Odd… to play the same scene twice with the same actor – for different writers. Leonard Rossiter caught me, suddenly, regretting my woeful career. First as a gas inspector, then as a housing controller. Leonard and I also shared a…
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I very nearly made an entire career playing small-time criminals… after starting life in the heavy stuff, Shakespeare at the Old Vic (two years of it) and thinking this might point to the road ahead for ever... I got a…
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Not many actors have my huge advantage of being professionally nondescript – which is why I was able to appear in TWO episodes of The Professionals. Admittedly, with a beard and wiped-out pre-title, but an achievement all the same. Happened…
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The difference between French farce and English farce is that in English farce the naughty behaviour is implied – and milked for all it’s worth… but then turns out to be a misunderstanding: which keeps up the hypocritical, self-serving fiction…
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The celebs were never there together but, Jeremy Kingston, one-time critic of Punch, in a flash of inspiration, wrote Making Dickie Happy, supposing they had all met, in a sparkling comedy of manners about love, sex, ambition, literature and class. …
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Shock and horror. This was one of the ground-breaking, society-changing, pieces of writing for which the BBC’s That Was the Week That Was became notorious. The establishment of the time couldn’t stomach it. Suggested by Ned Sherrin and written by…
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