John Bindon(1943-1993)
- Actor
John Bindon was well-known in the 1960s and 1970s as an actor who
specialised in playing violent thugs. Off-screen, he was notorious for
his violent temper and his habit of provoking fights in pubs for no
other reason than to prove what a "hard man" he was. He was a gangster
who was an associate of the Krays and the Richardsons. He ran a
protection racket and worked as a drug dealer in the West London
district of Fulham. He was also a friend of Princess Margaret whom he met on the
Caribbean island of Mustique. Following the death of a fellow gangster,
Johnny Darke, in November 1978 at a club in Fulham, he was charged with
murder. He was acquitted of all charges at the Old Bailey but his
notoriety put an end to his acting career and he drifted into
obscurity. He died of AIDS in October 1993.
