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Nina Baden-Semper as Barbie Reynolds, Jack Smethurst as Eddie Booth, Rudolph Walker as Bill Reynolds and Kate Williams as Joan Booth in "Love Thy Neighbor"

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Possibly reaching peak nerdiness here, but Jack Crump-Denham Coaches was a bus company that was situated either adjacent to, or actually within, the grounds of Pinewood Studios. As well as providing transport for cast and crew to locations, the company also supplied buses for on-screen use.

So, any time the plot called for a works outing, a trip to a nightmarish foreign resort or school camp, a Jack Crump coach was called upon.

Two films in which the coaches featured prominently were the cinema adaptation of Please Sir, and Carry On at Your Convenience, both from 1971. In Please Sir, a Jack Crump coach drove the anarchic class 5C from Fenn Street Secondary Modern to a rural camp, driven for the purposes of the story by Jack Smethurst. In Carry On at Your Convenience, it was a trip to Brighton for the WC Boggs and Son works outing.

There's actually very little available information about Jack Crump himself or his company, aside from fragments scattered through various vintage bus enthusiast sites. He remains a fascinating footnote to British cinema history.

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Deaths In 2022 (to date)

January

5: Jessie Lee Daniels a.k.a Jessie D, 57, American singer (Force MDs)

6: Peter Bogdanovich, 82, American film director (‘The Last Picture Show’/’Paper Moon’/’What’s Up Doc?’)

Sidney Poitier, 94, Bahamian actor (‘In The Heat Of The Night’/’Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?’

Calvin Simon, 79, American musician (Parliament/Funkadelic)

7: R. Dean Taylor, 82, Canadian singer/songwriter (‘Indiana Wants Me’/’There’s A Ghost In My House’)

8: Marilyn Bergman, 93, American songwriter (‘You Don’t Bring Me Flowers’/’The Way We Were’/’The Windmills Of Your Mind’)

9: James Mtume, 76, American songwriter/producer (‘The Closer I Get To You’/’Juicy Fruit’)

12: Ronnie Spector, 78, American R&B singer (The Ronettes)

13: Sonny Turner, 83, American soul singer (The Platters)

15: Jon Lind, 73, American songwriter/musician (‘Save The Best For Last’/’Crazy For You’)

Nino Cerruti, 91, Italian business man/stylist (founder of Cerruti)

18: Dick Halligan, 78, American musician (founding member of Blood, Sweat & Tears)

20: Meatloaf, 74, American singer (‘I’d Do Anything For Love’) & actor (‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’)

21: Louie Anderson, 68, American comedian/actor (‘Coming To America’)

23: Thierry Mugler, 73, French fashion designer

February

2: Monica Vitti, 90, Italian actress (‘L’Avventura’)

6: Syl Johnson, 85, American soul and blues singer (father of Syleena)

8: Bamber Gascoigne, 87, English TV presenter (‘University Challenge’)

9: Betty Davis, 77, American soul and funk singer

Ian McDonald, 75, English musician (King Crimson/Foreigner)

12: Ivan Reitman, 75, Czechoslovak film director (‘Ghostbusters’/’Meatballs’)

16: Jack Smethurst, 89, English actor (‘Love Thy Neighbour’)

19: Gary Brooker, 76, English singer/songwriter/musician (Procol Harum)

22: Mark Lanegan, 57, American rock musician/singer (Queens Of The Stone Age)

24: Sally Kellerman, 84, American actress (‘M*A*S*H’)

27: MC Skibadee, 47, English drum & bass artist/MC

March

3: Denroy Morgan, 76, Jamaican singer/musician (father of Morgan Heritage)

4: Rod Marsh, 74, Australian cricket player

Shane Warne, 52, Australian cricket player

Lynda Baron, 82, English actress (‘Open All Hours’)

11: Timmy Thomas, 77, American soul singer (‘Why Can’t We Live Together?’)

