tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89881866466179213322024-03-29T02:10:02.605+00:00familiar unknowna miscellany of British character actors who are still with usUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger294125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-34031147365226181792024-02-29T17:33:00.000+00:002024-02-29T17:33:00.798+00:00Brian Capron<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX-JZ40wppF_a472L2Ikzv85fo0clgAbQXHoKRWKSZ3ijSr4Q-R9jbJt5AT3anV7whuQZRNhuVURKSzfuOlpc-rdv6n1yFllx_EXNRBuj0zS8oElzvsYEOzYB0UsWJfkE31D846wmXGws_miSnuqVRbKkrmxmD7-OjlPO_v1z4Q-KodTpC98TeFjJW/s738/brian-capron.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brian Capron in 'Grange Hill'" border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="738" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX-JZ40wppF_a472L2Ikzv85fo0clgAbQXHoKRWKSZ3ijSr4Q-R9jbJt5AT3anV7whuQZRNhuVURKSzfuOlpc-rdv6n1yFllx_EXNRBuj0zS8oElzvsYEOzYB0UsWJfkE31D846wmXGws_miSnuqVRbKkrmxmD7-OjlPO_v1z4Q-KodTpC98TeFjJW/w320-h246/brian-capron.jpg" title="Actor Brian Capron as Mr Hopwood in 'Grange Hill'" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Brian Capron:</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">A very familiar face: perhaps it's that of 'Hoppy' Hopgood from 'Grange Hill', or of Gail's murderous husband Richard Hillman from 'Coronation Street', as those are possibly the most memorable of his TV appearances. </span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjabEbvrXD47gGvI6mpDkQEt6lLwNKrg-fLoEYG4QY8qO8TlOEz9Z6dLYU-W_IwOEV1edy1YC3PVMAZ62Fsw_CQxSg2PF4ILgYiU_4ovEvSq0nXaALhBn5oM0Z4UJgL5yfWoe2K6fCt-1m1347MryyudaF57yMSrmwR0sDaFaXicPAGFThbe-NohRSLp9U/s598/blak7.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Brian Capron in 'Blakes 7'" border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="598" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjabEbvrXD47gGvI6mpDkQEt6lLwNKrg-fLoEYG4QY8qO8TlOEz9Z6dLYU-W_IwOEV1edy1YC3PVMAZ62Fsw_CQxSg2PF4ILgYiU_4ovEvSq0nXaALhBn5oM0Z4UJgL5yfWoe2K6fCt-1m1347MryyudaF57yMSrmwR0sDaFaXicPAGFThbe-NohRSLp9U/w320-h231/blak7.PNG" title="Actor Brian Capron in an episode of 'Blakes 7'" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In an episode of 'Blake's 7'</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Brian Capron has also been seen in many of the nation's favourites, starting with 'Z-Cars' in 1973 and including other cop and crime dramas such as 'Dixon of Dock Green', 'The Sweeney', 'The Gentle Touch', 'Shoestring' and 'Bergerac'.</span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYHGw3dpfChQrq3LO0gT_L33-HcYAqbYUJxPiuYvOcQJ3ZJYqLYsyXaRmmkpppukZe0F2sEVNMSkhFFdlslY5ptBS4SqrXXbm5p7QYWT7Pw1yxG5DFzScS5_WJuMOo1ptcZDnOpR6pgu634PdApjCbomPonZCH1i4JUfm_9Ao2nnU6Me36NeZQ7o7y5Es/s586/capron2.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Brian Capron in 'Crown Court'" border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="586" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYHGw3dpfChQrq3LO0gT_L33-HcYAqbYUJxPiuYvOcQJ3ZJYqLYsyXaRmmkpppukZe0F2sEVNMSkhFFdlslY5ptBS4SqrXXbm5p7QYWT7Pw1yxG5DFzScS5_WJuMOo1ptcZDnOpR6pgu634PdApjCbomPonZCH1i4JUfm_9Ao2nnU6Me36NeZQ7o7y5Es/w320-h227/capron2.PNG" title="Actor Brian Capron in an episode of 'Crown Court'" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A 1977 episode of 'Crown Court' entitled<br />'A Place to Stay' </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />The handsome and amiable seeming actor is also a mainstay of comedy through the 70s-90s, heading the cast of the house-sharing sitcom 'Full House', and showing up on 'Beryl's Lot', 'Doctor On The Go', 'Kelly Monteith', 'Minder', 'Birds of a Feather', 'Take My Wife' (with the curious coupling of Duggie Brown and Elisabeth Sladen), 'Mixed Blessings', and Dawn French's 'Murder Most Horrid'. </span></p><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7SETlaheDReR2OgPJQtu2NBgRhaVIyQsxXgfnUCzC1ntj7Yxlz7pa2UgvJuTQMeUSOvLh-qqhsT3XZVF3P4SsBrTtaXKvmJQZ3VmCn05RooQSh8i1yyn_CuhFRf-h9Za3lDpk1fjYIrnRwt9Ixwrd6GR-Rf2WWfhw_nNbKe22CQ8xcLI3Vq0fWJnB_ec/s584/capron3.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="584" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7SETlaheDReR2OgPJQtu2NBgRhaVIyQsxXgfnUCzC1ntj7Yxlz7pa2UgvJuTQMeUSOvLh-qqhsT3XZVF3P4SsBrTtaXKvmJQZ3VmCn05RooQSh8i1yyn_CuhFRf-h9Za3lDpk1fjYIrnRwt9Ixwrd6GR-Rf2WWfhw_nNbKe22CQ8xcLI3Vq0fWJnB_ec/s320/capron3.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Full House' in which he starred with Christopher Strauli (right), <br />seen here in the first episode with the great Milton Johns. <br /> </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;">Since the 2000s, he's clocked up a solid reckoning of daytime dramas from 'Doctors', 'Judge John Deed' and 'New Tricks' to 'Midsomer Murders' and 'Where the Heart Is'. <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">On the big screen, he can be spotted in the Gwyneth Paltrow 'Emma' (1996), '101 Dalmations' (1996), and in bigger roles in the lesser-known British productions, 'Ambleton Delight' (2009) and 'The National Union of Space People' (2016). <br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0135682/">Brian Capron</a>-imdb</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-16516353612604794012024-02-24T13:38:00.000+00:002024-02-24T13:38:57.139+00:00Gabrielle Glaister<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7kdmgP-sBDv_M1So33qUKFneFa8aZf24QkXk706GgLiBHJeRlkA9zBvkbi9wl_wAR6YB8RIfsZ4YbCN1EPGcG6yPx2cZusWCtcD_FJv297FYBx-jo01pWz0SX9uXyDrJH2iCawBLA3-A/s391/glaister.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="311" data-original-width="391" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7kdmgP-sBDv_M1So33qUKFneFa8aZf24QkXk706GgLiBHJeRlkA9zBvkbi9wl_wAR6YB8RIfsZ4YbCN1EPGcG6yPx2cZusWCtcD_FJv297FYBx-jo01pWz0SX9uXyDrJH2iCawBLA3-A/s320/glaister.png" width="320" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Gabrielle Glaister:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Well now, young ... Bob." <br /><br />A running joke across the 'Blackadder' series was Edmund's perplexing attraction to strapping young lad Bob, played by the transparently female Gabrielle Glaister. A nod to the gender politics of the various eras in which it's set - and a nod to Shakespearean theatre and cross-dress plotting. Writer Ben Elton returns to this theme in 'Upstart Crow' when a judge, also played by Glaister, turns up as "Judge Robert". </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Before these meta comedy japes, Gabrielle Glaister would probably have been best known to British TV audiences as Patricia Farnham in the long running Liverpool-set soap, 'Brookside', a role she played for seven years. She was also a long-running character in 'Coronation Street', and appeared in 'Emmerdale' and the less well-remembered soap 'Family Affairs'.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_o0PHCQ5cqv7f3Pa53LbBhaSzZeDrqhrStUDGKXpMXTw9Wxbr05YtxhekA263jWfHDhUUl3MfvAYJLvfILgR382whGhkao2pDgvaOylZ1fEAm0G8_Q5z7JijzC5LM4IES3Jiv6RPlCrXLiff7um0dyp0-Ruan4t2rtdW8rmJRSLMDHjmHMsM1RVVqqGU/s459/brookside.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="459" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_o0PHCQ5cqv7f3Pa53LbBhaSzZeDrqhrStUDGKXpMXTw9Wxbr05YtxhekA263jWfHDhUUl3MfvAYJLvfILgR382whGhkao2pDgvaOylZ1fEAm0G8_Q5z7JijzC5LM4IES3Jiv6RPlCrXLiff7um0dyp0-Ruan4t2rtdW8rmJRSLMDHjmHMsM1RVVqqGU/s320/brookside.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A photo-opp for Channel 4's 'Brookside'<br />(Gabrielle Glaister, second left) </td></tr></tbody></table><br />Beyond 'Blackadder' her comedy roles have included 'All at Number 20', 'Get Well Soon', the aforementioned 'Upstart Crow' and Ben Elton's sketch vehicle, 'The Man from Auntie'. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">But it's in more straight drama programming that you're more likely to run across her, for example all the daytime TV staples: 'The Bill', 'London's Burning', 'Casualty', 'Doctors' and 'Peak Practice'. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXUNDriQOdm6pZbqfwcyrN5DgCuN9luDvyfoXaH1BlvoXE8bRlMOrHsJfrbwmEPn9eoe1Sq_lJx02uGa5MPTkVH3VunZsIrqdlNtsEGGGR3J7bn6USDwdbtwQ-n2EthwdQjQWXfzK9CsX520H7eruD5F34_uyKDBC3DLEJL9fgJertF7YriUNvUau79EE/s563/debs.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="563" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXUNDriQOdm6pZbqfwcyrN5DgCuN9luDvyfoXaH1BlvoXE8bRlMOrHsJfrbwmEPn9eoe1Sq_lJx02uGa5MPTkVH3VunZsIrqdlNtsEGGGR3J7bn6USDwdbtwQ-n2EthwdQjQWXfzK9CsX520H7eruD5F34_uyKDBC3DLEJL9fgJertF7YriUNvUau79EE/s320/debs.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As Debs Brownlow in 'Coronation Street'</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0321699">Gabrielle Glaister</a>-imdb</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-3218560895814274682024-01-12T13:01:00.000+00:002024-02-24T13:40:00.318+00:00Nicholas Woodeson<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK_obkolkuFpbKZ50ILWqLz2zVgyWyeiWmOdOPXbJc7ULROYXP9jihKzf7d4kn_Sly-SED4HyAnuMlsQK_P270KhfmrS1zBHC3KZiyWuRWw6BHK2q5YcO6teBtKqmdUTyOjRRlyOZswxI/s627/woodeson.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="British actor Nicholas Woodeson in 'The Blackheath Poisonings'" border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="627" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK_obkolkuFpbKZ50ILWqLz2zVgyWyeiWmOdOPXbJc7ULROYXP9jihKzf7d4kn_Sly-SED4HyAnuMlsQK_P270KhfmrS1zBHC3KZiyWuRWw6BHK2q5YcO6teBtKqmdUTyOjRRlyOZswxI/w400-h308/woodeson.jpg" title="Nicholas Woodeson in 'The Blackheath Poisonings" width="400" /></a></div></blockquote></blockquote><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Nicholas Woodeson:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">A classic character actor, always believable and technically accomplished without being at all obtrusive. In fact you will have seen Nicholas Woodeson quite often if you have watched British television much since the '80s. <br /><br />Or if you've seen some of the bigger feature films of the period, because he appears in 'Heaven's Gate' (1980), 'The Russia House' (1990), 'The Pelican Brief' (1993), Bill Murray's 'The Man Who Knew Too Little' (1997), 'The Avengers' (1998), 'Mad Cows' (1999), 'Topsy-Turvy' (1999), 'John Carter' (2012), and 'Hannah Arendt' (2012), 'Skyfall' (2012), 'The Limehouse Golem' (2016) and 'Paddington 2' (2019). And he's the conductor dragged out of bed at the beginning of 'The Death of Stalin' (2017). </span> <br /><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju6p3byZQnJqR7zqT2V_wAiwPLCAB-fnFEIO_gPShdEMGOCzXRi5NA9kmTeCItaHyelQhoElGrUOh2-RzkuAwoHKsrCDq0wHa8qwQ29HOuTRWXH25GMWDdn9aDf-1-EL4Yeqzvt7O1nUk/w400-h320/drdarling.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Appearing in the film version of 'The Avengers' (1999)<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;">On television, Nicholas Woodeson, can be spotted in quite a cavalcade of quality viewing, encompassing 'Poirot', 'Red Riding', the BBC's 1999 'Great Expectations' as Wemmick to Charlotte Rampling's Miss Havisham, 'The Blackheath Poisonings', 'Mapp & Lucia', 'Blackeyes' and 'Rome'.<br /><br />And plenty of more everyday stuff: 'Doc Martin', 'Midsomer Murders', 'Touch of Frost', and the unavoidable 'Holby City'.<br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvzVXEumThtwgI37xvwibi_B7wr-SJ_DdtjIFGEo9QiwepDqzr1SMfwvk4BayjvALKi_kKs19LxrwO-h_gKpM6V2wlqyBQ7B4u3QVz2qE757hZTQ9t89qUU7ZkS9EvN4OtE-3XP1MQVz5O0inVCvD4D-bFvIeuKfFVHl8y_aLprSxB6nX25rgGPbhv6Qg/s636/destalin.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="395" data-original-width="636" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvzVXEumThtwgI37xvwibi_B7wr-SJ_DdtjIFGEo9QiwepDqzr1SMfwvk4BayjvALKi_kKs19LxrwO-h_gKpM6V2wlqyBQ7B4u3QVz2qE757hZTQ9t89qUU7ZkS9EvN4OtE-3XP1MQVz5O0inVCvD4D-bFvIeuKfFVHl8y_aLprSxB6nX25rgGPbhv6Qg/s320/destalin.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the concert scene from 'The Death of Stalin' (2017) </td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">It's notable that he's played a very wide range of characters, from doctors and detectives to scientists and spies. Interestingly, he has also appeared several times as a rabbi - 'Friday Night Dinner', 'Disobedience (2017), 'My Father's Secrets' (voice, 2022), although he isn't Jewish and is a fairly outspoken critic of US interference in the Middle East, where he was born - his father being a Br</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">itish diplomat. </span></div><div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0940245">Nicholas Woodeson</a>-imdb</span><p></p></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-90008822170925378172024-01-02T19:49:00.000+00:002024-02-24T13:40:19.548+00:00Brian Gwaspari<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicR7b3Do-I0m23PIu9s1ZcUemSw86Ob_LYdLNopSn_ZdaMjAepaFEi7dZxJj_TDks8-07PK3pBnxVLFsmP1b00ACtfZ3DIXhZp5dd94ccL8kWOe8Q-8V_YYUi4Aph42oQ8FMG8dLQK9a-9wfxJa43qczshB0uAWDK72IhzjQRmn0R9N6f-qfLIX0l3M9o/s404/gwaspari.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="404" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicR7b3Do-I0m23PIu9s1ZcUemSw86Ob_LYdLNopSn_ZdaMjAepaFEi7dZxJj_TDks8-07PK3pBnxVLFsmP1b00ACtfZ3DIXhZp5dd94ccL8kWOe8Q-8V_YYUi4Aph42oQ8FMG8dLQK9a-9wfxJa43qczshB0uAWDK72IhzjQRmn0R9N6f-qfLIX0l3M9o/s320/gwaspari.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Brian Gwaspari: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wiry, resolute sort of character actor, swerving equally expertly through some of the better action thrillers and comedies of the '70s and '80s, Londoner Brian Gwaspari is a more familiar face than he is a name. Getting an initial TV break in the bedsit 1974 drama serial 'Rooms', he soon started to crop up in popular shows such as 'The Sweeney', 'Van der Valk', 'The Professionals', 'Hazell' and 'The Gentle Touch'. He hit the big screen, in a comparatively small way, in 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (1977) and 'A Bridge Too Far' (1977) and was in a European-set episode of the American TV series 'Remington Steele' with Pierce Brosnan.</span> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4DNvkW-Le0UZCGtcVQ_ElZR7TEIev1h1Id6oEuQmdVvum_A6pAjiyXKdKBux4oI3DD7DdiZHZ0GP5YATtVobxtTCurH3Ofk-rY4PfPNoJyX3hSUrgC-qSFe02gF5xmyi4AMYzW3mS9BbaKAV2_MVmnpKCEa2bEQ8xyNSwkUysM5l9HttsSnjpR1mlpHI/s360/gwaspari1.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="360" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4DNvkW-Le0UZCGtcVQ_ElZR7TEIev1h1Id6oEuQmdVvum_A6pAjiyXKdKBux4oI3DD7DdiZHZ0GP5YATtVobxtTCurH3Ofk-rY4PfPNoJyX3hSUrgC-qSFe02gF5xmyi4AMYzW3mS9BbaKAV2_MVmnpKCEa2bEQ8xyNSwkUysM5l9HttsSnjpR1mlpHI/s320/gwaspari1.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">After all that burning rubber and gunplay, the '80s saw a bit more comedy and light-hearted material. He had a stint as a copper investigating Roy's car-lot fire on 'EastEnders', and can be spotted in 'Ever Decreasing Circles', 'Help!', 'Roll Over Beethoven', 'No Frills' (a short lived sitcom with Kathy Staff reprising a sort of Nora Batty role in yuppy London), 'Hi De Hi', 'Yes, Prime Minister', and 'Joint Account', surely one of the beige-est sitcoms ever, about a female bank manager - whatever next?</span> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeLw3fNj-2xbqr9EvNBHqPyF50mbVrY3E6PAsKwkFZ1iVKbs6ndZlNq-cBRiqEMoxZ3OlCeYm9h8SXRMDJ5v-uYMKG0U5Fi55qHwjQ9eiQPME3uA8Pl_ZKAaTjWuT1_7nwFlp5MsDkZAGjaW1-FsudfGU314CpSYlWSIpYOKQbCKLzn3Gjp3LjNOjGTSY/s520/gwaspari3.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="520" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeLw3fNj-2xbqr9EvNBHqPyF50mbVrY3E6PAsKwkFZ1iVKbs6ndZlNq-cBRiqEMoxZ3OlCeYm9h8SXRMDJ5v-uYMKG0U5Fi55qHwjQ9eiQPME3uA8Pl_ZKAaTjWuT1_7nwFlp5MsDkZAGjaW1-FsudfGU314CpSYlWSIpYOKQbCKLzn3Gjp3LjNOjGTSY/s320/gwaspari3.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Sweeney 2' (1978)</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaHpgGnNOPZsPZrPxbIABBBTUScvHfiPdkxj7guqMu3nofyQ_F8oS-dvIW1FxzwPe4hs1f3cvVmRdFZ3DObrbJtU_cf_9GHMd3YzEHpxKTLYQ7ODUIHU3fbs-XA8lc4tCtSAMs0kjjuKDDv-VbV1cq_KMZyMlMFWEkUo8FbWYcofSlGv7QWJ0pqpk9L4I/s551/gwaspari4.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="551" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaHpgGnNOPZsPZrPxbIABBBTUScvHfiPdkxj7guqMu3nofyQ_F8oS-dvIW1FxzwPe4hs1f3cvVmRdFZ3DObrbJtU_cf_9GHMd3YzEHpxKTLYQ7ODUIHU3fbs-XA8lc4tCtSAMs0kjjuKDDv-VbV1cq_KMZyMlMFWEkUo8FbWYcofSlGv7QWJ0pqpk9L4I/s320/gwaspari4.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And an episode of The Professionals</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Into the '90s and '00s and we've got a dusting of cosy crime sneaking into the mix: 'Wycliffe' and 'Poirot' for example, and a few more sitcoms, such as the Gwen Taylor vehicle, 'Screaming', 'The Brittas Empire' and 'Waiting for God'. On the cop show front, we can see him in 'The Chief' with Tim Piggot-Smith, and the oddball, largely-misfiring 'Virtual Murder' a character-actor-studded 1992 effort that might have attained some cult status if not let down by its dreary low budget feel.</span> </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihffhRwgEYy1D-qlbdMa8JYJdq_O6MDILzQoQRbK1bMCT-KjbBkqUkWfe8yfWU6Pr6Z_C3t9HXrh-5HuMbLZueDn8zyb49K88yI47fmkNoQGnjz2gQsQ_n1zG_P4WmM1fuBcPuNK6Y4oJf9ZsVq-4Z6UnJZQ0CxrqvSPtSJQuLHXK8AIM4oatDalKHffE/s549/gwaspari2.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="549" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihffhRwgEYy1D-qlbdMa8JYJdq_O6MDILzQoQRbK1bMCT-KjbBkqUkWfe8yfWU6Pr6Z_C3t9HXrh-5HuMbLZueDn8zyb49K88yI47fmkNoQGnjz2gQsQ_n1zG_P4WmM1fuBcPuNK6Y4oJf9ZsVq-4Z6UnJZQ0CxrqvSPtSJQuLHXK8AIM4oatDalKHffE/s320/gwaspari2.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Brittas Empire</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">More recently, there's the short 'Raspberry Ripple' (2007), followed by a single episode of 'Doctors' and a 'Midsomer Murders' in 2010. He's about 75 at time of writing, so hopefully he may pop up again somewhere unless he's got out of the business. In any case, a great supporting actor.</span> </p><p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0350312/?ref_=tt_cl_t_13">Brian Gwaspari</a> - imdb</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-5970784369540245172023-12-04T14:21:00.000+00:002024-01-02T15:11:10.538+00:00Paul Chapman <p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKn2-BAGUbO6-Obb7O21A-1kq69cq_HOd0jRn2E2ncB-oFgiTBbS_jcsbdCb9wAUEhLLjSuxjgqGteqe1DkJpi6uzTo106TwJ2MQjMHsSfP-FOfRN0I3l_vhT7JltF_iKhF9JSt6vNrRxdXMpljuN9vR8EXgLk2GAXY-Ky61VCQTPQcYZrHFeKPXzeyXA/s521/Chap.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="British actor Paul Chapman" border="0" data-original-height="351" data-original-width="521" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKn2-BAGUbO6-Obb7O21A-1kq69cq_HOd0jRn2E2ncB-oFgiTBbS_jcsbdCb9wAUEhLLjSuxjgqGteqe1DkJpi6uzTo106TwJ2MQjMHsSfP-FOfRN0I3l_vhT7JltF_iKhF9JSt6vNrRxdXMpljuN9vR8EXgLk2GAXY-Ky61VCQTPQcYZrHFeKPXzeyXA/w320-h216/Chap.PNG" title="British actor Paul Chapman in the BBC series 'Wings'" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Paul Chapman:</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tall and imposing with distinctively stern, almost Vulcan, eyebrows, it feels as if we've often seen Paul Chapman in the role of the antagonist in dramas and comedies stretching back to the 1960s. He's probably best remembered in several David Nobbs comedies, including 'A Fairly Secret Army' (as jaded mercenary Pegleg Pogson), 'A Bit Of A Do' and the rather less successful 'The Hello Goodbye Man'. