Keith Barron (8 August 1934 â€" 15 November 2017) was an English actor
and television presenter who appeared in films and on television from
1961 until 2017. His television roles included the police drama The
Odd Man, the sitcom Duty Free, and Gregory Wilmot in Upstairs,
Downstairs.Born in Mexborough in the West Riding of Yorkshire,[note 1]
Barron's career started at the Sheffield Repertory Theatre, where he
also met his wife, Mary, a stage designer. He became well known to
British television viewers in the early 1960s as the easygoing
Detective Sergeant Swift in the Granada TV series The Odd Man and its
spin-off It's Dark Outside. His major breakthrough, however, was as
Nigel Barton in the writer Dennis Potter's semi-autobiographical plays
Stand Up, Nigel Barton and Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton (both
1965) in BBC1's The Wednesday Play anthology series (he later played a
very similar character in Potter's Play For Today episode Only Make
Believe (1973)).Barron made many one-off television appearances, from
Redcap and Z-Cars in the mid-1960s, to Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased),
Strange Report, The New Avengers, The Professionals, Foyle's War, and
A Touch of Frost. He made two appearances in Upstairs, Downstairs as
Australian Gregory Wilmot. In March 1983 he was a guest in the Doctor
Who story Enlightenment. He was a frequent voiceover artist for
British TV commercials and public information films. Barron also
played a starring role as Bob Ferguson in the 1993 Granada series, The
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