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
2003
- Looking for Victoria as Henry Ponsonby
2001
- Waking the Dead as Edward Atkinson
1997
- Midsomer Murders as Arthur Prewitt
1994
- Pie in the Sky as Seymour Flint
- Wycliffe as Judge
- 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 Chronicles of Narnia as Ramandu
- The Storyteller as King
- The Tenth Man as Elderly Clerk
- Madame Sousatzka as Mr. Cordle
- The Storyteller: Sapsorrow as King
1987
- Star Cops as Ernest Wolfhartt
- Cause Célèbre as Mr. Justice Humphreys
1986
- Casualty as Duncan Frain
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes as Sidney Johnson
- All Passion Spent as William
- All Passion Spent as William
1985
- Blott on the Landscape as Ganglion
1984
- Sherlock Holmes as Sidney Johnson
- This Office Life as Ferrier
- Simulation Exercise as Mr Lawson
1981
- Bergerac as Henry Bernard
- Hallelujah!
- The Monster Club as Psychiatrist
1980
- Cribb as Uncle Ezra Winter
- Lady Killers as Dr. Alfred Austin French
- The Trial of Lady Chatterley as Justice Byrne
- A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special as The Crowman
1979
- Tales of the Unexpected as Sid
- Worzel Gummidge as The Crowman
- Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit as Organon
- Porridge as Governor Treadaway
1978
- All Creatures Great and Small as Roland Partridge
- The Famous Five as Mr Gringle
- The Nutcracker and the Mouse King as Drosselmeyer (voice)
1977
- Charleston as Onkel Fred
1976
- The Duchess of Duke Street as Collinghurst
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again as Dr. Duval
- The Slipper and the Rose as Archbishop
- Abide with Me as The Vicar
- 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
- Napoleon and Love as Ludwig, Hereditary Prince of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- The Gathering Storm as Kurt von Schuschnigg
- If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
- The Wood Demon as Dyadin
1973
- Orson Welles' Great Mysteries as Magistrate
- Men of Affairs as The Attorney General
- Steptoe & Son Ride Again as Vicar
- Alice Through the Looking Glass as The White Knight
- Gawain and the Green Knight as Wiseman
- That Sinking Feeling as Norman
1972
- Crown Court
- Van der Valk as Joseph Kettner
- The Adventures of Black Beauty as Professor Miles
- The Frighteners as The Man
- Tales from the Crypt as Guide
- Asylum as Max Reynolds
- Au Pair Girls as Mr. Howard
- Just in Time for Christmas as Mr. Nottage
1971
- Great Performances
- Justice as Dr. Lomax
- The House That Dripped Blood as Von Hartmann (segment 4 "The Cloak")
- The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins as Vernon (segment "Envy")
- The Raging Moon as Mr Latbury
- Say Hello to Yesterday as Estate Agent
- Platonov as Sergei
1969
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre as Finsbury
- In Loving Memory
- Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed as Police Doctor
- Journey to the Unknown as Jim Plimmer
- Otley as Insp. Hewitt
- The Bushbaby as Tilison
- A Child and a Half as Henry Ramsden
1968
- The Expert as Lawrence Richie
- Journey to the Unknown as Mr Jim Plimmer
- Nicholas Nickleby as Arthur Gride
- Inspector Clouseau as Gutch
- A Dandy in Aspic
- Assignment K as The Boffin
1967
- ITV Playhouse as Austin Withers
- Casino Royale as Q
- Boy Meets Girl as Henry Matthews
- To Sir, with Love as Theo Weston
- Two a Penny
1966
- NET Playhouse as Cool
- You Can't Win
- Where the Spies Are as Lecturer
- Sky West and Crooked as Rev. Phillip Moss
- The Last Invasion as Edward
1965
- BBC Play of the Month as Dyadin
- Life at the Top as Industrial Psychologist
- King Rat as Vexley
- Dead Man's Chest as Lane
1964
- The Wednesday Play as Mr. Mileson
- Theatre 625 as Edmund
- Detective
- Becket as Brother Philip (uncredited)
- The Massingham Affair as Mr. Lumley
1963
- Doctor Who as Organon
- Sergeant Cork as Menzies
- 55 Days at Peking as Smythe
1962
- The Saint as Marcel Legrand
- Suspense as Doctor Corbally
- The Longest Day as Officer at Eisenhower Briefing (uncredited)
- The Prince and the Pauper as Sir Goeffrey
- The Winter's Tale as Antigonus
- Jigsaw as Constable at Murder Scene (uncredited)
- The Webster Boy as Charles Jamieson
- The Amorous Prawn as 2nd Telephone Operator
1961
- The Avengers as Clapham
- Ghost Squad
- Greyfriars Bobby as The Vicar
1960
- An Age of Kings as Duke of York
- The Adventures of Alice as White Knight
- Cone of Silence as Aircraft Controller
- Suspect as Rosson
1959
- No Hiding Place
- Edgar Wallace Mysteries as Lane
- Yesterday's Enemy
- Libel as Second Photographer
- Whirlpool as Wendel
1958
- Dracula as Porter (uncredited)
- A Night to Remember as Wireless Operator Cyril Evans
- The Two-Headed Spy as Dietz
- The Camp on Blood Island as New Prisoner (uncredited)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Philostrate
1956
- Armchair Theatre as Uncle Norman
1955
- The Adventures of Robin Hood as Cal
1952
- Trent's Last Case as Reporter in Court
- The Stranger Left No Card as Hotel Clerk
1951
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Kurt von Schuschnigg