John Paul (actor)

John Paul (actor)

John Paul (April 20 1921–February 1995) was a British actor.

He is best known for his television roles, particularly as Dr Spencer Quist in "Doomwatch" (1970-1972) and Marcus Agrippa in "I, Claudius" (1976), both for BBC Television.

An early role was as the lead in the ITV series "Probation Officer" in the early 1960s. He appeared as "Captain Flint" in a BBC adaptation of Arthur Ransome's "Swallows and Amazons" in 1963. He had guest roles in episodes of popular television series such as "Out of the Unknown", "Doctor Finlay's Casebook", "The Avengers", "Dixon of Dock Green", "The Saint" and "The New Avengers", mostly during the 1960s and 1970s. One of his final TV appearances was in "Selling Hitler", based on the real-life attempts to sell fake diaries attributed to Adolf Hitler.

During his career he also appeared in feature films such as "The Yangtze Incident" (1957) and "Cry Freedom" (1987).

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