Geoffrey Bayldon

Geoffrey Bayldon

Birthday: 1924-01-07

Place of Birth: Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK

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).

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The Tenth Man
The Tenth Man

During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation...

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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Young Prince Caspian of Narnia wonders and dreams about the old days of Narnia when animals talked, ...

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Casino Royale
Casino Royale

Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thin...

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To Sir, with Love
To Sir, with Love

A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his un...

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Asylum
Asylum

A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four ...

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Assignment K
Assignment K

Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. S...

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Scrooge
Scrooge

A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney....

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Two a Penny
Two a Penny

Set in London's Swinging Sixties, Cliff Richard plays Jamie Hopkins, an art student whose desperate ...

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Bullshot
Bullshot

The dashing Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond - WWI ace fighter pilot, Olympic athlete, racing driver...

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Porridge
Porridge

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Be...

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A Child and a Half
A Child and a Half

A man enters into a correspondence with his colleague's eight-year-old daughter....

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Charleston
Charleston

Charleston is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Marcello Fondato. It reprises the s...

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The Monster Club
The Monster Club

A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture o...

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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed

Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital m...

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Amicus: House of Horrors
Amicus: House of Horrors

For the first time on DVD, the Alpha Archives Collection proudly presents a two part feature length ...

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All Passion Spent
All Passion Spent

his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the de...

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The Stranger Left No Card
The Stranger Left No Card

A strangely-garbed and eccentric-acting stranger arrives in a small English town. But, after several...

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The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm

Winston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II....

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Journey to the Unknown
Journey to the Unknown

TV Movie consisting of two episodes of the UK TV series "Journey to the Unknown" (1968): 'Matakitas ...

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Say Hello to Yesterday
Say Hello to Yesterday

Approaching middle-age and stuck in an unfulfilled marriage, a suburban British housewife allows her...

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The Wood Demon
The Wood Demon

A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll mar...

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Madame Sousatzka
Madame Sousatzka

In London, eccentric piano instructor Madame Sousatzka takes on a new prize protégé, Manek, a teenag...

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The Bushbaby
The Bushbaby

The young daughter of a park ranger in Tanzania is distressed to learn that she and her father must ...

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Yesterday's Enemy
Yesterday's Enemy

Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the sold...

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Sky West and Crooked
Sky West and Crooked

A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the ...

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Greyfriars Bobby
Greyfriars Bobby

In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd...

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Suspect
Suspect

A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. ...

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55 Days at Peking
55 Days at Peking

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the Internati...

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Dead Man's Chest
Dead Man's Chest

Two young journalists simulate a murder, but the scheme backfires when the mock victim disappears....

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Whirlpool
Whirlpool

The ex-girlfriend of a German fugitive hides with the captain and crew of a ship on the Rhine....

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The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper

In the London of 1537, two boys resembling each other exactly meet accidentally and exchange "roles"...

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This Office Life
This Office Life

On arrival at British Albion, Mr Gryce felt that his lack of ambition would be completely fulfilled....

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Becket
Becket

Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding w...

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Love/Loss
Love/Loss

A chance meeting reunites Mary and Joe, childhood sweethearts from the 1940s. But after 60 years apa...

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If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them

Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be b...

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The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

Clara is given a nutcracker in the form of a toy soldier for Christmas. That night she sees the nutc...

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That Sinking Feeling
That Sinking Feeling

At the gathering of a North Country wedding, the prospective husband starts to have doubts about goi...

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Au Pair Girls
Au Pair Girls

Four sexy young foreign girls come to England as au pairs and quickly become quite intimate with the...

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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Alice Through the Looking Glass

1973 BBC TV movie adaptation of the book by Lewis Carroll....

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Jigsaw
Jigsaw

A woman is found murdered in a seaside house along the coast from Brighton in the county of East Sus...

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Simulation Exercise
Simulation Exercise

'They're no trouble', says the head-master, 'just give them something simple and undemanding to do -...

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Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit
Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit

The Doctor and Romana follow a distress signal which leads to the jungle planet Chloris, whose ruthl...

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The Slipper and the Rose
The Slipper and the Rose

Prince Edward wants to marry for love, but the King and court of the Kingdom of Euphrania are anxiou...

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Inspector Clouseau
Inspector Clouseau

Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland ...

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Dracula
Dracula

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he ...

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King Rat
King Rat

When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a ...

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Tom & Viv
Tom & Viv

The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cop...

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Otley
Otley

A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent....

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The Camp on Blood Island
The Camp on Blood Island

Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and ho...

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Ladies in Lavender
Ladies in Lavender

Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard...

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Gawain and the Green Knight
Gawain and the Green Knight

The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him....

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The House That Dripped Blood
The House That Dripped Blood

A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house....

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Cone of Silence
Cone of Silence

A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash wit...

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Where the Spies Are
Where the Spies Are

A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Midd...

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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental ins...

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Life at the Top
Life at the Top

Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in t...

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The Man with the Power
The Man with the Power

Boysie discovers he has 'second sight' but neither his girlfriend Gloria nor his work-mate Brian wil...

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The Webster Boy
The Webster Boy

A gambler comes out of prison, returns to his old-flame, and finds that she has a teenage son, who b...

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The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins

A septet of satirical vignettes based on the Seven Deadly Sins....

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A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee
A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee

This exclusive documentary looks at the life and career of Jon Pertwee. With contributions from acto...

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A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. T...

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Tales from the Crypt
Tales from the Crypt

Five strangers encounter the mysterious Crypt Keeper while viewing old catacombs in the English coun...

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The Amorous Prawn
The Amorous Prawn

While her husband, the General is abroad, Lady Fitzadam decides to convert their army residence into...

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Trent's Last Case
Trent's Last Case

When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the ...

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A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special
A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special

Christmas is coming to Ten Acre Field and Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee) is determined to enjoy it in...

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Steptoe & Son Ride Again
Steptoe & Son Ride Again

Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the nei...

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The Raging Moon
The Raging Moon

Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence hom...

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Libel
Libel

A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his ...

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The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson

Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captai...

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Platonov
Platonov

The title character is a married provincial schoolmaster and a notorious philanderer. He is a russia...

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The Last Invasion
The Last Invasion

A film following Harold II at the Battle of Hastings...

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Cause Célèbre
Cause Célèbre

When the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and suspicions fall ...

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The Two-Headed Spy
The Two-Headed Spy

Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobio...

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A Dandy in Aspic
A Dandy in Aspic

Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them a...

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The Adventures of Alice
The Adventures of Alice

Film "The Adventures of Alice" based on the novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the ...

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The Trial of Lady Chatterley
The Trial of Lady Chatterley

A docudramatisation of the 1960 obscenity trial in the United Kingdom of Penguin Books for publishin...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set i...

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Just in Time for Christmas
Just in Time for Christmas

43-year-old Janet Nottage tells her husband, pompous academic Leo, that she is having a baby. This t...

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