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx-w7XiFFjnIaNyjLdc4w3WkR3mmWNhSMX3hx_m2hHv8MetFCnIpkXgbVwTMLrAoKG3V3DxIF7t4wiK6V097ajqYla8Gpb29Y-dvfx8WICaUClaw-8ajA6kj32SURJAe06Gc1pYN8ImPBd5ObJSvO-oXHFufKtyuHJNQ1AgIj5U7dL8wzcQOe9MtSebAU/s660/chap1.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="660" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx-w7XiFFjnIaNyjLdc4w3WkR3mmWNhSMX3hx_m2hHv8MetFCnIpkXgbVwTMLrAoKG3V3DxIF7t4wiK6V097ajqYla8Gpb29Y-dvfx8WICaUClaw-8ajA6kj32SURJAe06Gc1pYN8ImPBd5ObJSvO-oXHFufKtyuHJNQ1AgIj5U7dL8wzcQOe9MtSebAU/s320/chap1.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An episode of 'Survivors' from 1975 </td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">His officer's bearing saw him play a number of military types over the years - in 'Colditz', 'Wings', 'Warship' 'A Family At War' and others, including 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP-bkDT3i4_xAQNjREUPTbhuPF88_3Lqw0sD8632zuNcu141AupJxi7kyuXhL1loDAqZi8K8jxvE5RYEpuuUvjXIdW9xp1dS47DIHivJwz23BLDC1q0xxuCIAZK6OY1qDkHYDUCLH3AVY/s320/chapman.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP-bkDT3i4_xAQNjREUPTbhuPF88_3Lqw0sD8632zuNcu141AupJxi7kyuXhL1loDAqZi8K8jxvE5RYEpuuUvjXIdW9xp1dS47DIHivJwz23BLDC1q0xxuCIAZK6OY1qDkHYDUCLH3AVY/s0/chapman.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the role of Suffolk in the BBC Shakespeare <br />production of 'The First Part of Henry VI'</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPT3eUevXEEXyIWytdaDGrl6kBJRf3ANg0VDNe-14GjrTVsA1MsKFOvxF8mHhYH1eX_4pI9PZZiJ_yjDMxQLqpWLWJBZmDuw9eiZF2CJXUxPT8acyuYjSJ9Jyb6w-j_lWcdJHIZq4VXC1oDGb7D4hF_PCwVP4QIfDH-YePaKFj97zZpadyVWB7pXEXlzs/s635/minc.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="635" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPT3eUevXEEXyIWytdaDGrl6kBJRf3ANg0VDNe-14GjrTVsA1MsKFOvxF8mHhYH1eX_4pI9PZZiJ_yjDMxQLqpWLWJBZmDuw9eiZF2CJXUxPT8acyuYjSJ9Jyb6w-j_lWcdJHIZq4VXC1oDGb7D4hF_PCwVP4QIfDH-YePaKFj97zZpadyVWB7pXEXlzs/s320/minc.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As the villainous Harwell Mincing in 'Return of the Antelope'</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">In a similar vein there is his Roman soldier Clodius Maximus in the historical drama 'Eagle Of The Ninth' and Nazi officer in the 'True Patriot', a Play For Today with Michael York. Another highbrow success was the impressive theatrical-style staging of 'Henry VI' in the 1983 BBC Shakespeare production. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9PrgnamjQcFCC_zqqZsE5GOL4a-BuZKHAbbeIZiUj1dab3mlouts8dGlHfPWOAsTQS437hFVHv0ltO4gf7QOkKCZ_4Od6FsSPWBxQhC5lOOqO30aB9PAi-S0V09YoDnvw0DRIIS8uMTctss9WUVrtF_tgRWcou9jfqIq_zuVGf9MbfWUVAv1VwaZY/s600/a.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="600" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9PrgnamjQcFCC_zqqZsE5GOL4a-BuZKHAbbeIZiUj1dab3mlouts8dGlHfPWOAsTQS437hFVHv0ltO4gf7QOkKCZ_4Od6FsSPWBxQhC5lOOqO30aB9PAi-S0V09YoDnvw0DRIIS8uMTctss9WUVrtF_tgRWcou9jfqIq_zuVGf9MbfWUVAv1VwaZY/s320/a.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In David Nobbs' popular comedy series 'A Bit of a Do'</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">At time of writing Paul Chapman is in his mid-80s, and in well-earned retirement, so a salute is due. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0152488/">Paul Chapman</a>-imdb</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-51353235061369354352023-10-27T19:10:00.005+00:002023-10-27T19:13:45.220+00:00Haydn Gwynne<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span face=""helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Haydn Gwynne</span>:<br /></span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">† </span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">March 21 1957 - October 20 2023</span></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Edit, Oct 26 2023: I'm saddened to hear of the death of Haydn Gwynne, which has come while this salute was in preparation. I try to stick to actors who are still with us, but make an exception here</i> <br /> <br />Smart and classy roles have been the mainstay of Haydn Gwynne's acting career, utilising her rather forbidding aura of upper middle class confidence, feminine strength and intellect. Early roles in the '80s and '90s include 'Lovejoy', 'Poirot', and 'Kavanagh QC'. She then matured into some substantial parts, including 'Peak Practice', Calpurnia in the HBO series 'Rome', and cosy crime stuff like 'Lewis', 'Father Brown', and 'Midsomer Murders' as well as more contemporary/gritty stuff like 'Silent Witness', 'Ripper Street' and 'Sherlock'. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Films include 'Car Trouble' (1986), 'The Pleasure Principle' (1992) with Peter Firth, and more recently, the much vaunted live-action 'Beauty & The Beast' (2017) with Emma Watson. <br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006522/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Haydn Gwynne</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> - imdb</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-59987913619165947622023-07-07T16:31:00.001+00:002023-09-13T11:14:34.759+00:00Brian Croucher<p><br /></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijdwVhHuQamxfyVVQFrHpxWSQuIKqOiVJABsRpitEIVnpW3YHjM737joF9GMP6dU4qMAAfD79irhCxAQW4UpBdy3LtFxLpfBpFQFkgZ4FL4jvXHFEG4QR-0i6ZYZIvbAjE3W8jGhQl7zAQcj4T_UPINMV-wrUNxDcAWl3pyLIGkbvxctgQCukL7mkIurc/s525/croucher8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Actor Brian Croucher in Out" border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="525" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijdwVhHuQamxfyVVQFrHpxWSQuIKqOiVJABsRpitEIVnpW3YHjM737joF9GMP6dU4qMAAfD79irhCxAQW4UpBdy3LtFxLpfBpFQFkgZ4FL4jvXHFEG4QR-0i6ZYZIvbAjE3W8jGhQl7zAQcj4T_UPINMV-wrUNxDcAWl3pyLIGkbvxctgQCukL7mkIurc/w320-h233/croucher8.jpg" title="Brian Croucher" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Brian Croucher:</span><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Tough looking customer Brian Croucher is probably best known as Ted Hills in the BBC soap EastEnders in the mid-90s, but you're almost certain to recognise him from many TV appearances before that. Very much in step with the gritty dramas of the late 60s and early 70s, you'll spot him on both sides of the law in 'Callan', 'Villains', 'Softly Softly: Task Force' and others, culminating in the relentless 'Out' in 1978, with Brian Cox. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Up43CxCoaYCzViOiriW8Ss0RDYuAt8l83o0iE1P-aeY0nwhKcc_2Rw5KQ6vliDq2Iz8x7XUR4-nOBxGQ2xOgHFLA-XCp_Xaw4PRgx9E74KWFckSissTM0psYHIEE-LESPXmpnmax6D0QbpezZjM8_1u7ndKvnQj85kDZGmBe0cVJIJABqoiAvwTxCTM/s498/croucher3.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="498" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Up43CxCoaYCzViOiriW8Ss0RDYuAt8l83o0iE1P-aeY0nwhKcc_2Rw5KQ6vliDq2Iz8x7XUR4-nOBxGQ2xOgHFLA-XCp_Xaw4PRgx9E74KWFckSissTM0psYHIEE-LESPXmpnmax6D0QbpezZjM8_1u7ndKvnQj85kDZGmBe0cVJIJABqoiAvwTxCTM/s320/croucher3.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the teen sci-fi adventure series, The Jensen Code.<br />Made in colour in 1973, it only survives in b&w. </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Things broaden out a bit as the '70s roll on. He is well known in Whovian circles for the Tom Baker-era 'Robots of Death' in which he plays Borg, complete with eye makeup and glitter costume. More space camp was to follow when he took over from Steven (Harry Fenning) Grief in the role of leather-clad baddie Travis in 'Blakes 7'. <br /><br /></span><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrDMEfoly3pOGxvySzuUiDIAKeS3-eVacZjdDTk-MNfJ3jH60speb8uSxnRfrJuxw_53DYapdNIoguzqxwEqR71D3dKh6bRu0sc6moWmf0SfIfFS9pzg4m05hEMaF65hsJM1ERjOUwFva4m4loF8hvqvjgEMV2pjuyPDU-gL8XsjpT_D9eyk6JH2P3cB8/s486/croucherx.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="377" data-original-width="486" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrDMEfoly3pOGxvySzuUiDIAKeS3-eVacZjdDTk-MNfJ3jH60speb8uSxnRfrJuxw_53DYapdNIoguzqxwEqR71D3dKh6bRu0sc6moWmf0SfIfFS9pzg4m05hEMaF65hsJM1ERjOUwFva4m4loF8hvqvjgEMV2pjuyPDU-gL8XsjpT_D9eyk6JH2P3cB8/s320/croucherx.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the 'Dr Who' adventure 'Robots of Death'</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAHt76K9sE7tGrWcgY6IFE64oCa_LA6h1ActPHR0Ezqq0uWlKPQhPCJIoA3mjJVmUzv5HlptBsKyXmIxjnMxI3GmXqjRLSPxuvyaG2eF8WUsBh8pK4s_Z_JgYuipC61bIRJFy5yaTW7Hx325uylxTWJu7tKVB3JgZQ0eaUfuUWIYg2eAIjjSKYirNrXTQ/s500/weapon01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="500" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAHt76K9sE7tGrWcgY6IFE64oCa_LA6h1ActPHR0Ezqq0uWlKPQhPCJIoA3mjJVmUzv5HlptBsKyXmIxjnMxI3GmXqjRLSPxuvyaG2eF8WUsBh8pK4s_Z_JgYuipC61bIRJFy5yaTW7Hx325uylxTWJu7tKVB3JgZQ0eaUfuUWIYg2eAIjjSKYirNrXTQ/s320/weapon01.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Travis trains his rather Alvin Stardust ring weapon<br />on the crew of the Liberator in 'Blakes 7' </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Into the 80s with an entertaining mix of action and comedy favourites. We've got 'The Professionals', 'Shoestring', 'The New Avengers', 'Quatermass' and 'Blood Money' nicely balancing 'The Young Ones', 'The Lenny Henry Show', 'Filthy Rich & Catflap' and 'Chance In A Million' - with 'Minder' somewhere in the middle. No 'Sweeney' though, which seems surprising.</span><br style="font-family: georgia;" /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbe45yoLI-4PzFvDYtZe7NIp0DDNmC3jc0Ul9NUdsgqbWQ_cFFOc3hx5O5sXLfErdA8DtBuP0f52bEUIUKSU76FwwQ9rw4z3rKV4uEiMJ0EW3cxAWwovjAo-hNcmaJISU5JIDzeSCL8nniXjGdThCmgwd96PMdZEoqUIB_yaQr6fWUWWtJcpKeBz-nUjQ/s537/croucher6.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="537" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbe45yoLI-4PzFvDYtZe7NIp0DDNmC3jc0Ul9NUdsgqbWQ_cFFOc3hx5O5sXLfErdA8DtBuP0f52bEUIUKSU76FwwQ9rw4z3rKV4uEiMJ0EW3cxAWwovjAo-hNcmaJISU5JIDzeSCL8nniXjGdThCmgwd96PMdZEoqUIB_yaQr6fWUWWtJcpKeBz-nUjQ/s320/croucher6.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Out' - gritty, well written stuff from ITV</td></tr></tbody></table><br />And more of the same into the 90s, with the EastEnders role ongoing for a couple of years or more. Around the same time you might notice him popping up all serious in 'Wycliffe', 'Rockliffe's Babies' or 'Fools' Gold' - the Sean Bean drama based on the Brinks-Mat robberies. Or you might see him in some well-liked comedy including 'Bottom' and 'The Comic Strip Presents' (he must have got on well with that bunch), 'The Upper Hand', 'Birds Of A Feather', and spoofing some of his old roles in 'The Detectives'. </span><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtGXi3n0607cRESqINk2QanmGBWvnypbtlrr114vZlEvMAjAz8277HmrjWnnF3F9ey2o-xzYi8nFL1ZxUMeKjkIlVl8m-vh1oCt2c4CY_sPPqZ8rPvRtVzFV-zFylG0iFyl8UDG9ZVmcBl1eVTiB0osiDK6ceYaPLTyNgbsNiBUjcDM7l5Gyl3WEhADug/s488/croucher4.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="488" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtGXi3n0607cRESqINk2QanmGBWvnypbtlrr114vZlEvMAjAz8277HmrjWnnF3F9ey2o-xzYi8nFL1ZxUMeKjkIlVl8m-vh1oCt2c4CY_sPPqZ8rPvRtVzFV-zFylG0iFyl8UDG9ZVmcBl1eVTiB0osiDK6ceYaPLTyNgbsNiBUjcDM7l5Gyl3WEhADug/s320/croucher4.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Classic mid-90s 'EastEnders'</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">On the big screen, he can chalk up a few interesting oddities, such as the kitchen sink </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Roy Harper</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">vehicle 'Made' (1972), 'Burke & Hare' (1972), 'O Lucky Man' (1973), that delightful short with Leonard Rossiter, '<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t5_oHaTE78" target="_blank">The Waterloo Bridge Handicap</a>' (1978), 'Scrubbers' (1982), 'I'll Sleep When I'm Dead' (2003), and 'Big Fat Gypsy Gangster' (2011). <br /><br />He does a few 'Casualty', 'Doctors' and 'The Bill', like most working character actors will these days, and he's an excellent interview subject and a popular raconteur among 'Dr Who' and 'Blakes 7' fans. A broader salute is due. </span></p><p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0189468/" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">Brian Croucher</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">-imdb</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-12371389549028730452023-05-17T13:36:00.005+00:002023-05-17T13:38:06.144+00:00Zuleika Robson<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja2dEKLXZD9VDZySXdKTbV3wFe9BnYeLj5ioFwC49I3-I3L6xOOXC6k3oziyNTkTqsPZvZBs_8m89AOe_lg2-Ys4ETWWzDdFSBKmWI50NebNoi2KFiWKyG1Kn_eRaJDzCtwQIpUQ4SwcPVGwqzSSN_QAsRySWNs2_kBMJLOzU5OqgtgnzTIcNhjXqf/s952/Picture%20110.png"><img alt="Zuleika Robson in Young Sherlock, BBC 1982" border="0" data-original-height="686" data-original-width="952" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja2dEKLXZD9VDZySXdKTbV3wFe9BnYeLj5ioFwC49I3-I3L6xOOXC6k3oziyNTkTqsPZvZBs_8m89AOe_lg2-Ys4ETWWzDdFSBKmWI50NebNoi2KFiWKyG1Kn_eRaJDzCtwQIpUQ4SwcPVGwqzSSN_QAsRySWNs2_kBMJLOzU5OqgtgnzTIcNhjXqf/w400-h289/Picture%20110.png" title="Actress Zuleika Robson in Young Sherlock, BBC 1982" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Zuleika Robson:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Not a stage name, it seems, but one presumably given in honour of the titular femme fatale 'Zuleika Dobson<i>'</i> of Sir Max Beerbohm's 1911 satire on the absurdities of Oxford undergraduates. In any case, the wistfully pretty Zuleika <i>Robson</i> began her acting career as a child in the 1960s. With her winsome Victorian doll-like looks, she excelled in roles in children's classics such as the BBC's 1967 production of 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">'Heidi', 'Anne of Green Gables' and</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> its sequel 'Anne of Avonlea'</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">. </span></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh90Gxf0u-wwI-IPDWxzVugn_svoym13NEqMtmgb12ubS42Yn7SIl8fhvMP_xthaYpoEzUV0-VCFpkqS36UCifnHm9wLPMYlv6JTLz6u0KDUdKwE_qaPzj1zkY3A6F3jWq71fvoeU2yFO1lDhuZsEpFFpqM7DBarlHB75M-n73_yzF_Fq1W-p7S2yBF/s1186/Picture%20108.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1186" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh90Gxf0u-wwI-IPDWxzVugn_svoym13NEqMtmgb12ubS42Yn7SIl8fhvMP_xthaYpoEzUV0-VCFpkqS36UCifnHm9wLPMYlv6JTLz6u0KDUdKwE_qaPzj1zkY3A6F3jWq71fvoeU2yFO1lDhuZsEpFFpqM7DBarlHB75M-n73_yzF_Fq1W-p7S2yBF/s320/Picture%20108.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As Susan in a publicity shot for the BBC's <br />'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe', 1967</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpgj2qWE9O5z-7dyMa9NbPsliKQFXzmxPe3XyBOLvqyp4xoiphSSxsWNQdk4skh3BSULveVy93girT0R1kgsb0QRm37pWgA9iYY2bjx36escGdAUuocX6IxDKtSAwS7YiZUXEVBrxACEpbZbnCQLu-jmTs19Zz-iUMwpt_Bn4wvnI7DwOvxp2tXKGv/s1254/Picture%20109.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="1254" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpgj2qWE9O5z-7dyMa9NbPsliKQFXzmxPe3XyBOLvqyp4xoiphSSxsWNQdk4skh3BSULveVy93girT0R1kgsb0QRm37pWgA9iYY2bjx36escGdAUuocX6IxDKtSAwS7YiZUXEVBrxACEpbZbnCQLu-jmTs19Zz-iUMwpt_Bn4wvnI7DwOvxp2tXKGv/s320/Picture%20109.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Anne of Green Gables <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIKwfAiqFgD8mhuSgX72-qcTBNdj6VLq-UdxMSKxTDBml5V8v1eNO6O7SP3na1YOSGXAstAt5uGmZ0y4qdEfmCC3qxC3Z8eSziNrQSoFg0OKGl99rKgLTrJizzCHmOUq7yfqevzz7hY33RgZu7o64aTbSipFL9EQ303DK9f6gEdwbLLk_MdqLGdY8C/s2014/Picture%20107.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2014" data-original-width="1508" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIKwfAiqFgD8mhuSgX72-qcTBNdj6VLq-UdxMSKxTDBml5V8v1eNO6O7SP3na1YOSGXAstAt5uGmZ0y4qdEfmCC3qxC3Z8eSziNrQSoFg0OKGl99rKgLTrJizzCHmOUq7yfqevzz7hY33RgZu7o64aTbSipFL9EQ303DK9f6gEdwbLLk_MdqLGdY8C/s320/Picture%20107.png" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the cover of TV Times promoting the ITV <br />drama 'A Man of Our Times'</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />That slightly other-worldly prettiness also translated well into oddball art films, thrillers and horror, including 'Isadora' (1968) 'The Blood on Satan's Claw' (1971), 'Revenge' (1971, AKA 'Inn of the Frightened People'). </span><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6P1z4hENrrU8b26DK18apdNjlJq1OHA6pzZ-sL1UlTs-jHiJ5EBfW3ltRWLfDOgzXf9zg8ph7EeyawaHOIkR6USYmk9jO6sWf14c6X27JtwdFVPMU9dDJVhxnpupB8Eo-egMCZZOzVutIhv6Jqz50q8jnoq3QL6DXjKbot5R57z2T_0rEjIDHK_12/s2466/Picture%20115.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1826" data-original-width="2466" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6P1z4hENrrU8b26DK18apdNjlJq1OHA6pzZ-sL1UlTs-jHiJ5EBfW3ltRWLfDOgzXf9zg8ph7EeyawaHOIkR6USYmk9jO6sWf14c6X27JtwdFVPMU9dDJVhxnpupB8Eo-egMCZZOzVutIhv6Jqz50q8jnoq3QL6DXjKbot5R57z2T_0rEjIDHK_12/s320/Picture%20115.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With Roberta Tovey in 'The Blood on Satan's Claw' (1971)</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK-BjaHx1vr2duDPacV6c4MNhWlrkoY9uHu9VMl_OpZn_i_52NC9L7iuLKFFl0kvqbJ5DU_anxphUGEMMzmloTO7L8jFX3t1RKjqj-VPp7UR7o0FEqmbTfZbAxhlwwNrMkVPKShSJu9xl4Vh4bqwcE-JIR6OJUJmHv310RDl-myypgGVtcEtOV44ty/s2142/Picture%20114.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="2142" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK-BjaHx1vr2duDPacV6c4MNhWlrkoY9uHu9VMl_OpZn_i_52NC9L7iuLKFFl0kvqbJ5DU_anxphUGEMMzmloTO7L8jFX3t1RKjqj-VPp7UR7o0FEqmbTfZbAxhlwwNrMkVPKShSJu9xl4Vh4bqwcE-JIR6OJUJmHv310RDl-myypgGVtcEtOV44ty/s320/Picture%20114.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Revenge' (1971)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">With young womanhood came a slew of appearances in TV dramas, from the excellent 'The Changes' to moderate primetime successes 'Bouquet of Barbed Wire', 'The Lady Killers', RF Delderfield's 'People Like Us', and lower-brow fare such as 'Return of the Saint' and the quotidian 'Crown Court'. Film roles seem to dry up, with the exception of the typical Robin Askwith sex comedy 'Let's Get Laid' (1978). </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoJFMeSb_XG8iAkiCgoRK-p4j9TuemVrWSnqqbZCxyFIdx53Y3nGbBFfLxZqO1_-q39uipZEfyHb-svTjmSJGVnIih1pvE7pBqvPJstiIlk15gUnP9ZvNAaTi07Zl21-4vb5Qn4FGzFRKU1CadJHrk4Hkg6v1bMVH18jPDLL6q8XGainoCuhckUwng/s2292/Picture%20107.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1730" data-original-width="2292" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoJFMeSb_XG8iAkiCgoRK-p4j9TuemVrWSnqqbZCxyFIdx53Y3nGbBFfLxZqO1_-q39uipZEfyHb-svTjmSJGVnIih1pvE7pBqvPJstiIlk15gUnP9ZvNAaTi07Zl21-4vb5Qn4FGzFRKU1CadJHrk4Hkg6v1bMVH18jPDLL6q8XGainoCuhckUwng/s320/Picture%20107.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A minor role in 'Melissa', a Francis Durbridge <br />mystery thriller from 1974</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1qMpw4NLIfhyaO4LaZMlxrSUitXveKSuUaymWuXS5RqbpXeYRH1SqOXqgu1QJHlgelyv_l3LQWVtrmJYjC0Nj4_WipsG4tJ9vh4e74WVHQLzsWOXm-r-MCRYg4nulUoCflZLxvEmbpWQhXVj9PTE20-aH1tW_fTF2S7TSBUml7UkilC-SbnCqmK48/s2480/Picture%20113.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1758" data-original-width="2480" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1qMpw4NLIfhyaO4LaZMlxrSUitXveKSuUaymWuXS5RqbpXeYRH1SqOXqgu1QJHlgelyv_l3LQWVtrmJYjC0Nj4_WipsG4tJ9vh4e74WVHQLzsWOXm-r-MCRYg4nulUoCflZLxvEmbpWQhXVj9PTE20-aH1tW_fTF2S7TSBUml7UkilC-SbnCqmK48/s320/Picture%20113.