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Post by david on Jun 15, 2018 12:48:54 GMT
Leslie Grantham has sadly passed away aged 71. RIP
He certainly provided some great TV moments. Though I doubt nothing will beat the famous Xmas EE with the divorce papers ending. Eastenders at its best.
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Post by orchestrator on Jun 17, 2018 19:45:29 GMT
And who can forget Grantham’s West End appearance in Rick’s Bar?
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Post by talkingheads on Jun 17, 2018 22:26:03 GMT
Sad news. Saw him onstage locally in an adaptation of Porridge I enjoyed a lot. Plus I don't know how many other people watched it, but I remember the gameshow Fort Boyard he used to co host as one of my favourite things on telly as a kid, he brought such menace to it. Geoffrey Bayldon was also particularly good value as the mad professor.
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Post by david on Jun 17, 2018 22:42:23 GMT
I didn’t realise it until now, his first tv appearance according to internet sources was in the 1980s DR WHO serial Resurrection of the Daleks. I always thought he had done other tv work prior to that before going into EE. He really did do a good job as a baddie in DW.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2018 23:47:52 GMT
His Dr Who clip was showed a lot on those "Before they were famous" type shows. He did a few other things before that too.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2018 6:34:06 GMT
I didn’t realise it until now, his first tv appearance according to internet sources was in the 1980s DR WHO serial Resurrection of the Daleks. I always thought he had done other tv work prior to that before going into EE. He really did do a good job as a baddie in DW. He’d done very little TV work before Eastenders as he went into acting rather late. Up until 1977 he’d been in prison, serving ten years of his life sentence for murder... |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2018 13:31:53 GMT
I think he realised he was lucky to get a 2nd chance in life as he could have served a much longer sentence especially in those days.
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Post by musicalmarge on Jun 23, 2018 8:06:17 GMT
I was shocked to read he was a murderer and had been in prison for a decade!
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