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John Bardon (born John Michael Jones, 25 August 1939 – 12 September 2014) was an English stage and screen actor. He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 1988 (1987 season) for ''
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'', sharing the award with co-star
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. He was best known for playing the patriarch of the Branning family,
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, in the
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soap opera, '' EastEnders'', for 13 years from 1996 to 2011.


Early life and amateur acting

John Michael Jones was born in Brentford,
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; his father was a shipping clerk who formerly ran a building business. "Bardon" was his grandmother's maiden name. His early acting experience was with a group called The Taverners, who played in pubs. He then appeared in productions by the Civil Service drama group, which toured theatres in Germany and Austria.


Acting career

Bardon became a professional actor in 1970 at the age of 30, joining a repertory company in Exeter. He may be best known for having played
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in '' EastEnders''. His character, the father of established character
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, first appeared briefly in 1996. The character of Jim returned to the series in 1999 and this time became a regular character, later marrying
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). Bardon filmed his final scenes for ''EastEnders'' in March 2011 after years of poor health. He also was a regular in ''
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. He had made notable guest appearances in ''
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'' in 1975 in the episode "
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" (in addition to this, he played
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in the 1975–76 stage adaptation of ''Dad's Army'', as original television actor
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had died in 1973) and ''
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'' in 1976 in the episode "No Sale". He also starred in the British police drama '' The Sweeney'', in which he played villain Doc Boyd in the episode "Faces", first broadcast on Monday 8 September 1975. In the same year, he also appeared as a bookmaker in the film ''
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''. In 1978 he was cast as Del Rogers in G. F. Newman's
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on BBC2. In 1980 he appeared in an episode of ''
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''. In 1982 he appeared on
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as legendary comedian Max Miller in
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' in a reprise of the role from the stage version of the production which had been seen at
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, the
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and the
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in ''L'' in the much-acclaimed BBC drama, Johnny Jarvis (Nigel Williams).Also appeared as a '' The Children Film Foundation (CFF)'' '' Friend or Foe'' as In 1984, he had a guest role as "Constable Palk" in ''
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'', and appeared as a night porter in the film version of ''
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'' the following year. In 1986 he played the Head of Security for a supermarket in an episode of ''
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'' from series five called " The Longest Night", in the same year he appeared as a Railway ticket collector in the film ''
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''. In 1989, he appeared in ''
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'' in the episode "Four and Twenty Blackbirds". The same year he also appeared in an episode of the TV series ''
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'', playing a gambling villain. He was a guest star in two episodes of '' Coronation Street'' in the early 1990s. He appeared as the father of Daryl Stubbs in '' Birds of a Feather'' (in 1991 and again in 1998), and played an asylum warden in the 1996 TV adaptation of '' Gulliver's Travels''. In 1997, he appeared briefly as one of the zoo customers in the film comedy ''
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'', and 2 years later he appeared in the film '' East Is East'' as Mr. Moorhouse.


Other appearances

Bardon appeared on the BBC show ''
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''. His singing partner was Jocelyn Brown and the pair finished fourth. Bardon also made an appearance in the sitcom Desmond's, in a two part episode of the second series in which he played a police officer. He was the subject of '' This Is Your Life'' in 2003 when he was surprised by
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on the EastEnders set.


Personal life

Prior to his work in EastEnders, Bardon worked as a shuttle driver at Heathrow Airport. In June 2002, he married Enda Gates. On 14 June 2007, Bardon was admitted to hospital after suffering a major stroke at home. In November 2007, it was reported that he was making steady progress, when he opened a new stroke ward at the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in
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. It was reported on 27 December 2007 that Bardon had walked for the first time in six months. On 8 August 2008, Bardon was rushed to hospital with a second suspected stroke. It was confirmed on 5 October 2008 that Bardon had returned home. On 9 November,
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confirmed that he would appear in ''EastEnders'' again on Christmas Day. Jim was seen on screen briefly on 4 December 2008, when his son Jack went to see him in the care home. Bardon returned to work at '' EastEnders'' full-time in June 2009 and was on screen from 20 August 2009. Bardon's last appearance was aired on 26 May 2011, when his character Jim left Albert Square to move into a care home. On the morning of 12 September 2014, Bardon died of a stroke at the Romford Grange Care Home, in
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,
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. News of his death was announced later that day, and the episode of '' EastEnders'' that was broadcast that evening was dedicated to his memory.


References


External links

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EastEnders cast – John Bardon
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