14 Facts About James Hazeldine

James Anthony Hazeldine was an English television, stage and film actor and director.

James Hazeldine was accepted as a student assistant stage manager at Salford Repertory where he soon started taking on small acting roles.

At the age of 20, James Hazeldine made his London debut at the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square.

In 1984 James Hazeldine made his Broadway debut as Sam Evans in Strange Interlude with Glenda Jackson.

James Hazeldine returned to New York in 1998 when he played Harry Hope in The Iceman Cometh starring Kevin Spacey.

James Hazeldine was a prolific television actor who is probably best known for his role as firefighter Mike "Bayleaf" Wilson in the LWT drama London's Burning.

James Hazeldine played the role from 1986 to 1996 and directed some episodes.

James Hazeldine starred in the children's series Chocky and its sequels Chocky's Children and Chocky's Challenge, all scripted by one of The Omega Factor's writers, Anthony Read.

James Hazeldine played Ian in series 2 of Fat Friends.

James Hazeldine appeared in Granada Television's production of "The Musgrave Ritual", as part of ITV's The Return of Sherlock Holmes series, as Richard Brunton, alongside Jeremy Brett, as well as the Miss Marple story "The Murder at the Vicarage", as Lawrence Redding, alongside Joan Hickson, Paul Eddington and Cheryl Campbell.

Shortly before he died, James Hazeldine played DI Stan Egerton in the ITV television drama Shipman.

James Hazeldine made his screen debut as Stalin in Nicholas and Alexandra.

James Hazeldine was taken ill on 10 December 2002, a day after portraying Sigmund Freud in Christopher Hampton's play The Talking Cure at the Cottesloe Theatre.

James Hazeldine died one week later of an aortic dissection, caused by complications from a triple heart bypass he had received six months earlier.