James Hazeldine

James Hazeldine was an English actor and director who worked in theater, television and film. Raised in Salford, he left school at fifteen and started at Salford Repertory, where he was taken on as a student assistant stage manager before small acting roles came his way. At twenty he first appeared in London, at the Royal Court in Sloane Square, and he later joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. He became best known for playing firefighter Mike Wilson, called Bayleaf, in London's Burning from 1986 to 1996, and he also directed some episodes. Other television work included Tom Crane in The Omega Factor and Frank Barraclough in Sam. His films included The Medusa Touch (1978) and Pink Floyd The Wall (1982), and he appeared in Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986). On stage he took roles in Strange Interlude and The Iceman Cometh, and his final stage performance was in All My Sons in 2000. He died in 2002.