Tim Barlow, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Tim Barlow

British actor

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1936

Place of Birth: Blackpool, England, United Kingdom

Profession: actor, television actor

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Tim Barlow

  • Michael John Leigh Barlow (born 18 January 1936), whose stage name is Tim Barlow or sometimes Timothy Barlow, is an English actor who has performed many small roles in a variety of films, television programmes and plays. Barlow left the army in 1969 to pursue a career in acting, receiving advice from Trevor Nunn and Sir Laurence Olivier.
  • He has recently written and performed a one-man show in which he describes how he came to the decision to go into the acting profession.
  • He had previously had much success with another one man show entitled "My Army" in which he describes his life in the British army in the 1960s.
  • This toured for many years. One of his most notable roles was playing Mr.
  • Morrow, a blind man allergic to his guide dog in The Tall Guy alongside Jeff Goldblum.
  • He played Tyssan in the Doctor Who serial Destiny of the Daleks.
  • He has also appeared on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company and as the BFG at the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon, and on screen as Mr Treacher in Hot Fuzz.
  • Also in 2007 he played an Ancient Blind Oracle in the HBO series Rome. He lost his hearing in the 1950s when testing a high velocity Muzzle Rifle for the British Army, until recently, when surgery to fit a cochlear implant allowed him to recover some of his hearing.
  • His experience of having the cochlear implant fitted was detailed in a BBC Radio 4 programme called "Earfull - From Silence into Sound".In 2016 he performed in HIM, an autobiographical work about memory, ageing and the art of theatre, created by theatre-maker Sheila Hill, with videographer Hugo Glendinning, and musician Sebastiano Dessanay.

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