John Salew
| John Salew | |
|---|---|
 in The Saint Meets the Tiger (1943) | |
| Born |
John Rylett Salew, 1902 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Died |
14 September 1961 (aged 58–59) Hammersmith, London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Film actor |
| Years active | 1938–1961 |
John Salew (1902 in Portsmouth, Hampshire – 14 September 1961 in London) was a British stage film and TV actor.[1] Salew made the transition from stage to films in 1939, and according to Allmovie,[2] "the manpower shortage during WWII enabled the stout, balding Salew to play larger and more important roles than would have been his lot in other circumstances. He usually played suspicious-looking characters, often Germanic in origin." His screen roles included William Shakespeare in the comic fantasy Time Flies (1944), Grimstone in the Gothic melodrama Uncle Silas (1947), and the librarian in the supernatural thriller Night of the Demon (1957). John Salew was active into the TV era, playing the sort of character parts that John McGiver played in the U.S.[2]
Selected filmography
- It's in the Air (1938)
- The Silent Battle (1939)
- The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
- Sailors Don't Care (1940)
- Once a Crook (1941)
- Turned Out Nice Again (1941)
- The Farmer's Wife (1941)
- One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)
- The Day Will Dawn (1942)
- Suspected Person (1942)
- Secret Mission (1942)
- Tomorrow We Live (1943)
- The Saint Meets the Tiger (1943)
- Don't Take It to Heart (1944)
- Time Flies (1944)
- The Rake's Progress (1945)
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
- The October Man (1947)
- It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
- Anna Karenina (1947)
- Bond Street (1948)
- Quartet (1948)
- London Belongs to Me (1948)
- No Way Back (1949)
- The Bad Lord Byron (1949)
- Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
- Don't Ever Leave Me (1949)
- The Astonished Heart (1950)
- Mystery Junction (1951)
- The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
- Night Was Our Friend (1951)
- The Happy Family (1952)
- Face the Music (1954)
- Father Brown (1954)
- It's Great to Be Young (1956)
- Night of the Demon (1957)
- The Good Companions (1957)
- The Gypsy and the Gentleman (1958)
- Tread Softly Stranger (1958)
- Left Right and Centre (1959)
- Alive and Kicking (1959)
- Too Hot to Handle (1960)
- The Impersonator(1960)
- Three on a Spree (1961)
References
- ↑ "BFI | Film & TV Database | SALEW, John". Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk. 2009-04-16. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
- 1 2 "John Salew movies, photos, movie reviews, filmography, and biography". AllMovie. Retrieved 2014-03-10.