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Harry Baird (12 May 193113 February 2005) was a Guyanese-born British actor who came to prominence in the 1960s. ==Life and career== Baird was born in Georgetown, British Guiana and educated in Canada and Britain. He made his first film appearance in 1955 as a boxer called Jamaica in Carol Reed's ''A Kid for Two Farthings''.〔 A year later, he appeared in the play ''Kismet'' at the Stoll Theatre in London, and had a role in Jean Genet's ''The Blacks'' in 1961. Baird subsequently appeared mostly in film and television. His first lead role was as Atimbu, in the TV series ''White Hunter'', in 1958. A series of stereotyped roles followed, in low-budget films featuring generic African or "jungle" themes. Baird's most high-profile role, however, came in Michael Relph and Basil Dearden's racial drama film ''Sapphire'' (1959).〔 Prominent roles for black actors in Britain remained scarce, although he appeared in supporting roles in the TV series ''Danger Man'' and ''UFO'' (1970; as Lieutenant Bradley, a role that he left half-way through the series' run). Baird's only true lead film role was in the 1968 Melvin Van Peebles drama ''The Story of a Three-Day Pass'', in which he played an American soldier who falls in love with a white Parisian woman. Other roles included ''The Whisperers'' (1967),〔 ''The Touchables'' (1968) (as a gay wrestler named Lillywhite), the horror film ''The Oblong Box'' (1969), and ''The Italian Job'' (1969) alongside his friend Michael Caine,〔 whose wife, fellow Guyanese actor Shakira Baksh, Baird had appeared alongside in ''UFO''. In the 1970s, Baird was diagnosed with glaucoma, a condition which ultimately left him blind. He died of cancer in London in 2005. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harry Baird (actor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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