Biography
John Welsh (7 November 1914 β 21 April 1985) was an Irish actor. Welsh was born in Wexford. After an early stage career in Dublin, he 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 and Sir Pitt Crawley in Thackeray's Vanity Fair, as well as the waiter, 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, 'The Frighteners' ('Bed and Breakfast' episode, 1972), and The Citadel, and played the assistant chief constable in the early series of Softly, Softly. Welsh also appeared in a number of different roles in Danger Man that included British diplomats and butlers. He died in London.
Filmography
All 106
Movies 71
TV Shows 35
Campus Man (1987)
Abducted (1986)
Murder: By Reason of Insanity (1985)
Blott on the Landscape (1985)
Night Court (1984)
Krull (1983)
The Citadel (1983)
My Favorite Year (1982)
Remington Steele (1982)
From a Far Country (1981)
Timon of Athens (1981)
The Winter's Tale (1981)
To Serve Them All My Days (1980)
Katie: The Year of a Child (1979)
Diary of a Nobody (1979)
13 Queens Blvd. (1979)
BBC Television Shakespeare (1978)
The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
Maneaters Are Loose! (1978)
Rabbit Test (1978)
Do as I Say (1977)
The Duchess of Duke Street (1976)
Kizzy (1976)
Rumpole of the Bailey (1975)
Brassneck (1975)
Fall of Eagles (1974)
Napoleon and Love (1974)
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them (1974)
Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1973)
Yellow Dog (1973)
The Pied Piper (1972)
Horatio Bottomley (1972)
The Edwardians (1972)
The Moonstone (1972)
Justice (1971)
Little Women (1970)
Play for Today (1970)
The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)
Cromwell (1970)
Codename (1970)
Catweazle (1970)
The Main Chance (1969)
Subterfuge (1968)
Journey to the Unknown (1968)
Vanity Fair (1967)
The Forsyte Saga (1967)
Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966)
Mystery and Imagination (1966)
Softly, Softly (1966)
Pity About the Abbey (1965)
Public Eye (1965)
The Mysterious Stranger (1965)
The Night Prowler (1965)
Mystery at the Forge (1965)
Highway Robbery (1965)
Catch As Catch Can (1965)
All at Sea (1965)
Dead End Creek (1965)
Nightmare (1964)
Festival (1963)
The Quare Fellow (1962)
Life for Ruth (1962)
Katy (1962)
Go to Blazes (1962)
Sir Francis Drake (1961)
Stryker of the Yard (1961)
Johnny Nobody (1961)
Francis of Assisi (1961)
The Mark (1961)
Circle of Deception (1960)
Beyond the Curtain (1960)
Snowball (1960)
The Men From Room 13 (1959)
The Night We Dropped a Clanger (1959)
The Rough and the Smooth (1959)
No Hiding Place (1959)
Operation Bullshine (1959)
Nowhere to Go (1958)
Behind the Mask (1958)
She Didn't Say No! (1958)
Next to No Time (1958)
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
Dunkirk (1958)
The Safecracker (1958)
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958)
The Birthday Present (1957)
The Surgeon's Knife (1957)
Lucky Jim (1957)
Man in the Shadow (1957)
The Long Haul (1957)
Brothers in Law (1957)
The Secret Place (1957)
The Counterfeit Plan (1957)
Hancock's Half Hour (1956)
The Long Arm (1956)
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
The Man in the Road (1956)
Lost (1956)
The Deadliest Sin (1955)
The Dark Avenger (1955)
Contraband Spain (1955)
Isn't Life Wonderful! (1954)
The Divided Heart (1954)
An Inspector Calls (1954)
The Clue of the Missing Ape (1953)
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GenderMale
Birthday1904-11-07
Deathday1985-04-21 (80 years old)
Place of birthWexford, Republic of Ireland
CitizenshipsRepublic of Ireland
ResidencesCounty Wexford, Ireland
Also known asJohn Welch
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