Jon Baggaley
- Actor
Jon Baggaley has acted/directed in British
and N. American media since the early '70s. His 200 credits include
film and television, musical theatre and opera, radio drama, and
regular work as a film voice-over artist. Baggaley is the author/editor
of 20 books and over 200 articles about TV communication. His
publications have appeared in Chinese, French, German, Japanese,
Russian and Spanish translations. He is Associate Fellow of the British
Psychological Society, and a regular consultant on media to governments
and broadcasting organizations in the USA and Caribbean, Canada,
Africa, Asia, and Europe. As an authority on communications media, he
has served as an expert witness, newspaper columnist, international
speaker, and frequent TV/radio guest. In 1995-96, Baggaley and his
wife, writer 'Sheila E. James' worked on the revival in Ukraine and
Russia of the multimedia 'film train' tradition of agitprop, by which
actors, musicians, singers, and teachers bring cultural and educational
programs by train to urban and rural communities across the former
Soviet Union. Since 2003, they have lived and worked across Europe and
Asia, and Baggaley has concentrated on writing and presenting
educational television for use in international training.
