John William Francis Hallam (28 October 1941 – 14 November 2006[1][2]) was a character actor from Northern Ireland, who frequently played hard men or military types.

[3] John Hallam was born, the son of a superintendent at London Docklands, in 1941 in Lisburn, County Antrim, after the family were evacuated to Northern Ireland during the Second World War.

[3][5] He was seen performing on television for the first time in 1967, in the small role of a watchman when the BBC screened the director Franco Zeffirelli's National Theatre production of Much Ado About Nothing (Old Vic).

Later in the decade he appeared as "uncle" Harry Farmer, a former soldier who is invalided out of the army in the BBC Television First World War drama series, Wings (1977-1978).

[11] He also appeared as "Gypsy Joe" in the Minder episode "In", (1982) and in the BBC's television adaptations of two tales from The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, from 1988 until 1990, and later starred as Ali Ben Hassad in the 1998 TV movie The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo.