Joe Melia

Giovanni Philip William "Joe" Melia^[1] (23 January 1935, Camden, London^[2] – 20 October 2012, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire) was a British actor.

Educated at the City of Leicester Boys' Grammar School^[3] and Downing College, Cambridge, where he read English,^[1] he first came to notice in Peter Nichols’s A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (Glasgow Citizens, 1967).^[4]

Selected filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1959	Too Many Crooks	Whisper
	Follow a Star	Stage Manager
1965	The Intelligence Men	Conductor
	Four in the Morning	Friend
1966	Modesty Blaise	Crevier
1969	Oh! What a Lovely War	Photographer
	A Talent for Loving	Tortillaw
1972	Antony and Cleopatra	Messenger No. 1
1976	Peter Pan	Starkey	TV Movie
1977	Sweeney!	Ronnie Brint
	Leonardo's Last Supper	–
1978	The Odd Job	Head Waiter
1980	The Wildcats of St Trinian's	Flash Harry
	Donkeys' Years	Kenneth	1982	Privates on Parade	Sergeant Len Bonny
1983	The Sign of Four	Jonathan Small	TV Movie
1984	Pop Pirates	Guard
	Sakharov	Sergej Kovalov	TV Movie

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1959	The Larkins	4th Barrister	Episode: "Haul for One"
1961	Winning Widows	–	1 episode
1965	Call It What You Like	Various	6 episodes
1965-6	Not Only... But Also	Various	2 episodes
1966	Foreign Affairs	Serge Volchanivov	6 episodes
1967	Man in a Suitcase	Hendrik Olsen	Episode: "The Sitting Pigeon"
1968	Softly, Softly	Lemgrace	Episode: "Proof"
	Sherlock Holmes	Joey Daly	Episode: "A Study in Scarlet"
1969	Public Eye	Billy Raybold	Episode: "The Comedian's Graveyard"
	The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder	Mo Linski	Episode: "The Green Mamba"
1971	Paul Temple	Alex Trimmer	Episode: "The Guilty Must Die"
1973	The Goodies	Builder, Estate Agent	Episode: "The New Office"
1976	Red Letter Day	Stanley	Amazing Stories
1979	Sally Ann	Bernie	2 episodes
1981	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Mr. Prosser	1 episode
1982	Last of the Summer Wine	Percy	Episode: "A Bicycle Made For Three"
1983	Give Us a Break	Monty	Episode: "When It Rains, It Pours"
1984	Big Deal	Mel Carter	Episode: "A Ragged Run"
1985	Minder	Ernie	Episode: "From Fulham, with Love"
1986	Chance in a Millon	Photographer	Episode: "Pre-Matrimonial Tensions"
1986-88	A Very Peculiar Practice	Ron Rust	3 episodes
1992	Birds of a Feather	Greek Priest	Episode: "Belongings"
	The Bill	Siddy Jacobs	Episode: "Open to Offers"
1994	Love on a Branch Line	Mr. Jones	4 episodes
1995	The Ghostbusters of East Finchley	Stan	5 episodes
1997	Born to Run	Albert	3 episodes (final appearance)

References

1. "Joe Melia obituary". TheGuardian.com. 7 November 2012.
2. Elvin, Laura (30 October 2012). "Reluctant city star Joe Melia dies, 77". This is Leicestershire. Archived from the original on 5 November 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. "Joe Melia obituary". Retrieved 8 October 2022.

External links

• Obituary, The Guardian, 7 November 2012
• Joe Melia at IMDb