John Boswall
Known For
Acting
Born
1920-05-02 in Oxfordshire, England, UK
Died
2011-06-06
Biography
John Boswall (2 May 1920 – 6 June 2011) was a British actor known for playing Emmanuel Goldstein in 1984 and Wyvern in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Boswall was born John Stuart on 2 May 1920 in Oxfordshire, England. Prior to his career as an actor, he attended the University of Oxford and served in Burma during World War II. Boswall's television appearances included Paul Temple (1971), Wessex Tales (1973), Lady Killer (1973), Edward the Seventh (1975), The Onedin Line (1976), Love in a Cold Climate (1980), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982), Sapphire & Steel (1982), No Place Like Home (1986), EastEnders (1990, 2002), Selling Hitler (1991), Agatha Christie's Poirot (1991), Drop the Dead Donkey (1993), Lovejoy (1993), Poldark (1996), Doctors (2000), Rome (2005) and Terry Pratchett's Hogfather (2006). Stage appearances included Edward Bond's The Fool at the Royal Court Theatre (1975),[2] Sweeney Todd at the Little Theatre, Bristol (1978–79); Oh, What A Lovely War!, A Midsummer Night's Dream (1979–80), and Kiss Me, Kate (1980–81) at the Bristol Old Vic; Henry IV, Part I (1984–85) at the Theatre Royal, Bath; Doctor Faustus (1974), Cymbeline (1974) and Camille (1985–86) with the Royal Shakespeare Company;[3] and Moliere's Bourgeois gentilhomme (1992) at the Royal National Theatre. His films included Nineteen Eighty-Four as Emmanuel Goldstein (1984), Three Men and a Little Lady (1990), The Wind in the Willows (1996), The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), Hotel Splendide (2000), Ladies in Lavender (2004), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Morris: A Life with Bells On (2009).
Most Known For
Agatha Christie's Poirot
as Dr Belvedere
EastEnders
as Harry Osborne
EastEnders
as Harry
EastEnders
as Harry Osbourne
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
as Wyvern
Thriller
as Old Man
Lovejoy
as Peter Horsham
Murder Most Horrid
as Judge
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
as Old Priest
Nineteen Eighty-Four
as Goldstein
The Ten Commandments
as Egyptian Priest
Poldark
as Cary Warleggan
Sapphire & Steel
as Old Man
The Hound of the Baskervilles
as Sir Charles Baskerville
Virtual Murder
Wish Me Luck
as Leon Jouvet
Ladies in Lavender
as Very Old Man 2
3 Men and a Little Lady
as Barrow
Mitch
as Eric James
Anglo Saxon Attitudes
as Sir Edgar Iffley