Personal Info
Birth date
1904-11-07 (120 Years)
Day of death
1985-04-21
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Wexford, Ireland
Also known as
John Welch
John Welsh
Biography
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Filmography
No Hiding Place
3.7
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No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.Hancock's Half Hour
7.5
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Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC television comedy series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock with Sid James. The final series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.Night Court
7.352
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An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.Play for Today
6.333
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Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.The BBC Television Shakespeare
6
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The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.Softly, Softly
5
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Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.Remington Steele
7.1
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Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.Public Eye
7.8
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Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."The Main Chance
7.7
Overview:
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.Journey to the Unknown
6.3
Overview:
A British television anthology series with a fantasy, science fiction and supernatural theme, similar to the American television series The Twilight Zone, and deals with normal people whose everyday situations somehow become extraordinary.The Forsyte Saga
8.2
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The Forsyte Saga is a 1967 BBC television adaptation of John Galsworthy's series of The Forsyte Saga novels, and its sequel trilogy A Modern Comedy. The series follows the fortunes of the upper middle class Forsyte family, and stars Eric Porter as Soames, Kenneth More as Young Jolyon and Nyree Dawn Porter as Irene. It was adapted for television and produced by Donald Wilson and was originally shown in twenty-six episodes on Saturday evenings between 7 January and 1 July 1967 on BBC2, at a time when only a small proportion of the population had television sets able to receive this channel. It was therefore the repeat on Sunday evenings on BBC1 starting on 8 September 1968 that secured the programme's success with 18 million tuning in for the final episode in 1969. It was shown in the United States on public television and broadcast all over the world, and became the first BBC television series to be sold to the Soviet Union.Mystery and Imagination
5.5
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Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 by the ITV network and produced by ABC and Thames Television.Sir Francis Drake
4.5
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Sir Francis Drake was a British adventure television series starring Terence Morgan as Sir Francis Drake, commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind. As well as battles at sea, sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at Elizabeth's court, often caused by Spaniard, Mendoza.Justice
6
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Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.Rumpole of the Bailey
7.1
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Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.The Frighteners
8.5
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A horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale.The Edwardians
5.7
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It was a time when England was a nation on the cusp of change, an evolving landscape tht lay between Victorian England and the First World War. 'The Edwardians' explores the lives of and events in the lives of many who helped define the era, the "Belle Epoque".Catweazle
7.5
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A medieval wizard (though not a very good one) Catweazle is transported to the modern age... A British television series, created and written by Richard Carpenter which was produced and directed by Quentin Lawrence for London Weekend Television under the LWI banner, and screened in the UK on ITV in 1970. A second season in 1971 was directed by David Reid and David Lane. Both series had thirteen episodes each, with Geoffrey Bayldon playing the leading role. The series was broadcast in Ireland, Britain, Gibraltar, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Germany, Australia, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Czechoslovakia, Nicaragua and Quebec. The first episode is available to view in full at the BFI Screenonline site.To Serve Them All My Days
7.7
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After barely surviving the trenches of World War I, an embittered young soldier takes a teaching post at Bamfylde, an elite boarding school in the uplands of West Devon. It is an unlikely job for a Welsh miner's son without a degree, but David Powlett-Jones (John Duttine) proves to be a rare schoolmaster, as passionate about learning as he is about teaching. Through two tumultuous decades, Powlett-Jones inspires his students with his courage and idealism, qualities that help prepare him to send another generation of young men off to fight yet another war.13 Queens Blvd.
