John Salew

• Born: 1897 in England
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '40s-'50s
• Major Genres: Drama, Crime
• Career Highlights: It's Great to Be Young, Three Cases of Murder, Green Grow the Rushes
• First Major Screen Credit: Green Grow the Rushes (1951)

Biography

British stage actor John Salew made the transition to films in 1939. The manpower shortage during WWII enabled the stout, balding Salew to play larger and more important roles than would have been his lot in other circumstances. He usually played suspicious-looking characters, often Germanic in origin. His screen assignments include such parts as William Shakespeare (yes, that William Shakespeare) in the comedy-fantasy Time Flies (1944), Grimstone in the Gothic meller Uncle Silas (1947), and the librarian in the psychological thriller Night of the Demon (1957). John Salew was active into the TV era, playing the sort of parts that John McGiver essayed in the U.S. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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