Geoffrey Bayldon
Born: 1924-01-07 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Died: 2017-05-10
Known For: Acting
Biography
Albert Geoffrey Bayldon (7 January 1924 – 10 May 2017) was an English actor. After playing roles in many stage productions, including the works of William Shakespeare, he became known for portraying the title role of the children's series Catweazle (1969–70). Bayldon's other long-running parts include the Crowman in Worzel Gummidge (1979–81) and Magic Grandad in the BBC television series Watch (1995).
Filmography
2012
- Amicus: House of Horrors as Self
2010
- Love/Loss as Alfie Wainwright
2004
- New Tricks
- Ladies in Lavender as Mr Penhaligon
2001
- Waking the Dead as Edward Atkinson
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Arthur Prewitt
1994
- Wycliffe as Judge
- Pie in the Sky as Seymour Flint
- Tom & Viv as Harwent
1993
- Peak Practice as Alby James
- Magic Grandad as Grandad Albert
1992
- Heartbeat as Follett
1991
- Soldier Soldier as Jack Knight
1990
- TECX
- The Tale of Little Pig Robinson as Mr. Mumby
1989
- Campion as Rev. Swithin Cush
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader as Ramandu
1988
- The Storyteller as King
- The Chronicles of Narnia as Ramandu
- Madame Sousatzka as Mr. Cordle
- The Tenth Man as Elderly Clerk
1987
- Cause Célèbre as Mr. Justice Humphreys
- Star Cops as Ernest Wolfhartt
1986
- Casualty as Duncan Frain
- All Passion Spent as William
1985
- Blott on the Landscape as Ganglion
1984
- Sherlock Holmes as Sidney Johnson
- Simulation Exercise as Mr Lawson
- This Office Life as Ferrier
1981
- Bergerac as Henry Bernard
- The Monster Club as Psychiatrist
- Hallelujah!
1980
- Lady Killers as Dr. Alfred Austin French
- A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special as The Crowman
- The Trial of Lady Chatterley as Justice Byrne
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Sid
- Porridge as Governor Treadaway
- Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit as Organon
- Worzel Gummidge as The Crowman
1978
- All Creatures Great and Small as Roland Partridge
- The Nutcracker and the Mouse King as Drosselmeyer (voice)
1977
- Charleston as Onkel Fred
1976
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again as Dr. Duval
- The Slipper and the Rose as Archbishop
- The Man with the Power as Mr. Smythe
1975
- Rumpole of the Bailey as Brinsley Lampitt
- Space: 1999 as Number Eight
1974
- Playhouse as Mr. Smythe
- Churchill's People
- If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
- Napoleon and Love
- The Gathering Storm as Kurt von Schuschnigg
- The Wood Demon as Dyadin
1973
- Steptoe & Son Ride Again as Vicar
- Gawain and the Green Knight as Wiseman
- Alice Through the Looking Glass
- That Sinking Feeling as Norman
1972
- Crown Court
- Van der Valk as Joseph Kettner
- Asylum as Max Reynolds
- Au Pair Girls as Mr. Howard
- The Adventures of Black Beauty as Professor Miles
- Just in Time for Christmas as Mr. Nottage
- Tales from the Crypt as Guide
- The Frighteners as The Man
1971
- Great Performances
- Platonov as Sergei
- Justice as Dr. Lomax
- The House That Dripped Blood as Von Hartmann (segment 4 "The Cloak")
- The Raging Moon as Mr Latbury
- The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins as Vernon (segment "Envy")
- Say Hello to Yesterday as Estate Agent
1969
- Otley as Insp. Hewitt
- Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed as Police Doctor
- Journey to the Unknown as Jim Plimmer
- A Child and a Half as Henry Ramsden
- In Loving Memory
- The Bushbaby as Tilison
1968
- Inspector Clouseau as Gutch
- The Expert as Lawrence Richie
- Assignment K as The Boffin
- A Dandy in Aspic
- Journey to the Unknown as Mr Jim Plimmer
- Nicholas Nickleby as Arthur Gride
1967
- Casino Royale as Q
- To Sir, with Love as Theo Weston
- Two a Penny
1966
- The Last Invasion as Edward
- Where the Spies Are as Lecturer
- Sky West and Crooked as Rev. Phillip Moss
- You Can't Win
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Dyadin
- King Rat as Vexley
- Dead Man's Chest as Lane
- Life at the Top as Industrial Psychologist
1964
- Theatre 625 as Edmund
- Becket as Brother Philip (uncredited)
- Detective
- The Massingham Affair
1963
- Doctor Who as Organon
- 55 Days at Peking as Smythe
1962
- The Saint as Marcel Legrand
- Jigsaw as Constable at Murder Scene (uncredited)
- The Prince and the Pauper as Sir Goeffrey
- The Amorous Prawn as 2nd Telephone Operator
- The Webster Boy as Charles Jamieson
- Suspense
1961
- The Avengers as Clapham
- Greyfriars Bobby as The Vicar
- Ghost Squad
1960
- Suspect as Rosson
- An Age of Kings as Duke of York
- Cone of Silence as Aircraft Controller
- The Adventures of Alice as White Knight
1959
- No Hiding Place
- Libel as Second Photographer
- Yesterday's Enemy
- Boy Meets Girls
- Whirlpool as Wendel
1958
- Dracula as Porter (uncredited)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Philostrate
- The Two-Headed Spy as Dietz
- The Camp on Blood Island as New Prisoner (uncredited)
- A Night to Remember as Wireless Operator Cyril Evans
1955
- The Adventures of Robin Hood as Cal
1952
- The Stranger Left No Card as Hotel Clerk
- Trent's Last Case as Reporter in Court
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Kurt von Schuschnigg