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{{Short description|English actor (1934 - 2017)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2012}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Keith Barron
| image = UpDown S3Ep11.jpg
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| caption = Barron in 1974
| birthname =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1934|8|8|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Mexborough]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|11|15|1934|8|8|df=y}}
| occupation = Actor, television presenter
| yearsactive = 1961–2017
| spouse = {{marriage|Mary Pickard|1959}}
| children = 1
}}

'''Keith Barron''' (8 August 1934 – 15 November 2017) was an English actor and television presenter who appeared in films and on television from 1961 until 2017. His television roles included the police drama ''[[The Odd Man]]'', the sitcom ''[[Duty Free (TV series)|Duty Free]]'', and [[Gregory Wilmot]] in ''[[Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series)|Upstairs, Downstairs]]''.

==Career==
Born in [[Mexborough]] in the [[West Riding of Yorkshire]],<ref group=note>'South Yorkshire' did not exist before 1 April 1974. 'West Riding of Yorkshire' is correct.</ref> Barron completed his national service in the [[Royal Air Force]]<ref name="independent">{{cite web | url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/keith-barron-actor-who-starred-1980s-sitcom-duty-free-and-haggard-a8060016.html | title= Keith Barron: Yorkshire actor rarely off our screens for half a century but best known for Eighties sitcom 'Duty Free' | work=The Independent | first=Martin | last=Childs | date=17 November 2017 | access-date=7 June 2021}}</ref> and his acting career started at the [[Sheffield Repertory Theatre]], where he also met his wife, Mary, a stage designer.<ref>{{cite web|title=Start of his career,|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41998040|website=bbc.co.uk|publisher=BBC|access-date=15 November 2017}}</ref> He became well known to British television viewers in the early 1960s as the easygoing Detective Sergeant Swift in the [[Granada TV]] series ''[[The Odd Man]]'' and its spin-off ''[[The Odd Man|It's Dark Outside]]''. His major breakthrough, however, was as Nigel Barton in the writer [[Dennis Potter]]'s semi-autobiographical plays ''[[Stand Up, Nigel Barton]]'' and ''[[Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton]]'' (both 1965) in [[BBC One|BBC1]]'s ''[[The Wednesday Play]]'' anthology series; he later played a very similar character in Potter's ''[[Play For Today]]'' episode ''Only Make Believe'' (1973).

Barron made many one-off television appearances, from ''[[Redcap (TV series)|Redcap]]'' and ''[[Z-Cars]]'' in the mid-1960s, to ''[[Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)]]'', ''[[Strange Report]]'', ''[[The New Avengers (TV series)|The New Avengers]]'', ''[[Thriller (UK TV series)|Thriller]]'', ''[[The Professionals (TV series)|The Professionals]]'', ''[[Foyle's War]]'', and ''[[A Touch of Frost]]''. He made two appearances in ''[[Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series)|Upstairs, Downstairs]]'' as [[Australia]]n [[List of Upstairs, Downstairs characters#Gregory Wilmot|Gregory Wilmot]]. In 1982, he appeared in the Dutch show ''[[De lachende scheerkwast]]''. In March 1983 he was a guest in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story ''[[Enlightenment (Doctor Who)|Enlightenment]]'', replacing [[Peter Sallis]] who was unavailable. He was a frequent voiceover artist for British TV commercials and [[public information films]].
Barron also played a starring role as Bob Ferguson in the 1993 Granada series ''The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes'', entitled ''[[Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series)|The Last Vampyre]]''.

In 1989 he starred on television in a story of relationships in a new town in the Midlands entitled ''[[Take Me Home (TV series)|Take Me Home]]'', with [[Annette Crosbie]] as his wife and [[Maggie O'Neill]] as his girlfriend. One of his best-loved and best-remembered roles was in the 1980s [[ITV Yorkshire|Yorkshire Television]] [[sitcom]] ''[[Duty Free (TV series)|Duty Free]]''. In the 1990s he co-starred in the sitcoms ''[[Haggard (TV series)|Haggard]]'' and ''[[All Night Long (TV series)|All Night Long]]''. In 1990, he appeared as a contestant on ''[[Cluedo (British game show)|Cluedo]]'', facing off against fellow actor [[Andrew Sachs]]. In the 2000s he was a regular character on the ITV Sunday-night drama ''[[Where the Heart Is (British TV series)|Where the Heart Is]]''. In 2014 he reprised his role of David Pearce in the touring stage show of the TV series 'Duty Free'. He also starred in the first series of the BBC drama ''[[The Chase (2006 TV series)|The Chase]]''.

On the big screen he appeared in ''[[Baby Love (1968 film)|Baby Love]]'' (1968) and [[David Puttnam]]'s film ''[[Melody (1971 film)|Melody]]'' (1971) as Mr Latimer.

