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Post by fordcapri on Jul 15, 2020 13:27:21 GMT
Great actor. He was in so many things; not least of all Danger UXB and Doctor Who: 'The Caves of Androzani'.
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Post by daz on Jul 15, 2020 14:00:33 GMT
Sad to hear this news, as always liked him. My favourite part he played was Vinnie Diver, in the superb Tutti Frutti, but he always brought his unique presence to whatever he appeared in.
RIP Maurice
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Post by ontheslate on Jul 15, 2020 15:01:14 GMT
Didn’t know the name but recognised the face from several things RIP
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Post by McCann on Jul 15, 2020 15:43:12 GMT
Phil Deacon in The Sweeney episode 'big brother'. Probably could recognise him from a few other things including The Damned United movie.
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Post by fordcapri on Jul 15, 2020 16:32:00 GMT
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Post by Arch Stanton on Jul 15, 2020 16:40:11 GMT
Oh yes, Maurice was in loads and loads of stuff, popping up at random.
Always good to see him in any production.
RIP Maurice.
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Post by flashchris on Jul 15, 2020 18:23:25 GMT
Very sad news, was only watching Rumpole of the Bailey on Talking Pictures last week (which featured Maurice) and I mentioned what a massive range of shows and films he had been in - pretty much everything from The New Statesman to Big Deal to Who Dares Wins
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Post by ltd on Jul 15, 2020 18:48:51 GMT
Amazingly prolific actor, quality performances too as noted above. Tutti Frutti his master work as Daz says.
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Post by milo on Jul 15, 2020 19:18:33 GMT
Sorry to hear that Maurice Roeves has died. As we all know he appeared in The Sweeney in the episode entitled 'Big Brother'. He also appeared in Who Dares Wins alongside Lewis Collins but I understand he had a considerable amount of acting credits under his belt; quite a body of work I believe. Sad news. RIP Maurice.
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Post by daz on Jul 15, 2020 20:28:03 GMT
He did a great turn as god in the film version of The Acid House, based on the Irvine Welsh stories.
One of them actors who easily played any role he was given.
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Post by jno on Jul 16, 2020 3:53:09 GMT
Target episode 'Blow Out', a must see.
Great actor who was in so much stuff. RIP
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Post by Portland Road on Jul 16, 2020 7:38:48 GMT
R.I.P. to the familar face of Maurice Roeves, a great character actor.
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Post by coyote on Jul 16, 2020 10:35:40 GMT
Agree with all the above - Tutti Frutti was great and I still remember the scene at the end where the character sets himself on fire on stage. He really was in so very many things, only the other day I saw him in an episode of 'New Tricks' on UK Drama, and was always good.
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Post by bodiesstuntdouble on Jul 16, 2020 11:27:10 GMT
Good actor with an enviable list of appearances to his name , he'll be missed
RIP Sir
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Post by barrythebook on Jul 16, 2020 16:08:42 GMT
I recently watched 'When Eight Bells Toll' in which MR has a decent role as a Naval helicopter pilot but also remember him in many other roles.
RIP.
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Post by pr1 on Jul 17, 2020 0:11:31 GMT
Rest In Peace.
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Post by NickP on Jul 20, 2020 10:18:12 GMT
Very sad to hear this news, I worked with Maurice on a TV film called Heather Anne, directed by Minders own Chris King and operated by John Maskell, focus puller, Terry Nightingale, Grip, Yours truly, so very much a Euston Films crew. Maurice wasn't at all an "Actor" off-set and was up to the bar to buy his round and join in with the boys in many an evening shenanigans. One memory is, we the TV south crew played a cricket match in aid of the Penlee lifeboat fund following the Penlee disaster. Maurice a real Scot, who's idea of playing cricket obviously wasn't his be-all, end-all, but with ty[ical Maurice enthusiasm joined in with gusto and made everybody laugh with his antics entertaining the watching crowd. I always watched anything when his name was mentioned a very accomplished; but I thought, underestimated actor. RIP my old mate you'll be missed by many.
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Post by pr1 on Jul 20, 2020 12:38:39 GMT
Should have mentioned this earlier. The first roles I ever saw him in were military men and he was so convincing I was surprised later to learn he did not have any sort of military background. Just shows how good an actor he was.
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Post by jjmolloy on Jul 20, 2020 13:12:47 GMT
Very sad to hear this news, I worked with Maurice on a TV film called Heather Anne, directed by Minders own Chris King and operated by John Maskell, focus puller, Terry Nightingale, Grip, Yours truly, so very much a Euston Films crew. Maurice wasn't at all an "Actor" off-set and was up to the bar to buy his round and join in with the boys in many an evening shenanigans. One memory is, we the TV south crew played a cricket match in aid of the Penlee lifeboat fund following the Penlee disaster. Maurice a real Scot, who's idea of playing cricket obviously wasn't his be-all, end-all, but with ty[ical Maurice enthusiasm joined in with gusto and made everybody laugh with his antics entertaining the watching crowd. I always watched anything when his name was mentioned a very accomplished; but I thought, underestimated actor. RIP my old mate you'll be missed by many. Very nice tribute. May he rest in peace. |
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Post by harryshand on Jul 21, 2020 10:12:58 GMT
Very distinctive voice. RIP.
Just watching him in Target episode Blow Out, a minor role but always makes an impression.
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Post by pr1 on Jul 21, 2020 11:38:07 GMT
He was part of one of the best, if not the best, cliffhangers in the long history of Doctor Who. The ending of Caves of Androzani Part Three.
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Post by gustav on Jul 23, 2020 22:56:23 GMT
Should have mentioned this earlier. The first roles I ever saw him in were military men and he was so convincing I was surprised later to learn he did not have any sort of military background. Just shows how good an actor he was. But apparently he did do National Service so he would have had some idea about how the military worked, accrodng to today's obituary im the Guardian:
That also says he is one of few people to appear on both Dr Who and Star Trek, which is quite impressive.
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Post by pr1 on Jul 23, 2020 23:17:33 GMT
I phrased that poorly. I shouldn’t have said that he didn’t have any military background. Lots of American and British actors in his generation had done service in some branch of the military but that didn’t make them especially convincing in military roles. When I first saw him he came across as a person who had more than a few years experience with the military.
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Post by ltd on Jul 24, 2020 8:47:27 GMT
I phrased that poorly. I shouldn’t have said that he didn’t have any military background. Lots of American and British actors in his generation had done service in some branch of the military but that didn’t make them especially convincing in military roles. When I first saw him he came across as a person who had more than a few years experience with the military. I think it's more apparent with some than others. It wasn't a shock to learn that Benjamin Whitrow (Braithwaite in series 4 of The Sweeney) had served in a guards regiment. Rather more surprising that James Booth had been a captain in the British army, him being so closely associated with cockney villain type roles, and of course Pvt Henry Hook in Zulu. Nice obituary for Maurice Roeves in the Guardian. Slightly mystifying why so many of the comments below it are about TP McKenna - great actor in his own right of course, but they don't seem very relevant. |
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Post by gustav on Jul 24, 2020 16:54:41 GMT
He always looked the part and as you say pr1 had a very convincing military bearing. Of course, in Britain every young man from the end of the war up to the very early 1960s had to do National Service. For those that went into acting it didn't necessarily make them look the part but it would have given them an idea of how the army worked. You can see just how universal this experience was by the amount of British films, comedy, crime etc in the 1950s or early 1960s were set in the army or sometimes navy. But Maurice Roeves was great as tough guy, steely villain or stalwart military type, as the obituary says.
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