What English actor performed in a show in which a family was transformed into the first vampires?
Original Vampires (The Vampire Diaries) The Original vampires, in the universe of "The Vampire Diaries" and "The Originals", are a family of vampires from which all current vampires descend, as well as being the most powerful and indestructible of their kind. In Autumn 1001 AD, after the death of her youngest son Henrik at the hands of werewolves, the powerful witch Esther performed an occult blood ritual in order to protect her five remaining children—(Finn, Elijah, Niklaus, Kol, and Rebekah)—and her husband, Mikael. The ritual transformed her family into the first vampires.
John Salew John Rylett Salew (1902, Portsmouth, – 14 September 1961, Hammersmith, London) was an English stage film and TV actor. Salew made the transition from stage to films in 1939, and according to Allmovie, "the manpower shortage during WWII enabled the stout, balding Salew to play larger and more important roles than would have been his lot in other circumstances. He usually played suspicious-looking characters, often Germanic in origin." His screen roles included William Shakespeare in the comic fantasy "Time Flies" (1944), Grimstone in the Gothic melodrama "Uncle Silas" (1947), and the librarian in the supernatural thriller" Night of the Demon" (1957). John Salew was active into the TV era, playing the sort of character parts that John McGiver played in the U.S.