| Geoffrey Bayldon | |
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| Born | 7 January 1924 [age 84] Leeds, Yorkshire |
Geoffrey Bayldon (born 7 January 1924) is a British actor. Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Leeds ( is located on the River Aire in West Yorkshire, England Yorkshire is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Events 1325 - Alfonso IV becomes King of Portugal. 1558 - France takes Calais, the last continental Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works After playing roles in dramas of Shakespeare, he became famous with the role of Catweazle in the early 1970s, after turning down the opportunity to play the first doctor in Doctor Who. William Shakespeare ( baptised Catweazle was a British Television series in 1970 created and written by Richard Carpenter and produced by London Weekend Television Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. Bayldon's other long-running parts include the Crowman in Worzel Gummidge and Magic Grandad in the BBC television series Watch. Worzel Gummidge is a British children's fictional character – a walking talking Scarecrow, who originally appeared in a series of books by the novelist Barbara Magic Grandad was an educational programme which originally aired on BBC Two Schools section Watch during 1995
Bayldon made several film appearances in the 1960s and 1970s, including King Rat (1965), To Sir With Love (1967) Casino Royale (1967), the Envy segment of The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971) and the film version of the television series Porridge (1979). King Rat is a 1965 Film version of the James Clavell novel King Rat. To Sir with Love ( 1967) is a British film starring Sidney Poitier that deals with social and racial issues in an Inner city school Casino Royale is a 1967 epic surrealistic Satire originally produced by Columbia Pictures starring an Ensemble cast The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 Comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Porridge was a British situation comedy that was broadcast on BBC1 from 1973 to 1977 running for three series two Christmas specials as well as
Among his more recent television appearances was the Five game show Fort Boyard. Fort Boyard is a French Game show created by Jacques Antoine, that was first broadcast in 1990 (as Les Clés de Fort Boyard
He also had a guest appearance in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who as Organon in The Creature from the Pit. A television program (US television programme (UK or television show (U The Creature from the Pit is a serial in the British Science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast More recently, he has also performed in two audio plays based on the Doctor Who television series by Big Finish Productions in the Doctor Who Unbound series: Auld Mortality and A Storm of Angels. Radio drama is a form of audio storytelling broadcast on radio. Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to Compact disc and Auld Mortality is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series A Storm of Angels is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series
Other television roles include parts in the dramatisation of Blott on the Landscape, and in an episode of The Avengers and of Star Cops. Blott on the Landscape is a novel written in 1975 by Tom Sharpe. The Avengers was a British Television series featuring Secret agents in 1960s Britain. Star Cops is a British Science fiction Television series first broadcast on BBC Two in 1987 He was in the Tales of the Unexpected episode "Down Among the Sheltering Palms. " He has also appeared in a number of BBC Schools programmes,[1] where he has displayed a number of otherwise unexploited talents (such as singing). In 2007 he made a guest appearance in New Tricks as Leonard Casey.
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| Persondata | |
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| NAME | Geoffrey Bayldon |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | English actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leeds, England |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
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