David Bailie
| David Bailie | |
|---|---|
| Born |
4 December 1937 Springs SA |
| Occupation | Actor, photographer, Videographer, Computer Programmer, Furniture maker/designer |
| Years active | 1961-present |
| Spouse(s) | Egidija Bailie (m. 2002) |
| Website | http://davidbailie.co.uk/ |
David Bailie (born 4 December 1937) is an English actor, known for his performances on stage, television and film. In the 1960s and '70s he worked for both the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he was an associate artist. On TV he played "Dask" in the 1977 Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death, and also appeared in Blake's 7. On film, he played the mute pirate Cotton in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Bailie is also a professional photographer, specialising in portrait photography. He has a studio in West Kensington, London.
Bailie was born in Springs, Gauteng Province, South Africa, and went to boarding school in Swaziland, before emigrating to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) with his family in 1952. His first acting experience soon after school in 1955 was an amateur production of Doctor in the House, which persuaded him he wanted to be an actor. After leaving school he worked in a bank and then for Central African Airlines. In 1958, he made his first trip from Rhodesia to Britain.
In 1960 he moved to Britain and landed his first small role in the film Flame in the Streets (1960) and then played one of the bell boys in Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (1961) with Stella Adler playing Madame Rosepettle. He then bluffed his way into weekly repertory in Barrow-in-Furness as juvenile lead - terrified the while that he would be exposed as totally inexperienced.
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