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the fine 1981 childrens' drama 'Break in the Sun'<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /> </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> The trail goes cold after 1982's enjoyable 'Young Sherlock' series from Granada TV, so any information on her career after this would be very welcome. I hope she didn't leave the acting profession entirely. But in any case, for now, here's our small salute. </span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0733502/?ref_=fn_al_nm_0" target="_blank">Zuleika Robson</a>-imdb <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-49322963202397088452023-05-15T11:59:00.008+00:002023-12-16T19:11:14.305+00:00Sarah Bullen<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8iNQwr7hUMGDJnjP58DmNlX4olc0mRah7nrn20z4ore5uKizdmlml_4tGID-wdoFrjlsi_qUGRv1mqVrF6Ls8p747ljL7RcUztjyaVbFQFic_cCLC5E3LIchda1sYphkk6ABI3cI2PRPHdzHmvgstY7uVXppISUqb7xvymmCyFoIfL-oJm1eAVHYm/s2678/Picture%20103.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2084" data-original-width="2678" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8iNQwr7hUMGDJnjP58DmNlX4olc0mRah7nrn20z4ore5uKizdmlml_4tGID-wdoFrjlsi_qUGRv1mqVrF6Ls8p747ljL7RcUztjyaVbFQFic_cCLC5E3LIchda1sYphkk6ABI3cI2PRPHdzHmvgstY7uVXppISUqb7xvymmCyFoIfL-oJm1eAVHYm/w400-h311/Picture%20103.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-large;">Sarah Bullen: </span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">A member of a dynasty of prominent English equestrians - famous in show jumping and eventing circles - Sarah Bullen also had a brief but fascinating acting career, mostly during the 70s and 80s. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5VTpAnjvNa7bGIMzWHfPHLWPth97aKMZCEEPcf5uX9w-zmzij1HTa5cjvAsCo1IvF81_BLEaN0DJ5ST-Ll3YXpk3ZmychcHDUSE5086QS-iaGnl00OBZ8xCEZwpLOrjjG2FlT9wS_ITYhNM_ILk0uYZ5ByqHBXu3drBymyL1h0BsShezE8qIMYvom/s796/Picture%20106.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="796" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5VTpAnjvNa7bGIMzWHfPHLWPth97aKMZCEEPcf5uX9w-zmzij1HTa5cjvAsCo1IvF81_BLEaN0DJ5ST-Ll3YXpk3ZmychcHDUSE5086QS-iaGnl00OBZ8xCEZwpLOrjjG2FlT9wS_ITYhNM_ILk0uYZ5ByqHBXu3drBymyL1h0BsShezE8qIMYvom/s320/Picture%20106.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Bullens at home, Sarah at left.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">In fact, she appears in many episodes of 'Space: 1999', sometimes as crew member Kate, but also often uncredited. This seems to have catapulted her into a number of roles, including the horsey drama 'International Velvet' (1978) with Tatum O'Neal and Christopher Plummer, for which she must have been a shoo-in. The same year saw her in a couple of bigger parts, in the spy dramas 'The XYY Man' with the great Don Henderson, and 'The Sandbaggers' with Roy Marsden. </span></p><br /><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkZhwvMqLoegUC8F4WCuSTPqcKOs6ZNWkwXKb6hUZVT9riMFfGJJz_HYgyk6kX5PptHlmSOXJm0VqdqL-H9_DKNO6YC96FV34EkZcQW22NzUvEGEqAT6pV_EsP3WoZ-5gi0nFGSzWj2qGNKsjLz2GVbcCX1g-36B1VEsOiA4FypN5rQxqz3hazFeZj/s840/bullenw.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="840" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkZhwvMqLoegUC8F4WCuSTPqcKOs6ZNWkwXKb6hUZVT9riMFfGJJz_HYgyk6kX5PptHlmSOXJm0VqdqL-H9_DKNO6YC96FV34EkZcQW22NzUvEGEqAT6pV_EsP3WoZ-5gi0nFGSzWj2qGNKsjLz2GVbcCX1g-36B1VEsOiA4FypN5rQxqz3hazFeZj/s320/bullenw.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: x-small;">One of many 'Space:1999' appearances</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFgQzOmMw3BXJA5tkl0VfLFDebr1MjTE-5d9B4g85w0x37QHLMMcgXC7Rm6AbEoVuCd-do589HevO_R-j1YBJT9y-NRTM3zBQzOKocfv1UPk_BJao7U-LOpOvOG57pS-huAJTj_WQKPf9re9tXeyPruuboHBbhOi057rUHkjJJ9kQul0Dd1FIZh8MI/s759/bullenv.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="759" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFgQzOmMw3BXJA5tkl0VfLFDebr1MjTE-5d9B4g85w0x37QHLMMcgXC7Rm6AbEoVuCd-do589HevO_R-j1YBJT9y-NRTM3zBQzOKocfv1UPk_BJao7U-LOpOvOG57pS-huAJTj_WQKPf9re9tXeyPruuboHBbhOi057rUHkjJJ9kQul0Dd1FIZh8MI/s320/bullenv.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With Chris Jenkinston in 'The XYY Man' </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj58jZjySHWcu5HOnYTjT0qQwR7Iqr7pPJNQSZb64uydnMS9sAHczgJcG33mJxxoirp4tyKA43S39gY9cgl9hzIhb8sy9d5Kt_rzXDKBQ_ZSnoAirCeBXoJ0pEBtvWcuqg95RTsOAXminP38IrtKTk9RXq-RUeIobdICrzsXpwx_2FZqjDjG1phd6jP/s2178/Picture%20104.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1672" data-original-width="2178" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj58jZjySHWcu5HOnYTjT0qQwR7Iqr7pPJNQSZb64uydnMS9sAHczgJcG33mJxxoirp4tyKA43S39gY9cgl9hzIhb8sy9d5Kt_rzXDKBQ_ZSnoAirCeBXoJ0pEBtvWcuqg95RTsOAXminP38IrtKTk9RXq-RUeIobdICrzsXpwx_2FZqjDjG1phd6jP/s320/Picture%20104.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Publicity still as agent Jill Ferris in 'The Sandbaggers'</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">A sort of peak could have come with a starring role in the auction-room drama, 'The House Of Caradus', however, despite the impressive sounding title it turned out that drama in auction-rooms is thin on the ground, in Chester anyway, and the family wrangles were not sufficient to keep audiences tuning in. Things taper off a little from here, with appearances in 'Dick Turpin', 'Solo', and 'A Perfect Spy' and a fleeting moment in 'The Fourth Protocol (1987). </span></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc9nr4cnVfdFv_2VeG5cjKSD93vJPaj_RaLcCwywfBTgRgSfRiI9HxENG6qAPYnZG1FwP9E_Jr_jHZtCzZHKTxnnqpyjHlIrfgIDOUTvHqBDlkojoF5qMXBsBkfwuxCaQsPWbYczTR2plMsYE9qxs0VPVLUtE0sFIrRSpJF3nW9LpDuuz8Cpc7DvYd/s1602/Picture%20105.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1602" data-original-width="1282" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc9nr4cnVfdFv_2VeG5cjKSD93vJPaj_RaLcCwywfBTgRgSfRiI9HxENG6qAPYnZG1FwP9E_Jr_jHZtCzZHKTxnnqpyjHlIrfgIDOUTvHqBDlkojoF5qMXBsBkfwuxCaQsPWbYczTR2plMsYE9qxs0VPVLUtE0sFIrRSpJF3nW9LpDuuz8Cpc7DvYd/s320/Picture%20105.png" width="256" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The wholesome face of '70s cigarette advertising</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">A charming presence through a period of excellent British TV, and well deserving of our salute. <br /><br /><i>Bonus: Sarah Bullen was co-presenter of a PBS part-animated documentary based on David Macaulay's book 'Castle' which explores the design of medieval fortifications in a way which was apparently much admired by early Dungeons & Dragons enthusiasts. You can see the whole thing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGbPShUpjpg">here</a>.</i><br /><br /><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0120052/" target="_blank">Sarah Bullen</a>-imdb </span><br /></p><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-71249080365233317732023-03-10T14:18:00.003+00:002024-01-02T15:14:18.004+00:00Tim Wylton<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN8buCtonsX9NM9F5A5JsMrttlNCorWIU5nE6-RCEolrw9L0hTP0pAOw7LzqRzUSSHKXDXFf46SJvP_Ko9eMFa1BGVfYfh8AbtrjU11WSAhELYDxL5JcBd7XBsaUDhh2aRn_TAt3sYD8mrsR9bBDkFwYo6iG5TNI8p7lLx68LDdpZ3uAtMRHliSiAh/s630/wylton2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tim Wylton" border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="630" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN8buCtonsX9NM9F5A5JsMrttlNCorWIU5nE6-RCEolrw9L0hTP0pAOw7LzqRzUSSHKXDXFf46SJvP_Ko9eMFa1BGVfYfh8AbtrjU11WSAhELYDxL5JcBd7XBsaUDhh2aRn_TAt3sYD8mrsR9bBDkFwYo6iG5TNI8p7lLx68LDdpZ3uAtMRHliSiAh/w400-h270/wylton2.jpg" title="Actor Tim Wylton as Smiler in 'Minder' 1994" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Tim Wylton:</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">In some ways the epitome of the ubiquitous character actor, but Welsh-born Tim Wylton is a respected thesp with a long line of successes behind him. Often portraying a likeable duffer, Wylton's open expression and precise comedic timing has seen him appear in some large-scale productions. </span><br /><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPeM3Hv00cq15-mGPwXvao4s_x0D1WuB-BWCGsSRxCDYJT-6_MZ-nmi-lpgIAMiJUX9US3nO-0SnZY_ZPcx4jhLliXoUzcOs3vV1De4O28zgFAiKSYgz4sTGKuN7dimyJM7KWcMMcxZ30/s660/wylton2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="660" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPeM3Hv00cq15-mGPwXvao4s_x0D1WuB-BWCGsSRxCDYJT-6_MZ-nmi-lpgIAMiJUX9US3nO-0SnZY_ZPcx4jhLliXoUzcOs3vV1De4O28zgFAiKSYgz4sTGKuN7dimyJM7KWcMMcxZ30/s320/wylton2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'The Dustbinmen' L-R Tim Wylton, Trevor<br />Bannister, Bryan Pringle, Graham Haberfield<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Starting out in the '60s with roles in various television plays, his first big break was as Eric in 'The Dustbinmen', a now largely forgotten Granada sitcom but one that was popular at the time. Apart from this regular role, he settled into a steady stream of small one-off parts through the late '60s and '70s, including 'The Strange Report', 'The Liver Birds', and the domestic bliss sitcom triumvirate of 'My Good Woman', 'Now, Take My Wife' and 'His and Hers'. He was also a regular stooge to veteran comedian Harry Worth in his series 'Half and Hour's Worth'. </span><br /><br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggCcC4_UUT1mQZGxZ64wEuFcncHwJ9KE3YDBvLkKB4sXquP-KQK95u0SaDlD3sQ2Xdgw9bKTeHxBhHueA12KXFBJzAMEh-9oVux91no9IyvhZHLUMq70CLQkJ_UhcUkMKR9ToJL-tNEV7G9PwgEZ_rz1-E6pSUuQE0wrv9klnIAWswCw7kGgrX1bQE/s612/wylton%20willy.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="612" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggCcC4_UUT1mQZGxZ64wEuFcncHwJ9KE3YDBvLkKB4sXquP-KQK95u0SaDlD3sQ2Xdgw9bKTeHxBhHueA12KXFBJzAMEh-9oVux91no9IyvhZHLUMq70CLQkJ_UhcUkMKR9ToJL-tNEV7G9PwgEZ_rz1-E6pSUuQE0wrv9klnIAWswCw7kGgrX1bQE/s320/wylton%20willy.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As postman Willy Nilly in 'Under Milk Wood (1972)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Around this time he also found himself in a pair of interesting feature films: the Richard Burton-helmed 'Under Milk Wood' (1972) and the school-drama oddity Melody (1971). And, although he never lost his knack for comedy, casting directors now started to find him invaluable for small but memorable drama roles, including 'The Strauss Family', 'Thriller', 'Special Branch', 'Telford's Change' and 'The Sweeney'. </span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4k2_Mist1H3JJnX7KXcC_vDiuh70HhOVDYRWuxobrmDNop5MQ_MActYu6K3OvO1nI-3BamTwNoVFbc1N3QxMoVNOdT2jbZqhPgItVcWvTwQ8smpB3ZHk-ccEyz1j48xdTK6TAgAUbbczlCsPcWlUDkFju63Wtm0OEJ_CDghYABVQbkJzw9ZtnIbKt/s359/wylton1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="299" data-original-width="359" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4k2_Mist1H3JJnX7KXcC_vDiuh70HhOVDYRWuxobrmDNop5MQ_MActYu6K3OvO1nI-3BamTwNoVFbc1N3QxMoVNOdT2jbZqhPgItVcWvTwQ8smpB3ZHk-ccEyz1j48xdTK6TAgAUbbczlCsPcWlUDkFju63Wtm0OEJ_CDghYABVQbkJzw9ZtnIbKt/s320/wylton1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In 'The Colour of Blood', an episode of Brian Clemens' <br />popular 'Thriller' drama thread from the '70s</td></tr></tbody></table></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Into the '80s, and period drama became a bigger part of his skill set, with appearances in 'To Serve Them All My Days', 'The Citadel', and 'The Good Companions' while keeping his hand in with the comedies, such as 'Bit Of A Do', 'Cockles', Whoops Apocalypse' and the previously discussed 'Mog' with Enn Reitel. Other popular shows that he appears would include: 'Juliet Bravo', 'Strangers' and 'Bulman', 'A Very Peculiar Practice', 'C.A.T.S Eyes', 'The Bretts' and the Peter Davison 'Campion' series. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhwCzfZBAht8G9jXdpIsvO3a-fGXcyu6gWl_foBsthuN3pISkdVA9yRgHQk_C0v759ZUcAKHG8sl_KwTO1dXACLx2peiviZglhl4vjFhiY-OPH78W33U85cqPbFKyeJNdBT47VCM_hJg0Yvpj7WzZNpwjKM7OobSLpU_RI7N2-RtFg8kDp7_Fn1i_X/s594/wylton8.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="594" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhwCzfZBAht8G9jXdpIsvO3a-fGXcyu6gWl_foBsthuN3pISkdVA9yRgHQk_C0v759ZUcAKHG8sl_KwTO1dXACLx2peiviZglhl4vjFhiY-OPH78W33U85cqPbFKyeJNdBT47VCM_hJg0Yvpj7WzZNpwjKM7OobSLpU_RI7N2-RtFg8kDp7_Fn1i_X/s320/wylton8.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In David Nobbs' comedy of northern manners, <br />'A Bit Of A Do' </td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><span style="font-family: georgia;">In the later phases of his career he has done some good comedy: 'French & Saunders', 'Absolutely Fabulous', Haryy Enfield & Chums', and so on, while keeping his hand in with the likes of primetime stuff like 'Poirot', 'Lovejoy', 'Boon', 'Wycliffe', 'Cadfael', 'Rumpole Of The Bailey', 'A Touch Of Frost', and some fodder such as 'The Bill', 'Heartbeat', 'Doctors' and forays into soaps - 'Coronation Street' and 'Emmerdale'. <br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ZR8AVVANrBvLTgJEiekgk1bZN5VpDBpEtkEn5APnn4hyphenhyphenT_2NnO-ypZZJhP6HIasERlZDFak2vgvVCpl3Wj7TxqmjJCSG2u9SxXiaXLHn37M_6VSA8iKdbJp8tgFJ1iJ6gy04cx8Fxnk/s352/wylton.jpg" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0ZR8AVVANrBvLTgJEiekgk1bZN5VpDBpEtkEn5APnn4hyphenhyphenT_2NnO-ypZZJhP6HIasERlZDFak2vgvVCpl3Wj7TxqmjJCSG2u9SxXiaXLHn37M_6VSA8iKdbJp8tgFJ1iJ6gy04cx8Fxnk/s320/wylton.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As Mr Gardiner in the 1995 BBC production of 'Pride<br /> and Prejudice' with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">All in all, an interesting collection, so a salute is long overdue. </span> </p><p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943823/" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">Tim Wylton</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">-imdb</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-22745319439662690192023-02-22T17:00:00.001+00:002023-03-22T12:16:51.782+00:00Jean Marsh<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><blockquote style="border: medium none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: medium none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4JDRPlHCeZ2GVKs9nPtyMglVqE9uWapVWTd6VBuhorBuXGgVEEkacK1Ulwy1D1FaL53bqGK3dTQed-65Mfk8krTRTyzlx2H2dfaBgGBkPOZn8RzHbXMp41hVSt4s1shpneD788pLS7r4/s449/marsh.PNG" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img alt="Actress Jean Marsh in Edwardian maid's costume, portraying Rose in the 1970s ITV television series 'Upstairs Downstairs'" border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="449" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4JDRPlHCeZ2GVKs9nPtyMglVqE9uWapVWTd6VBuhorBuXGgVEEkacK1Ulwy1D1FaL53bqGK3dTQed-65Mfk8krTRTyzlx2H2dfaBgGBkPOZn8RzHbXMp41hVSt4s1shpneD788pLS7r4/s0/marsh.PNG" title="Actress Jean Marsh in 'Upstairs Downstairs'" /></a></div><p></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-large;">Jean Marsh</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Well, yes, another not-so-unknown face. In fact, if you were watching television in the 1970s, the image at the top of this post will be very recognisable, almost iconic. 'Upstairs, Downstairs' was an award-winning television sensation, and Jean Marsh was its co-creator and star, in the role of put-upon housemaid, Rose Buck. A precursor to, and undoubted influence on, 'Downton Abbey' and other period social dramas, it was a massive hit in the UK and abroad, particularly on PBS in America. Although it helped lift her and many of her fellow cast-members to stardom, (Anthony Andrews, Pauline Collins and Jon Alderton for example), she was not a producer of the programme and received only a small residual payment for developing the original concept with fellow actress Eileen Atkins.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPlpPhbOM9AssNjZVz0CO1X0PAvhwg4sInyn5ESfzbZECcAR0fJkkIsiGQooI2Q-925J7TBEMqs-dkFF5RPg2XhULZyJSC7P7j5R1rGID1rYutCiPlh1fRG4wqPyxm-tQJ30Al-PY12uU/s460/marsh4.PNG" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPlpPhbOM9AssNjZVz0CO1X0PAvhwg4sInyn5ESfzbZECcAR0fJkkIsiGQooI2Q-925J7TBEMqs-dkFF5RPg2XhULZyJSC7P7j5R1rGID1rYutCiPlh1fRG4wqPyxm-tQJ30Al-PY12uU/s0/marsh4.PNG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just about recognisable in this press shot from the Laurence Olivier <br />movie for television, 'The Moon & Sixpence' (1959)<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Before 'Upstairs, Downstairs', Jean Marsh had been a successful actress as a child and starlet. Her elegant figure and pert, yet slightly disconcerting, good looks led to her appearing in several films in the '50s and early '60s, such as 'The Rebel' (1961) - as one of the Juliette Greco-clone beatniks, and as a South Seas beauty in 'The Moon & Sixpence (1959) with Lawrence Olivier. She also crossed the Atlantic to play a uncanny companion android in an excellent episode of 'The Twilight Zone', 'The Lonely'. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinjKp0aguYXtg1PxqFTbcX7bCGJ6OSVWGkZuWPPKP2xr0FHMlrfkUAZY8jZCeQmFzumrcuE5p1HGvRjUikMPdNs-ZkJz5Sf3534MgX3IsI3LTa27A4m0He_UcGBgErPcRziyELlNLqqlw/s708/marsh7.PNG" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="708" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinjKp0aguYXtg1PxqFTbcX7bCGJ6OSVWGkZuWPPKP2xr0FHMlrfkUAZY8jZCeQmFzumrcuE5p1HGvRjUikMPdNs-ZkJz5Sf3534MgX3IsI3LTa27A4m0He_UcGBgErPcRziyELlNLqqlw/w410-h278/marsh7.PNG" width="410" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As Alicia the realistic robot, a moral dilemma for Jack Warden <br />in a classic episode of 'The Twilight Zone' from 1959 <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">As the '60s progressed Marsh's sophisticated style was in demand for the new wave of slick spy and cop shows of the era, including 'Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre', 'Danger Man', 'The Saint', 'Department S', 'Adam Adamant Lives!' and another trip over the ocean to appear in NBC's 'I Spy'. She also appeared in the increasingly popular 'Doctor Who', first in the crusades adventure 'The Knight Of Jaffa', and later as quasi-companion Sara Kingdom. She would make a further return as sorceress Morgaine in the 1989 story, 'Battlefield'. (Trivia: In real life, she was married to the third Doctor, Jon Pertwee, from 1955-1960.) </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUZvxzSPInOj1O8e4hMccU48V4Io1SMpnWuX5IBTiX9STXFFplwe2IyeqaEwUaC7GYXab__V3cK0VY8jekpTLAa5By3ZyboeIIcFbpR1MkG4qqYnEgz9ZRBsLE99hbbFvYpBVV7QVKeEo/s498/marsh1.PNG" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="357" data-original-width="498" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUZvxzSPInOj1O8e4hMccU48V4Io1SMpnWuX5IBTiX9STXFFplwe2IyeqaEwUaC7GYXab__V3cK0VY8jekpTLAa5By3ZyboeIIcFbpR1MkG4qqYnEgz9ZRBsLE99hbbFvYpBVV7QVKeEo/w398-h286/marsh1.PNG" width="398" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As Sara Kingdom in mid-'60s 'Doctor Who', <br />she would return in another role in the '80s <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The '70s, we now know, was the decade of 'Upstairs, Downstairs' and it's enormous popularity and success. This parlayed into a plethora of higher profile roles for Jean Marsh. There's Hichcock's 'Frenzy' (1972) and she has a shrilly neurotic performance in the schlocker 'Dark Places' (1973) with its surprisingly starry cast of Joan Collins, Christopher Lee, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Robert Hardy,</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jane Birkin</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> and Herbert Lom. And then there's 'The Eagle Has Landed' (1976), a proper star-studded wartime caper, with Michael Caine and Robert Duvall. <br /><br /><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1TZaNCxuky8Wtwu3alUFYbH6krPYynzTh5KFs5C9bNcBjKdoSfohwgKl--gFLPQ1j-9cQzb3np4wi_XSEP48_0MEC4_xfd9iFY_XWW9joyL046VTT-sKKyzvmR_HQ_3iAMK3k4YWLYQzZYNAlmwvxp7sikfmYoIEA1otGjCudWLXmKa6KIKiHj_RR/s598/marsh2.