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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2019 13:06:18 GMT
The humorist, theatre and opera director has died aged 85. He was known for the Beyond the Fringe comedy revue with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett.
RIP
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Post by Arch Stanton on Nov 27, 2019 14:41:17 GMT
He did loads of Shakespeare stuff for the BBC
RIP JM.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2019 16:53:01 GMT
He did loads of Shakespeare stuff for the BBC RIP JM. I remember watching loads of them circa 1980. They were the best ever versions. They were on Sunday nights on BBC 1. |
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Post by Arch Stanton on Nov 27, 2019 17:34:35 GMT
He did loads of Shakespeare stuff for the BBC RIP JM. I remember watching loads of them circa 1980. They were the best ever versions. They were on Sunday nights on BBC 1. Yeah didn’t they have folk like Anthony Hopkins in em? |
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Post by daz on Nov 27, 2019 18:05:47 GMT
I've only heard of the guy through what I have read in print through various books of Alan Bennett.
He certainly had a good varied life.
RIP
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2019 18:15:14 GMT
I remember watching loads of them circa 1980. They were the best ever versions. They were on Sunday nights on BBC 1. Yeah didn’t they have folk like Anthony Hopkins in em?
John Cleese I seem to remember and Benny from 'Crossroads' was another. Been 40 years since I saw them.
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Post by pr1 on Nov 28, 2019 2:48:32 GMT
I know who he is and his background but I think the only thing of he's I've seen is his 1966 adaptation of "Alice In Wonderland" for the BBC. It's different and interesting.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2019 8:23:17 GMT
In the 70s he was often on TV talking about the arts.
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Post by jjmooney on Nov 29, 2019 1:19:58 GMT
In the 70s he was often on TV talking about the arts. Just watched an Arena special on him on BBC4, wasn't advertised or anything so I missed some of it, he was a neurologist, a star of the stage, writer, artist, theatre and opera director, TV writer and presenter and was apparently brilliant at them all. Lived a life of the mind. I bet from time to time he secretly wished he had wasted a bit of time watching classic TV shows though! Rest in peace. |
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Post by ltd on Nov 30, 2019 8:43:05 GMT
A formidable intellectual presence - when he died they played a segment of him talking about being something of a polymath. Quite inspiring stuff, he didn't think there was anything special about being interested in lots of things and loathed being referred to as a "renaissance man".
As JJ says he very much lived a life of the mind, and a sad irony indeed that such a man should be afflicted by dementia in his latter years.
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Post by thewoodster on Mar 5, 2020 10:18:49 GMT
RIP.
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