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Post by felixdeburgh on Feb 23, 2024 16:07:21 GMT
Another famous face leaves us - probably best known for his long-standing role in Coronation Street but better known on this forum as Plumb in Servant Of Two Masters, John Savident has died at the age of 86. He was a very recognisable face in film and TV with roles in The Avengers (My Wildest Dream), Man In A Suitcase (Web With Four Spiders), Doctor Who (The Visitation), Blake’s 7 (Orbit) and he was also the uncredited policeman who visits Stanley Bakers’ (actual) house at the end of Robbery.
RIP.
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Post by spacecadet on Feb 23, 2024 16:39:58 GMT
He certainly had a long career as a character actor before and after being a regular on Coronation Street.
RIP John
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Post by ltd on Feb 23, 2024 18:07:24 GMT
I remember him well as the sinister Dan Mellor in 1990, but as spacecadet says he was a well established character actor and in loads of stuff - could play comedy and drama with equal aplomb. Seems to have been well liked by his fellow Coronation Street cast members.
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Post by ontheslate on Feb 23, 2024 18:52:35 GMT
Was a great character in Coronation Street, and was often featured in classic British tv through the decades.
RIP
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Post by coyote on Feb 23, 2024 19:32:51 GMT
Also played Sir Frederick "Jumbo", Sir Humphrey's colleague in 'Yes Minister/Prime Minister'. I found him hilarious as Fred "Meat, Ashley" Elliot in the days I used to watch 'Coronation Street'. And he turns up in small roles in several 60s things so enjoyed a very long and successful career. He was very well-spoken in real life, the total opposite of Fred. RIP
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Post by chrisclark1977 on Feb 23, 2024 20:12:30 GMT
He also played the King in the 1982 pilot of the Black Adder.
RIP, John
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Post by daz on Feb 24, 2024 4:55:15 GMT
Fred Elliot is one of the best characters to have appeared in a soap opera.
The guy gave him a life of his own. Nothing like the character in real life either, which makes it top, top acting.
So sorry, but have to say he is best known to me as Fred Elliot off Corrie, than any other of his many roles.
RIP
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Post by bodiesstuntdouble on Feb 24, 2024 14:27:22 GMT
Battle of Britain (1969) A Clockwork Orange (1971)
One of popular culture's finest family butchers hangs up his apron for the final time
RIP Sir
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Post by McCann on Feb 24, 2024 20:14:11 GMT
I remember being up the North about 20 years ago and there was a bit of a crowd on the street outside a butcher's shop.
They'd brought Fred Elliot over to draw in the punters on a Saturday afternoon.
Presumably he promoted family butchers all over the UK at that time.
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Post by yorkshirebilly on Feb 26, 2024 12:53:11 GMT
I remember him playing "The Voice of Truth" in a children's thriller series Tightrope in 1972. He drove an old Rover P4. The programme was memorable because it featured a very early reel-to-reel video recorder to play subversive messsages to a group of sixth-formers who were supposed to be watching a For School and Colleges programme.
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