John Sharp (actor)

John Sharp
Born	John Herbert Sharp (1920-08-05)5 August 1920 Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
Died	26 November 1992(1992-11-26) (aged 72) London, England
Occupation	Television actor
Years active	1949–1991

John Sharp ((1920-08-05)5 August 1920 – 26 November 1992(1992-11-26)) was a British television actor.

He made more than 100 appearances in television and occasionally films between 1949 and 1991. Sharp began as a film actor in 1949 and appeared in films throughout the 1950s. By the mid 1960s he mostly appeared in British television on popular shows of the era such as The Avengers "Murdersville" episodes, the Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) episode "The Ghost Who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo"; The Prisoner, Not on Your Nellie opposite Hylda Baker, Z-Cars, and The Sweeney (1976 episode "On the Run"). He performed in Charles Dickens TV adaptations in the 1980s. In 1991, he made his last television appearance in the programme Lovejoy. He played the role of the "apparently cynical" Uncle Will in Luigi Comencini's 1966 Incompreso.

Sharp's most notable television appearances in a recurring role was on the All Creatures Great and Small television series, in which he portrayed Ezra Biggins, an aged, frugal Yorkshire dairy farmer.

Selected filmography

• Diamond City (1949)
• Your Witness (1950)
• Night and the City (1950)
• A Case for PC 49 (1951)
• Angels One Five (1952)
• The House Across the Lake (1954)
• Left Right and Centre (1959)
• Stork Talk (1962)
• The Golden Rabbit (1962)
• Misunderstood (1966)
• Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter (1968)
• Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
• Watch Out, We're Mad (1974)
• Mani di velluto (Velvet Hands; Italy 1979)
• The Bunker (1981)
• The Return of the Soldier (1982)
• The Dresser (1983)

External links

• John Sharp at the Internet Movie Database