NYR
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13 Queens Boulevard is an American sitcom that aired from March 20 until July 24, 1979.Fall of Eagles
6.8
Overview:
"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns) and Russia (the Romanovs).Codename
NYR
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Codename, which premiered in April 1970, was about the secretive MI17 Spy Organisation of the same name based in the residential hall of a Cambridge College. Eventually the series attained a more international flavour, although its base was always in Great Britain. Primarily Codename dealt with the themes of espionage and counter-espionage at the time of the Cold War of the sixties. Its cast contained many of Great Britain's most versatile and talented actors.Inheritance
5
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Inheritance was a 1967 Granada produced ITV drama based on a 1932 novel by Phyllis Bentley. The ten-part period drama revolved around the fortunes of the Oldroyds, a Yorkshire mill owning family from 1812 to 1965. The early part of the series featured the Luddite riots involving the burning of mills and the subsequent execution of those responsible. The series turned the expression "There's trouble at t'mill" into a catchphrase. The series featured Michael Goodliffe, John Thaw and James Bolam in leading roles over the generations. Each new generation saw Goodliffe and Thaw playing father and eldest son with Bolam usually playing the part of the younger son. The series also included later books by Phyllis Bentley including The Rise of Henry Morcar and A Man of His Time.Napoleon and Love
NYR
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Napoleon and Love was a 1974 British television series originally aired on ITV and lasting for 9 episodes from 5 March to 30 April 1974. The series starred Ian Holm in the title role as Napoleon I and depicts his relationships with the women who featured in his life as a backdrop to his rise and fall.Blott on the Landscape
7.5
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A thwarted Lady Maud runs off to her solicitor to start divorce proceedings and that gives Sir Giles his bright idea-why not run the proposed bypass for the area through their very own Cleene Gorge, thereby wrecking Lady Maud's ancestral home and copping rather a lot of compensation from the government to boot? Witness the frolics of the bumbling dundridge - the Y-front clad man from the ministry, Sir Giles' versatile Mrs Forthby - Mediterranean harlot and naughty schoolgirl extraordinaire, not forgetting Blott himself, gardener and mystery man, casting his enigmatic eye over the eccentricities of the great British aristocracy... Starring, George Cole, Geraldine James, David Suchet, Simon Cadell and Julia McKenzieKizzy
6
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Kizzy is the name given to the 1976 BBC adaptation of Rumer Godden's novel The Diddakoi. It starred Vanessa Furst as Kizzy. It is the story of an orphan traveller or Romani girl called Kizzy, who faces persecution, grief and loss in a hostile, close-knit village community. This is a moving tale of human fallibility and sorrow, but also of strength, courage and redemption. It was dramatised as a television serial, Kizzy, which was produced by Dorothea Brooking for the BBC, with Vanessa Furst as Kizzy. The novel has been republished under the title Gypsy Girl, and has been adapted as a BBC radio drama of the same name. This adaptation features Nisa Cole.[2]Acting
1987Campus Man as Professor Jarman
1986Abducted as Search Party
1985Murder: By Reason of Insanity as Salesman
1985Blott on the Landscape (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1984It Came Upon the Midnight Clear as Jogger
1984Night Court (1, 2 Episode) as Doctor, Dr. Friedman
1983Krull as Seer
1982My Favorite Year as Cubby Brown
1982Remington Steele (1 Episode) as A.J. Drury
1981From a Far Country as Priest
1981Timon of Athens as Flavius
1981The Winter's Tale as Archidamus
1980To Serve Them All My Days (13 Episodes) as Cordwainer
1979Katie: The Year of a Child as Committee chairman
