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Post by Brown Granada on Jun 15, 2018 21:01:31 GMT
Sad to hear of the death of Leslie Grantham today aged 71. Well known of course for playing Dirty Den Watts in Eastenders (the only time it was worth watching) and also in The Paradise Club with Don Henderson. Not a saint by any means but a good actor and made Eastenders have 30 million viewers when he served Angie divorce papers Christmas 1986.
Rip Leslie.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jun 15, 2018 22:15:37 GMT
RIP Leslie. Good, believable actor I thought. Had some success in The Paradise Club & 99-1 but he was always going to be typecast as Den Watts. Remember seeing him interviewed on the Jeremy Kyle Show & feeling sorry for him, he seemed a decent bloke despite his past.
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Post by OnTheBusesHugeFan on Jun 16, 2018 16:23:00 GMT
RIP Leslie Grantham he was excellent as dirty den in eastenders.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Jun 16, 2018 20:36:15 GMT
RIP Leslie Grantham - can't undo the past and he always seemed like he properly regretted it in later interviews but he was quite deep and believable as an actor as Dirt Den definitely. Never saw the Paradise Club though. Not sure, but I think he was in an episode of Bulman as an armed robber pinching a MK1 Capri from a woman from at a petrol station, (after the gangs Jag crashes) in a chase sequence after a blagging but it doesn't end well for his character! Like a scene from The Sweeney!
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jun 16, 2018 21:25:23 GMT
Sorry to hear of his passing yesterday at the age of 71.
I never watched EastEnders or The Paradise club so all I saw him in was a couple of times being interviewed and when the kids used to watch "Fort Boyard".
He appeared to be an okay sort of bloke but he did look ill in the pics I saw of him that were taken back in February.
R.I.P. Leslie
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Post by John Steed on Jun 17, 2018 12:01:23 GMT
As said earlier Leslie Grantham played a good part as Dirty Den in the days when EastEnders was watchable.
R.I.P. Leslie Grantham
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Post by Charles Bronson on Jun 17, 2018 22:13:59 GMT
I am not a soap watcher so I never really watched Leslie Grantham in Eastenders. I believe he gave a really performance though. A lot of other actors are getting money for old rope in these shows as far as I can see.
Perhaps he should have stayed with the show a few years longer, established himself even more and made a bit more money before moving on?
My mother used like watching Den and Angie a lot.
RIP Leslie.
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Post by Cartman on Jun 19, 2018 13:29:13 GMT
I never watched Eastenders either so he didn’t mean that much to me, saw odd bits of the Paradise Club which he was also in. Still, a sad loss.
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