John Welsh

John Welsh was an Irish actor who, after building a stage career in Dublin, moved into British film and television during the 1950s. He was born in Wexford and died in London in 1985. On television he played James Forsyte in the BBC's 1967 adaptation of The Forsyte Saga and Sir Pitt Crawley in a version of Thackeray's Vanity Fair, and he took the part of the waiter Merriman in The Duchess of Duke Street, Sgt Cuff in The Moonstone and the barber in a brief scene in Brideshead Revisited. His other credits included Hancock's Half Hour, The Brothers, Prince Regent, To Serve Them All My Days, The Frighteners and The Citadel, and he appeared as the assistant chief constable in Softly, Softly. In Danger Man he played several roles, among them British diplomats and butlers.