John Welsh (actor)

John Welsh (actor)
John Welsh (7 November 1914 – 21 April 1985) was an Irish actor.
Biography
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
The Accused (1953) - Mr. Tennant
The Clue of the Missing Ape (1953) - Army Intelligence Officer (uncredited)
An Inspector Calls (1954) - Shop Walker
Diplomatic Passport (1954) - US Embassy Official (uncredited)
The Divided Heart (1954) - Chief Marshall
Isn't Life Wonderful! (1954) - Uncle James
The Dark Avenger (1955) - Gurd
Confession (1955) - Father Neil
Track the Man Down (1955) - 'Smiling' Sam (uncredited)
Lost (1956) - Police Scientist (uncredited)
The Man in the Road (1956) - George White - the Gamekeeper
The Man Who Never Was (1956) - Bank Manager (uncredited)
Women Without Men (1956) - Prison Chaplain
The Long Arm (1956) - House Agent at Shepperton
The Counterfeit Plan (1957) - Police Insp. Grant
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 (1957) - The Principal
The Surgeon's Knife (1957) - Insp. Austen
The Birthday Present (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 (1958) - Bergman
Next to No Time (1958) - Steve, Bar Steward
She Didn't Say No! (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 (1959) - Brigadier
Bobbikins (1959) - Admiral
The Rough and the Smooth (1959) - Dr. Thompson
The Night We Dropped a Clanger (1959) - Squadron Leader Grant
Beyond the Curtain (1960) - Turner
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) - Cafe Royal Manager
Follow That Horse! (1960) - Major Turner
A Circle of Deception (1960) - Maj. Taylor
Snowball (1960) - Ted Wylie
Konga (1961) - First Plain Clothes Officer
Francis of Assisi (1961) - Canon Cattanei
Johnny Nobody (1961) - Judge
Scotland Yard (film series) (1961) - The Square Mile Murder - Inspector Hicks
Go to Blazes (1962) - Chief Fire Officer
The Inspector (1962) - Agriculture Officer
Fog for a Killer (1962) - Governor
Life for Ruth (1962) - Marshall
The Quare Fellow (1962) - Carroll
The Wild and the Willing (1962) - Publican
The Playboy of the Western World (1963) - Philly Cullen
Nightmare (1964) - Doctor
Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966) - The Abbot
Attack on the Iron Coast (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 (1970) - Sir Charles Freeman
Cromwell (1970) - Bishop Juxon
Catweazle (1971) - The Walking Trees - Colonel Arnold Dickenson
Lord Peter Wimsey (TV series), (The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, episode) (1972) - Mr. Murbles
The Pied Piper (1972) - Chancellor
A Story of Tutankhamun (1973) - Grandfather
Yellow Dog (1973) - Bewsley
Edward the King (1975) - Duke of Wellington
Kizzy (1976) - Admiral Twiss
Grayeagle (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 (1985) - Lord Leakham
References
External links
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