David Bailie Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

David Bailie (born 1937) is a British actor, known for his performances on stage, television and film. In the '60s 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 Blake's 7. On film he played the mute pirate Cotton in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. Bailie is also a professional photographer, specializing in portrait photography. He has a studio in West Kensington, London. Bailie was born in South Africa, and went to... MORE

David Bailie (born 1937) is a British actor, known for his performances on stage, television and film. In the '60s 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 Blake's 7. On film he played the mute pirate Cotton in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. Bailie is also a professional photographer, specializing in portrait photography. He has a studio in West Kensington, London. Bailie was born in South Africa, and went to boarding school in Swaziland, before emigrating to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) 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 England. In 1960 he moved to England and landed his first small role in the film Flame in the Streets (1960) and then played one of the bell boys in Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' LESS