John Salew

John Salew
in The Saint Meets the Tiger (1943)
Born	John Rylett Salew, 1902 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Died	14 September 1961(1961-09-14) (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.^[1] Salew made the transition from stage to films in 1939, and according to Allmovie,^[2] "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.^[2]

Selected filmography

References

External links

• John Salew at the Internet Movie Database