John Welsh (7 November 1904, Wexford
– 21 April 1985, London
) was an
Irish
actor.
After an
early stage career in Dublin
, Welsh 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, as well
as the butler Merriman in
The Duchess of Duke
Streetand as the barber in "Brideshead Revisited". He also
appeared in
Hancock's Half
Hour,
The
Brothers,
To
Serve Them All My Days and
The Citadel, and he played the
assistant chief constable in the early series of
Softly,
Softly.
Filmography
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