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Robin Bailey
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Born in Nottignhamshire in 1919, Robin Bailey became a distinguished actor on the London stage and appeared in many films, but he was most memorable on television, where he displayed a talent for both comic and serious roles.
In situation comedy, he played the old misogynist Uncle Mort, shuffling round in muffler and flat cap, in I Didn't Know You Cared, took over from Arthur Lowe in Potter as the retired busybody of the title, and acted one of the two cricket-loving old buffers in the whodunit Charters and Caldicott. More seriously, Bailey took the parts of Sir Charles Weyburn in The Edwardians, Neville Chamberlain in The Gathering Storm, Mr Justice Graves in Rumpole of the Bailey and Uncle Alfred in Dance to the Music of Time.
Robin Bailey's other notable television roles included Sir Leicester Dedlock in Bleak House (1985), Judge Gerald Graves in Rumpole of the Bailey (1988, 1991, 1992) and Uncle Alfred in Dance to the Music of Time (1997). He disliked being pointed at or stared at in the street, but did not mind recognition. "What I'm really proud of," Bailey once said, "is that a bus conductor refused my fare the other day. I don't think I could bear to be any more famous than that."
He died in 1999.








