Joe Melia

Joe Melia (23 January 1935, Islington^[1] – 20 October 2012,^[2] Stratford on Avon) was a British actor. He was educated at the City of Leicester Boys' Grammar School.^[3]

He first came to notice in Peter Nichols’s A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Glasgow Citizens, 1967).^[4]

Filmography

Films

• Too Many Crooks (1959)
• Follow a Star (1959)
• The Intelligence Men (1965)
• Four in the Morning (1965)
• Modesty Blaise (1966)
• Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
• A Talent for Loving (1969)
• Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
• Sweeney! (1977)
• Leonardo's Last Supper (1977)
• The Odd Job (1978)
• The Wildcats of St Trinians (1980)
• Privates on Parade (1982)
• The Sign of Four (1983)
• Sakharov (1984)

Television roles

• Love on a Branch Line
• Not Only... But Also (guest appearance)
• Double Dare
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)
• A Very Peculiar Practice
• Last of the Summer Wine A Bicycle Made For Three
• Minder

References

1. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0577705/
2. Elvin, Laura (2012-10-30). "Reluctant city star Joe Melia dies, 77". This is Leicestershire. Retrieved 2012-11-05.
3. http://www.wyvernians.org.uk/news_pdf/issue63.pdf
4. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/theatre-obituaries/9665308/Joe-Melia.html

External links

• Obituary, The Guardian, 7 November 2012
• , IMDB Joe Melia