Geoffrey Bayldon (born 7 January 1924) is a British actor. 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. Bayldon's other long-running parts include the Crowman in Worzel Gummidge and Magic Grandad in the BBC television series Watch.
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).
Among his more recent television appearances was the Five game show 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. 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.
Other television roles include parts in the dramatisation of Blott on the Landscape, and in an episode of The Avengers and of Star Cops. 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, 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.
References
^ http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/schools/bbcschoolsprogrammes70s.html
External links
Geoffrey Bayldon at the Internet Movie Database
Geoffrey Bayldon at TV.com
Catweazle Fanclub UK
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NAME
Geoffrey Bayldon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION
English actor
DATE OF BIRTH
January 7, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH
Leeds, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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