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
- 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
- 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
- Lady Killers as Dr. Alfred Austin French
- Cribb as Uncle Ezra Winter
- 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
- Worzel Gummidge as The Crowman
- Porridge as Governor Treadaway
- Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit as Organon
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 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
- The Wood Demon as Dyadin
- If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
1973
- Orson Welles' Great Mysteries as Magistrate
- Men of Affairs as The Attorney General
- Alice Through the Looking Glass as The White Knight
- Steptoe & Son Ride Again as Vicar
- Gawain and the Green Knight as Wiseman
- That Sinking Feeling as Norman
1972
- Crown Court
- Van der Valk as Joseph Kettner
- The Frighteners as The Man
- The Adventures of Black Beauty as Professor Miles
- Au Pair Girls as Mr. Howard
- Tales from the Crypt as Guide
- Asylum as Max Reynolds
- 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 Raging Moon as Mr Latbury
- The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins as Vernon (segment "Envy")
- 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
- The Bushbaby as Tilison
- Otley as Insp. Hewitt
- A Child and a Half as Henry Ramsden
- Journey to the Unknown as Jim Plimmer
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
- King Rat as Vexley
- Life at the Top as Industrial Psychologist
- Dead Man's Chest as Lane
1964
- Theatre 625 as Edmund
- The Wednesday Play as Mr. Mileson
- 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
- The Longest Day as Officer at Eisenhower Briefing (uncredited)
- Suspense as Doctor Corbally
- The Prince and the Pauper as Sir Goeffrey
- The Winter's Tale as Antigonus
- Jigsaw as Constable at Murder Scene (uncredited)
- The Amorous Prawn as 2nd Telephone Operator
- The Webster Boy as Charles Jamieson
1961
- The Avengers as Clapham
- Ghost Squad
- Greyfriars Bobby as The Vicar
1960
- An Age of Kings as Duke of York
- Cone of Silence as Aircraft Controller
- Suspect as Rosson
- The Adventures of Alice as White Knight
1959
- No Hiding Place
- Edgar Wallace Mysteries as Lane
- Yesterday's Enemy
- Libel as Second Photographer
- Whirlpool as Wendel
1958
- A Night to Remember as Wireless Operator Cyril Evans
- Dracula as Porter (uncredited)
- 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