David Bailie

David Bailie is an English actor, known for his performances on stage, television and film. In the 1960s and 70s he worked for both the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he was an associate artist. On TV he played Dask in the 1977 Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death, and also appeared in Blakes 7. On film, he played the mute pirate Cotton in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. Bailie is also a professional photographer, specialising in portrait photography. He has a studio in West Kensington, London.

Bailie was born in Springs SA, and went to boarding school in Swaziland, before emigrating to Rhodesia with his family in 1952. His first acting experience soon after school in 1955 was an amateur production of Doctor in the House, which persuaded him he wanted to be an actor. After leaving school he worked in a bank and then for Central African Airlines. In 1958, he made his first trip from Rhodesia to Britain.

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