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Harold Thomas Gregson 15 March — 8 January , known professionally as John Gregson , was an English actor of stage, television and film, with 40 credited film roles. He was best known for his crime drama and comedy roles. Gregson was credited in 40 films between and , and on television from until his death.

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He was often cast as a police inspector or as a navy or army officer, or in comedy roles in British films. He left school at 16, working first for a telephone company, then for Liverpool Corporation, as the city council was then known, before the Second World War. During this time, Gregson became interested in amateur dramatics, joining first the local Catholic church theatre group at St Anthony's in Mossley Hill.

When war broke out, Gregson was called up and joined the Royal Navy as a sailor on minesweepers. At one point, his minesweeper was torpedoed and he was rescued from the sea with a knee injury. After being demobilised in , Gregson joined the Liverpool Playhouse for a year, before going on to Perth Theatre in Scotland. There he met his future wife, actress Ida Reddish from Nottingham at the time using the stage name Thea Kronberg, though she later became Thea Gregory who had recently arrived from the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.

They moved to London in , and married in Hampstead. The couple eventually had three daughters and three sons. One of Gregson's first screen appearances was in the film Saraband for Dead Lovers , a tearjerking romance starring Joan Greenwood and Stewart Granger. In the popular Scott of the Antarctic also he played Tom Crean.

Gregson could also be seen in Ealing's Whisky Galore!