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David Bailie (4 December 1937 – 6 March 2021) was a South African actor, known for his performances on stage, television and film.[3] In the 1960s and 1970s he worked for both the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he was an associate artist.[4] On TV he played "Dask" in the 1977 Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death, and also appeared in Blake's 7.[5][6] On film, he played the mute pirate Cotton in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.[7] Bailie was also a professional photographer, specialising in portrait photography. He had a studio in West Kensington, London.[8]

David Bailie
Born	(1937-12-04)4 December 1937[1] Springs, South Africa
Died	6 March 2021(2021-03-06) (aged 83) Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England[2]
Occupation	Actor, photographer, videographer, computer programmer, furniture maker/designer
Years active	1961–2020
Spouse	Egidija Bailie ​ (m. 2002⁠–⁠2021)​
Website	http://davidbailie.co.uk/

Personal life

Bailie was born in Springs, South Africa on 4 December 1937, and went to boarding school in Swaziland, before emigrating to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) with his family in 1952. His first acting experience soon after school in 1955 was an amateur production of Doctor in the House, which persuaded him he wanted to be an actor.[9] After leaving school he worked in a bank and then for Central African Airlines. In 1958, he made his first trip from Rhodesia to Britain.

Bailie died on 6 March 2021 at the age of 83.[10]

Career

In 1960 he moved to Britain from South Africa[11] and landed his first small role in the film Flame in the Streets (1961) and then played one of the bell boys in Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad (1961) with Stella Adler playing Madame Rospettle. He then bluffed his way into weekly repertory in Barrow-in-Furness as juvenile lead – terrified all the while that he would be exposed as totally inexperienced.

Recognising the need for training, he auditioned three times for a bursary to the RADA—each time being accepted only as a fee-paying student, which he couldn't afford. He finally sent for the last of his standby money (£200) he had left in Rhodesia and paid for the first term (1963). At the end of term he persuaded John Fernald to allow him free tuition for the next two years.[12]

Terry Hands was also a student at the same time, but had left a little earlier than Bailie and formed the Everyman Theatre with Peter James in Liverpool. On leaving RADA Bailie was invited to join the Everyman in 1964. Amongst other roles he played Tolen in The Knack..., Becket in Murder in the Cathedral, Dion in The Great God Brown, MacDuff in Macbeth and Lucky in Waiting for Godot.[11]

After a year there, he came back to London and auditioned for and was accepted by Sir Laurence Olivier joining the National Theatre. He played minor roles and understudied Olivier in different plays,[11] for instance in Love for Love.

Terry Hands, who had by now joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) at Stratford-upon-Avon (and later became its artistic director), invited Bailie to join them as an associate artist (1965). There he portrayed "Florizel" opposite Judi Dench's "Perdita" in The Winter's Tale along with "Valentine" in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, "The Bastard" in King John, "Kozanka" in The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising and "Leslie" in The Madness of Lady Bright.[13]

During the early 1970s he worked with Stomu Yamashta at his Red Buddha Theatre. He was cast as the lead in a show called Raindog, requiring him to do everything from singing and dancing, to performing Martial Arts and gymnastics – which he frankly admits was a demand too far and when Yamashta offered him a paltry sum for performing the opportunity was there to depart which he did. He was then cast by Michael E. Briant in 1976 to play the part of the villain "Dask" in the Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death.[9] He also played in a number of other series prominent at the time.[14]

For personal reasons Bailie then had a long recess in his acting career. Between 1980 and 1989 he ran a furniture-making business. In 1990 he closed that down and returned to acting, having in fact to virtually restart his career. It didn't help that at exactly this point he had to have a cancer removed from his lip, which required learning to speak again. Whilst awaiting work in the acting field he busied himself with CAD design, self-training and writing computer programs and also doing health and safety work in the building industry.

In the mid-1990s after playing alongside Brian Glover in The Canterbury Tales he made a comeback in the film business as "Skewer" in Cutthroat Island (1995), then played an English Judge in The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), and also "The Engineer" in Gladiator (2000).[3]

Bailie's best-known work in film is the role of "Cotton", a mute pirate who has his tongue cut out, so he trained his parrot, also named Cotton, to speak on his behalf, though it cannot say more than stock phrases. Bailie first appears as Cotton in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) as one of the pirates Jack Sparrow chooses in Tortuga. He is one of the Black Pearl crewmembers to survive the Kraken attack in the sequel Dead Man's Chest (2006), and also played Cotton in the third instalment: At World's End (2007).[15] His character did not say a single line in the three films. According to Bailie, he found it to be a problem and proposed to director Gore Verbinski and writer Terry Rossio a storyline that Cotton was able to speak, but it was not included in films.[16]

