Terence Bayler

Terence Bayler came from a rather humble family, as his father had to moonlight to support his family. In the evenings he worked as a room staff in a theater, which allowed him to offer his son free tickets that made him become fond of the scene, which led him to become an actor.

He made his film debut as the lead in  Broken Barrier , the first New Zealand film produced after World War II, where he played a white man in love with a Maori. He had some international repercussion, to the point that it allowed him to win a scholarship at RADA, an acting school in London, so he took his stuff and moved to Britain.

There he began a prolific theater career, first in works by  William Shakespeare , although he also joined the cast of “The Mousetrap” by Agatha Christie. In cinema,  Roman Polanski  gave him some projection when he recruited him to play Macduff, the protagonist’s main enemy, in  Macbeth . Such was his interest in working with him that the Pole came to change the shooting schedule, because the actor had another job on his hands. Terence Bayler  suffered a sword wound while filming the final duel.

On television, he participated in such prominent British productions as  Upstairs and Downstairs , Doctor Who , and  Monthy Python’s Flying Circus , getting to participate in the film productions of the comic group responsible for the latter, such as the controversial  Life of Brian , and  The Heroes of Time. , directed by one of them,  Terry Gilliam .

Married to actress Bridget Armstrong, they had one child. The marriage ended in divorce. In the last years of his career, he stood out with his brief intervention in  Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone , where he played the ghost of the Bloody Baron.