1979Americathon as Ben
197913 Queens Blvd. (1 Episode) as Unknown
1978The BBC Television Shakespeare (1 Episode) as Flavius
1978The Thirty Nine Steps as Lord Belthane
1978Maneaters Are Loose! as George Leppard
1978Rabbit Test as Army Aide
1978Last Wishes as Dr. Welsh
1977Do as I Say as Pops
1976The Duchess of Duke Street (31 Episodes) as Merriman
1976Kizzy (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1975Rumpole of the Bailey (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, C. H. Wystan
1975Brassneck as Unknown
1974Fall of Eagles (1 Episode) as Archbishop
1974Napoleon and Love (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1974If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them as Unknown
1973Yellow Dog as Bewsley
1972The Pied Piper as Chancellor
1972Horatio Bottomley as Mr. Justice Hawkins
1972The Edwardians (1 Episode) as Unknown
1972The Frighteners (1 Episode) as Fred Cartwright
1971Justice (1, 1 Episode) as Presiding Judge, Alastair Coates
1971The Ten Commandments (1 Episode) as Rev. Martindale
1970Play for Today (1 Episode) as Philip Hucknell
1970The Man Who Haunted Himself as Sir Charles Freeman
1970Cromwell as Bishop Juxon
1970Codename (1 Episode) as Mallory
1970Catweazle (1 Episode) as Colonel Dickenson
1969The Main Chance (1, 1 Episode) as James Renshaw, Sir Stephen Kirwin
1968Subterfuge as Heiner
1968Uncle Silas as Austin Ruthyn
1968Journey to the Unknown (1 Episode) as Unknown
1968Journey Into Darkness as Bart Brereton
1967Inheritance (10 Episodes) as Joth Bamforth
1967The Forsyte Saga (26 Episodes) as James Forsyte
1966Rasputin: The Mad Monk as The Abbot
1966Mystery and Imagination (1 Episode) as Unknown
1966Softly, Softly (269 Episodes) as Unknown
1965Pity About the Abbey as Sir Robert Challoner
1965Public Eye (1 Episode) as Cobden Felcourt
1965Catch As Catch Can as Paddy
1965The Night Prowler as Paddy
1965Mystery at the Forge as Paddy
1965Dead End Creek as Paddy
1965All at Sea as Paddy
1965Highway Robbery as Paddy
1965The Mysterious Stranger as Paddy
1964Nightmare as Doctor
1962The Quare Fellow as Carroll
1962Life for Ruth as Marshall
1962Katy (8 Episodes) as Unknown
1962Go to Blazes as Chief Fire Officer
1961Sir Francis Drake (1 Episode) as Governor Walters
1961Stryker of the Yard (1 Episode) as Unknown
1961Johnny Nobody as Judge
1961Francis of Assisi as Canon Cattanei
1961The Mark as 1st Plain Clothes Officer
1960Circle of Deception as Maj. Taylor
1960The Trials of Oscar Wilde as Cafe Royal Manager
1960Beyond the Curtain as Turner
1960Snowball as Ted Wylie
1959The Men From Room 13 (25 Episodes) as Unknown
1959The Night We Dropped a Clanger as Squadron Leader Grant
1959The Rough and the Smooth as Dr. Thompson
1959No Hiding Place (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959Bobbikins as Unknown
1959Operation Bullshine as Brigadier
1958Room at the Top as Mayor (uncredited)
1958Nowhere to Go as Second Mr. Dodds
1958Behind the Mask as Colonel Langley
1958She Didn't Say No! as The School Inspector
1958Next to No Time as Steve, Bar Steward
1958The Revenge of Frankenstein as Bergman
1958Dunkirk as Staff Colonel
1958The Safecracker as Inspector Owing
1958The Man Who Wouldn't Talk as George Fraser (uncredited)
1957The Birthday Present as Chief Customs Officer
1957The Surgeon's Knife as Inspector Austen
1957Lucky Jim as The Principal (as John Welch)
1957Man in the Shadow as Inspector Hunt
1957The Long Haul as Doctor
1957Brothers in Law as Mr. Justice Fanshawe
1957The Secret Place as Mr. Christian (uncredited)
1957The Counterfeit Plan as Police Inspector Grant
1956Fire on the Heather as Unknown
1956Hancock's Half Hour (1 Episode) as Unknown
1956The Long Arm as House Agent at Shepperton
1956The Man Who Never Was as Bank Manager
1956The Man in the Road as George White - the Gamekeeper
1956Lost as Police Scientist (Uncredited)
1955Confession as Father Neil
1955The Dark Avenger as Gurd
1955Contraband Spain as Oficial superior de aduanas (no acreditado)
1954The Divided Heart as Chief Marshall
1954An Inspector Calls as Shop Walker - Mr. Timmon
1953Isn't Life Wonderful! as Uncle James
1953The Clue of the Missing Ape as Army Intelligence Officer