[7] John Bailey's cold and ruthless assassin, Stringer, speaks with a convincing Russian accent.

As an actor, he had considerable vocal range, notably employing a clipped, upper class English accent as Inspector Grant in Josephine Tey's The Franchise Affair (1951).

BBC TV's The Wednesday Play about Sacco and Vanzetti (1965) addressed the topical issue of the death penalty.

Written by Jean Benedetti the play was entitled The Good Shoe Maker and the Poor Fish Pedlar.

[8] John Bailey played Bartolomeo Vanzetti, an Italian immigrant in America whose execution was widely regarded as having been a miscarriage of justice.