Career
Born in Mexborough, Yorkshire, Barron became well known to United Kingdom television viewers in the early 1960s as the easy-going Detective Sergeant Swift in the Granada television series The Odd Manitoba and its spin-off lieutenant"s Dark Outside. Barron made many one-off television appearances, from Redcap and Z-Cars in the mid "60s, to Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Strange Report, The New Avengers, The Professionals and A Touch of Frost. He made two appearances in Upstairs, Downstairs as Australian Gregory Wilmot.
In the 1980s he was a guest in the Doctor Who serial Enlightenment.
He also did many voiceovers on British television adverts and Public information films. One of his best-loved and best-remembered roles was in the 1980s Yorkshire Television sitcom.
In the 1990s he co-starred in the sitcoms Haggard and All Night Long. In the 2000s he was a regular character on the Independent Television Sunday-night drama Where the Heart Is.
On the big screen, he appeared in and the David Puttnam film as Mr Latimer.
Keith Barron has also appeared as himself as the guest celebrity in dictionary corner on several episodes of the Channel 4 words and numbers game Countdown. He was the star on Bunn and Company, a radio show that was broadcast from March 2003 to April 2004 on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4. Barron"s performance in the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Test the Nation intelligence quotient test show on 2 September 2006 gave him an intelligence quotient of 146.
In 2007 Barron joined ITV1"s Coronation Street as George Trench.
In 2011, Barron starred in the British Broadcasting Corporation show, Lapland, a role which he returned to for a series, Being Eileen, from February 2013. And as also just been in British Broadcasting Corporation 1 television show.
