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Post by ltd on May 25, 2017 6:53:48 GMT
Best Les Dawson joke for me was when a bloke tells him:- "There's five blokes beating up your mother-in-law. Aren't you going to help?" "No, I think five's enough!" My favourite Les Dawson joke was him talking about his childhoold and how his family were so poverty striken that...."When the wolf came to our door he used to bring his own sandwiches." Boom-Boom.
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Post by ltd on May 24, 2017 17:12:56 GMT
We've lost a gentleman who was intrinsically part of the nations popular culture of the last 50 years. He was Bond for me. Loved the humour he brought to the role. Often copied, but never bested.
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Post by ltd on May 21, 2017 17:11:41 GMT
I haven't got a scooby... but Blue Nun rings a bell... hic Likewise, although in my day it was Thunderbird: Mr Blue and Mr Red. Also Night Train.
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Post by ltd on May 15, 2017 21:13:38 GMT
Always a rock solid character actor - memorable in Southern Comfort and the cold-war-goes-hot thriller By Dawn's Early Light.
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Post by ltd on May 14, 2017 9:51:20 GMT
Far too many traditional items missing. Dumplings for a start. Tapioca, semolina...... Was semolina the stuff that used to look like Frogspawn? Tapioca I think was like polyfilla. Possibly I've got them the wrong way round. Both a regular fixture of 1970s school dinners. Both utterly vile. They get my vote.
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Post by ltd on Apr 28, 2017 18:05:30 GMT
He was great in this episode (which in it's self is great) and he was fantastic in Gangsters as Rafiq. RIP. He was, and it's good to see him and "Khan" winding each other up again, albeit in a different context. Like Daz I used to buy a lot of model kits from my local newsagent, including the gargantuan Airfix Heinkel HE177 which my Dad had to help me with.
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Post by ltd on Apr 27, 2017 19:44:08 GMT
Plus the amusement didn't end with the comics, I went to high school with a lad that looked just like Plug, we even named him that. Great days. There was one of those in my cadet force troop - I should think most groups of adolescents had a plug-a-like. Chris Donald of Viz fame did a nice tribute to Leo Baxendale on the radio this evening. You can sort of see how some of those Viz stories like Buster Gonad were Baxendale's anarchic streak taken to extremes.
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Post by ltd on Apr 23, 2017 15:00:01 GMT
Not my favourite episode, but there's always something to like in the George Cole/Dennis Waterman episodes. Arthur's "fallen women" speech makes me laugh. Funny and appalling at the same time - it sums him up perfectly.
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Post by ltd on Apr 6, 2017 5:28:40 GMT
His performances always enlivened the many spaghetti westerns in which he appeared. I most recently saw him in Companeros as the happy-go-lucky bandito who gradually turns into a committed revolutionary. Of his more modern performances I thought he did a good guest star spot in US crime series Law and Order as a General Pinochet style dictator whose presence in the US causes a headache for the authorities.
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Post by ltd on Apr 5, 2017 5:24:37 GMT
Maybe Sally Jane Jackson could have been dubbed, her scouse accent, suddenly turns brummie in the lift. I think that's what's known as the reverse Peaky Blinders effect.
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Post by ltd on Mar 28, 2017 18:03:50 GMT
I'd forgotten him playing Frank Skinner's psycho dad in My Blue Heaven. He was really good in that. Funny and intimidating at the same time.
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Post by ltd on Mar 13, 2017 17:48:33 GMT
I remember him as the landlord in the BBC's adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's Hangover Square trilogy. He was as good as you'd expect but I remember being surprised he didn't have a bigger role. Does anyone know if he was the sort of actor who did a lot of stage stuff and financed it with TV/film parts? Always a welcome presence whenever you saw him on screen.
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Post by ltd on Mar 12, 2017 20:37:47 GMT
Very good as the senior copper from up north assigned to investigate The Met in Our Friends in the North, and is suitably appalled at what he finds.
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Post by ltd on Mar 12, 2017 11:20:06 GMT
He was very good in Prime Suspect, a short but memorable appearance as Tennison's predecessor - very much a hard living copper of the old school. Also a had good supporting role as a randy factory manager in Nice Work.
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Post by ltd on Feb 27, 2017 6:28:02 GMT
Read a few interviews with him and he always came across as an intelligent and thoughtful man, quite different to a lot of the goofy characters he used to play so well. Surprised to learn he was sixty-one years old. No great age of course but he always looked so youthful.
Has anyone seen the horror film he directed "Frailty"? Sounds like a really interesting curio.
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Post by ltd on Feb 25, 2017 18:13:29 GMT
I forgot to add that a couple of years ago I met a man similar to Scotch Harry (well in voice and mannerisms) My old boss was Northern Irish and he was a decent bloke but had a drink problem. When he'd had a few he'd exhibit a lot of Scotch Harry's mannerisms, especially the grandiosity and aggression. This would lead him getting into scraps with total strangers in pubs. He wasn't a big man, and he definitely wasn't in good shape so would often end up getting a kicking and would come into work on the Monday with bruises and worse on his face. For me Phil McCaul's performance definitively nails a certain type of alcoholic and shows what a good actor he was.