Barron also appeared as the guest celebrity in dictionary corner on several episodes of the [[Channel 4]] words and numbers game ''[[Countdown (game show)|Countdown]]''.<ref name="independent"/>

He was the star on ''[[Bunn and Co. (radio show)|Bunn and Co.]]'', a radio show that was broadcast from March 2003 to April 2004 on [[BBC Radio 4]]. Barron's performance in the BBC's ''Test the Nation'' IQ test show on 2 September 2006 gave him an IQ of 146. In 2007 Barron joined [[ITV1]]'s ''[[Coronation Street]]'' as [[George Trench]]. In 2011, Barron starred in the [[BBC]] show, ''[[Being Eileen|Lapland]]'', a role which he returned to for a series, ''[[Being Eileen]]'', from February 2013.<ref name="second">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2012/lapland-series.html|title=BBC One commissions new six part comedy series, Lapland |date=4 October 2012|work=[[BBC]]|publisher=[[BBC Online]]|access-date=21 December 2012}}</ref><ref name="maurice">{{cite web|url=http://www.tvwise.co.uk/2012/10/tv-castings-sydney-rae-white-keith-barron/|title=TV Castings: Sydney Rae White Joins Sky1′s ‘Starlings’, Keith Barron To Reprise Role On BBC One’s ‘Lapland’|date=31 October 2012|work=TV Wise|first=Patrick |last=Munn|access-date=21 December 2012}}</ref><ref name="be">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2013/06/being-eileen.html|title=Being Eileen|work=[[BBC]]|access-date=29 January 2013}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Barron died on 15 November 2017 after a short illness. He was survived by his wife of 58 years, Mary Pickard, and his actor son, Jamie.<ref name="guardian obit">{{cite web|title=Death notice|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/nov/15/duty-free-star-keith-barron-dies-aged-83|website=The Guardian|access-date=15 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/nov/16/keith-barron-obituary|website=The Guardian|access-date=16 November 2017}}</ref> He lived in the [[Surrey]] town of [[East Molesey]] for some years.<ref>[http://news.radiojackie.com/2017/11/keith-Obituary,barron-dies-aged-83.html Keith Barron dies, aged 83] [[107.8 Radio Jackie|''Radio Jackie News'']], 15 November 2017 Retrieved 14 January 2018</ref>

==Selected filmography==
* ''[[Baby Love (1968 film)|Baby Love]]'' (1969) – Doctor Robert Quayle
* ''[[The Man Who Had Power Over Women]]'' (1970) – Jake Braid
* ''[[The Firechasers]]'' (1971) – Jim Maxwell
* ''[[She'll Follow You Anywhere]]'' (1971) – Alan Simpson
* ''[[Melody (1971 film)|Melody]]'' (1971) – Mr. Latimer – Daniel's father (uncredited)
* ''[[Freelance (1971 film)|Freelance]]'' (1971) – Gary
* ''[[Nothing But The Night]]'' (1973) – Dr. Haynes
* ''[[The Land That Time Forgot (1974 film)|The Land That Time Forgot]]'' (1974) – Bradley
* ''[[At the Earth's Core (film)|At the Earth's Core]]'' (1976) – Dowsett
* ''[[Voyage of the Damned]]'' (1976) – Purser Mueller
* ''[[God's Outlaw (1919 film)|God's Outlaw]]'' (1986) – Henry VIII
* ''La passione'' (1996) – Roy
* ''[[Police 2020]]'' (1997) – Eddie Longshaw
* ''[[Being Eileen|Lapland]]'' (2011, TV Movie) – Maurice
* ''[[In Love with Alma Cogan]]'' (2012) – Cedric