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="439" data-original-width="598" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1TZaNCxuky8Wtwu3alUFYbH6krPYynzTh5KFs5C9bNcBjKdoSfohwgKl--gFLPQ1j-9cQzb3np4wi_XSEP48_0MEC4_xfd9iFY_XWW9joyL046VTT-sKKyzvmR_HQ_3iAMK3k4YWLYQzZYNAlmwvxp7sikfmYoIEA1otGjCudWLXmKa6KIKiHj_RR/s320/marsh2.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In an episode of 'UFO'</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">By the '80s Jean Marsh was much in demand on both sides of the Atlantic. Hollywood beckoned with a run of evil-queen roles that begins with Mombi the Witch in 'Return To Oz' (1985), Bavmorda in 'Willow' (1988) and Morgana in 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' (1989), while the US small screen saw her in episodes of 'Hawaii 5-0', The Waltons' and 'The Love Boat', with a regular role in the TV '9 to 5'. </span><br style="font-family: georgia;" /><br style="font-family: georgia;" /><span style="font-family: georgia;">More UK productions feature as we move into the '90s and 2000s: the villainous Dr Culex in the rebooted 'Tomorrow People'; a return to the Who-niverse in 'An Adventure In Space And Time'; classic serials 'The Mayor Of Casterbridge' and (the BBC 2008) 'Sense & Sensibility'; and as the portmanteau ghost of all Henry VIII's wives in 'Monarch' with TP McKenna.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2kRzAM67tYGFki24-1HMC898zqNsJtEBWgSnk_XDUl0-fIvY46Bp0et1wzywrsndYxb5QSD01DY_Z0iXcjIDRw_uZcC56tj7jRTNbuWUGN20y-4F28jLKZlZzp1VNwDOAymdP2RtZHdq470cOSw03DhSXF7bInslWT7_innkIwWR_shsvguvrMhZl/s483/marsh.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="483" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2kRzAM67tYGFki24-1HMC898zqNsJtEBWgSnk_XDUl0-fIvY46Bp0et1wzywrsndYxb5QSD01DY_Z0iXcjIDRw_uZcC56tj7jRTNbuWUGN20y-4F28jLKZlZzp1VNwDOAymdP2RtZHdq470cOSw03DhSXF7bInslWT7_innkIwWR_shsvguvrMhZl/s320/marsh.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As Mrs Ferrars in 'Sense & Sensibility'</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sadly, a mild stroke in 2011 affected her ability to work. Although not completely unable to act, she was only able to appear in a few scenes of the new 1930s-set 'Upstairs, Downstairs', which also had the misfortune to coincide with its mega-budget clone 'Downton Abbey'. <br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0550577" target="_blank">Jean Marsh</a>-imdb</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-54242870868546912192023-02-22T01:06:00.006+00:002023-05-15T12:07:50.819+00:00Arthur White<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil4-ej7C78vVeykkfXpf1qOuTAwKpUGSeoiLuiovQhR0c3hda6QXVRX91magX-ek2KInKax8-yOBtD_eiH_BpcZhSY7mP02UkNpXcPDJlk4ep13FL5JxqdYX7lFnbRvFF3R7TtISUwa-JRH67xNNngm00-jEUA-jXXmLHwTK6XEjAQeoTPCSwbX4J5/s485/white5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Actor Arthur White in an episode of Thriller" border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="485" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil4-ej7C78vVeykkfXpf1qOuTAwKpUGSeoiLuiovQhR0c3hda6QXVRX91magX-ek2KInKax8-yOBtD_eiH_BpcZhSY7mP02UkNpXcPDJlk4ep13FL5JxqdYX7lFnbRvFF3R7TtISUwa-JRH67xNNngm00-jEUA-jXXmLHwTK6XEjAQeoTPCSwbX4J5/w400-h275/white5.jpg" title="Actor Arthur White in an episode of Thriller" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Arthur White: </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">The elder brother of national treasure David Jason, Arthur has kept the family name and had his own long career in acting, albeit in a far less celebrated way than his little brother. His earliest forays into acting were while he was still in his teens, in a couple of budget post-war comedies 'Let's Have A Murder' (1950) with Jimmy Jewel, and 'It's A Grand Life' (1953) with Diana Dors and music hall veteran Harry Randle. He's also very briefly in 'The War Lover' (1962) a Yanks in England WWII potboiler with Steve McQueen and Robert Wagner, and the influential kitchen sink drama 'The L-Shaped Room' (1962). <br /> <br /> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8CeehecbJNmUjiE4oJx7q_DVF_LeOA0k_83jdvc__pfGBQwgW4UOwQI-m6ERXZeT-i16runar_UqImZ0XKiPH2DKOjmDMcOGs3tzMD1F-xZcnhi1h-4cdi6wDWyAwLLPq05HrMjuWzlkkVd-lBVo_md_eGsGSaeQuJdcDjKnZgiWqjkqMG0NSYen6/s414/white13.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="277" data-original-width="414" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8CeehecbJNmUjiE4oJx7q_DVF_LeOA0k_83jdvc__pfGBQwgW4UOwQI-m6ERXZeT-i16runar_UqImZ0XKiPH2DKOjmDMcOGs3tzMD1F-xZcnhi1h-4cdi6wDWyAwLLPq05HrMjuWzlkkVd-lBVo_md_eGsGSaeQuJdcDjKnZgiWqjkqMG0NSYen6/s320/white13.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'The War Lover' (1962) </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdHziFMGkGoVJquRcVsjV3y6XXuFv0XrWOdGCnVGO1nDkRjeyG-rW9Xp3-qXUSN1R9vu3ZUcnUSeoUYByDfehzOSwY2BRfYkODEEeCkCEXAFXXcTfUoGVndi_1zne1Ok_R7bwLJk9-fLK8ghGOzg-UsI5-ZRuGZL9xPOqXhTX75FUUGkai4oI_a9gk/s600/white9.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdHziFMGkGoVJquRcVsjV3y6XXuFv0XrWOdGCnVGO1nDkRjeyG-rW9Xp3-qXUSN1R9vu3ZUcnUSeoUYByDfehzOSwY2BRfYkODEEeCkCEXAFXXcTfUoGVndi_1zne1Ok_R7bwLJk9-fLK8ghGOzg-UsI5-ZRuGZL9xPOqXhTX75FUUGkai4oI_a9gk/s320/white9.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another news vendor role, this time in <br />'The Prisoner' episode 'It's Your Funeral'</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Television roles take over from film in the '60s, when he appears in popular franchises such as 'The Plane Makers', 'Redcap', 'Emergency Ward 10' and 'No Hiding Place', as well as the Rediffusion sci-fi series 'Object Z' and 'Object Z Returns'. There's an episode of 'The Prisoner' with him in it, but he doesn't appear in any of the other big cult TV favourites, at least until a 'Space:1999' episode ten years later. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQclZgOLUJl3sB_hc4l5hqo7uubWLdgEn4gkhilRpj80sPSSVNPflJ5tU7S5hM8qTPkz3_GSa0AmHn6cnwagk3kniFLN8qpnIKFFSjwjkuLi7ZWiUBRwjseUTXkpUal9Cgkge5dSL56US4y1Gq24dmmaQIch54EZ4BJ784bbAOepXi9zhBxms6m9z/s501/white7.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="501" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQclZgOLUJl3sB_hc4l5hqo7uubWLdgEn4gkhilRpj80sPSSVNPflJ5tU7S5hM8qTPkz3_GSa0AmHn6cnwagk3kniFLN8qpnIKFFSjwjkuLi7ZWiUBRwjseUTXkpUal9Cgkge5dSL56US4y1Gq24dmmaQIch54EZ4BJ784bbAOepXi9zhBxms6m9z/s320/white7.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Replacing Hugh Paddick in the second series<br />of the kids TV show 'Pardon My Genie'</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">The '70s saw his young brother rise to stardom, but Arthur's own star stayed relatively low in the entertainment firmament. He can be spotted in a fair bit of comedy; 'For The Love Of Ada', You're Only Young Once', 'Hark At Barker', 'The Squirrels', 'Bless This House' etc, and his younger sibling's own sitcom vehicle, 'A Sharp Intake Of Breath'. <br /></span><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY0DRDDshrcfu3ONt-fKulxutXOqebiPf2ffdF2nH_E6TzOBOLOAkKeJRDvEGck0YQcmr65RRlJiteFfgyYcuELaWJLAzlcHx4rWayrf_nw5BYH2ACOvAezeDu5mTBSZ2EOxObJXGVo88xoJ1T9Tj01MQZgkYsNlrh1Yrj1MR4Pz5Zd0AtxhtIOa6r/s443/white3.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="302" data-original-width="443" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY0DRDDshrcfu3ONt-fKulxutXOqebiPf2ffdF2nH_E6TzOBOLOAkKeJRDvEGck0YQcmr65RRlJiteFfgyYcuELaWJLAzlcHx4rWayrf_nw5BYH2ACOvAezeDu5mTBSZ2EOxObJXGVo88xoJ1T9Tj01MQZgkYsNlrh1Yrj1MR4Pz5Zd0AtxhtIOa6r/s320/white3.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With the late Bernard Kay in an <br />episode of 'The Professionals'</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Drama roles in the '70s and '80s would include a sprinkling across the likes of 'The Duchess Of Duke Street', 'The Professionals', 'Warship', 'Secret Army', the nuclear thriller 'The Brack Report' and the freaky BBC costume drama 'The Cleopatras'. </span><br /><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjR8avHCY_L649QuA44hmP1wqjlM3P0JUU9bT_B_SriIyaOKPbmENDTxtnuOFxn6s_nvZ5vuwhLGTGss1SXTVU4yFopELT7n4-BEz6rRfGqvi1RjkcVMXiAFFWlmsYWM2-VJG2iVjHSgNr4oKtPP3usG8WU9c_-mrCjIMHO6pNM_JxXoLwT8UJC3ypr" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="455" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjR8avHCY_L649QuA44hmP1wqjlM3P0JUU9bT_B_SriIyaOKPbmENDTxtnuOFxn6s_nvZ5vuwhLGTGss1SXTVU4yFopELT7n4-BEz6rRfGqvi1RjkcVMXiAFFWlmsYWM2-VJG2iVjHSgNr4oKtPP3usG8WU9c_-mrCjIMHO6pNM_JxXoLwT8UJC3ypr" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With George Costigan in the opening scenes of the <br />misfiring Miriam Carlin sitcom 'So Haunt Me'</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The latter half of his 60-year career is a roll-call of the middle-brow entertainment of those decades, though, unusually, not dipping into the soaps. It's almost impossible for a character actor to avoid the multi-episode machines: the likes of 'Casualty', 'Holby City', The Bill', and the unending flow of 'Doctors'. Better things might include the 'Ruth Rendell Mysteries', 'Wycliffe' and 'The Darling Buds Of May' with little bruv. And of course, his best known role in recent years has probably been as PC Trigg, playing opposite David Jason again, as Inspector Morse's uniformed confidant and sounding board. <br /><br />He must have been an inspiration to the young fella and I'm glad they've shared an obvious love of the business, so here's a salute to a big brother. <br /><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKuAXkxaY0dqlMKXhGrAa82qNfu43jZLx6_5JS4vF2wrTz_gv_HmrntR_ag68w4WKNpfBtQvqN13MzqkUtm_hyuh3LOq6hOwiXClR9xDcTl5nekJRaosSSMhKPY3tlTChpFIY37z_TIDd2624tvYNEJ3codzTlYfHF6M6OvN3uN127zaash3dgDtSc/s326/white4.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="326" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKuAXkxaY0dqlMKXhGrAa82qNfu43jZLx6_5JS4vF2wrTz_gv_HmrntR_ag68w4WKNpfBtQvqN13MzqkUtm_hyuh3LOq6hOwiXClR9xDcTl5nekJRaosSSMhKPY3tlTChpFIY37z_TIDd2624tvYNEJ3codzTlYfHF6M6OvN3uN127zaash3dgDtSc/s320/white4.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><div><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924476/" target="_blank">Arthur White</a>-imdb</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-17490239561538187172022-08-15T20:56:00.003+00:002023-05-15T12:02:09.637+00:00Robin Hawdon<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhKh7VqRygH1Ccouci3JYb6A95YcRigWHtkvIUJIaZK2IsUomkIhlyIDZG8i_CDfpmjz8mBMnEAqhTqzX5ur4UHdqRc8S-BkbnsMij2Aw1iNJY5HhLVzaDdYmfPl1EM_SecLjDKQKMFVKDAUVctgevxbu7ZS4QXpQ6OpOq8nO200V1kydnfpc6tNMg/s1920/Picture%208.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Actor Robert Hawdon in 'Zeta One' (1969)" border="0" data-original-height="1246" data-original-width="1920" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhKh7VqRygH1Ccouci3JYb6A95YcRigWHtkvIUJIaZK2IsUomkIhlyIDZG8i_CDfpmjz8mBMnEAqhTqzX5ur4UHdqRc8S-BkbnsMij2Aw1iNJY5HhLVzaDdYmfPl1EM_SecLjDKQKMFVKDAUVctgevxbu7ZS4QXpQ6OpOq8nO200V1kydnfpc6tNMg/w400-h260/Picture%208.png" title="Actor Robert Hawdon in 'Zeta One' (1969)" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Robin Hawdon:</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Robin Hawdon is probably much better known as a writer than as an actor, with his witty comedies - don't say farces - still widely performed all around the world. 'The Mating Game' was his first hit play, a smash in the West End with Terry Scott as the playboy with the gadget-packed apartment. 'Don't Dress for Dinner' is a later and even bigger success, set in a wealthy couple's French farmhouse retreat. <br /><br />But I'd like to just give a little salute to Mr Hawdon's acting career before all that, a brief arc from uncredited obscurity to the lower stratosphere of sex symbol stardom.<br /><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVDg2tjykE1XUeZ5ZjZhc3W7fKGpZHUMjisgbSYrciizTKvybPfpuDCW7It0gqsTN5eCW3dRMxW7YiIeH4Qp6z16PH0PLGS-kNN7HOcBQSnU-0Cv4-lUf7SNjpiOmDV6Y3XkQ-AFAwogUszeJp1yvxIRMLwzv2ouL33O30z2ruxbTQo1eyjEy4lfhL/s1920/Picture%2013(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1311" data-original-width="1920" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVDg2tjykE1XUeZ5ZjZhc3W7fKGpZHUMjisgbSYrciizTKvybPfpuDCW7It0gqsTN5eCW3dRMxW7YiIeH4Qp6z16PH0PLGS-kNN7HOcBQSnU-0Cv4-lUf7SNjpiOmDV6Y3XkQ-AFAwogUszeJp1yvxIRMLwzv2ouL33O30z2ruxbTQo1eyjEy4lfhL/s320/Picture%2013(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An early uncredited role in the UK sci-fi classic 'The Day <br />The Earth Caught Fire' (1961) with Leo McKern</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">With his effortless good looks, there were a few lightweight parts on offer, such as the the breezy 'We Joined the Navy' (1962) with Kenneth More, brooding crime stuff like 'Human Jungle', 'Suspense' and 'Armchair Mystery Theatre', and the semi-successful soap opera 'Compact'. <br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY3_q06nKZ6bYFQeyxcGEczHYfv0B0gfotawgSbjNeeRFBeDvwjcu9zFAspw1viH2m15F8wTlWP21Vtpk0bWdrcQfoF35TZ_xFLv-645Ftu6rNxJl3rdcJHYkjZLp3TVucegCNrVfUEqprJBE8EeoZKhhrRfHtlvO_LkYTu6wxOIbjcaAN9kzFUktl/s2146/Picture%206.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1450" data-original-width="2146" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjY3_q06nKZ6bYFQeyxcGEczHYfv0B0gfotawgSbjNeeRFBeDvwjcu9zFAspw1viH2m15F8wTlWP21Vtpk0bWdrcQfoF35TZ_xFLv-645Ftu6rNxJl3rdcJHYkjZLp3TVucegCNrVfUEqprJBE8EeoZKhhrRfHtlvO_LkYTu6wxOIbjcaAN9kzFUktl/s320/Picture%206.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With a very physical Eleanor Bron and a rather frustrated <br />Dudley Moore in the magisterial 'Bedazzled' (1967)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">He plays Randolph the harp teacher in the millionaire segment of the fab 'Bedazzled' (1967), with whom Stanley Moon's beloved Margaret Spencer gets 'hot and sticky and.. Randy, we must have a swim'... </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimJFTB_tl_-Xl9f1QuG_MA-oQJ1dLCjA0C0rzoG06XGNfPkXP0-tvd9MkqNYQNputLaLWcHGJbpg3NOqnY6UWfpowHS0jRFXxV6XBD6X2euJ0KtpLMbOWWWTIb3_6oh3m9eqvlkRmUNgZrv6Gb_avn20TA5XhbXzGAL6v7NQFXhDSrGDGddalWWILD/s1612/Picture%2012.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1262" data-original-width="1612" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimJFTB_tl_-Xl9f1QuG_MA-oQJ1dLCjA0C0rzoG06XGNfPkXP0-tvd9MkqNYQNputLaLWcHGJbpg3NOqnY6UWfpowHS0jRFXxV6XBD6X2euJ0KtpLMbOWWWTIb3_6oh3m9eqvlkRmUNgZrv6Gb_avn20TA5XhbXzGAL6v7NQFXhDSrGDGddalWWILD/s320/Picture%2012.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting the drop on Jason King (Perer Wyngarde)<br />in an episode of 'Department S'<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKr7uxfTq4c6UGjlPyTdNlGMP_7CgJIA5iCk1sLwepNaASNULdx7rP4gpuTERgoeUuAxIzakS2la3DfXJ8TjeZVJXY4vhIl0rM7T2s4pv9XaHeR_NfRtb_CmByn_frGzb_kTfBfJWS5pcsYhG9t1WCXosZJZiciQFCvHids8IgVdWNm42hoqov3xy5/s1690/Picture%2010.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1282" data-original-width="1690" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKr7uxfTq4c6UGjlPyTdNlGMP_7CgJIA5iCk1sLwepNaASNULdx7rP4gpuTERgoeUuAxIzakS2la3DfXJ8TjeZVJXY4vhIl0rM7T2s4pv9XaHeR_NfRtb_CmByn_frGzb_kTfBfJWS5pcsYhG9t1WCXosZJZiciQFCvHids8IgVdWNm42hoqov3xy5/s320/Picture%2010.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robin Hawdon in a UFO episode from 1970 'The Psychobombs',<br />seen here in classic string-vest Skydiver uniform<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />Television work around this time included 'Department S', 'The Adventurer' and 'Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)' with the added bonus (for TV cultists) of an appearance in Gerry Anderson's 'UFO' as a Skydiver pilot. The remainder of the 70s saw a mixture of comedy and drama, but by this time the playwright was enjoying more success than the actor. <br /><br />You can spot Robin Hawdon in dramas ranging from the BBC spy series 'The Man Who Was Hunting Himself'', to 'The Main Chance', the Victorian potboiler 'Wives & Daughters', and 'New Scotland Yard'. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLbqrQKexjEFV2Ri1jD7dQdRNStO_5LzTibtByt6zTubnRKe9zHutSU4aISRimeir0a2Q7xmZdEb0AfDvQLppLO41nEd_BoZccHCw00GGySU8amxbbQyMfjixPp-1f62InJo36B38UUgaiVOgf4ZkhpZtsp8YYJ9ckbakuqymJ93eobpW-pIA42jN3/s1920/Picture%209.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1482" data-original-width="1920" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLbqrQKexjEFV2Ri1jD7dQdRNStO_5LzTibtByt6zTubnRKe9zHutSU4aISRimeir0a2Q7xmZdEb0AfDvQLppLO41nEd_BoZccHCw00GGySU8amxbbQyMfjixPp-1f62InJo36B38UUgaiVOgf4ZkhpZtsp8YYJ9ckbakuqymJ93eobpW-pIA42jN3/s320/Picture%209.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the BBC spy drama 'The Man Who Was <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">H<br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">unting Himself' (1972)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">There was some comedy casting too, 'The Frankie Howerd Confessions', 'The Liver Birds', 'Robin's Nest', and a leading role in Alex Shearer's 'Spasms' and the ensuing slightly misfiring series 'Chalk and Cheese' with Michael Crawford, in which he played the straight man to Crawford's proto-slacker. Maybe audiences found it hard to buy into a cynical man-of-the-world who still sounded a bit like Frank Spencer. It wasn't a big success and the series ended in 1979, with Hawdon soon to forsake acting to concentrate fully on his writing career.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh16qvgA_L3VgHJP9OjAUFs3TzmpCe1kebc8Y6nXS2x_xXyUqbGlsTMqKefTzfVKwKzDkIM1ODab3Cbj1sYHN1W69XCRR9Qt9CFhDm8HPdVqiZwJTP5Yip33CM2-obYK1VTGedsae5Y2eTN11pmlaW1N3PbHXL1WnLkQWUzMAzgj-8ySTLIpzY0h4dF/s1952/Picture%2011.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1504" data-original-width="1952" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh16qvgA_L3VgHJP9OjAUFs3TzmpCe1kebc8Y6nXS2x_xXyUqbGlsTMqKefTzfVKwKzDkIM1ODab3Cbj1sYHN1W69XCRR9Qt9CFhDm8HPdVqiZwJTP5Yip33CM2-obYK1VTGedsae5Y2eTN11pmlaW1N3PbHXL1WnLkQWUzMAzgj-8ySTLIpzY0h4dF/s320/Picture%2011.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Robin's Nest' with Richard O'Sullivan<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP2zO3hH1VsMioKPg3a_d8elS8TQkkqfhmrLDWrRf6yhyf6F4Qlmwd6pjeN6F50C5twtlCKp90rlEoUWbklKhGTy86omWJZmCRKZXUZUyusZhSl7w-eF7iXmC5jLcpMukrga7TbFHLC9DNmSmk6KEkAvmpiRANc8o5pbsg2Gbx4Qfgvgl_sGzCYPQJ/s618/hawdon1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="618" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP2zO3hH1VsMioKPg3a_d8elS8TQkkqfhmrLDWrRf6yhyf6F4Qlmwd6pjeN6F50C5twtlCKp90rlEoUWbklKhGTy86omWJZmCRKZXUZUyusZhSl7w-eF7iXmC5jLcpMukrga7TbFHLC9DNmSmk6KEkAvmpiRANc8o5pbsg2Gbx4Qfgvgl_sGzCYPQJ/s320/hawdon1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Chalk and Cheese'</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">His later film career is also short but interesting. There was the shoddy and absurd 'sexy sci-fi' nonsense of 'Zeta One' (1969), with the unlikely mix of James Robertson-Justice and Charles Hawtrey and an invasion of alien pop-art dollybirds. Hawdon's turn as the male lead is workmanlike, given the circumstances, but also lacking in sparkle. The Hammer-produced prehistoric adventure 'When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) is better, even with all its outrageous anachronisms, including immaculately coiffured and scantily furred cavewomen, never mind the Brontosauruses. At least there's Patrick Allen bellowing manfully and lots of primitive urges, even before you get to the stop-motion special effects of giant crabs and dinosaurs. These were good enough to see the film nominated for an Oscar, although it was beaten out in the end by 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' (1970). Who knew? <br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE5hh_w-a0MuPoBYCBLqfKstwguTcUkYf3-mxOFUyigrkut-fRZjA_IZsb7rQ8YrJjE-XCJwQJRn14ARYZe6n9jxFezdpOB_pg3UrBFw8NK7rbx4aZ1STxNG4ZSDW7EQFgbqPs2Zzh7dDArCzB_zZs5lA8Iego0PspzLG8PgVrSvDeZz2dCTXt7pHS/s2012/Picture%207.