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Post by ltd on Feb 16, 2017 18:03:26 GMT
I've got a soft spot for Linux (Ubuntu version) after using it to rescue a lap top that I belted in frustration promptly knackering the Windows operating system for which I didn't have any recovery disks. Nice look to the Ubuntu desktop and comes bundled with various useful free applications like Open Office and Firefox. Downside is if you're going to use it for anything much beyond word processing, spreadsheets, net surfing etc you have to be quite tech savvy. Arch, possibly you agree?
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Post by ltd on Feb 5, 2017 22:48:28 GMT
I used to like the way he pretended to put the cat out at the end of the show. Very much a trademark. R4 had a nice tribute to him this evening on their weekly omnibus programme.
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Post by ltd on Feb 1, 2017 18:53:08 GMT
I went for Cowell and Morgan - both without any redeeming feature that I can see. Isn't Keith Lemon actually Leigh Francis of Bo! Selecta infamy? That had its moments but the treatment of Craig David was pretty despicable (and that's from someone who can't stand his music). As my brother said Francis/Lemon is a nasty bully who would benefit immeasurably from a "good shoeing".
Never head of Gemma Collins before now, reading Magnumpi's post I get the impression she's somebody more to be pitied than hated?
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Post by ltd on Jan 27, 2017 18:55:52 GMT
He also wrote the novel the supremely strange film The Ninth Configuration was based on. Nowhere near as well known as The Exorcist but worthwhile all the same. I think he had a fair bit to do with Exorcist III as well, it's supposed to be quite underrated?
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Post by ltd on Jan 23, 2017 18:00:44 GMT
Very sad news. He was of course in Minder's "Get Daley". RIP Gordon. Allo Allo was never my cup of tea, but I really like his rather eccentric performance as Wendy's put upon heavy in Get Daley. The bit when he creeps into the hospital to put the frighteners on Arthur always makes me smile.
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Post by ltd on Jan 20, 2017 22:27:13 GMT
I remember Mark Radcliffe used to do a sketch on his late night radio programme called the adventures of Graham, Phil and Laurie. Obviously based on the documentary Arch mentions above, it consisted of Graham and Phil shouting bleeped out expletives at each other while Laurie interjected occasionally saying "Why aye." I'm ashamed to say I found it funny at the time, but it was obviously feeding off the tabloid image of Graham Taylor and wasn't remotely fair to the man, or his colleagues probably.
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Post by ltd on Jan 12, 2017 19:22:30 GMT
Being England manager killed his career. No one took him seriously after that. I thought he had a good second spell with Watford after the England debacle? As jno says England manager is something of a poisoned chalice, and he was treated very shabbily by the press. Didn't deserve the turnip moniker. When he was being interviewed or doing a bit of punditry he always came across as an intelligent and decent chap.
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Post by ltd on Jan 6, 2017 22:21:33 GMT
Quite like this one and yes, agree, it does have a different vibe to it. But I find this ep difficult to watch as Rod is quite high on my 'Most annoying characters in Minder' list...(with Franks ex-girlfriend from Rembrandt topping it). I don't think the script did Stephen Rea any favours, good actor though he is. I liked the two Scottish cousins who managed to be crafty and idiotic at the same time. The scene in the demolished greenhouse where they're offering their services to Petselli's bemused henchman is quite funny.
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Post by ltd on Dec 28, 2016 15:07:44 GMT
I was wondering if Warren Clarke as Ashmole was a replacement for Rycott due to Peter Childs not being available. Rycott is known as a lone wolf bent copper at this stage of the series and putting the arm on Arthur over the porno books is the sort of thing he'd have done. I do like Warren Clarke's slyly humourous performance though.
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Post by ltd on Dec 27, 2016 18:50:28 GMT
I loved Watership Down as a kid. Read it again earlier this year and still rate it as a great work of imagination, up there with Tarka the Otter and The Wind in the Willows.
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Post by ltd on Dec 18, 2016 11:37:43 GMT
Not my favourite genre of music but I always liked Ultravox.
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Post by ltd on Dec 12, 2016 19:40:00 GMT
I recently watched the Callan episode First Refusal in which she appears as East German agent gone freelance. Thought she had a real striking presence - even more so than in her Sweeney episode. I'd heard about her second career running a children's home. A talented and very sincere lady.
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Post by ltd on Dec 10, 2016 20:51:44 GMT
I used to like his regular TV column in the Sunday Times. Always thought provoking and usually raised a smile even when you violently disagreed with his opinion. I don't think the Times has got anyone nearly as good to replace him.
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Post by ltd on Dec 8, 2016 19:08:12 GMT
I remember him being on Saturday morning kids' TV and explaining how he got burnt for real when doing the kitchen fire scene in Fawlty Towers. That's suffering for your art.
Deservedly, and I think affectionately, remembered as Manuel but good in such a lot of other things too, as has been said.
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