This article is about the Scottish actor. For the former CIA officer, see John Paisley

John Paisley

John Arthur Paisley was an employee of the Central Intelligence Agency and has been linked in later years to both the John F. Kennedy assassination and the Watergate scandal....

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John Paisley is a Scottish actor working in China.

Early life and acting career

Paisley was born in Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 in 1938. He graduated from Edinburgh College of Speech and Drama, followed by the Royal Academy of Music and Drama (London) in 1959. He initially worked as an actor and stage manager as part of a repertory in England. He emigrated to Australia in 1961, working as an actor, teacher, writer, and playwright. He relocated to China to lecture at the Beijing University

Peking University

Peking University , colloquially known in Chinese as Beida , is a major research university located in Beijing, China, and a member of the C9 League. It is the first established modern national university of China. It was founded as Imperial University of Peking in 1898 as a replacement of the...

 Department of Foreign Languages from 1999 to 2005, before returning to film work in Chinese productions. He married the painter Zheng Keying, his third wife, in 2005.

His most significant recent role was as John Rabe

John Rabe

John Rabe was a German businessman who is best known for his efforts to stop the atrocities of the Japanese army during the Nanking Occupation and his work to protect and help the Chinese civilians during the event...

 in the 2009 movie City of Life and Death.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Fearless Fearless (2006 film) Fearless, known in Chinese as Huo Yuanjia and Jet Li's Fearless in the United Kingdom and the United States, is a 2006 film directed by Ronny Yu and starring Jet Li...	English Businessman
2008	Last Hour Last Hour Last Hour is a straight-to-DVD 2008 movie starring DMX, Michael Madsen, David Carradine and Paul Sorvino.-Plot:The movie follows five characters who are lured to an abandoned house in China by letters they all received from their fathers. They soon realize they are not alone and there is one other...	Monk's father
2009	Empire of Silver	Dr. Wilson
2009	City of Life and Death	John Rabe John Rabe John Rabe was a German businessman who is best known for his efforts to stop the atrocities of the Japanese army during the Nanking Occupation and his work to protect and help the Chinese civilians during the event...
2009	Gasp	American

Television

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1970	Skippy Skippy the Bush Kangaroo Skippy the Bush Kangaroo is an Australian television series for children created by John McCallum, produced from 1966–1968, telling the adventures of a young boy and his intelligent pet kangaroo, in the Waratah National Park in Duffys Forest, near Sydney, New South Wales.Ninety-one 30-minute...	Rix	1 episode
1994	A Country Practice A Country Practice A Country Practice is an Australian television drama series. One of the longest-running of its kind, produced by James Davern of JNP Productions, it ran on the Seven Network for 1,058 episodes from 18 November 1981 to 22 November 1993. It was produced in ATN-7's production facility at Epping,...	Turps	1 episode
1994	Janus Janus (TV series) Janus is an Australian drama television series screened on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1994 and 1995. Two series were produced, with a total of 26 episodes....	Provis	1 episode
1995	Blue Heelers Blue Heelers Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria.- Overview :...	Bill Dwyer	1 episode

Screenplays

Year	Film	Format	Notes
1989	Die Didi-Show Didi's Comedy show Didi's Comedy Show was a 1989 German comedy television show starring Dieter Hallervorden that ran for 10 episodes. Didi is a bumbling detective who is struck by "brilliant" ideas which turn out disastrously; he eventually comes out on top, however....	TV series	10 episodes
1998	Durch dick & dünn	TV movie
2006	Felix 2 - Der Hase und die verflixte Zeitmaschine	TV movie