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Post by Three Litre on Jul 30, 2021 14:06:25 GMT
Back to comedians who have acted, I saw Mick Miller in 'Scully's New Years Eve', Alan Bleasdale's Play For Today first shown 3 Jan 1978. He was about 28 at the time, yet to grow his hair long he makes a few jokes about his bald head- 'I'm wearing a pink crash helmet'. Miller appeared in another Play For Today, 'The Spongers' soon after on 24 Jan 1978, this has recently been released on blu ray as part of the BFI's second volume of Play For Todays.
Another comedian Stan Stennett, best known for playing Sid Hooper in 'Crossroads', plays Scully's dad.
Wasn't Stan with Eric Morecambe when he died, on stage somewhere?
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jul 30, 2021 17:49:08 GMT
Back to comedians who have acted, I saw Mick Miller in 'Scully's New Years Eve', Alan Bleasdale's Play For Today first shown 3 Jan 1978. He was about 28 at the time, yet to grow his hair long he makes a few jokes about his bald head- 'I'm wearing a pink crash helmet'. Miller appeared in another Play For Today, 'The Spongers' soon after on 24 Jan 1978, this has recently been released on blu ray as part of the BFI's second volume of Play For Todays.
Another comedian Stan Stennett, best known for playing Sid Hooper in 'Crossroads', plays Scully's dad.
Wasn't Stan with Eric Morecambe when he died, on stage somewhere? I didn't know that 3L.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Jul 30, 2021 18:35:00 GMT
Here is what is thought to be the last photo of Eric Morecambe on stage with Stan Stennett moments before Eric collapsed.
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Post by Three Litre on Jul 30, 2021 19:12:26 GMT
Here is what is thought to be the last photo of Eric Morecambe on stage with Stan Stennett moments before Eric collapsed. How sad. Great man.
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Post by Brown Granada on Aug 1, 2021 6:24:13 GMT
Russ Abbott is another one who seemed to almost vanish overnight. Lots of comedy shows in the 80s and even some straight acting in September Song with I think Michael Williams.
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Post by Cartman on Aug 1, 2021 9:29:30 GMT
Yes I didn't dislike Russ Abbot, his Madhouse programme wasn't bad, Saturday teatime from memory, about 1980 ish, Bella Emberg and Sherrie Hewson were in it with him, I think it was an offshoot of some programme with Freddie Starr.
September Song was quite good, filmed in Blackpool.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Aug 1, 2021 20:18:31 GMT
I remember that Russ Abbot received quite a bit of press after he had a hair transplant that didn't go well, leaving his head looking like a collander.
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Post by Cartman on Aug 1, 2021 22:00:09 GMT
Harry Worth is another comic who was on TV quite a lot at one time but is now pretty much forgotten. I remember him from the 60s quite well and thought he was funny at the time, I liked the bit with the shop window reflection.
Arthur Haynes was another one I vaguely remember from that era too.
At that time, BBC, and ITV, did used to show some fairly old films, the type which now occasionally turn up on TPTV, and one I remember one called The Cardboard Cavalier, with a bloke called Sid Field. Another one was Will Hay, again from the same period. I haven't seen any of their stuff on TV for years. Hay used to play bungling and incompetent but confident authority figures, and I've heard Perry and Croft used him as an influence for some of their characters, like Mainwaring for example.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Aug 1, 2021 22:20:32 GMT
Will Hay. Absolute genius. His films with Moore Marriot and Graham Moffat were brilliant.
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Post by Cartman on Aug 2, 2021 7:22:34 GMT
Hay was a good comic actor. He died in 1949, before TV had really started, Moore Marriott died the same year and his other mate, Graham Moffat, packed acting in then and went running a pub. He died quite young, at 45, in 1965.
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