John Hallam
| John Hallam | |
|---|---|
| Born |
John William Francis Hallam 28 October 1941 Lisburn, Northern Ireland United Kingdom |
| Died | 14 November 2006 (aged 65) Clifton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Film, television actor |
| Years active | 1967-2003 |
| Spouse(s) | Vicky Brinkworth (1966-1992) (divorced) |
| Children | 4 |
John William Francis Hallam (28 October 1941 – 14 November 2006) was a British character actor, who was well known in the United Kingdom for playing hard men or military types.
John Hallam was born, the son of a superintendent at London Docklands, in 1941 in Lisburn, County Antrim, after the family were evacuated to Northern Ireland during the Second World War. On returning to England, he boarded at St Albans School, before starting his working life in a London bank. Despite having a talent for mathematics, he said he was sacked for getting the figures right without being able to explain how he did so. As a result, he ended up selling deckchairs on the South Coast, where he eventually found acting work in repertory theatre.
Hallam began acting with Laurence Olivier's embryonic National Theatre Company, playing the Stage Door Keeper in Trelawny of the 'Wells' (Old Vic Theatre, 1965). He was seen performing on television for the first time in 1967, in the small role of a watchman when the BBC screened the director Franco Zeffirelli's National Theatre production of Much Ado About Nothing (Old Vic).
Stage roles became infrequent when an unending flow of film and television work followed. On the big screen, he worked his way up from bit-parts as an officer in The Charge of the Light Brigade (directed by Tony Richardson, 1968) and a revolting Burpa tribesman in Carry On Up the Khyber (1968) to more substantial roles as Sir Meles of Bohemia in A Walk with Love and Death (the director John Huston's tale of 14th-century romance in France, 1969).
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