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1314" data-original-width="2012" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE5hh_w-a0MuPoBYCBLqfKstwguTcUkYf3-mxOFUyigrkut-fRZjA_IZsb7rQ8YrJjE-XCJwQJRn14ARYZe6n9jxFezdpOB_pg3UrBFw8NK7rbx4aZ1STxNG4ZSDW7EQFgbqPs2Zzh7dDArCzB_zZs5lA8Iego0PspzLG8PgVrSvDeZz2dCTXt7pHS/s320/Picture%207.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As the perfectly groomed 60s/70s caveman, in the Hammer<br />stop-motion romp 'When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth (1970)<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Although it's his writing that has made his name and his money, that's an interesting CV of enjoyable performances. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">So, a salute, then. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">And well deserved. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0369937/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" target="_blank">Robin Hawdon</a>-imdb</span><br /></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-72786872087343992042022-03-24T15:40:00.008+00:002023-07-17T14:23:33.334+00:00John Nettleton<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG4kK-BDWa3_YnHbiiQTgCKmt1--lQl74VfJcs0ZJOR5YMGLRp0K4tYV8-N8tWFDpePD5jtHawNhqgULSWT31zxZDUs0JoG4p_HD7zmUueqsIJdggMjvgzZxswoLbQeoV6R2VtW3xLGuOdsx_uoWMkRo9DDy4TAPRSfvHM0CBg9j0bPLFPD28LBgFy/s929/nettl1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="703" data-original-width="929" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG4kK-BDWa3_YnHbiiQTgCKmt1--lQl74VfJcs0ZJOR5YMGLRp0K4tYV8-N8tWFDpePD5jtHawNhqgULSWT31zxZDUs0JoG4p_HD7zmUueqsIJdggMjvgzZxswoLbQeoV6R2VtW3xLGuOdsx_uoWMkRo9DDy4TAPRSfvHM0CBg9j0bPLFPD28LBgFy/w400-h303/nettl1.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">John Nettleton:</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">† </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Feb 5 1929 – July 12 2023</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">A stalwart interpreter for the viewing public of the blandly powerful faces of the establishment, John Nettleton is probably most associated with the role of Sir Arnold Robinson, the civil service grandee in 'Yes Minister', and he appeared as a Tory MP in the equally satirical (if rather broader) political comedy 'The New Statesman'. </span></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsZL41N_BwDvJb2TD-RZQuDYPh7LQ9dIr2r8pwpgtG9pd2jSfD7GWVbOnIGUPgw0ewn8dTjMvw94QtGAzR5m1obXAxo4eHyOGNg_ivl_1_gRO5KPJc5-Rrlbh-P83Fk4hkecxREkGidaIvKfWB3CIhpFkO_V57jlzxGmbUVxDmWJ6R2cLyBzYK-zYV/s923/nettl3.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="923" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsZL41N_BwDvJb2TD-RZQuDYPh7LQ9dIr2r8pwpgtG9pd2jSfD7GWVbOnIGUPgw0ewn8dTjMvw94QtGAzR5m1obXAxo4eHyOGNg_ivl_1_gRO5KPJc5-Rrlbh-P83Fk4hkecxREkGidaIvKfWB3CIhpFkO_V57jlzxGmbUVxDmWJ6R2cLyBzYK-zYV/s320/nettl3.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In 'The Avengers' episode, 'The See-Through Man'</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Among his well-remembered roles in television are those in 'The Avengers' ('The See-Through Man', in the Diana Rigg era, and 'The Rotters' with Linda Thorson), and in several other cult adventure properties of the time such as 'The Champions', 'Department S' and later 'The Protectors'. 'Doctor Who' fans may remeber him as the Reverend Ernest Matthews in the 1989 story Ghost Light, while mystery TV obsessives might cite his turns in 'The Rivals Of Sherlock Holmes', 'Tales Of The Unexpected', 'Haunted', 'Shadows' and 'Out Of The Unknown. He also graced popular favourites from 'Minder' and 'The Professionals' to 'Rumpole Of The Bailey' and 'The Adventures Of Black Beauty'. And let us not forget the authoritative voiceovers for Valerie Singleton's 'Blue Peter: Special Assignment' historical and factual programmes.<br /><br /><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikHx86c4AmGwbM5mIofWX74f93NjMyQgSQthjFqNkeDXddUkSGgSgRwaHuUol7hHT58tH8ArG3n592E4IM_iOtoPRsWNi3St8S3lbX9hr1XYZTGj3ZfWCj5tSoZppZ_mivFhqXn-_GLcRNiFk9qJgZOQGxSwYlUMydTuKQxJf0EXE1AG-DvBe7NjuG/s521/nettl.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="521" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikHx86c4AmGwbM5mIofWX74f93NjMyQgSQthjFqNkeDXddUkSGgSgRwaHuUol7hHT58tH8ArG3n592E4IM_iOtoPRsWNi3St8S3lbX9hr1XYZTGj3ZfWCj5tSoZppZ_mivFhqXn-_GLcRNiFk9qJgZOQGxSwYlUMydTuKQxJf0EXE1AG-DvBe7NjuG/s320/nettl.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With Celia Imrie in a religious skit on <br />'Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV' </td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">In middlebrow TV drama, he brought his patrician demeanour to the screen many times and can be seen as Francis Bacon in 'Elizabeth R', 'The Country Wife' , 'Brideshead Revisited', 'The Flame Trees of Thika', 'The Citadel', 'Martin Luther, Heretic', 'Longitude' and 'Kingdom'. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Other smaller comedy turns, which rather pale beside his 'Yes, Minister' years, include 'Please Sir!', 'If It Moves File It', 'Doctor at Large' and 'Brass'. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC81vyyVfj16XlHwpmdA7340izNmOMSR4nfgiVRqiT_Fo3ZXe7z5SPzUvtyG1q12H286pJoXBPtHtDuDWM_KbTVtWDdN9eKha-NlXoJWLbEHTXEMHiQR_F2oDyzkTH8RofCdzWrdJMPjknVKVsji_DoZpLK-JbKkBRXBmbSOHx8hcFeSh3bwpmRI_G/s700/nettl2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="700" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC81vyyVfj16XlHwpmdA7340izNmOMSR4nfgiVRqiT_Fo3ZXe7z5SPzUvtyG1q12H286pJoXBPtHtDuDWM_KbTVtWDdN9eKha-NlXoJWLbEHTXEMHiQR_F2oDyzkTH8RofCdzWrdJMPjknVKVsji_DoZpLK-JbKkBRXBmbSOHx8hcFeSh3bwpmRI_G/s320/nettl2.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Production still from the ABC series 'Haunted' from 1968</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Born in 1929, John Nettleton is now into his 90s and, I hope, enjoying a pleasant retirement.<br />[edit 12/7/23 - John Nettleton has sadly passed on since this salute was first uploaded. Guardian obit is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jul/16/john-nettleton-obituary">here</a>]<br /> </span></p><p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0626726/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t8" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">John Nettleton</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">-imdb</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-34005225801186295832021-12-24T23:25:00.005+00:002023-05-15T12:08:50.309+00:00David Wood<p><br /></p><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7S_pajEc1c0jcQUy86Y7k_lOhio4xf4w2MhHtBR_U8u4zeyeyHzJtGj9eWRDSqpilaeKhWcai8TIfG-MFlkGfwRVakxDV12STgihKeNXRVBTLACDfW2OgzcEZjh3cQGsWTzccCEsovMipsi8POCm1FNswiOTixNzlPOTcPuSzZ-5xnx8cDPL1zpbJ=s597"><img alt="Actor David Wood in the ITV drama 'Crown Court'" border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="597" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7S_pajEc1c0jcQUy86Y7k_lOhio4xf4w2MhHtBR_U8u4zeyeyHzJtGj9eWRDSqpilaeKhWcai8TIfG-MFlkGfwRVakxDV12STgihKeNXRVBTLACDfW2OgzcEZjh3cQGsWTzccCEsovMipsi8POCm1FNswiOTixNzlPOTcPuSzZ-5xnx8cDPL1zpbJ=w400-h265" title="British actor David Wood in the 1970s ITV drama 'Crown Court'" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">David Wood: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>David Wood's innocent schoolboy looks, deployed so notably in Lindsay Anderson's remarkable 'If..' (1968), have stayed with him for his whole career. Which certainly isn't to say that he has been typecast, with an amazingly broad range of roles under his belt that show him hopping nimbly from outright menace to disarming sweetness with apparent ease. <br /> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiI0CuTgnSATYS-kjmdspmUtHDTBxCtTZG9SSOWtxZGPKEp5pjWIj_5sbK3YnqHcXDsm76904J3EdiEkMYVjS7vf3HoihDw2Z6ENhj-pUDadvZ3KDhIazlJm4if-3GNJxRbzwmObLUQFVvC-GyOOCf5SvRLG692zBvDhUss6mLKQFhC4xJrXhx4xKgX=s510" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="510" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiI0CuTgnSATYS-kjmdspmUtHDTBxCtTZG9SSOWtxZGPKEp5pjWIj_5sbK3YnqHcXDsm76904J3EdiEkMYVjS7vf3HoihDw2Z6ENhj-pUDadvZ3KDhIazlJm4if-3GNJxRbzwmObLUQFVvC-GyOOCf5SvRLG692zBvDhUss6mLKQFhC4xJrXhx4xKgX=s320" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>With Malcolm McDowell in 'If..' (1968)</span><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><br /> In fact, it's in the field of children's drama and literature that he has made his most lasting impression: writing his own play for children, 'The Gingerbread Man', which he later adapted for television, and adapting a number of classic children's books for the stage. He proved a gifted storyteller on the much-loved BBC institution 'Jackanory' for many years, and can be seen in episodes of schools programmes such as 'Watch' and 'Seeing & Doing' as well as tots' shows like 'Playaway'. He's also in the well-made children's serial, 'Huntingtower' from the late '70s.<br /></span></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioHP3b9TCNGcVUzTX5wHuw_oiaxDIUBExf5eaRm365PphuvKYk8L_UUfW5hQZLc1IEsG-s_tUYxtC0FXBdqO7bY3UdVLWbX_wWYrAKEI8SkMpo8iFgXGEfCCRpQeBqYgBLPHQ3jezZMxEM30aT9We1yZO2xWu8oTsnXYCWY4OWpSEANVKDuhsepjph=s613" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="613" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioHP3b9TCNGcVUzTX5wHuw_oiaxDIUBExf5eaRm365PphuvKYk8L_UUfW5hQZLc1IEsG-s_tUYxtC0FXBdqO7bY3UdVLWbX_wWYrAKEI8SkMpo8iFgXGEfCCRpQeBqYgBLPHQ3jezZMxEM30aT9We1yZO2xWu8oTsnXYCWY4OWpSEANVKDuhsepjph=s320" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Alongside Bernard Cribbins, Maurice Denham and <br />Jan Francis for 'Jackanory's' take on 'The Hobbit'.<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span>While all this wholesome fare very much suited the David Wood who would later come to be dubbed Britain's Children's Dramatist, the darker side of '70s television drama also proved to be in search of his talents. He can be seen in the the Wednesday Play 'Mad Jack' about Siegfried Sassoon and the horrors of the trenches, in the feverish adventures of the Pre-Raphaelites in 'The Love School', and he's in episodes of those cult-favourite collections of the uncanny: 'Out Of The Unknown' and 'Menace'. </span><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh19-kHLE7bKd6q6ckYD8MK_167YNSzHfQh8HsSr5b0_6r-bU5Dx2P1za8Vfu16zmm-8SfpCurX-U3ACfxq0NwZ3pZuCA7qXFbfqMd0FqlB1I9cFV_KLvO4lNVFWZsJODCu5V_It7xV6KEA6JvBRGRVT3QbdP6NSkEMbllLXumIf1ArXEXALNoFG1Ft=s990" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="990" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh19-kHLE7bKd6q6ckYD8MK_167YNSzHfQh8HsSr5b0_6r-bU5Dx2P1za8Vfu16zmm-8SfpCurX-U3ACfxq0NwZ3pZuCA7qXFbfqMd0FqlB1I9cFV_KLvO4lNVFWZsJODCu5V_It7xV6KEA6JvBRGRVT3QbdP6NSkEMbllLXumIf1ArXEXALNoFG1Ft=s320" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>With Ann Morrish and Patrick Troughton in <br />the 'Out Of The Unknown' episode 'The Chopper' <br /></span><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> On the movie front, David Wood crops up in a few interesting titles, starting with the aforementioned 'If..' (1968), and including the psychological portmanteau horror 'Tales That Witness Madness' (1973) with Donald Pleasance, Robert Powell and Joan Collins. He's reunited with Malcolm McDowell in the 'Journey's End' adaptation, 'Aces High' (1976), and plays one of the baddies in 'North Sea Hijack' (1980) pitted against a bearded Roger Moore, throwing the kitchen sink at escaping his Bond persona with more bizarre quirks than he can realistically manage to pull off. <br /></span></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCzBrRpAqF7t1O5Ba3xrywd7rajF3FkYIHKeq5qSYeWt89ru8mgQnVE3XW088KSpvPKNt-l0xGAvUDmCOpJQH4YlP43naz4lb1kOTAU7KeKf5XbFQKM705ncjqsfLrgMe4CWoSfASVz5rwJdGFBvEfZbh3EpuUOseilQOJ_Nz5Bpjtcl2EvxxyBlmX=s572" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="572" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgCzBrRpAqF7t1O5Ba3xrywd7rajF3FkYIHKeq5qSYeWt89ru8mgQnVE3XW088KSpvPKNt-l0xGAvUDmCOpJQH4YlP43naz4lb1kOTAU7KeKf5XbFQKM705ncjqsfLrgMe4CWoSfASVz5rwJdGFBvEfZbh3EpuUOseilQOJ_Nz5Bpjtcl2EvxxyBlmX=s320" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <span>'Tales That Witness Madness' (1973) </span><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyZSoIuEVjfMm0bbrtxqZVwZDzTa6ZQh_CZPuFJFpQuEVtSk2TZHEHwNh3DUXCHED9h1MuPr6yJYOJcGEHGRn6BJK9NigjJHEuw-uCOIEboya8ER5YlEXgrX8nEZX0IJG8BVW-TMH7GOEdoKDIaIWa5ug75FVZpH7e7GqXTr1QUBezhqXsX4tS2woI=s642" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="642" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgyZSoIuEVjfMm0bbrtxqZVwZDzTa6ZQh_CZPuFJFpQuEVtSk2TZHEHwNh3DUXCHED9h1MuPr6yJYOJcGEHGRn6BJK9NigjJHEuw-uCOIEboya8ER5YlEXgrX8nEZX0IJG8BVW-TMH7GOEdoKDIaIWa5ug75FVZpH7e7GqXTr1QUBezhqXsX4tS2woI=s320" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>In the First World War flying movie, 'Aces High' (1976</span>) <br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span>There's a smattering of period dramas, including Turgenev's 'Fathers And Sons' and Goldoni's 'The Venetian Twins' from the BBC, and the ambitious but slightly awkward 'Disraeli' with Ian McShane. He's in some old sepia-toned TV favourites such as 'Danger UXB', 'Enemy At The Door', and 'When The Boat Comes In'. A memorable moment for me is his tap-dancing martial arts duel with Purdey in 'The New Avengers', one of the few times when the series approached the surreal heights of its '60s ancestor.</span></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_LEjCoL53E7sr2WWFrp492utyoTSyjrHGAMJ-jrbxsmsm0rPTMwl6X_94VMhStAH1YlDJ7u8cCOvXxhu6N5PlLXY7GCGSrP3U_SBBpB73-Ptc_XreKFIPyK1UCN8JQqC_S9ZwAFP3VgFafx8Y-zHoCpplNK16U_DjvWysMGYURGHu-4vxRSdoc0Ss=s531" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="531" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_LEjCoL53E7sr2WWFrp492utyoTSyjrHGAMJ-jrbxsmsm0rPTMwl6X_94VMhStAH1YlDJ7u8cCOvXxhu6N5PlLXY7GCGSrP3U_SBBpB73-Ptc_XreKFIPyK1UCN8JQqC_S9ZwAFP3VgFafx8Y-zHoCpplNK16U_DjvWysMGYURGHu-4vxRSdoc0Ss=s320" width="320" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>In the ATV historical drama 'Disraeli' in which he portrayed<br /> Lord Derby. Here w</span><span><span>ith Ian McShane in the title role.<br /></span><br /></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> His last listed performing role was in the star-studded TV movie 'Longitude' in 2000, but David Wood is still seemingly busy with his work in children's drama, adapting Roald Dahl and other writers for the stage, publishing plays and books, and lecturing school drama classes. An engaging actor and a dedicated educator, deserving of this little salute and more. <br /></span></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0939642/" target="_blank">David Wood</a>-imdb</span></span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-5835606801128713882021-12-05T22:52:00.004+00:002023-05-15T12:09:01.458+00:00Anthony O'Donnell<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj67JurQDZW-e7-yekrWUE0L9JNW8Ta_7rtKW7TOQW7z_vzAUM9iT_HQuKPlSlP6nlGaD9r5-2IAKHOhNE33AJMeQX3uWr62672TG18h01qC6I9vmli-sTDTDh8KtdTmpNgeqxYOyu9kfc/s579/odonn3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Welsh actor Anthony O'Donnell in Mike Leigh's 'Nuts In May'" border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="579" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj67JurQDZW-e7-yekrWUE0L9JNW8Ta_7rtKW7TOQW7z_vzAUM9iT_HQuKPlSlP6nlGaD9r5-2IAKHOhNE33AJMeQX3uWr62672TG18h01qC6I9vmli-sTDTDh8KtdTmpNgeqxYOyu9kfc/w400-h299/odonn3.png" title="Anthony O'Donnell in 'Nuts In May'" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Anthony O'Donnell:</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I thought I only knew Anthony O'Donnell as Ray, the camper unfortunate enough to pitch next to Keith and Candice-Marie in Mike Leigh's 'Nuts In May'. As is often the case, I came to realise that I had seen the compact Welsh actor in quite a lot more than that. And that's without taking into account his long and successful stage career with the National Theatre, the RSC and many other prestigious theatrical institutions, largely as I am not much of a theatre-goer. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Uht7Tleb6aIktpPM5YR4gqYmn_RJUV6yTbDA3WA9R5hsartI9QCGr2O07rPJALZahIDO5tCt2tJfqruTjexilqcn7f83jko2pr4yQ_ukSk4NDpdo2_gds356kiDJRGrZMnCExLE8uns/s1280/odonnell.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8Uht7Tleb6aIktpPM5YR4gqYmn_RJUV6yTbDA3WA9R5hsartI9QCGr2O07rPJALZahIDO5tCt2tJfqruTjexilqcn7f83jko2pr4yQ_ukSk4NDpdo2_gds356kiDJRGrZMnCExLE8uns/w320-h180/odonnell.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">'Nuts In May' in 1976</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">'Nuts in May' in 1976 was, it seems, his first foray into television, and the remainder of the '70s saw only a few appearances, in 'The Onedin Line', 'Crown Court' and 'The Sweeney' for example, and you don't get much more '70s than that. There was also an attempt to launch him as a sitcom star in LWT's rather pedestrian 'Lovely Couple', penned by the screenwriter of the 'Confessions...' films, but I don't have any memory of seeing it, despite it reuniting him with 'Nuts In May' star Roger Sloman in several episodes. <br /><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_XAd_tMh5Mw8a2BBQOCp7-KcQmfgAgq4nkRtXdWvI0W4RFjsuUuUKi3k0EFCPD5IWzjowX-wK53IECA1zOrOc14Zp7xyu7kZ1YOinUEn_01Mwkkuiu0CEdybxvqKB7EJE_fY-8vBTBWE/s535/odonn1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="535" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_XAd_tMh5Mw8a2BBQOCp7-KcQmfgAgq4nkRtXdWvI0W4RFjsuUuUKi3k0EFCPD5IWzjowX-wK53IECA1zOrOc14Zp7xyu7kZ1YOinUEn_01Mwkkuiu0CEdybxvqKB7EJE_fY-8vBTBWE/s320/odonn1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">The short-lived 1979 sitcom that didn't quite <br />make Anthony O'Donnell a household name.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Into the '80s and '90s and he was balancing an increasingly successful theatre career with the odd TV role. Memorable among these was the small but sinister gangster Big Dai in 'Minder', and some others such as the revived 'Tomorrow People', the vet series 'Noah's Ark', the Higson and Whitehouse one-off 'Dead At Thirty', and 'A Very Peculiar Practice'.</span><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGOhVlIMHsfAgxeRv5_eyWTkTeJ7F2Xi69QO0AQQ3H7chLO6D0lMAextlLtC2aNKeB-AwmMIU0pUv8oxyJ1aJyjTGGd_4Zk2Yvxb-NoVh_rWw4AjPMzqmRjapmnAjhgnJwXmweCgps7Dw/s436/odonn8.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="365" data-original-width="436" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGOhVlIMHsfAgxeRv5_eyWTkTeJ7F2Xi69QO0AQQ3H7chLO6D0lMAextlLtC2aNKeB-AwmMIU0pUv8oxyJ1aJyjTGGd_4Zk2Yvxb-NoVh_rWw4AjPMzqmRjapmnAjhgnJwXmweCgps7Dw/s320/odonn8.