In 2014, David joined the ensemble cast of British-American short Artificio Conceal [17] for the role of Vitruvius. The film, written and directed by Ayoub Qanir, was selected to film festivals worldwide including Cannes Film Festival's Short Film Corner [18], Edinburgh International Film Festival[19] and Seattle International Film Festival.[20]

Bailie reprised his Doctor Who role as Dask in the Kaldor City audio drama series.[21] He was also involved in Big Finish Productions audio dramas playing the "Celestial Toymaker".[22]

Bailie also worked as a professional photographer, portraiture and landscapes being his speciality.[8]

He established a YouTube channel, mdebailes, where he uploaded readings and performance excerpts.[23][24]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1961	Flame in the Streets		Uncredited
1968	All's Well That Ends Well	Morgan, a soldier	TV film
1972	Henry VIII and His Six Wives	Norris
1973	The Creeping Flesh	Young Doctor
	Son of Dracula	Chauffeur
	Wipers Three	Lieutenant General Smuts	TV film
1975	Legend of the Werewolf	Boulon
1977	Golden Rendezvous	Younger terrorist in car	Uncredited
1979	The First Part of King Henry the Fourth, with the Life and Death of Henry Surnamed Hotspur	Second Carrier	TV film
1995	Cutthroat Island	Dawg's Pirate
1999	The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc	English Judge
2000	Gladiator	Engineer	[25]
2003	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	Cotton
2005	Starfly	Commander / Doctor	Short
2006	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	Cotton
2007	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
	Eddie Proctor	Eddie Proctor	Short
	The Comebacks	Prisoner
2009	Shadows in the Wind	Mr. Behrman	Short
2011	Pirates of the Caribbean: Tales of the Code – Wedlocked	Cotton	Short
	Tribe	Wentzelow
2013	Traveller
2014	October 1	Ackerman
	Artificio Conceal	Vitruvius	Short[17]
2015	The Timber	Sheriff Snow	[26]
2017	The Beyond	Professor Jakob Brukiehm	[27][28]
2018	The House That Jack Built	S.P.
2019	In the Trap	Father Andrew
2020	Darbar	Drug Overlord	Uncredited

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1966	Ransom for a Pretty Girl	Colonel Caron	Mini-series
1971	The Fenn Street Gang	Student	Episode: "Leave It to Me, Darling"
1972	The Visitors	New porter	Mini-series
	Adam Smith	Reverend Douglas Black	2 episodes
1973	The Regiment	Commandant De Jong	Episode: "Ambush"
1974	Play for Today	Daniel Tasker	Episode: "The Lonely Man's Lover"
1975	Churchill's People	Bertram	Episode: "Silver Giant, Wooden Dwarf"
	Softly, Softly: Task Force	Scooby	Episode: "Whose Side Are You On?"
	Play of the Month	Sergeant Davidson	Episode: "The Little Minister"
		Marcade	Episode: "Love's Labour's Lost"
1976	Plays for Britain	Disc jockey	Episode: "Hitting Town"
1977	Warship	Panmuir	Episode: "Wind Song"
	Doctor Who	Dask	Episode: "The Robots of Death"
1978	Blake's 7	Chevner	Episode: "Project Avalon"
	The Onedin Line	Branigan	Episode: "The Reverend's Daughter"
1997	The New Adventures of Robin Hood	Outlaw Mills	Episode: "Outlaw Express"
2001	Attila the Hun	Shaman	Mini-series
2009	Doctor Who: The Sixth Doctor Adventures	The Celestial Toymaker	Episode: "The Nightmare Fair"
2012	Sinbad	Brother Angelico	Episode: "Fiend or Friend?"

References

External links

• David Bailie at IMDb
• Bailie's website
• David Bailie at Theatricalia

На других языках

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[de] David Bailie

David Bailie (* 4. Dezember 1937 in Springs, Südafrika[1]; † 5. März 2021[2]) war ein britischer Schauspieler.

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[es] David Bailie

David Bailie (Springs, 4 de diciembre de 1937-5 de marzo de 2021) fue un actor británico nacido en Sudáfrica, conocido por sus interpretaciones en teatro, televisión y cine. En los años 60 y 70 trabajó para el National Theatre y la Royal Shakespeare Company, donde era un artista asociado. En televisión interpretó a "Dask" en la serie Doctor Who en el episodio de 1977 The Robots of Death, y también apareció en Blake's 7. En el cine interpretó al pirata mudo Cotton en la trilogía de Piratas del Caribe. Bailie era también un fotógrafo profesional, especializado en retratos. Tenía un estudio en West Kensington, Londres.

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