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| Birth Name(s) : Andrew Faulds |
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Born in Isoko, Tanganyika (now Tanzania), to missionary parents, Faulds married Bunty Whitfield in 1945. After graduating from the University of Glasgow, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1948 but first came to a wider public recognition playing Jet Morgan in Charles Chilton's radio drama Journey Into Space on the BBC Light Programme.
In the UK general election, 1964, the Labour Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon Walker, had been defeated in controversial circumstances in the Smethwick constituency by Conservative candidate Peter Griffiths. Smethwick had been a focus of immigration from the Commonwealth in the economic and industrial growth of the years following World War II and Griffiths ran a campaign critical of the government's policy. There were rumours that his supporters had covertly circulated the slogan If you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote Liberal or Labour. Faulds defeated Griffiths in the UK general election, 1966 and was Labour Member of Parliament for the constituency until his retirement in 1997. (The constituency was renamed Warley East in 1974.) Smethwick remained the focus of much racial tension in England throughout Faulds' office, in particular following the Rivers of Blood Speech by Enoch Powell in 1968 which Faulds characterised as ... unchristian ... unprincipled, undemocratic and racialist.
There has been speculation that Faulds was denied ministerial office because of his open support of the Palestinian cause.
One of Faulds' most famous roles is that of Phalerus in Jason and the Argonauts (1963), taking part in the famous skeleton fight scene by Ray Harryhausen,and another was in one of Tony Hancock's best known half-hours,unseen but as the voice of 'mayday' in The Radio Ham (1961). |
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