sinner'') is a 1959 British drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton, William Bendix and Natasha Parry. The screenplay concerns an archaeolog ...
'' (1959) - Dr. Thompson * ''
The Night We Dropped a Clanger ''The Night We Dropped a Clanger'' is a 1959 black and white British comedy film directed by Darcy Conyers and starring Brian Rix, Cecil Parker, William Hartnell and Leslie Phillips; Andrew Sachs made his screen debut. The title comes from th ...
'' (1959) - Squadron Leader Grant * ''
Beyond the Curtain ''Beyond the Curtain'' is a 1960 British drama film written and directed by Compton Bennett, and starring Richard Greene and Eva Bartok. Plot A refugee from East Germany finds herself trapped in her home city of Dresden when a plane she is t ...
'' (1960) - Turner * ''
The Trials of Oscar Wilde ''The Trials of Oscar Wilde'', also known as ''The Man with the Green Carnation'' and ''The Green Carnation'', is a 1960 British drama film based on the libel and subsequent criminal cases involving Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensberry. ...
'' (1960) - Cafe Royal Manager * ''
Follow That Horse! ''Follow That Horse!'' is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Alan Bromly from a screenplay by William Douglas-Home. It stars David Tomlinson, Cecil Parker, Richard Wattis, Mary Peach and Dora Bryan. Various parties including scientists and ...
'' (1960) - Major Turner * ''
A Circle of Deception ''Circle of Deception'' is a 1960 CinemaScope British war film directed by Jack Lee and starring Bradford Dillman, Suzy Parker and Harry Andrews. Plot A Canadian officer is sent on a secret and dangerous mission during World War II. His sup ...
'' (1960) - Maj. Taylor * ''
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'' (1960) - Ted Wylie * ''
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'' (1961) - First Plain Clothes Officer * '' Francis of Assisi'' (1961) - Canon Cattanei * ''
Johnny Nobody ''Johnny Nobody'' is a 1961 British drama film made by Viceroy Films Limited, with John R. Sloan as producer, and Irving Allen and Albert R. Broccoli as executive producers. It was directed by the British film and stage actor Nigel Patrick, w ...
'' (1961) - Judge * Scotland Yard (film series) (1961) - The Square Mile Murder - Inspector Hicks * '' Go to Blazes'' (1962) - Chief Fire Officer * ''
The Inspector ''The Inspector'' is a series of 34 theatrical cartoon shorts produced between 1965 and 1969 by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises and released through United Artists. The cartoons are dedicated to an animated version of Inspector Clouseau comical ...
'' (1962) - Agriculture Officer * ''Fog for a Killer'' (1962) - Governor * ''
Life for Ruth ''Life for Ruth'' is a 1962 British drama film produced by Michael Relph directed by Basil Dearden and starring Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan and Janet Munro. It was released in the US as Walk in the Shadow. Plot John Harris finds himself o ...
'' (1962) - Marshall * ''
The Quare Fellow ''The Quare Fellow'' is Brendan Behan's first play, first produced in 1954. The title is taken from a Hiberno-English pronunciation of ''queer''. Plot The play is set in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin. The anti-hero of the play, The Quare Fellow, is never ...
'' (1962) - Carroll * ''
The Wild and the Willing ''The Wild and the Willing'' is a 1962 British romantic drama film, directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Virginia Maskell, Paul Rogers, and Samantha Eggar. It is the film debuts of Ian McShane, John Hurt, and Samantha Eggar. It depicts a grou ...
'' (1962) - Publican * ''
The Playboy of the Western World ''The Playboy of the Western World'' is a three-act play written by Irish playwright John Millington Synge and first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 26 January 1907. It is set in Michael James Flaherty's public house in County Mayo (o ...
'' (1963) - Philly Cullen * '' Nightmare'' (1964) - Doctor * '' Rasputin: The Mad Monk'' (1966) - The Abbot * ''
Attack on the Iron Coast ''Attack on the Iron Coast'' is a 1967 DeLuxe Color Anglo-American Oakmont Productions international co-production war film directed by Paul Wendkos in the first of his five-picture contract with Mirisch Productions, and starring Lloyd Bridges, ...
'' (1968) - Admiral of the Fleet Lord William Cansley * '' Subterfuge'' (1968) - Heiner * '' Journey into Darkness'' (1968) - Bart Brereton (episode 'Paper Dolls') * ''
The Man Who Haunted Himself ''The Man Who Haunted Himself'' is a 1970 British psychological thriller film written and directed by Basil Dearden (his final film prior to his death by automobile accident in 1971) and starring Roger Moore. It is based on the 1957 novel ''The ...
'' (1970) - Sir Charles Freeman * ''
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'' (1970) - Bishop Juxon *
Catweazle ''Catweazle'' is a British children's fantasy television series, starring Geoffrey Bayldon in the title role, and created by Richard Carpenter for London Weekend Television. The first series, produced and directed in 1969 by Quentin Lawren ...
(1971) - The Walking Trees - Colonel Arnold Dickenson * ''
Lord Peter Wimsey (TV series) ''Lord Peter Wimsey'' is a series of television serial adaptations of five Lord Peter Wimsey novels by Dorothy L. Sayers starring Ian Carmichael broadcast on BBC One between 1972 and 1975, beginning with ''Clouds of Witness'' in April 1972. Cast ...
'', (''
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club ''The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club'' is a 1928 mystery novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, her fourth featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. Much of the novel is set in the Bellona Club, a fictional London club for war veterans (Bellona being a Roman god ...
'', episode) (1972) - Mr. Murbles * ''
The Pied Piper The Pied Piper of Hamelin (german: der Rattenfänger von Hameln, also known as the Pan Piper or the Rat-Catcher of Hamelin) is the title character of a legend from the town of Hamelin (Hameln), Lower Saxony, Germany. The legend dates back t ...
'' (1972) - Chancellor * ''A Story of Tutankhamun'' (1973) - Grandfather * '' Yellow Dog'' (1973) - Bewsley * '' Edward the King'' (1975) - Duke of Wellington * '' Kizzy'' (1976) - Admiral Twiss * ''
Grayeagle ''Grayeagle'' is a 1977 American Western (genre), Western film directed Charles B. Pierce, written by Pierce, Brad White, and Michael O. Sajbel, starring Ben Johnson (actor), Ben Johnson, Iron Eyes Cody and Lana Wood. The theme is about kidnapp ...
'' (1977) - Lum Stroud * '' The Norseman'' (1978) - Norseman * '' The Thirty Nine Steps'' (1978) - Lord Belthane * ''Les soeurs Brontë'' (1979) * ''From a Far Country'' (1981) - Priest *''Brideshead Revisited'' (1981) - Barber * '' Krull'' (1983) - The Emerald Seer * ''
Blott on the Landscape ''Blott on the Landscape'' is a novel by Tom Sharpe which was first published in 1975. The book was adapted into a 6-part Blott on the Landscape (TV series), television series of the same name for BBC television in 1985. Plot The story revolves ...
'' (1985) - Lord Leakham


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Welsh, John Irish male stage actors Irish male television actors Irish male film actors Actors from County Wexford 1914 births 1985 deaths 20th-century Irish male actors