John Welsh (actor)


John Welsh 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', 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 - Mr. TennantThe Clue of the Missing Ape - Army Intelligence Officer An Inspector Calls - Shop WalkerDiplomatic Passport - US Embassy Official The Divided Heart - Chief MarshallIsn't Life Wonderful! - Uncle JamesThe Dark Avenger - GurdConfession - Father NeilTrack the Man Down - 'Smiling' Sam Lost - Police Scientist The Man in the Road - George White - the GamekeeperThe Man Who Never Was - Bank Manager Women Without Men - Prison ChaplainThe Long Arm - House Agent at SheppertonThe Counterfeit Plan - Police Insp. GrantThe Secret Place - Mr. Christian Brothers in Law - Mr. Justice FanshaweThe Long Haul - DoctorMan in the Shadow - Inspector HuntLucky Jim - The PrincipalThe Surgeon's Knife - Insp. AustenThe Birthday Present - Chief Customs OfficerThe Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958 film) - George Fraser The Safecracker - Inspector OwingDunkirk - Staff ColonelIndiscreet - Passport Official The Revenge of Frankenstein - BergmanNext to No Time - Steve, Bar StewardShe Didn't Say No! - InspectorBehind the Mask - Colonel LangleyNowhere to Go - Second Mr. Dodds Room at the Top - Mayor Operation Bullshine - BrigadierBobbikins - AdmiralThe Rough and the Smooth - Dr. ThompsonThe Night We Dropped a Clanger - Squadron Leader GrantBeyond the Curtain - TurnerThe Trials of Oscar Wilde - Cafe Royal ManagerFollow That Horse! - Major TurnerA Circle of Deception - Maj. TaylorSnowball - Ted WylieKonga - First Plain Clothes OfficerFrancis of Assisi - Canon CattaneiJohnny Nobody - JudgeScotland Yard (film series) - The Square Mile Murder- Inspector HicksGo to Blazes - Chief Fire OfficerThe Inspector - Agriculture OfficerFog for a Killer - GovernorLife for Ruth - MarshallThe Quare Fellow - CarrollThe Wild and the Willing - PublicanThe Playboy of the Western World - Philly CullenNightmare - DoctorRasputin: The Mad Monk - The AbbotAttack on the Iron Coast - Admiral of the Fleet Lord William CansleySubterfuge - HeinerJourney into Darkness - Bart Brereton The Man Who Haunted Himself - Sir Charles FreemanCromwell - Bishop Juxon