1. Keith Barron was an English actor and television presenter who appeared in films and on television from 1961 until 2017.
16 Facts About Keith Barron
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Keith Barron became well known to British television viewers in the early 1960s as the easygoing Detective Sergeant Swift in the Granada TV series The Odd Man and its spin-off.
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Keith Barron made many one-off television appearances, from Redcap and Z-Cars in the mid-1960s, to Randall and Hopkirk, Strange Report, The New Avengers, Thriller, The Professionals, Foyle's War, and A Touch of Frost.
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Keith Barron made two appearances in Upstairs, Downstairs as Australian Gregory Wilmot.
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Keith Barron was a frequent voiceover artist for British TV commercials and public information films.
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Keith Barron played a starring role as Bob Ferguson in the 1993 Granada series The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, entitled The Last Vampyre.
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Keith Barron voiced the character of Morgan Jefferies in the 1995 BBC Radio 4 sitcom England's Glory opposite Lynda Baron.
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Keith Barron appeared as a celebrity guest in Dictionary Corner on several episodes of the Channel 4 words and numbers game Countdown between 1999 and 2008.
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Keith Barron starred in the first series of the BBC drama The Chase.
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In 2007 Keith Barron joined ITV1's Coronation Street as George Trench.
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In 2011, Keith Barron starred in the BBC show, Lapland, a role which he returned to for a series, Being Eileen, from February 2013.
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Keith Barron was given an "In Memory Of" at end of credits.
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Keith Barron served in the RAF as part of his National Service.
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Keith Barron died on 15 November 2017 after a short illness.
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Keith Barron was survived by his wife of 58 years, Mary Pickard, and his actor son, Jamie.
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Keith Barron lived in the Surrey town of East Molesey, a short distance from Hampton Court Palace and had a second home in St Ives, Cornwall.