John Bardon
John Bardon was born in Brentford, England, United Kingdom on August 25th, 1939 and is the Soap Opera Actor. At the age of 75, John Bardon biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.
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Born John Michael Jones, 25 August 1939 – September 12, 2014), an English stage and film actor.
In 1988 (1987-1989 season) he was named 'Best Actor in a Musical' for Kiss Me, Kate, co-star Emil Wolk, who received the award.
He was best known for his role as the patriarch Jim Branning on EastEnders for 13 years.
Bardon died at the age of 75, according to the BBC on September 12, 2014.
Early life and amateur acting
John Michael Jones was born in Brentford, Middlesex; his father, a shipping clerk, worked in a building company before. "Bardon" was his grandmother's maiden name. He began working with The Taverners, a bar company that performed in pubs. He appeared in plays by the Civil Service drama company, which toured theatres in Germany and Austria.
Personal life
Bardon served as a shuttle driver at Heathrow Airport prior to his time in EastEnders. He married Enda Gates in June 2002.
After suffering a big stroke at home, Bardon was admitted to hospital on June 14th. When he opened a new stroke ward at the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Welwyn Garden City in November 2007, it was announced that he was making steady progress. Bardon had walked for the first time in six months on December 27, 2007.
Bardon was admitted to the hospital on 8th August 2008 with a second suspected stroke. Bardon had returned home on October 5, 2008, according to the newspaper. On Sunday, June Brown announced that he would return to EastEnders on Christmas Day. On December 4, 2008, Jim was briefly on television when his son Jack came to see him in the care home. Bardon returned to work at EastEnders full time in June 2009 and appeared on television from 20 August 2009.
Bardon's last appearance appeared on television on May 26, 2011, when his character Jim left Albert Square to live in a care home. Bardon died of a stroke at the Romford Grange Care Home in Collier Row, Romford, on the morning of September 12, 2014. He died later that day, and an episode of EastEnders that was broadcast that evening was dedicated to his memory.
Acting career
Bardon began acting professionally at the age of 30, then joined a repertory company in Exeter. He may be best known for his appearance in EastEnders' Jim Branning. Carol Jackson, the father of a well-known character, appeared briefly in 1996. Jim's character returned to the series in 1999, this time as a regular actor, before marrying Dot Cotton (June Brown). After years of poor health, Bardon filmed his last scenes for EastEnders in March 2011.
Rumpole of the Bailey as a member of "clan Timson, a family of South London criminals," as Rumpole described him. In 1975, he made prominent guest appearances in Dad's Army in the episode "Ring Dem Bells." (In addition to this, he appeared in Private Walker in the 1975–76 stage version of Dad's Army, as the original television actor James Beck died in 1973). Are You Being Served? In 1976, the episode "No Sales" was broadcast. He appeared in the British police drama The Sweeney, in which he played villain Doc Boyd in the episode "Faces," which first broadcast on Monday 8 September 1975. He appeared as a bookmaker in the film One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing in the same year. In 1978, Del Rogers appeared in G. F. Newman's Law and Order on BBC2. He appeared in an episode of Hi-de-Hi! in 1980.
In 1982, he appeared on Channel Four as legendary comedian Max Miller in "Her Body In the Library", a revival of the role in the much-acclaimed BBC drama, and as a night porter in the film version of Ordeal by Innocence. In 1986, he appeared in "The Longest Night," a supermarket security show on television series "The Longest Night." In 1989, he appeared in Agatha Christie's Poirot in the episode "Four and Twenty Blackbirds." He appeared in an episode of Minder the same year as a gambler.
In two episodes of Coronation Street in the early 1990s, he appeared as a guest star. In the 1996 TV version of Gulliver's Travels, he appeared as the father of Daryl Stubbs of a Feather (in 1991 and again in 1998), and he was an asylum warden. In 1997, he appeared briefly as one of the zoo clients in Fierce Creatures, and two years later he appeared in the film East Is East as Mr. Moorhouse.