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Andrew Matthew William Faulds (1 March 1923 - 31
May 2000) was a Britain|British actor and
politician.

Born Isoko, Tanganyika (now Tanzania), to
missionary parents, Faulds married Bunty Whitfield
in 1945. After graduating from the University of
Glasgow, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company
in 1948 but first came to a wider public
recognition playing Jet Morgan in Charles
Chilton's radio drama Journey Into Space on the
BBC Light Programme.

In 1959, Faulds and his wife played host to Paul
Robeson who had travelled to England to appear at
the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon
in Tony Richardson's production of Othello.
Robeson was still under severe censure and
scrutiny in the USA owing to his socialist
convictions and had only recently been allowed to
travel abroad again following the confiscation of
his passport during the McCarthyism|McCarthyist
episode. It was during this visit that Robeson
inspired Faulds to take up political activism.

In the United Kingdom general election, 1964|UK
general election, 1964, the Labour Party
(UK)|Labour Foreign Secretary, Patrick Gordon
Walker, had been defeated in controversial
circumstances in the Smethwick constituency by
Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative candidate
Peter Griffiths. Smethwick had been a focus of
immigration from the Commonwealth of
Nations|Commonwealth in the economic and
industrial growth of the years following World War
II and Griffiths ran a campaign critical of the
government's policy. There were rumours that his
supporters had covertly circulated the slogan If
you want a nigger (word)|nigger for a neighbour,
vote Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal or Labour. Faulds
defeated Griffiths in the United Kingdom general
election, 1966|UK general election, 1966 and was
Labour Member of Parliament|MP for the
constituency until his retirement in 1997. (The
constituency was renamed Warley East in 1974.)
Smethwick remained the focus of much racial
tension in England throughout Faulds' office, in
particular following the Rivers of Blood Speech by
Enoch Powell in 1968 which Faulds characterised as
... unchristian ... unprincipled, undemocratic and
racialist. There has been speculation that Faulds
was denied ministerial office because of his open
support of the Palestinian cause.

Faulds maintained his acting career throughout the
1960s and 1970s and, in particular became a key
part of film director Ken Russell's repertory
company, appearing in, among other films, The
Devils (film)|The Devils (1971), Mahler
(film)|Mahler (1974) and Lisztomania (1975).
Notably, he appeared in Russell's film The Music
Lovers (1971) alongside Glenda Jackson who was
also to go on to become a Labour MP.

==External links==

*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0269026/ IMDb
filmography
*http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicsobituaries
/story/0,1441,563445,00.html Obituary from The
Guardian