Moultrie Kelsall

Gender: Male
Born: 24th October 1901
Died: 12th February 1980
Nationality: Scotland
TV programs: Smith (UK), The Flaxton Boys, R3
Movies: The Birthday Party, The Light in the Piazza, Captain Horatio Hornblower, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, Violent Playground, The Man Who Never Was

Moultrie Rowe Kelsall (24 October 1901, Bearsden, Glasgow, Scotland - 12 February 1980, Blair Logie, Scotland) was a Scottish film and television character actor, who began his career in the industry as a radio station director and television producer. He also contributed towards architectural conservation during his lifetime.

Kelsall studied at Glasgow University and first developed his career in the realms of entertainment as a station director at Aberdeen Radio in the early 1930s. In 1937 he used this experience to move into production (under the name Moultrie R. Kelsall) in the early days of BBC television experimentation, adapting a J. M. Barrie one act play, "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals", for release in December of that year. In all, Kelsall produced 19 shows for BBC television, ending in 1939 with The Happy Hangman, a play by Harold Brighouse.

His acting career began in a 1949 film called Landfall, which starred Michael Denison, and recounts the story of the commander of a coastal defence vessel who sinks what he thinks is a German U-boat, but which turns out to be a Royal Navy vessel. Kelsall played Lieutenant James.

In 1951, a busy year for him, he moved up the cast list

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