John Salew
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in The Saint Meets the Tiger (1943)
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| Born | John Rylett Salew, 1902 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 14 September 1961 (aged 58–59) Hammersmith, London, England, UK |
| Occupation | Film actor |
| Years active | 1938–1961 |
John Salew (1902 in Portsmouth, Hampshire – 14 September 1961 in London) was a British stage film and TV actor. Salew made the transition from stage to films in 1939, and according to Allmovie, "the manpower shortage during WWII enabled the stout, balding Salew to play larger and more important roles than would have been his lot in other circumstances. He usually played suspicious-looking characters, often Germanic in origin." His screen roles included William Shakespeare in the comic fantasy Time Flies (1944), Grimstone in the Gothic melodrama Uncle Silas (1947), and the librarian in the supernatural thriller Night of the Demon (1957). John Salew was active into the TV era, playing the sort of character parts that John McGiver played in the U.S.
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