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John Bardon (born John Michael Jones, 25 August 1939 – 12 September 2014), was an English stage and screen actor. He was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award in 1988 (1987 season) as 'Best Actor in a Musical' for ''Kiss Me, Kate'', sharing the award with co-star Emil Wolk.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=The Society of London Theatre )〕 He was best known for playing the patriarch Jim Branning on EastEnders for 13 years. On 12 September 2014 the BBC announced that Bardon had died at age 75. ==Acting career== Bardon was born in Brentford, Middlesex. He may be best known for having played Jim Branning on ''EastEnders''. His character, the father of established character Carol Jackson, first appeared briefly in 1996. The character of Jim returned to the series in 1999 and this time became a regular character, later marrying Dot Cotton (June Brown). Bardon filmed his final scenes for ''EastEnders'' in March 2011 after years of poor health. He also was a regular in ''Rumpole of the Bailey'', as a member of the "clan Timson, a family of South London villains", as described by Rumpole. He had made notable guest appearances in ''Dad's Army'' in 1975 in the episode "Ring Dem Bells" (in addition to this, he played Private Walker in the 1975-76 stage adaptation of ''Dad's Army'', as original television actor James Beck had died in 1973) and ''Are You Being Served?'' in 1976 in the episode "No Sale". He also starred in the British police drama ''The Sweeney'', in which he played villain Doc Boyd in the episode "Faces", first broadcast on Monday 8 September 1975. In the same year, he also appeared as a bookmaker in the film ''One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing''. In 1978 he was cast as Del Rogers in G. F. Newman's Law and Order on BBC2. In 1982 he appeared on Channel Four as legendary comedian Max Miller in ''Here's a Funny Thing'' in a reprise of the role from the stage version of the production which had been seen at Liverpool Playhouse, the Edinburgh Fringe and the Fortune Theatre in ''L'' in the much acclaimed BBC drama, Johnny Jarvis (Nigel Williams). In 1984, he had a guest role as "Constable Palk" in ''The Body in the Library'', and appeared as a night porter in the film version of ''Ordeal by Innocence'' the following year. In 1986 he appeared as a security guard supervisor in an episode of ''Only Fools and Horses'' from series five called "The Longest Night", in the same year he appeared as a Railway ticket collector in the film ''Clockwise''. He was a guest star in two episodes of ''Coronation Street'' in the early 1990s. He appeared as the father of Daryl Stubbs in ''Birds of a Feather'' (in 1991 and again in 1998), and played an asylum warden in the 1996 TV adaptation of ''Gulliver's Travels''. In 1997, he appeared briefly as one of the zoo customers in the film comedy ''Fierce Creatures'', and 2 years later he appeared in the film ''East Is East'' as Mr. Moorhouse, a white supremacist. 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「John Bardon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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