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">As Big Dai in the 'Minder' episode 'The Cruel Canal'</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Cinema roles from this period include 'Santa Claus The Movie' (1985), 'Robin Hood' (1991), and a reconnection with Mike Leigh for 'Secrets & Lies' (1996). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFjhECGBH_Gu-lXboVvRbTMJsLnimeuAbNaFKE2SUqhIRwzurPMnp6_dd0AmmuvXlCBzSt9m-Gf2xussCG_oxtuAxzgM5lFV2Z4M50gjzuv4ZolHzTuz3NytLck5vYJB_iw77z-W8_qx0/s562/odonn.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="562" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFjhECGBH_Gu-lXboVvRbTMJsLnimeuAbNaFKE2SUqhIRwzurPMnp6_dd0AmmuvXlCBzSt9m-Gf2xussCG_oxtuAxzgM5lFV2Z4M50gjzuv4ZolHzTuz3NytLck5vYJB_iw77z-W8_qx0/s320/odonn.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-small;">With Brazilian star Joaquin De Almeida in <br />'Xango From Baker Street' (2001)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <span style="font-family: georgia;">With the arrival of the 21st century, and now in his fifties, he appeared in Kenneth Branagh's 'Love's Labours Lost' (2001), and as Watson in a Brazilian twist on Sherlock Holmes, 'Xango From Baker Street' (2001), 'Vera Drake' (2004), 'The Baker' (2005), 'Death Defying Acts' (2007) and 'Skyfall' (2012).</span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7_ep2-Uj-V4XozJF9xhhcL4f3v8-UaoWZvqEtB9isCjjd0yYdIC9koD2wOAJVC-NgdIpX-LRuTAiOWSiIOIJG2T8XLWsP4RH1NxSIxINLnvvs0joO_o7lWTLOm5lkEDlDjg8Upy1vL_I/s539/odonn4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="539" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7_ep2-Uj-V4XozJF9xhhcL4f3v8-UaoWZvqEtB9isCjjd0yYdIC9koD2wOAJVC-NgdIpX-LRuTAiOWSiIOIJG2T8XLWsP4RH1NxSIxINLnvvs0joO_o7lWTLOm5lkEDlDjg8Upy1vL_I/s320/odonn4.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-small;">The menacing looking (but ultimately played-for-laughs) Sontaran,<br />Kaagh, in 'The Sarah Jane Adventures', a spin-off of 'Doctor Who' </span> </td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Meanwhile, back on the small screen, came appearances in 'The Sarah Jane Adventures' as the humorously belligerent alien, Kaagh, and a turn in 'Gavin & Stacey', as well as Ruth Jones's 'Stella', the period drama 'Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky', 'The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher', and the Jeremy Thorpe drama 'A Very English Scandal'. All good stuff. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm9BfawzzoeBRcUVd1rMbXbOh9U5sxsbdQOwoxoxqDO_JELx2DwaPK1Jeqdr567iy9NFnJJ1TMrGwASoKbyoOiU4TOxixkxqvTd0ZEYyimYUsHV-AOQi_WcoYhu3_m0hJlv5o-E629M30/s361/odonn.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="289" data-original-width="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm9BfawzzoeBRcUVd1rMbXbOh9U5sxsbdQOwoxoxqDO_JELx2DwaPK1Jeqdr567iy9NFnJJ1TMrGwASoKbyoOiU4TOxixkxqvTd0ZEYyimYUsHV-AOQi_WcoYhu3_m0hJlv5o-E629M30/s320/odonn.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-small;">In the supernatural comedy-drama, 'Being Human'</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqXREJalJaI2eFVfdQp1PnMBPcwM2R5qpdiYG5bOh69J0CJsVR8Mo3IdsoNb8Y0JtnutmYCIMDIyKhBKTzwMKj__8eMJR1TrfEiQuV3FuUegZtxSe3-sx4_i9J-WImo0bi9slHKlQL9v0/s510/odonn6.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="510" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqXREJalJaI2eFVfdQp1PnMBPcwM2R5qpdiYG5bOh69J0CJsVR8Mo3IdsoNb8Y0JtnutmYCIMDIyKhBKTzwMKj__8eMJR1TrfEiQuV3FuUegZtxSe3-sx4_i9J-WImo0bi9slHKlQL9v0/s320/odonn6.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-small;">With Hugh Grant in 'A Very British Scandal'</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0640722/" target="_blank">Anthony O'Donnell</a>-imdb</span></p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-37422993519438973772021-11-02T15:41:00.001+00:002023-05-15T12:09:16.986+00:00Malcolm Storry<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsaLHKgUbA4aKb0CLq_IQwDq8u4BvSj_GxfWdrPBDEnAyPgymeUU5RfjEGfrkMFkOqTjd1Li5Fa5C9B8G1L-ZWyYJMBGw0HMCzVu1awnxfJIDBHETpcIWMFTn3xmT9fOCi6dCnE5UMvIg/s554/storry.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="British actor Malcolm Storry as Bishop Talbot in the 2014 BBC series 'Father Brown'" border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="554" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsaLHKgUbA4aKb0CLq_IQwDq8u4BvSj_GxfWdrPBDEnAyPgymeUU5RfjEGfrkMFkOqTjd1Li5Fa5C9B8G1L-ZWyYJMBGw0HMCzVu1awnxfJIDBHETpcIWMFTn3xmT9fOCi6dCnE5UMvIg/w400-h270/storry.png" title="British actor Malcolm Storry in 'Father Brown'" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;"><br />Malcolm Storry:</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Craggy 6'2" actor Malcolm Storry is something of a stayer. Since the '70s he has loomed over the cast of an impressive collection of popular TV shows and appeared on the big screen in some big films, yet his is another of those names you might find harder to recall. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDXlk75pqFMk4mN6RMWv-YBw5oFJBHOxSHtcp-LzmP0831I0ffV45TGD68jlR2NLW8vNurBHWw6ifKwmTaJ31KuWQ4pz_gbMdRbCcPySBMytANt9esZ-b4aZKhTEqwm9oh-Mx5i1NTq0o/s437/storry2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="309" data-original-width="437" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDXlk75pqFMk4mN6RMWv-YBw5oFJBHOxSHtcp-LzmP0831I0ffV45TGD68jlR2NLW8vNurBHWw6ifKwmTaJ31KuWQ4pz_gbMdRbCcPySBMytANt9esZ-b4aZKhTEqwm9oh-Mx5i1NTq0o/s320/storry2.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With Lynn Redgrave in the 1985 BBC <br />drama 'Death Of A Son'</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">His height makes him an imposing casting for a policeman, and he has played them in a wide range of settings; from the gas-lit streets of the Jeremy Brett 'Return Of Sherlock Holmes', to the more recent cases of 'Rumpole Of The Bailey'. 'The Singing Detective', 'The Chief' (with Tim Piggott-Smith), 'Inspector Morse', and the Bill Murray spy-comedy film, 'The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqP0XUeJlag4N3W1tRvuxhvrty7dMLH5AgQOFh3nEoPkoq1u6rDU2RZuKEEGZCIzAcPGt64J29_nz3U5wRbFI2pho980O4IiMnr47VfeJHvXPbY0pKnMzgCCzvT_0VTynUJBAo3ZnOyls/s508/storry3.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="508" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqP0XUeJlag4N3W1tRvuxhvrty7dMLH5AgQOFh3nEoPkoq1u6rDU2RZuKEEGZCIzAcPGt64J29_nz3U5wRbFI2pho980O4IiMnr47VfeJHvXPbY0pKnMzgCCzvT_0VTynUJBAo3ZnOyls/s320/storry3.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As the comically ruthless Peterson in the <br />excellent 1987 series 'The Biederbecke Tapes' </td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">His comedy performances are also splendidly varied. He crops up in various roles in the David Jason vehicle 'A Sharp Intake Of Breath', and is the conventionally intimidating agent Peterson in 'The Biederbecke Tapes', failing to intimidate the show's cynical teacher duo. There was also the David Nobbs farce 'Dogfood Dan & The Carmarthen Cowboy' about truck driving pals unknowingly having affairs with each other's wives. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwEJmFKaVZjSNrEYivlD9UAya8manR40tf5RaEhPfOy8ycIDj4TqFsQKrmxT01fghqV7JlKUJ9aHGcMotgLoofJVtrcL5MyD_LFAPkIQlKNCmcSMg8tAa7orct8F0EUw7Y26Wq_pv4l4E/s503/storry2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="503" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwEJmFKaVZjSNrEYivlD9UAya8manR40tf5RaEhPfOy8ycIDj4TqFsQKrmxT01fghqV7JlKUJ9aHGcMotgLoofJVtrcL5MyD_LFAPkIQlKNCmcSMg8tAa7orct8F0EUw7Y26Wq_pv4l4E/s320/storry2.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With Peter Blake in 'Dogfood Dan & The <br />Carmarthen Cowboy' </td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">In the world of drama, he impresses in 'The Death Of A Son', 'Bread Or Blood', 'The Shadow Line', and is memorable in green wig and beard in the 1991 'Gawain & The Green Knight'. A lot of decent middle-brow stuff is also in there: 'Wycliffe' and 'Doc Martin' for example, depending on your tastes, and a ton of </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">popular/populist shows from 'Pie In The Sky', 'Ruth Rendell Mysteries' and 'Midsomer Murders' to 'Boon' and 'The Professionals'. On the whole it's all quality stuff, recent primetime hits having included 'Father Brown' and 'Doc Martin' </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz6wO6-nZTKwzYIXT969A0KL8Y6hpqZVa-iZ-pXBhh9RKnr90Wb0ccHu8ENYmr-TBB4v2QB9Sg7Wp_p1JQVnE4JujiUAie5yxj2gSBhf7XPEyoWaWxWdbqi60-ZyGJqw8ZGUEQaCgF1i4/s1600/storry.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz6wO6-nZTKwzYIXT969A0KL8Y6hpqZVa-iZ-pXBhh9RKnr90Wb0ccHu8ENYmr-TBB4v2QB9Sg7Wp_p1JQVnE4JujiUAie5yxj2gSBhf7XPEyoWaWxWdbqi60-ZyGJqw8ZGUEQaCgF1i4/s320/storry.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In 'Father Brown'</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">The big box office films he's been in: 'The Princess Bride' (1987), 'Last Of The Mohicans' (1992) and 'Firefox' (1987), and 'The Scarlet Letter' (1995) are probably not the best benchmarks of his career, in my opinion, but a wander through some of his TV outings cannot fail to entertain. <br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0832695/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm" target="_blank">Malcolm Storry</a>-imdb</span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-28186361695618201292021-10-15T12:17:00.001+00:002022-01-12T12:28:46.930+00:00Judy Matheson<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUWsw10DlT-yX2OLzcHcl5JK1YbGQvric_UwIfmUpv32CopvK1skNY6nO_6_OfAnBvXTUvtL2Xkr2P50Rm1kQYOagfoa8BN3CXmf6ayuJ_iA11tIQ8XpliCmoA6v8J7aNlLM-Nco08e7Q/s509/matheson5.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Judy Matheson in 'Twins Of Evil'" border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="509" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUWsw10DlT-yX2OLzcHcl5JK1YbGQvric_UwIfmUpv32CopvK1skNY6nO_6_OfAnBvXTUvtL2Xkr2P50Rm1kQYOagfoa8BN3CXmf6ayuJ_iA11tIQ8XpliCmoA6v8J7aNlLM-Nco08e7Q/w320-h246/matheson5.PNG" title="Judy Matheson in 'Twins Of Evil'" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Judy Matheson: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">One of the classic beauties of the golden era of Hammer horror films, Judy Matheson's most celebrated roles are in the saucy 1971 double-bill of 'Twins Of Evil' and 'Lust For A Vampire'. Other cult favourites of the era include 'Crucible Of Terror' (1971) and 'The Flesh & Blood Show' (1972), non-Hammer and more in the contemporary shocker mould than the gothic excesses of the former.<br /><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBS8AYj9moWzrbOGCvqvrcWoGtYXOlOluzeXFBPu1K0GqojJR1swwPGb9W93aYwqX8iYGnGsMWw1TO74hZSn1znI4phcNugPG5a1ie3CLFhrqAX4iXNRCUuJ3aLMdllLdyc9kltYoHeFU/s531/matheson11.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="531" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBS8AYj9moWzrbOGCvqvrcWoGtYXOlOluzeXFBPu1K0GqojJR1swwPGb9W93aYwqX8iYGnGsMWw1TO74hZSn1znI4phcNugPG5a1ie3CLFhrqAX4iXNRCUuJ3aLMdllLdyc9kltYoHeFU/s320/matheson11.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'The Emergence of Anthony Purdy, Esq, Farmer's<br />Labourer' a curious 1970 short film made by HTV </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />After drama school and some early stage successes she found herself cast, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">alongside Euro superstar Capucine, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">in a Spanish giallo-style psychodrama, 'The Exquisite Cadaver', AKA 'Las Crueles' (1969). Although obscure at the time in the UK, it now seems to be partially eclipsing the traditional horrors as her stand-out performance. It's certainly a stylish piece, with the expected giallo tropes of lurid colours, modish fashion-house photography, mild nudity and outlandishly playful shocks. Matheson is very watchable in it, a screen presence not overshadowed by her more senior co-stars. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPsRAlqR4b8Kb0SYzA3cACeQz-xX1LVEuc9ELLGtwUKbXV03GM7FlQY5duflTO7SSHomDyI3LDwGuHhaolJVK7XNyZKDjqubc8aafkW3F_XOb3dxhtyNyyk9IhcDMt2SOPmmsogaIxjqk/s573/matheson.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="573" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPsRAlqR4b8Kb0SYzA3cACeQz-xX1LVEuc9ELLGtwUKbXV03GM7FlQY5duflTO7SSHomDyI3LDwGuHhaolJVK7XNyZKDjqubc8aafkW3F_XOb3dxhtyNyyk9IhcDMt2SOPmmsogaIxjqk/s320/matheson.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'The Exquisite Cadaver' 1969</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNSvxumLKOxFw1lpzqAGOb0wZvlCV00ynsOlrPYjHZcrEJr55BgCJauLWRbaPBOqjOGXhdSaArUTYgkCWIgQme3dj4WnpggTiRELn8Csiodq4_xfMECzvFvZn7MZG0v8vx6MrDNFDOCmM/s560/matheson4.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="560" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNSvxumLKOxFw1lpzqAGOb0wZvlCV00ynsOlrPYjHZcrEJr55BgCJauLWRbaPBOqjOGXhdSaArUTYgkCWIgQme3dj4WnpggTiRELn8Csiodq4_xfMECzvFvZn7MZG0v8vx6MrDNFDOCmM/s320/matheson4.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With the always brilliantly loathsome Ronald Lacey <br />in the lacklustre 'Crucible Of Terror' (1971) </td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>She made another little-known gem in '</span><span style="text-align: center;">The Emergence of Anthony Purdy, Esq, Farmer's<br /></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;">Labourer' with the great Freddie Jones, a 1970 exercise in rural conjugal awkwardness in grainy black and white. The same year she appeared on television in a documentary about the RSC featuring her friend, a talented young actress called Helen Mirren. Shortly before this, she was shortlisted for a lead role in the TV sensation of 1969, 'Take Three Girls'. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; text-align: center;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtT_M4Q63YhfxVYFV9nEmVXBA5PX4RJYndjAw2FC7sgBnLlL75e5Hj_CoTrYiaehNQ0FQYp-8HX5xgDdacBbpDDzHucBR6fDoVnj-Y4LWnRLFDN81WZ9qhBNEpZajtZUoFf7-N23IK2RE/s548/matheson6.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="548" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtT_M4Q63YhfxVYFV9nEmVXBA5PX4RJYndjAw2FC7sgBnLlL75e5Hj_CoTrYiaehNQ0FQYp-8HX5xgDdacBbpDDzHucBR6fDoVnj-Y4LWnRLFDN81WZ9qhBNEpZajtZUoFf7-N23IK2RE/s320/matheson6.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An iconic shot with the late great Peter Cushing <br />from the opening sequence of 'Twins Of Evil' (1971) </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">That didn't happen though, and instead the early '70s saw a string of less-than-stellar film and TV offers. She's in a couple of typical Brit sex comedies, 'Confessions Of A Window Cleaner' (1974) and 'Percy's Progress' (1974), and adds some glamour to episodes of 'The Adventurer', 'The Sweeney' and 'The Professionals' before landing a longish stint on the teatime soap 'Crossroads' and a tiny role in a weird costume in 'Blakes 7'. <br /><br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyJIkgYw01MDDPQYAYrWKC-9MkUHuGZm-DemOZ6Xi7a3yZHCOy4hfTRWiUgEfvVJ3MEgKHLULm_675jA4imbwx8fyXMvLWdQHakhhc34y4ke7oheokTWo7VenZnx4l11G0NKLcj-P-i5M/s559/matheson13.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="407" data-original-width="559" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyJIkgYw01MDDPQYAYrWKC-9MkUHuGZm-DemOZ6Xi7a3yZHCOy4hfTRWiUgEfvVJ3MEgKHLULm_675jA4imbwx8fyXMvLWdQHakhhc34y4ke7oheokTWo7VenZnx4l11G0NKLcj-P-i5M/s320/matheson13.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A 'mutoid' apparently. 'Blakes 7'</td></tr></tbody></table></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">From this point she seems to have moved focus to voiceover and continuity announcement work. She was a regular face on my local ITV region, TVS, in the '80s. In fact, she was out of the TV and film loop for 37 years, between 1980 and 2017, with the exception of personal appearances at Hammer fan conventions.<br /><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg97msinCICoWGUiiVquREOO-VsiG7oR3u_3QApbs0v9BtWIZG2d8HkazY9GCwyCdTpeFfFVyDkco0uGj1Sjb9QDmrzQ98eWnjopw54llvgu__IlVKYgmV69-HnVJqoWHl93eQMReDA9So/s445/matheson14.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="445" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg97msinCICoWGUiiVquREOO-VsiG7oR3u_3QApbs0v9BtWIZG2d8HkazY9GCwyCdTpeFfFVyDkco0uGj1Sjb9QDmrzQ98eWnjopw54llvgu__IlVKYgmV69-HnVJqoWHl93eQMReDA9So/s320/matheson14.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TVS continuity announcer in 1984</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Roll on 2017 however, and it seems she's been lured back into the limelight by David Barry, better known as mummy's little soldier Frankie Abbott from 'Please Sir!'. Initially, he created a Fenn Street-meets-Vampires concoction called 'Frankula', followed in 2021 by 'The Lives Of Frankie Abbott'. There's also 'The Haunting of Margam Castle' which, like 'Frankula', features fellow cult horror star Caroline Munro, and 'What Did You Do In The War Mama?' with the similarly celebrated Madeline Smith. An intriguing development that seems likely to get the attention of the Hammer fanbase. <br /><br />So, a salute then, but watch this space for updates. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0558556/" target="_blank">Judy Matheson</a>-imdb</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-87686231714793214372021-10-11T18:19:00.001+00:002021-10-11T18:19:42.299+00:00Michael Deeks <p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxQvkMlwPeMJ2VE_H2uINbbpqpUqSp7_jzES6KA_h2k0PWSkwk1TP03HuD3EyLlpoH-kIROd_7NK_OZqtOyeACkyYZFF92oo9eyaT-q-cjBgYzeZKFikj5ZtKMJtNhYjOrosyQ0KW4d5g/s527/deeks+1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="527" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxQvkMlwPeMJ2VE_H2uINbbpqpUqSp7_jzES6KA_h2k0PWSkwk1TP03HuD3EyLlpoH-kIROd_7NK_OZqtOyeACkyYZFF92oo9eyaT-q-cjBgYzeZKFikj5ZtKMJtNhYjOrosyQ0KW4d5g/w400-h285/deeks+1.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Michael Deeks: </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">An angelic jack-the-lad type of the '70s variety, Michael Deeks got a taste of the big time playing Swiftnick in the well-crafted and very popular teatime series 'Dick Turpin', an excellent comic foil and sidekick to Richard O'Sullivan in the lead role. Prior to that he had been seen in a few small roles in the early and mid-'70s, including 'The Tomorrow People', 'Within These Walls' and the original BBC version of the Borstal drama 'Scum', although not the film remake. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpejJOaLnUGLpGCsb8Blrzsc8n0bFQwWp5R3nnhP4Qv3_Ps1QxB9uYKNa4E0SniOll3k4o4IFDUWIb0p7bsi-LN8Th_3RKuHfr25Ey60-_85Rt4fNHAduYFAJrT4whM0399ahH1TCCpg8/s534/deeks2.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="373" data-original-width="534" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpejJOaLnUGLpGCsb8Blrzsc8n0bFQwWp5R3nnhP4Qv3_Ps1QxB9uYKNa4E0SniOll3k4o4IFDUWIb0p7bsi-LN8Th_3RKuHfr25Ey60-_85Rt4fNHAduYFAJrT4whM0399ahH1TCCpg8/s320/deeks2.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Young highwayman Swiftnick meets his hero Dick Turpin <br />for the first time, under rather trying circumstances<br /> </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;">With his mixture of wide-eyed innocence and puckish delinquency, Michael Deeks was cast in a variety of contemporary and period dramas, one of the more substantial of these was the intricate six-part Armchair Thriller story, 'The Circe Complex'. He plays prisoner Cat Devlin, persuaded to extract information from a fellow inmate, a canny jewel thief. He was also in a TV 'Hammer House Of Horror' and in the quite atmospheric TV play 'Tarry Dan Tarry Dan Spooky Old Man', which survives as a blurry YouTube video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpkL4eTIMmU" target="_blank">here</a>. