KEITH BARRON

'Keith Barron' (born August 8 1936) is a British actor, well-known from numerous roles on British television from the 1960s to the present day. Born in Mexborough, Yorkshire, he became well-known to UK television viewers in the early 1960s as the easy-going Detective Sergeant Swift in the Granada TV series ''The Odd Man'' and its spin-off ''It's Cold Outside''. His major breakthrough, however, was as Nigel Barton, an avatar of the writer Dennis Potter in his plays ''Stand Up, Nigel Barton'' and ''Vote, Vote, Vote for Nigel Barton'' in BBC1's ''The Wednesday Play'' anthology strand (he later played a very similar character in Potter's ''Play For Today'' offering ''Only Make Believe'' (1973)). He made many one-off television appearances, from ''Redcap'' and ''Z Cars'' in the mid 60s, to ''Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'', ''The New Avengers'' and ''The Professionals''. He made two appearances in ''Upstairs, Downstairs'' as Australian Gregory Wilmot. In the 1980s he was a guest in the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''Enlightenment''.
On the big screen, he appeared in the David Puttnam film ''Melody'' (1971) as a character called Mr Latimer
In the 1980s he co-starred in the sitcom ''Duty Free''. In the 1990s he co-starred in the sitcoms ''Haggard'' and ''All Night Long''. More recently he was a regular character on the ITV Sunday night drama ''Where the Heart Is''.
Keith Barron has also appeared as himself as the guest celebrity in dictionary corner on several episodes of the Channel 4 words and numbers game ''Countdown''.
His wife, Mary Pickford, is a stage designer, and they have two sons, Jamie and Mark. Mark works as a writer, under the name Mark Dawson.
Keith's performance in the BBC's 'Test the Nation' IQ test show on 2nd September 2006 gave him an IQ of 146.
Keith recently joined ITV1's Coronation Street as George Trench.

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