===Television===
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* ''[[A Chance of Thunder]]'' (TV Series) (1961) – Bank Cashier
* ''The Night of the Match'' (TV Movie) (1961) – Bob
* ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' (TV Series) (1961) – Technician
* ''The Odd Man'' (1962–1963) – Det. Sgt. Swift
* ''It's Dark Outside'' (1964) – Det. Sgt. John Swift
* ''[[Crane (TV series)|Crane]]'' (1965) – Rene Leclerc
* ''[[The Troubleshooters]]'' (1965) – Miles
* ''Stand Up, Nigel Barton'' The Wednesday Play (1965) – Nigel Barton
* ''Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton'' The Wednesday Play (1965) – Nigel Barton
* ''Spywatch'' (1967)
* ''[[Further Adventures of Lucky Jim]]'' (1967) – Jim Dixon <ref>{{cite web|title=The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166041/|website=imdb.com|publisher=BBC|access-date=15 November 2017}}</ref>
* ''[[A Family at War]]'' (1972) Major Harkness
* ''Thinking Man as Hero'' (1973, TV Movie) – David Duncan
* ''[[Armchair_Theatre]]'' (1973, Red Riding Hood TV Movie) – Henry
* ''[[Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series)|Upstairs, Downstairs]]'' (1974) – Gregory Wilmot
* ''[[No Strings (1974 TV series)|No Strings]]'' (1974) – Derek
* ''The Foundation'' (1977) – Don Prince
* ''[[The Professionals (TV series)|The Professionals]]'' (1977) "Private Madness, Public Danger" – Charles Nesbitt
* ''[[Telford's Change]]'' (1979) – Tim Hart
* ''[[Prince Regent (TV series)|Prince Regent]]'' (1979) – Charles James Fox
* ''[[Stay with Me Till Morning (TV series)|Stay with Me Till Morning]]'' (1981) – Stephen Belgard
* ''[[Tales of the Unexpected (TV series)|Tales of the Unexpected]]'' (1982) "A Harmless Vanity" – George Hitchman
* ''[[De lachende scheerkwast]]'' (1982) - Mr Carrington
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' (1983) "Enlightenment" – Striker
* ''[[Minder (TV series)|Minder]]'' (1984) – Johnny Caine
* ''[[Leaving (TV series)|Leaving]]'' (1984–1985) – Daniel Ford
* ''[[Duty Free (TV series)|Duty Free]]'' (1984–1986) – David Pearce / David
* ''[[Room at the Bottom (1986 TV series)|Room at the Bottom]]'' (1986–1988) – Kevin Hughes
* ''[[Take Me Home (TV series)|Take Me Home]]'' (1989) – Tom
* ''[[Haggard (TV series)|Haggard]] (TV series) (1990–92) – Squire Amos Haggard
* ''[[The Good Guys (UK TV series)|The Good Guys]]'' (1992) – Guy Lofthouse
* ''[[Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series)|Sherlock Holmes]]'' The Last Vampyre'' (1994) – Rob Ferguson
* ''[[Under the Hammer]]'' (1994) – Ned Nunelly
* ''[[Ruth Rendell Mysteries]]'' A Case of Coincidence (1996) – Inspector Masters
* ''[[Dalziel and Pascoe (TV series)|Dalziel and Pascoe]] episode 6, 28 July 1997, – Dick Elgood.
* ''[[Pie in the Sky (TV series)|Pie in the Sky]] episode 34, series 5–6, July 1997 – Chairman of a Jury housed overnight in the Luxor Hotel
* ''[[Spywatch]]'' (1996) – Norman Starkey (adult)
* ''The Round Tower (Catherine Cookson), UK TV series (1998) – Jonathan Ratcliffe
* ''[[Peak Practice]]'' (2000) - Series 9 Episode 12 "Last Orders" - Jeff Barton
* ''[[NCS: Manhunt]]'' (2001–2002) – Detective Superintendent Bob Beausoleil
* ''[[Clocking Off]]'' (2003) – Roy Fletcher
* ''[[Where the Heart Is (British TV series)|Where the Heart Is]] (2003) – Alan Boothe
* ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'': "The Straw Woman" (2004) – Alan Clifford
* ''[[New Tricks]]'' (2005) – Ronnie Ross
* ''[[The Chase (2006 TV series)|The Chase]]'' (2006–2007) – George Williams
* ''Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup'' (2006, TV Movie) – Bernie
* ''[[Foyle's War]]'':S4E1 "Invasion" (2007) – David Barrett
* ''[[Heartbeat (British TV series)|Heartbeat]] series 18, episode 6 'Strike up the band' (2008) – Les Hepplewhite
* ''[[Benidorm]]'' (2009) – Deputy Mayor
* [[My Family]] Ben Behaving Badly (2010) - Harry
* ''[[Doctors (2000 TV series)|Doctors]]'' (2011–2015) – Arthur Barrett / Ludo Jameson / Brian Olsen
* ''[[Being Eileen]]'' (2013) – Maurice
* ''[[Stella (UK TV series)|Stella]]'' (2014) – The Captain
* ''[[DCI Banks]]'' (2015–2016) – Arthur Banks
* ''[[Not Going Out]]'' (2017) – Michael (final television appearance)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/nov/15/keith-barron-from-coppers-to-adulterers-a-star-of-hit-tv-to-the-end|title=Keith Barron: from coppers to adulterers, a star of hit TV to the end|last=Lawson|first=Mark|date=15 November 2017|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=24 December 2017}}</ref> The BBC dedicated the episode in Barron's memory.
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===Radio===
* ''Not as Far as Velma'', as Commissaire Henri Castang (1990)<ref>Freeling, Nicholas. [http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/review-not-as-far-as-velma.html Not as far as Velma]. suttonelms.org.uk</ref>
* ''[[To the Manor Born#Radio version|To the Manor Born]]'', as Richard Devere (1997)
* ''[[My Turn to Make the Tea]]'' as Mr Pellet (2006)

==Notes==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0057685|name=Keith Barron}}
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