<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Egidija Bailie (m . 2002) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> http://davidbailie.co.uk/ </Td> </Tr> <P> David Bailie (born 4 December 1937) is an English actor, known for his performances on stage, television and film . In the 1960s and 1970s 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 series . Bailie is also a professional photographer, specialising in portrait photography . He has a studio in West Kensington, London . </P> <P> Bailie was born in Springs, 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 Britain . </P>

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