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Working with the late great Spike Milligan (episode 2)

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Working with the late great Spike Milligan (episode 1)

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Working for Joan Littlewood

Playing a Pantomime Horse

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Qualcast lawn mover commercial

‘It’s a lot less bovver than a hover.’ From the horse’s mouth - a frank account of the rewards of TV stardom and shooting a commercial in South Africa.

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Working with the late great Spike Milligan (episode 2)

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Working with the late great Spike Milligan (episode 2)

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Part 2 recalling the time I appeared on stage with Spike Milligan in Treasure Island. Spike was a highly imaginative actor who sometimes got bored...

Working with the late great Spike Milligan (episode 1)

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Working with the late great Spike Milligan (episode 1)

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Recalling the time I worked for Bernard Miles at the Mermaid Theatre and it was my privilege one Christmas to appear with Spike Milligan in Treasure Island. Spike was a marvellous actor who invented ways of evoking what is was like to have been abandoned by his shipmates...

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Working for Joan Littlewood

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The fabled Joan Littlewood - a lesson in how to be a legend and what it was like working for her at Theatre Workshop. All in The hardback of Are You Going to do That Little Jump? (still a few copies left) which can be bought at littlejump.co.uk/book/ The Kindle version is at amzn.eu/d/4MBMaX4

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Acting All Ages

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What actors were asked to do in the not so old days. The hardback of Are You Going to do That Little Jump? (still a few copies left) can be bought at littlejump.co.uk/book/ The Kindle version is at amzn.eu/d/4MBMaX4

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The Old Vic

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Me, Richard Burton and a few others - at the Old Vic. The hardback of Are You Going to do That Little Jump? (still a few copies left) can be bought at littlejump.co.uk/book/ The Kindle version is at amzn.eu/d/4MBMaX4

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Playing a Pantomime Horse

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Wanna make it as an actor? Forget drama school, forget the fringe - watch this and your success is guaranteed. I write about it in my book, littlejump.co.uk/book/ The Kindle version is at amzn.eu/d/4MBMaX4

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Escape from France

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I was just a kid when I left France hotly pursued by a German army… see chapter one of Are You Going to do That Little Jump? (Part One). The hardback (still a few copies left) can be bought at littlejump.co.uk/book/ The Kindle version is at amzn.eu/d/4MBMaX4

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The Good Life ‘Pig's Lib’

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Richard Briers was the second-fastest speaker of lines in the business. (Leonard Rossiter was champion, and never surpassed.) Felicity Kendal came from a theatre family which toured India. Penelope Keith made it the way most of us do, and so did Paul Eddington (who wasn’t in my scene). But, together, they made one of those rare show-biz teams which works together with generosity and brilliance ...

The Seven magnificent deadly sins. Pride

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The Seven magnificent deadly sins. Pride

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Graham Stark told me that in his role as a sub-goon to Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan he’d always felt unappreciated and not fully recognised for what he could do. Now they’d gone, he believed he would fully flourish. He’d deliver a masterpiece of meaningful comedy with his Deadly Sins film. Sticking the word “magnificent” into the title supported his sense of himself as a cultural heavyweigh...

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The Avengers (Have Guns - Will Haggle)

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This, also, seems to be a series dearly-loved by buffs and I remain apologetic in that I can’t remember a thing about it, except that it was a reasonable TV role to play near-ish the start of my media career - oh, and driving to the studios for the shoot… Elstree was it… somewhere like that? Glamourous! Effective scene, working with talented people… who could ask for more? From series 7, episod...

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Survivors (The Enemy)

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A mark of my anonymity and complete lack of individuality was underscored in that I played two different characters in this series. It is many people’s favourite, and at one time group trips were organised to visit the various filming locations. A mysterious enthusiasm, to me. Looking back, I’ve been curious to know what the world disaster was that triggered the whole narrative. I read that it ...

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Up Pompeii with Frankie Howerd

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The gods were kind in making it possible for me to enjoy a brief supporting moment for - in my view - the finest comedian of them all. Or he would have been if he could have found the writers. I loved Frankie Howerd’s intimate comic style and persona and I think he triumphed in the specially written (by really good writers) political commentary he offered to us in That Was The Week That Was. If...

George and Mildred (All Around the Clock)

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George and Mildred (All Around the Clock)

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Having been launched as a long-suffering police sergeant in Hugh and I Spy by David Croft, I spent the next many years, off and on, playing him in various shows. Same bloke, different lines. A bonus was that I resumed acquaintance with Brian Murphy, with whom I’d shared the mixed experience of working with Joan Littlewood at Theatre Workshop. (For the full blast of that, Google Robert Gillespie...

Agony (Too Much Agony, Too Little Ecstasy)

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Agony (Too Much Agony, Too Little Ecstasy)

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I remembered Maureen Lipman as a slip of young and upcoming actress when I was already a fairly seasoned trooper - and here was I supporting her in her OWN SHOW! In 1980 I’d played a transvestite in a terrific play called Mary’s Wife when I walked up Bond Street dressed as a lady for the BBC. Could it possibly be that London Weekend Television thought, “Who’s around that plays transvestites for...