1. Moultrie Rowe Kelsall was a Scottish film and television character actor, who began his career in the industry as a radio director and television producer.
12 Facts About Moultrie Kelsall
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Moultrie Kelsall's acting career began in a 1949 film called Landfall, which starred Michael Denison, and recounts the story of a pilot [Denison] who sinks a German U-boat, but which is believed by other officers to be a Royal Navy vessel.
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Moultrie Kelsall played Lieutenant James, the commander of a coastal defence vessel.
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Moultrie Kelsall completed his year's work as a ship's captain in the espionage film, High Treason, co-written and directed by Roy Boulting.
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Moultrie Kelsall took time out in 1956 to write, adapting for TV a Marie Fawcett story, Mister Betts Runs Away, in the ATV series "Lilli Palmer Theatre".
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Moultrie Kelsall was a member of the board of the Edinburgh Gateway Company from 1953 and served as chairman from 1960 to 1965.
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Between 1961 and 1969, Moultrie Kelsall switched mainly to the medium of television, securing roles in various BBC anthology-style series, such as Suspense and Out of the Unknown, and other more mainstream sixties productions, including appearances in The Saint and Dr Finlay's Casebook.
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Moultrie Kelsall took the part of boarding house owner Petey Bowles in the 1968 film version of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party, which starred Robert Shaw.
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Moultrie Kelsall continued to work until the year of his death in 1980.
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Moultrie Kelsall made one final contribution to television, taking the part of Sir Archie in BBC TV's adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen novel, Enemy of the People, which featured Robert Urquhart, and which was broadcast ten days before Moultrie Kelsall died on 13 February 1980.
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Moultrie Kelsall was well known for his work in the field of conservation, a leading example being his salvation and restoration of Menstrie Castle in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, between 1951 and 1964.
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Moultrie Kelsall established and ran the legendary Laigh coffee house and bakery in Hanover Street, Edinburgh.