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivUR-pTp21VrCRDaMeT1GCA-p_ZUhEieOJGnn2256ocdWtYi6WVNZcL_ZfT6XPg7to7vE7UHHJ8CE_v7L6RW_bs31o7yJECJl8qdYWCUwRYfdT2L8Ubm6yLZgJMqjNg-kkagyxOlgyLsY/s500/deeks4.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="500" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivUR-pTp21VrCRDaMeT1GCA-p_ZUhEieOJGnn2256ocdWtYi6WVNZcL_ZfT6XPg7to7vE7UHHJ8CE_v7L6RW_bs31o7yJECJl8qdYWCUwRYfdT2L8Ubm6yLZgJMqjNg-kkagyxOlgyLsY/s320/deeks4.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With an avuncular Arthur Daley (George Cole) in 'Minder' </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Perhaps inevitably, with the passing of these twinkly teenage years, he found himself as just one of many young male actors competing for jobs, and the plum roles dried up. A definite prune was the annoyingly silly (even for an '80s kids' show) 'Galloping Galaxies' in which he appears as a dim robot amid the usual slapstick and feeble jokes. Rather better were roles in 'Juliet Bravo' and that episode of 'Minder' where Mel Smith plays an unscrupulous pop manager faking his star's death. </span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoH0s3s_4ps4ktq97FGhUp8Qqs65pv02q6JqGcY_NKKP9MO77RI6PeGZbC5w1he8oi_MbfTObLvKfAn8ouJ15y2F9oRHD_QNJRqsGgdwnp5243OMMuiVX89ujPgYaCQYjl1wluZg-sEEQ/s497/deeks5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="497" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoH0s3s_4ps4ktq97FGhUp8Qqs65pv02q6JqGcY_NKKP9MO77RI6PeGZbC5w1he8oi_MbfTObLvKfAn8ouJ15y2F9oRHD_QNJRqsGgdwnp5243OMMuiVX89ujPgYaCQYjl1wluZg-sEEQ/s320/deeks5.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Slightly channelling Dudley Sutton's Tinker Dill <br />in the kids' show 'Bad Boyes' from the late '80s </td></tr></tbody></table><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">He's in one of those star-studded corporate training videos made by John Cleese's Video Arts Ltd, but sadly it's rather hard to see these unless you're a corporation. And an amusing episode of the always decent 'Strangers', dealing with modern day highwaymen. But, after a single episode of 'The Bill', it seems that he retired from acting and became landlord of a pub in the home counties for a time. <br /><br />In any case, a salute is due. Cheers and your very good health. <br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0214287/" target="_blank">Michael Deeks</a>-imdb</span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-76865340860192342252021-09-28T00:11:00.004+00:002022-01-17T14:26:05.895+00:00Caroline Blakiston<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDPFKpIQSoeeRPiWlOzx-lmqjv1rATN6ORfJIKQs8hgPiv9UsXyRSwx2Cx5pMpXSAlj2VKjw6WiBpBwf9sPCfJa0Rvcs-PaLsO3JJl2S_J5v2bpW3Mog6Q-7TMFyq3NqT9K2EI6IjepaU/s415/blakiston3.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Actress Caroline Blakiston in the TV series 'Shoestring'" border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="415" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDPFKpIQSoeeRPiWlOzx-lmqjv1rATN6ORfJIKQs8hgPiv9UsXyRSwx2Cx5pMpXSAlj2VKjw6WiBpBwf9sPCfJa0Rvcs-PaLsO3JJl2S_J5v2bpW3Mog6Q-7TMFyq3NqT9K2EI6IjepaU/w320-h229/blakiston3.PNG" title="Actress Caroline Blakiston in the TV series 'Shoestring'" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-large;">Caroline Blakiston: </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">For someone who can lay claim to a named character in the Star Wars franchise - Mon Mothma in 'Return Of The Jedi' (1983) - as well as a royal flush of the classic cult TV adventure shows of the '60s - including 'The Saint', 'The Baron', 'The Champions', 'Department S' and no fewer than three episodes of 'The Avengers' - it's surprising that you might be forgiven for not immediately knowing the name of Caroline Blakiston.<br /><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPKNORX2QBMaDMFPKz-Yr72RDYyMBSNAW94lc9bgw4rAGQk08rBpkoIsbM96S9f38BhOX1s96kkHnymjn-QWJphN6G5GKCDvTLJzBWDcUzI95O9aEfFIH8pHtQ8YKBqrzKSxP26Uq2f4M/s696/mon-mothma.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="696" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPKNORX2QBMaDMFPKz-Yr72RDYyMBSNAW94lc9bgw4rAGQk08rBpkoIsbM96S9f38BhOX1s96kkHnymjn-QWJphN6G5GKCDvTLJzBWDcUzI95O9aEfFIH8pHtQ8YKBqrzKSxP26Uq2f4M/s320/mon-mothma.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In 'Return Of The Jedi' (1983) briefing on the attack on Endor.<br />In later films, and the upcoming TV spin-off 'Andor', the role of <br />Mon Mothma was taken over by Australian actress Genevieve O'Reilly. </td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Amazingly assured and accomplished from an early age, she has commanded substantial roles since the very beginning of the '60s, including two of the biggest successes of that decade in 'Emergency Ward 10' and 'The Forsyte Saga'. Radiating upper-class style and authority, she excelled as professional and aristocratic characters. She is, in fact, related to several titled families, although by no means a snob, having been married to fellow character actor, the great Russell Hunter - who came to the profession via the Glasgow shipyards. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6W9QBQ7GiaH2nP48bFiz_MTY06yADJcPGxrTlTOCQOJ0nt1Q1SBtvKeoqermqHO2t3tVLy4tPwjCyptP2phsA4LAt0M3rmP0LdLOdHg-d371yqNmR7ofHuSIvL-MDljVvop4L4T8QbxA/s657/blakiston8.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="657" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6W9QBQ7GiaH2nP48bFiz_MTY06yADJcPGxrTlTOCQOJ0nt1Q1SBtvKeoqermqHO2t3tVLy4tPwjCyptP2phsA4LAt0M3rmP0LdLOdHg-d371yqNmR7ofHuSIvL-MDljVvop4L4T8QbxA/s320/blakiston8.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the enormously popular television melodrama <br />'The Forsyte Saga', here with John Phillips </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <br />In the dramas and period melodramas of the '60s and '70s, she cuts an impressive swathe of lady magistrates, doctors, high-ranking civil servants and landed gentry. Spot her in 'Wives & Daughters', 'The Mallens', 'Charters & Caldicott' and 'Raffles'. She was a regular as a barrister in 'Crown Court', and can be seen in 'The Sweeney', 'Nanny' and many more. <br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio6Pd0YYUfO9skD8W8ln64Rs25srpnRoFxOS92tS6Cy73SFYpPE5rTytFg7YYZjp-5yfZjc7fR6IsrA6jVnVVmXpEQf-UPanOgqEsLAqEm_MAzWf0VJYhR3mOqOCQHWWSpSjsh_9mEMmM/s630/blakiston6.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="630" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio6Pd0YYUfO9skD8W8ln64Rs25srpnRoFxOS92tS6Cy73SFYpPE5rTytFg7YYZjp-5yfZjc7fR6IsrA6jVnVVmXpEQf-UPanOgqEsLAqEm_MAzWf0VJYhR3mOqOCQHWWSpSjsh_9mEMmM/s320/blakiston6.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the stylishly-shot 'Public Eye'</span><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Caroline Blakiston's movie credits beyond 'Jedi' are surprisingly slim. She's in 'The Magic Christian' (1969) with Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, and a couple of other biggish films like 'Yanks' (1979), 'Fourth Protocol (1987), and Woody Allen's 'Scoop' (2006), but it's more likely that you've spotted her on the small screen. <br /></span><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9VQE_HLNuqmgywQYAUIHrHCvx_lTOVOwdWNDQK8OBZKhcV_c2ApkPer9qRB44FhEN0Yc8fVi_2L4QS-BRfnPikOWZP-gdRPwk4aGEYtZNt6mjOk11PS7ZhtBQhcr7eg-GCzqBZx6e8jM/s807/blakiston11.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="807" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9VQE_HLNuqmgywQYAUIHrHCvx_lTOVOwdWNDQK8OBZKhcV_c2ApkPer9qRB44FhEN0Yc8fVi_2L4QS-BRfnPikOWZP-gdRPwk4aGEYtZNt6mjOk11PS7ZhtBQhcr7eg-GCzqBZx6e8jM/s320/blakiston11.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As a programmed super agent in an episode of <br />'The Champions', entitled 'The Experiment</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo1pK_vnD4F_F5Yb-WSkzhwBvYf2MzOMv9xuFK3zb4ysZ3gQ5Gs9Xy8FKoBJmGjCYTzg-W23MLgxe4L1k4CO8YXY9Ur2LDhGFMxUklH3c0fXORikt1EK78KphGaelNobRdUJFLls-aVnI/s459/blakiston2.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="459" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo1pK_vnD4F_F5Yb-WSkzhwBvYf2MzOMv9xuFK3zb4ysZ3gQ5Gs9Xy8FKoBJmGjCYTzg-W23MLgxe4L1k4CO8YXY9Ur2LDhGFMxUklH3c0fXORikt1EK78KphGaelNobRdUJFLls-aVnI/s320/blakiston2.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In an episode of 'The Saint' with Roger Moore<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">The '80s and '90s saw her pop up in 'Shoestring', 'Chancer', 'Mulberry' and the counter-espionage drama 'Mr Palfrey Of Westminster' with Alec McCowan, in which she plays Palfrey's M-like boss, the Coordinator. On the comedy front, she's in </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">'Murder Most Horrid' and the mill melodrama pastiche 'Brass'. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVy9JJXIF_7DldcipLzUSQinLjjoXBTf4rvpJGLdR_nz31Zhyphenhyphenx1xqZSUgePluh4Jm1LnKG0eB6b9SOf2jlfE_1r6wYvNX_2nbjcYWY5OnteKt2orHlOVc-ohbQz30AIejY4LliT1JVzOI/s677/blakiston10.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="677" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVy9JJXIF_7DldcipLzUSQinLjjoXBTf4rvpJGLdR_nz31Zhyphenhyphenx1xqZSUgePluh4Jm1LnKG0eB6b9SOf2jlfE_1r6wYvNX_2nbjcYWY5OnteKt2orHlOVc-ohbQz30AIejY4LliT1JVzOI/s320/blakiston10.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As the mysterious Coordinator in the understated <br />spy drama series, 'Mr Palfrey Of Westminster'<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;">More recently there have been medical machinations of the 'Casualty', Holby City' and 'Doctors' variety, and some detective and period pieces such as 'Poirot', 'Midsomer Murders', 'Father Brown', and 'Poldark. All quite in order for the latter stages of a long and distinguished career stretching back to the early '60s. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0086860/?ref_=tt_ov_st" target="_blank">Caroline Blakiston</a>-imdb </span> <p></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-15770865312997657662021-09-10T16:27:00.003+00:002023-05-15T11:49:12.164+00:00Murray Melvin<br />
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<span><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Murray Melvin:<br /></span> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">† </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Aug 10 1932 - April 14 2023</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">What, really? Yes, you may be surprised to see me add Murray Melvin to this particular blog, celebrating as it does the tier of British actors who are much admired but just below the status of household name. He's certainly a touchstone for that most inventive and creative period in British film and drama, the kitchen-sink school of the '60s, Joan Littlewood's visionary open-door theatre and the work of the British film outsider auteurs who went on to great things. Yet, outside an increasingly rarefied audience for classic cinema, his name might not be on every lip. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">A truly individual actor, Murray Melvin's acid-camp performances are always mesmerising in their precision, microtonally nuanced in emotion. His path took him from West End office clerk to sweeping the stage at the East London's Theatre Royal Stratford East, where Joan Littlewood nurtured a company of remarkable natural actors plucked from all walks of society. She chose him to play the implicitly gay Geoffrey in the ground-breaking play 'A Taste Of Honey', a role he reprised in the film version in 1961, winning himself a Best Actor award at Cannes. </span><div><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIIgZ9hfQiZMlm219EmsUQEYZIQoBgaEzhFBCfksYyz55obX5BfbxlaTOaMx8VuGt6xYZL8NuMFBX_ZN7OtEvOYKtHcnQI4X7jRatehEOdyz_86PqQhHTgdAIjdKWQwUrT-wS9JNNG3Qs/s616/melvin.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="616" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIIgZ9hfQiZMlm219EmsUQEYZIQoBgaEzhFBCfksYyz55obX5BfbxlaTOaMx8VuGt6xYZL8NuMFBX_ZN7OtEvOYKtHcnQI4X7jRatehEOdyz_86PqQhHTgdAIjdKWQwUrT-wS9JNNG3Qs/s320/melvin.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As the feckless Lupin Pooter in Ken Russell's <br />1964 film for the BBC, 'Diary Of A Nobody' </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia;">His other early film appearances include Joseph Losey's 'The Criminal' (1960), 'Petticoat Pirates' (1962), 'HMS Defiant' (1962), 'Sparrows Can't Sing' (1963), the with-it 'Kaleidoscope' (1967), and a pair of '60s classics; 'Alfie' (1966) and 'Smashing Time' (1967).<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrCkQ0EraOHsG7jFTS5P9oO266je_0f9ZQFY-GCvjSc-nrbKhiOHYtSg82AjJUD8AdBgizeGLtTYKiWyX8hzUkSBaOnUDN5aYgI3aekqH_L6cl3Pgmp9TXYJEaCGrvsUHsEG7563pmu7Y/s645/melvin3.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="645" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrCkQ0EraOHsG7jFTS5P9oO266je_0f9ZQFY-GCvjSc-nrbKhiOHYtSg82AjJUD8AdBgizeGLtTYKiWyX8hzUkSBaOnUDN5aYgI3aekqH_L6cl3Pgmp9TXYJEaCGrvsUHsEG7563pmu7Y/s320/melvin3.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reunited with Rita Tushingham at the day-glo end of<br />the '60s with a cameo in 'Swinging Time' (1967) </td></tr></tbody></table><br />The next decade saw things step up a bit in terms of arthouse cinema, with his old friend Ken Russell, in 'The Boy Friend (1971), 'The Devils' (1971) and 'Lisztomania' (1975), with Stanley Kubrick in 'Barry Lyndon' (1975), and in the likes of 'A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg' (1972) and 'The Bawdy Adventures Of Tom Jones' (1976). </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><br /></span></div><div></div><div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">During this long purple patch there were small-screen roles in 'The Avengers', </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Ken Russell's TV movie 'Isadora' (1966) with Vivian Pickles, 'The Flaxton Boys', 'Bulman', 'The Onedin Line' and a smattering of Plays for Today. He also turns up in the odd thing like 'Super Gran', the star-studded 1999 TV movie of 'Alice In Wonderland', and the obscure but well-liked Canadian sci-fi series 'Starhunter'<br /></span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">At the grand age of 89 (at time of writing), I'm pleased to see that Mr Melvin is still quite active and busy. His work since the '90s has included the film version of 'The Phantom Of The Opera (2004), and 'Jonathan Creek' and 'Torchwood' on television. Familiar rather than unknown then, I hope this small salute will alert new viewers to his unique cinematic presence. <br /></span><br /><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;">Postscript:<br />You can (as of Sep 2021) watch the 1964 Ken Russell film 'Diary Of A Nobody' via the YouTube link below. It stars Bryan Pringle and features a great cast including other Familiar Unknown alumni: Avril Elgar, Brian Murphy, Vivian Pickles and Jonathan Cecil. With harmonium score by Ivor Cutler. Enjoy.</span></i><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_5DcIx2vVg&t=470s" target="_blank">'Diary Of A Nobody: The Domestic Jottings Of A City Clerk' </a> </div><div> <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0578527/" target="_blank">Murray Melvin</a>-imdb</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-45443195973990457062021-09-02T13:57:00.002+00:002021-09-02T14:15:23.417+00:00Enn Reitel<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAytaTxH9a67b7xstbBvIfhAYsj80JGGunT0TdVFjsjXGZRcs1TSn54qszBrQJA_ipj1PTIxp7zUUnZAGoUBE8k5HPRJ5O3k5So69zdrJH7Y1HwJhQZQDjdqI1QJFW8h8NVSjYWcuqHzY/s498/reitel1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="498" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAytaTxH9a67b7xstbBvIfhAYsj80JGGunT0TdVFjsjXGZRcs1TSn54qszBrQJA_ipj1PTIxp7zUUnZAGoUBE8k5HPRJ5O3k5So69zdrJH7Y1HwJhQZQDjdqI1QJFW8h8NVSjYWcuqHzY/s320/reitel1.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;"> Enn Reitel:</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">You may not be able to place where you've seen Scottish actor Enn Reitel, but you've certainly heard his voice without ever realising it. An enormously versatile and in-demand voice actor, he was a key member of the 'Spitting Image' team - putting words in the wobbling mouths of </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Geoffrey Howe, Roy Jenkins, Leonard Nimoy, Vincent Price, Donald Sinden, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Julian Clary, Clint Eastwood, Norman Fowler, Mikhail Gorbachev, Dustin Hoffman</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">and Ian St. John, to name but a few...</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfaTlomg38SyeLkkbv-xyJbX0vnuWc3rDM4-XKx1uq-LIy5mZ4pN-mi8UrHiyo5YBKoEOzsVlH43l117dsOSRVf7_5TWW9snGZnwcONLOk8ox7Ju8kWmFO8vnNRbjIy4sqdeg2jL6U5Cs/s982/3255023.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="726" data-original-width="982" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfaTlomg38SyeLkkbv-xyJbX0vnuWc3rDM4-XKx1uq-LIy5mZ4pN-mi8UrHiyo5YBKoEOzsVlH43l117dsOSRVf7_5TWW9snGZnwcONLOk8ox7Ju8kWmFO8vnNRbjIy4sqdeg2jL6U5Cs/s320/3255023.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the Spitting Image voice talent: (l-r) Chris <br />Barrie, Steve Naillon, Jon Glover and Enn Reitel.</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />He has appeared on-screen occasionally, and there was even a period in the '80s where he seemed to be positioned as an upcoming sitcom star, somewhat in the vein of Hywel Bennett's sardonic 'Shelley'. He took the title role in the reboot of Kingsley Amis's 'The Adventures Of Lucky Jim' with Glynis Barber and <a href="http://familiar-unknown.blogspot.com/2013/01/david-simeon-sandy-haired-and-usually.html" target="_blank">David Simeon</a>. At one point he was also mooted to play the part of Del Boy in 'Only Fools And Horses', which would surely have been a mistake, even without the benefit of hindsight. <br /><br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuD77UBvdEIGkxrm8R8XxgxgV15TFisqz0VIBEgVGcRFCUmgfqXhi1iJLAPfwoQFGjh5B6bZwUAsAwgnMp-Vsf0arHyRbyZkT_tgMLa53J09y3tsMQeYDVR9aaQIjo22nYsvLYaBOnv-s/s480/reitel4.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="480" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuD77UBvdEIGkxrm8R8XxgxgV15TFisqz0VIBEgVGcRFCUmgfqXhi1iJLAPfwoQFGjh5B6bZwUAsAwgnMp-Vsf0arHyRbyZkT_tgMLa53J09y3tsMQeYDVR9aaQIjo22nYsvLYaBOnv-s/s320/reitel4.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reitel with Karen Smith in an episode of 'The Optimist' </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Menawhile, 'The Optimist' was a Channel 4 curiosity. An evocation of the poignant humour of the silent era, shot on location entirely on 16mm film. It was an elegant idea, well realised and running to a second series, but few seem to remember it now. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRaadUTQGcgyUUsDFzTUvQoTtCvp6kTOdug5RI0nD-W3kY1lK25TNMEHbh2ZmuntLc3ye_L0jakkZ_EnB2_LtjGestMwReFLM8PnncwCVGCzfCBXCNM3zVDQH8h_xa02CN6Tyu8PJi2S0/s678/reitel2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="678" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRaadUTQGcgyUUsDFzTUvQoTtCvp6kTOdug5RI0nD-W3kY1lK25TNMEHbh2ZmuntLc3ye_L0jakkZ_EnB2_LtjGestMwReFLM8PnncwCVGCzfCBXCNM3zVDQH8h_xa02CN6Tyu8PJi2S0/s320/reitel2.