Alfie Bass

Biography

Alfie Bass was a young man from Bethnal Green, London's East End, born to a Jewish family of ten children who had fled persecution in Russia. Before becoming an actor, he worked as a cabinet-maker and was active in the labour movement, attending union meetings and participating in the Battle of Cable Street in 1936. He served in World War II, working in an engineering factory before being called up into the Middlesex Regiment.