John William Francis Hallam, actor: born Lisburn, Co Antrim 28 October 1941; married 1966 Vicky Brinkworth (one son, three daughters; marriage dissolved 1992); died Clifton, Oxfordshire 14 November 2006....
It was not long before he was acting with Laurence Olivier's embryonic National Theatre Company, playing the Stage Door Keeper in Trelawney of the "Wells" (Old Vic Theatre, 1965). While with the company, he met his wife-to-be, the mask-maker Vicky Brinkworth (they later divorced), and was seen performing on television for the first time, in the small role of a watchman when the BBC screened the director Franco Zeffirelli's National Theatre production of Much Ado About Nothing (Old Vic, 1967)....