Geoffrey Bayldon
Geoffrey Bayldon was born in Leeds, England, United Kingdom on January 7th, 1924 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 93, Geoffrey Bayldon biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Albert Geoffrey Bayldon (January 1924-May 2017) was an English actor.
He began appearing in many stage productions, including William Shakespeare's, and he was known for portraying the title role in the children's series Catweazle (1970–71).
The Crowman in Worzel Gummidge (1979–81) and Magic Grandad in the BBC television series Watch (1995) are two of Bayldon's longest-running roles.
Early life
Bayldon was born in Leeds and attended Bridlington School and Hull College of Architecture. He appeared in amateur dramas and then trained at the Old Vic Theatre School after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II.
Career
Bayldon had a lengthy stage career, including stints in the West End and RSC. King Rat (1965), To Sir, with Love (1967), Casino Royale (as Q) (1967), The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971), Peter Bolan/T. Born to Boogie (1972), a Rex film that appeared as the winner, as well as the 1976 film versions of Steptoe and Son, Steptoe and Son (1973) as the king and Porridge (1979) as the Prison Governor.
Bayldon has appeared in numerous horror films, including Dracula and Frankenstein, and Hammer Films' Dracula and Frankenstein's Dracula, Asylum, and Tales from the Crypt for Amicus. He appeared in the film Ladies in Lavender in 2004, after many years of successful television work.
With a guest appearance as Organon in The Creature from the Pit (1979), opposite Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, he appeared in Doctor Who. He appeared as an alternative First Doctor in two audio plays based on the Doctor Who television series by Big Finish Productions, including Auld Mortality (2003) and A Storm of Angels (2005). Bayldon, 1963, was one of the first actors to be granted the role of Doctor.
Other television appearances include: The Week (1957, 1959, 1964, 1967), The Avengers (1961, 1967), The Tomorrow People (1978), Blott on the Water (1980, 1969), Theatre 625 (1989), The Chronicles of Narnia (1989). He later appeared on a number of BBC Schools' programmes, where he displayed a number of otherwise unexplored talents (such as singing). He appeared Simplicio in the Open University video Newton's Revolution in 1993.
Bayldon performed on Paul Hardcastle's The Wizard in 1986, a tribute to BBC1's Top of the Pops.
Fort Boyard (1998–2001), Waking the Dead (2004), Heartbeat (2004), and Casualty (2006) were among his later television appearances, after earlier appearances in 1991, 1997, and 2004. New Tricks (2007) and My Family (2010) were his last television appearances before his retirement.