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As a lawyer in an episode of the popular<br />Victorian detective series 'Cribb' </td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">There was also the Clement & LeFrenais comedy 'Mog', about a burglar feigning insanity to dodge jail. Unlike their classic creation, 'Porridge', 'Mog' was short on comedic spark and lacked that show's unforgettable characters. Marty Feldman was originally cast as Mog, but died before filming began. Reitel struggled manfully with the part, but it was a narrow premise and little too dark to be at all popular. To be honest, I can't imagine the inevitably hectic overacting of Marty Feldman making a success of it either. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8_qZvBVyDCFYBniWVwAEJVwo7LUlEr2OPBJ-U6r44enZyMbpHU93jOhWkVCitkkOjINWsudhQUQX7gDMcPQaCYphJPzWqjtqoj75v5MzNXxG4DdfznEEyb6fMLz54knPWQm-YCCi8phU/s457/reitel3a.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="322" data-original-width="457" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8_qZvBVyDCFYBniWVwAEJVwo7LUlEr2OPBJ-U6r44enZyMbpHU93jOhWkVCitkkOjINWsudhQUQX7gDMcPQaCYphJPzWqjtqoj75v5MzNXxG4DdfznEEyb6fMLz54knPWQm-YCCi8phU/s320/reitel3a.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Mog', with his psychiatrist, played by the glamorous Catherine <br />Schell. The programme was about as funny as it looks here. </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Enn Reitel's lasting claim to fame is his ongoing voice-over work. His versatility with accents is the perfect adjunct to his natural rich baritone, and he seems able to jump from straight advertising and narration work to the most extreme parody without missing a beat. The computer game industry has been a fertile territory for him, with credits in a number of big-franchise titles like 'Avatar: The Game', 'Star Wars: The Old Republic', 'Elder Scrolls', 'Chronicles Of Narnia' and 'Metal Gear Solid'. <br /><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnJwtNEOT8bDvTM8Z5-3GocdkyYu_RLgrgVDy1-QLdpu1Qffbr2y9pjPzOOoDLzLnGaE7DZ-8WuR6pcw4xPt7n6z0Tmy8ZjLki9Fuc-x59aw2kpBuHTnDpaI1zIRzZ6UW4DyHlN9kJjgU/s1050/reitel4a.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="759" data-original-width="1050" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnJwtNEOT8bDvTM8Z5-3GocdkyYu_RLgrgVDy1-QLdpu1Qffbr2y9pjPzOOoDLzLnGaE7DZ-8WuR6pcw4xPt7n6z0Tmy8ZjLki9Fuc-x59aw2kpBuHTnDpaI1zIRzZ6UW4DyHlN9kJjgU/s320/reitel4a.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Enn Reitel also provided the voicing for Nestor, the faithful <br />butler of Marlinspike Hall in 'The Adventures of Tintin' (2011)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Here's a little <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rYClpqAU40" target="_blank">voice-over agency playreel</a> to give you a sample of his work.</span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0718572/" target="_blank">Enn Reitel</a>-imdb</span></p><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-78149491066761050772021-07-28T14:25:00.002+00:002021-07-28T14:48:59.055+00:00Sorry I missed you<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsTpECuc_gyclpvQ-hym3YBFrNI6DgzQ2ruPfd5jxQcclPk6sugOKBX2SE92e6T463aQzZFtthtKoqpQmFJwCY3tx8GdfxCh8LonYrJg9yE_699y2tvvAtXsejXXn8q9-n6cwc0KvoSu4/s1500/valete+2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsTpECuc_gyclpvQ-hym3YBFrNI6DgzQ2ruPfd5jxQcclPk6sugOKBX2SE92e6T463aQzZFtthtKoqpQmFJwCY3tx8GdfxCh8LonYrJg9yE_699y2tvvAtXsejXXn8q9-n6cwc0KvoSu4/w426-h640/valete+2.png" width="426" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Sorry I missed you...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">One of the conditions I set myself with this blog is that all the actors I salute are still alive. Obviously I've had to amend quite a few of the 250+ posts on here, as the often-elderly actors inevitably pass on in the fullness of time. <br /><br />Damaris Hayman, the subject of the first-ever post back in 2012, died quite recently, and a recent addition, Brian Osborne, was posted by me this month, not realising that he had died only 48 hours previously. <br /><br />The pictures above are of actors who slipped through my fingers, whose salutes from me never came, as their draft posts were languishing in my 'to-do' list over the past few years when I learned of their passing. <br /><br />(Clockwise from top left): <br />Sylvia Kay (d.2019), Frank Mills (d.2021), Patricia Healey (d.2021), Stephen Moore (d.2019), Meic Povey (d.2017), Mike Walling (d.2020), Anne Lynn (d.2020), and Michael Medwin (d.2020). </span> <p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-64199840244342362182021-07-16T15:22:00.001+00:002021-07-16T15:22:42.046+00:00Nick Brimble<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb1B_WtMhyphenhyphensVHOnkRFd5Vn8UXlzpAuXBkVGYTw3IEiCmYD5QJ0VAxa0yvf93BxixIICAjtjP_PCgEII-lvoT15J8DOhoFgkGEQIdAhn_OY9rL9_TpRejtdmaJ-XS2AWi2HwTg6Nc_GBMQ/s490/brimble.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Actor Nick Brimble in the BBC series 'Blakes 7'" border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="490" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb1B_WtMhyphenhyphensVHOnkRFd5Vn8UXlzpAuXBkVGYTw3IEiCmYD5QJ0VAxa0yvf93BxixIICAjtjP_PCgEII-lvoT15J8DOhoFgkGEQIdAhn_OY9rL9_TpRejtdmaJ-XS2AWi2HwTg6Nc_GBMQ/w320-h235/brimble.PNG" title="Actor Nick Brimble in the BBC series 'Blakes 7'" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Nick Brimble:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Broodingly malevolent-looking and an imposing 6'4", Nick Brimble has made more than a few appearances, mainly as villains and heavies, over the years. Starting in the early '70s he started racking up roles in the popular tough-guy shows of the time, notably 'The Sweeney' on TV and in the feature film, where he was a semi-regular as DS Burtonshaw, and the likes of 'Z-Cars', 'Softly Softly', 'The Professionals' and 'Quiller'. </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfFzv6-BTVqtPlBZP-7vxF_51pxh0T3QVC7y5MuqRj82aUWbHIVDtWQ4Ht_YjRStXfUv-lJfJ7jKD6MLD2bZAm_IdbLD4FMEDmnqIQCyp3M8rq4rZ6S8HfvqKbxnEnr4BZZE-Nh7C9AMs/s524/brimble4.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfFzv6-BTVqtPlBZP-7vxF_51pxh0T3QVC7y5MuqRj82aUWbHIVDtWQ4Ht_YjRStXfUv-lJfJ7jKD6MLD2bZAm_IdbLD4FMEDmnqIQCyp3M8rq4rZ6S8HfvqKbxnEnr4BZZE-Nh7C9AMs/s320/brimble4.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">About to get a nasty shock in a 1971 public information film<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">He can also be found in sci-fi shows including 'Space:1999' and 'Blakes 7' and had recurring roles in major hits of the time such as 'Danger UXB' and 'Penmarric' and historical serials like 'John Silver's Return To Treasure Island' and the ambitious pan-European 'William Tell' (AKA Crossbow) which was too similar to the smash-hit 'Robin Of Sherwood' to get much traction in the UK. <br /></span><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQV2LLP_fRnz2ZcEMiwQF9rwO3FDcK3N2WpyIwpUeWyEXkA8-VTcCTlYJIby2UiihPAA-Xt8Y-jk3CWzoxDS_EOdie6ZA8hBlQYWrz1xQLCEe00XgBvumzJQUbefjI8Vl_hyA56AQSejM/s680/brimble.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="680" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQV2LLP_fRnz2ZcEMiwQF9rwO3FDcK3N2WpyIwpUeWyEXkA8-VTcCTlYJIby2UiihPAA-Xt8Y-jk3CWzoxDS_EOdie6ZA8hBlQYWrz1xQLCEe00XgBvumzJQUbefjI8Vl_hyA56AQSejM/s320/brimble.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting his mind extracted by Brian Blessed's sinister<br />SodaStream machine in an episode of 'Space:1999'</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">This regular UK television work was punctuated with film offers, some of which were for pretty major movies. He is the bearded Little John in 'Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves' (1991), and before that he crops up in 'Lust For A Vampire' (1971), 'Silver Dream Racer' (1980), 'Who Dares Wins' (1982), and 'Roger Corman's Frankenstein Unbound' (1990) with John Hurt and Raul Julia. </span><p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZVr39hWXalwd7fz4x4coGwtCSxGKP7hey5RQnj9-K3P0nBsLAV0IJNwJj5YuTMz7JtIp2RV2106UiHkh-XAIQ8JD3O4UMkfdG0cs7U_mUIbD8hvUlx-XRXsybp1yHPcWP8b2CPZ6QuAc/s589/brimble8.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="589" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZVr39hWXalwd7fz4x4coGwtCSxGKP7hey5RQnj9-K3P0nBsLAV0IJNwJj5YuTMz7JtIp2RV2106UiHkh-XAIQ8JD3O4UMkfdG0cs7U_mUIbD8hvUlx-XRXsybp1yHPcWP8b2CPZ6QuAc/s320/brimble8.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Classic villainous performance in 'Dempsey & Makepeace'<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ5NyA9V4hMg0bqZX8SW7n6QvU7h98qMd1jpnzP1zYNjbUA8E8iuL7VFJNCJGB5u19l2M1VjNmEUVWzYOpf6wyBlN6pNbo6L60B5OEiBddM4UEsRwBE4RoMGx4oCDUYKGBMnuv5FB_65A/s771/brimble2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="771" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ5NyA9V4hMg0bqZX8SW7n6QvU7h98qMd1jpnzP1zYNjbUA8E8iuL7VFJNCJGB5u19l2M1VjNmEUVWzYOpf6wyBlN6pNbo6L60B5OEiBddM4UEsRwBE4RoMGx4oCDUYKGBMnuv5FB_65A/s320/brimble2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As the Monster in 'Roger Corman's Frankenstein <br />Unbound' (1990) a time-travel riff on the original</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Television work has continued into the 21st century and you're sure to have seen him if you've watched mainstream broadcast TV much at all in the last 30 years. He appeared in 'The Bill' no fewer than six times between 1988 and 2007, had a long story arc in 'Emmerdale', and appeared in the mini series 'House Of Cards' and its follow-ups 'To Play A King' and 'The Final Cut'. And that's before we get into the inevitable round of 'Midsomer Murders', 'Boon, 'Dempsey & Makepeace', 'Bergerac', 'Wycliffe', 'Doc Martin', 'New Tricks' and 'Heartbeat'. <br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC2QAeL02mmnnvcHOTpmznkr5SXbe46d4E8GmM_HbPpFx02F3EtB5bNxpSsF-qQXOEcC3_H1HlWRRzNT4VPh5PBfdE9LDqxL3wM-36qvvkfjwMc6vcluSugVfcqK0Soo5VDKMZLBxEujE/s548/brimble3.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC2QAeL02mmnnvcHOTpmznkr5SXbe46d4E8GmM_HbPpFx02F3EtB5bNxpSsF-qQXOEcC3_H1HlWRRzNT4VPh5PBfdE9LDqxL3wM-36qvvkfjwMc6vcluSugVfcqK0Soo5VDKMZLBxEujE/s320/brimble3.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's a fair cop. Bang to rights in 'The Famous Five'<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">In fact, so distinctive and talented is Nick Brimble that it's a surprise that fewer people know his name. As with all these little salutes to character actors, I hope more people will recognise and enjoy his performances when they spot him in future. I know I will. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Public Information Film - </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH0Kxjx0sEM" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">click here</a></p><p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003818/" style="font-family: georgia;" target="_blank">Nick Brimble</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">-imdb</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8988186646617921332.post-60839149185780816322021-07-13T18:46:00.000+00:002021-07-13T18:46:22.704+00:00Vivian Pickles<div class="separator"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfW3ul0HkgnKyyWoopc50Jbh0n-1Hjf4srLzE8ukze7GAsXLUKIUZc5bD_mhNkb5u3ddSBtUP9DrtpEhJ0z8mtQbjIhaOSUTjxK7PAUCc39VyOrb0nGZYL7_RUrtWkP8ekFEk7tkvshII/s449/pickles1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Vivian Pickles in the film 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'" border="0" data-original-height="379" data-original-width="449" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfW3ul0HkgnKyyWoopc50Jbh0n-1Hjf4srLzE8ukze7GAsXLUKIUZc5bD_mhNkb5u3ddSBtUP9DrtpEhJ0z8mtQbjIhaOSUTjxK7PAUCc39VyOrb0nGZYL7_RUrtWkP8ekFEk7tkvshII/w320-h270/pickles1.png" title="English actress Vivian Pickles in the film 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' (1971)" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Vivian Pickles:</span></span> </p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">You may well say that here I am pushing the premise of 'Familiar Unknown' a little too far. After all, Vivian Pickles is something of a <i>grand dame</i> of the theatre and has worked with many of the greatest actors and directors of her generation, and yet I feel she is not so well known to recent generations as, say, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench or Vanessa Redgrave, and still able to sneak in under the radar in some rather surprising TV roles.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_6kV0kmq-ciNRWjXNVXxIDrf_S_th409IOLeC3jFT-esagEmGEhuSrhEBO9X-4ECOAQaGjhEK8wI2aCTt0G44AFU0UgBS9beeix0nT6MXZYhMDgxWnBkIBEpyDHywec9W5xCi2ME_ln0/s825/pickles1r.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="825" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_6kV0kmq-ciNRWjXNVXxIDrf_S_th409IOLeC3jFT-esagEmGEhuSrhEBO9X-4ECOAQaGjhEK8wI2aCTt0G44AFU0UgBS9beeix0nT6MXZYhMDgxWnBkIBEpyDHywec9W5xCi2ME_ln0/s320/pickles1r.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the 1964 'Avengers' episode 'The Charmers'</td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Vivian Kay Pickles was born into that complicated Yorkshire dynasty that also gave us the actor and renowned broadcaster Wilfred Pickles (her uncle) and the controversial Judge Pickles (her brother). A child actor in the late '40s, she trained at the Aida Foster Drama School and began her adult career on the repertory stage of the fifties alongside a number of illustrious stars of the era. This was the time of the 'angry young man' and 'kitchen sink' in British drama and she was a hit in new plays by the likes of Willis Hall and John Osborne. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">As an attractive and talented young actress, it's unsurprising that she appeared in some of the new and popular programmes of the '60s: drama serials 'Emergency Ward-10', Harpers West One', 'Z-Cars' and the Honor Blackman-era 'Avengers' episode 'The Charmers'.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZJdtwmTa9M9Y7yyNcvv3bzNcpBbGTBibyRjiYFZ6-S7hoxb-6kTIH6ykyjb5SwDOKSc-4f5qoGX7vqkZpXzHRJlPRjkE9mdAypvbd3JZQc4j7q2_-Z8RRZoYFveF4vJK_3_BxT-eAtcE/s406/pickles.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="406" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZJdtwmTa9M9Y7yyNcvv3bzNcpBbGTBibyRjiYFZ6-S7hoxb-6kTIH6ykyjb5SwDOKSc-4f5qoGX7vqkZpXzHRJlPRjkE9mdAypvbd3JZQc4j7q2_-Z8RRZoYFveF4vJK_3_BxT-eAtcE/s320/pickles.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As the doomed artistic free-spirit Isadora Duncan <br />in Ken Russell's acclaimed 'Isadora' (1966)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />A big break comes with the Ken Russell-directed 'Isadora' a remarkable tour-de-force biopic in stark monochrome which boosted her career and that of Russell who was afterward propelled beyond the realm of BBC shorts and into the art-cinema boom of the '70s. For the actress, now in her mid-thirties, it heralded a purple patch of quality roles, beginning with her casting as Mrs Bennett in the BBC's admired 1967 adaptation of 'Pride And Prejudice', and leading to a brief arc of interesting cinema parts: she's in 'Play Dirty' (1969) - a war story penned by her BBC Arts connection Melvyn Bragg - before 'The Looking Glass War' (1970), 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' (1971), 'Nicholas & Alexandra' (1971), and 'O Lucky Man!' (1973). </span><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI2VCGrAmXRGUNwvBHfzpZWnzXEW786K00F3edbDR3OTSxdMumS4RUqcce7cHsdiXFveUQ3MKuz8cEYkCf9Aw_y6GvRDPiM-m8rRnp8Ml_x0Y91Djg8EYn-ecR4dnt_F8gaf2Rf2tLAW8/s448/Pickles_Current_medium.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI2VCGrAmXRGUNwvBHfzpZWnzXEW786K00F3edbDR3OTSxdMumS4RUqcce7cHsdiXFveUQ3MKuz8cEYkCf9Aw_y6GvRDPiM-m8rRnp8Ml_x0Y91Djg8EYn-ecR4dnt_F8gaf2Rf2tLAW8/s320/Pickles_Current_medium.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bravura turn as Harold's exasperated mother in the <br />cult classic 'Harold And Maude' (1971)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">It was also during this period that she made her only appearance in a Hollywood movie, Hal Ashby's 'Harold And Maude' (1971) in which she plays the remote and bewildered mother of the troubled Harold (Bud Cort). Although not a big grossing success at the time, the film is now considered a cult classic. </span><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="843" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjalP8OE0jU2sbK1UEMy0ynwbluvu29OMGsGLZoMS6S5vCOd9Pixp_HT486v3mZq8hb80NFvG_2O9m7IYA6u_KfPptwyGa9qNeRpORe0OSYtCFKLrprnhpyFl9zlOhSfZqxThhjRKAfRL4/s320/pickles5.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As Mary Queen Of Scots in 'Elizabeth R'</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjalP8OE0jU2sbK1UEMy0ynwbluvu29OMGsGLZoMS6S5vCOd9Pixp_HT486v3mZq8hb80NFvG_2O9m7IYA6u_KfPptwyGa9qNeRpORe0OSYtCFKLrprnhpyFl9zlOhSfZqxThhjRKAfRL4/s843/pickles5.png" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span> </span><span> </span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Her television presence also peaked during these years, with solid drama including 'Vile Bodies', 'The Great Inimitable Mr Dickens' and the high profile 'Elizabeth R' in which her Mary Queen Of Scots squared up fatally to Glenda Jackson's terrifying virgin queen. It's here though that her profile begins to lower a little, at least as far as film and television are concerned.<br /> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7T1zuIwbg-7dbp0-W4Ob50KuT8w0dzBer5HS4unLqoi-0dOMbBq77NPkDkpUBmlOYvHhG6ps4MFXPKr0jiiYOH_Y7jtoy4QQerW_nXmERJEe-lT__hEIftvdi_fAN4fI_c6cErwcVWPM/s557/pickles2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="557" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7T1zuIwbg-7dbp0-W4Ob50KuT8w0dzBer5HS4unLqoi-0dOMbBq77NPkDkpUBmlOYvHhG6ps4MFXPKr0jiiYOH_Y7jtoy4QQerW_nXmERJEe-lT__hEIftvdi_fAN4fI_c6cErwcVWPM/s320/pickles2.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As the vain Lady Montdore in 'Love In A Cold Climate'</td></tr></tbody></table></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRqUCN_01ruxSBVPGJsV2vE8SAhOexMh5IS3FVkYqZALJnO38z8y3slNduCtojalBKO8kPaHNexD1eYokapRy-Q8aZbdIpSmflMQX1f1XBo9QAl8DPU9hzW01pUKtlUC-AJLm55kEASqY/s498/pickles3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRqUCN_01ruxSBVPGJsV2vE8SAhOexMh5IS3FVkYqZALJnO38z8y3slNduCtojalBKO8kPaHNexD1eYokapRy-Q8aZbdIpSmflMQX1f1XBo9QAl8DPU9hzW01pUKtlUC-AJLm55kEASqY/s320/pickles3.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bertie's redoubtable Aunt Dahlia in 'Jeeves & Wooster'</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">From the middle-'70s we see Vivian Pickles in such varied TV output as 'Love In A Cold Climate', 'Rebecca', and the excellent 'Velvet Glove' episode about Marie Stopes, while largely steering clear of the primetime potboilers other than 'Bergerac' and 'Midsomer Murders'. Big screen parts, meanwhile are limited to the Disney romp 'Candleshoe' (1977) with David Niven and Jodie Foster and, by way of contrast, the chaotic satire 'Britannia Hospital' (1982). <br /><br />As a sidenote, she was a very prolific story reader on 'Jackanory' which I always consider a badge of honour, and turns up as a fun bag-lady in the Brixton barbershop comedy 'Desmonds'. She was also my favourite of the actresses that portrayed Aunt Dahlia in 'Jeeves & Wooster'. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0681954/" target="_blank">Vivian Pickles</a>-imdb</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0