Harry Baird

Harry Baird (May 12, 1931 - February 13, 2005) was a black Guyanian actor, of British fame in popular television shows and movies of the 1960s.

Earl life

Harry Baird was born in Georgetown, British Guiana, and educated in Canada and England. He reportedly had been obsessed with cinema since his childhood.

Career

Cinema

Being seventeen, Baird moved to London like his brother, and then Harry studied acting at the YMCA. By one of the young students of there, Joe Robinson, Baird was recommended for his breaking role in A Kid For Two Farthings of Carol Reed (1954); Baird there incarnated a boxer, Jamaica. In subsequent dramas, Baird incarnated some streetwise characters, either good or bad, until he became a star in Italy, starring spaghetti westerns.

After his successful role of television of the late 1950s, Harry Baird starred some low-cost films, generally set at jungle environments.

Disregarding, in 1959 Baird starred Sapphire, a celebrated racial drama of Michael Relph-Basil Dearden; he also had the leading role in The Story of a Three-Day Pass of 1968, as a French soldier who gets enamored of a Parisian woman.

Television

Harry Baird debuted, as 'Atimbu', in the White Hunter television show of 1958. Later, he would provide a supporting role for the Danger Man series.

However, Baird is well remembered also by the followers of popular British shows of the 1970s: UFO (1970), as Lieutenant Bradley -although he left the series midway through the run-, and Cosmos 1999.

Theater

Harry Baird's career was mostly of television and cinema; disregarding he did important works.

• Kismet (1956), a musical at the at the Stoll Theatre of London
• The Blacks, by Jean Genet (1961)

Death

In the 1970s, Harry Baird had been diagnosed with a glaucoma, and it would ultimately render him blind.

Baird passed away in 2005, at London, owing to a cancer.

External links

• Harry Baird, at [2]