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Post by joem on Dec 16, 2019 21:39:48 GMT
Versatile actor who was the first Mordred on the London stage in Camelot, went on to do movies aimed at young audiences like "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" and had a long stage, screen and tv career.
Pretty sure I saw him in more plays but particularly remember him in the original production of Michael Frayn's hilarious "Alarms and Excursions" - with a great cast which included Felicity Kendal, Josie Lawrence and Robert Bathurst.
RIP.
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Post by learfan on Dec 17, 2019 7:09:40 GMT
He was a versatile actor and had a longish career. However the typically lazy bbc headline him as "fawlty towers" actor!!!
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Post by londonmzfitz on Dec 17, 2019 14:56:17 GMT
My very first intro to theatre (apart from Panto) was Nicky Henson as Petrucio and Susan Hampshire as Katharina in Taming of the Shrew, Shaw Theatre on 5 November 1974. We were doing it for O Level (GSCE's for you young'uns). Dull and dusty words come to life on stage.
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Post by musicallady on Jan 1, 2020 16:44:39 GMT
I saw him in Matador.
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Post by Jan on Jan 15, 2020 10:10:18 GMT
I remember when he was taken ill while at the RSC in 1985 - his role in Troilus had to be taken over by Alun Armstrong. I think since then he’d struggled on and off with his health. Very sad.
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