John Welsh

Who was John Welsh?

John Welsh was an Irish actor.

After an early stage career in Dublin, Welsh moved into British film and television in the 1950s. His roles included James Forsyte in the 1967 BBC dramatisation of John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga, as well as the butler Merriman in The Duchess of Duke Street, Sgt. Cuff in The Moonstone and a brief scene as the barber in Brideshead Revisited. He also appeared in Hancock's Half Hour, The Brothers, To Serve Them All My Days and The Citadel, and he played the assistant chief constable in the early series of Softly, Softly.