JOHN BOSWALL - British Character Actor Feature as Wyvern in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" Films

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British character actor John Boswall died in South Woodchester, Gloucestershire, England, on June 6, 2011.  He was 91.  Boswall was born in England on May 2, 1920.  He served with the British military in Burma during World War II.  He appeared frequently in stage, film and television from the early 1970s.  He was featured such series as “Paul Temple”, “Agatha Christie’s Piorot”, "Sapphire and Steel", “Murder Most Horrid”, “Virtual Murder”, “Covington Cross”, and “The Secret World of Michael Fry”.   His other television credits include productions of  “Lady Killer” (1973), “Edward the King” (1975), “The Hound of the Baskervilles” (1982), “The Return of the Native” (1994), and Terry Pratchett's "Hogfather" as the Chair of Indefinite Studies.  He was featured as Emmanuel Goldstein - the presumed leader of the opposition to Big Brother - in Michael Radford's 1984 film version of George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984". Boswall was best known in recent years for his role as Wyvern in the films “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” (2003) and “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (2006), as Wyvern, a crew member of the Flying Dutchman, whose body had largely merged with the ship during his time with Davy Jones.