12: Traci Braxton, 50, American soul singer (The Braxtons) (sister of Toni)

13: William Hurt, 71, American actor (‘Altered States’, ‘Broadcast News’)

25: Taylor Hawkins, 50, American drummer (Foo Fighters)

Bobby Hendricks, 84, American soul singer (The Drifters)

29: Donald Shaw a.k.a. Tabby Diamond, 66, Jamaican singer (The Mighty Diamonds)

April

1: Fitzroy Simpson a.k.a. Bunny Diamond, 70, Jamaican singer (The Mighty Diamonds)

C. W. McCall, 93, American country singer (‘Convoy’)

3: June Brown, 95, English actress (‘Eastenders’)

12: Gilbert Gottfried, 67, American comedian/actor (‘Saturday Night Live’/‘Aladdin’)

24: Andrew Woolfolk, 71, American saxophonist (Earth, Wind & Fire)

26: Klaus Schulze, German composer/musician (Tangerine Dream)

30: Naomi Judd, 76, American singer/songwriter (The Judds)

May

6: Jewell, 53, American R&B singer (First Lady Of Death Row Records)

8: Dennis Waterman, 74, English actor/singer (‘Minder’/’The Sweeney’)

15: Kay Mellor, 71, writer/actress (‘Families’/’Fat Friends’)

17: Vangelis, 79, Greek musician (Jon & Vangelis/’Chariots Of Fire’)

19: Bernard Wright, 58, American jazz and soul musician/singer

26: Ray Liotta, 67, American actor (‘Goodfellas’/’Field Of Dreams’)

Andy Fletcher, 60, English keyboardist (Depeche Mode)

29: Lester Piggott, 86, English jockey

June

5: Dom Phillips, 57, British music journalist (editor, Mixmag)

6: Jim Seals, 79, American singer/songwriter/musician (‘Summer Breeze’)

9: Julee Cruise, 65, American singer (‘Falling’)/actress (‘Twin Peaks’)

17: Ken Williams, 83, American songwriter (‘Everybody Plays The Fool’)

22: Patrick Adams, 72, writer/musician/producer (Musique/Universal Robot Band/Inner Life/Black Ivory)

July

4: Mona Hammond, 91, Jamaican actress (‘Desmonds’/’Eastenders’)

5: Manny Charlton, 80, Scottish rock guitarist (Nazareth)

6: James Caan, 82, American actor (‘The Godfather’/’Rollerball’)

8: Tony Sirico, 79, American actor (‘Goodfellas’/’The Sopranos’)

11: Monty Norman, 94, English composer (‘James Bond Theme’)

14: William Hart, 77, American soul singer (The Delfonics)

15: Paul Ryder, 58, English bass player (Happy Mondays)

21: Taurean Blacque, 82, American actor (‘Hill Street Blues’)

23: Bob Rafelson, 89, American film director (‘Five Easy Pieces’/’The Postman Always Rings Twice’)

24: David Warner, 80, English actor (‘Tron’/’Titanic’/’The Omen’)

25: Sandy Roberton, 80, Scottish record producer (Steeleye Span)

Paul Sorvino, 83, American actor (‘Goodfellas’/’Law & Order’)

27: Bernard Cribbins, 93, English actor/singer (‘The Railway Children’/’Doctor Who’)

Tom Springfield, 88, English musician/songwriter (The Springfields) (older brother of Dusty)

30: Nichelle Nichols, 89, American actress (‘Star Trek’)

August

5: Issey Miyake, 84, Japanese fashion designer

7: Roger E. Mosley, 83, American actor (‘Magnum, P.I.’)

8: Lamont Dozier, 81, American singer/songwriter/producer (‘Going Back To My Roots’)

Olivia Newton-John, 73, English singer/actress (‘Grease’)

9: Raymond Briggs, 88, English children’s writer (‘The Snowman’)

11: Anne Heche, 53, American actress (‘Psycho’/’Donnie Brasco’)

16: Duggie Brown, 82, English comedian/actor

18: Josephine Tewson, 91, English actress (‘Keeping Up Appearances’/’Last Of The Summer Wine’)

22: Creed Taylor, 93, American jazz trumpeter/founder of CTI Records

25, Inez Foxx, 84, American R&B singer (‘Mockingbird’)

September

2: Angus Gaye a.k.a. Drummie Zeb, 62, English reggae drummer (Aswad)

8: Mavis Nicholson, 91, Welsh writer/broadcaster

12: Ramsey Lewis, 87, American jazz pianist/composer

13: Jean-Luc Godard, 91, French film director (‘Breathless’)

Jesse Powell, 51, R&B singer (‘All I Need’)

16: Marva Hicks, 66, American R&B singer/actress

22: Stu Allan, 60, Welsh dance music artist (Clock)/radio broadcaster

John Hartman, 72, American drummer (The Doobie Brothers)

23: Louise Fletcher, 88, American actress (‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’)

24: Pharoah Sanders, 81, American jazz saxophonist

28: Coolio, 59, American rapper (‘Gangsta’s Paradise’)/actor

October

4: Loretta Lynn, 90, American country singer/songwriter

6: Ivy Joe Hunter, 82, American songwriter (‘Dancing In The Street’)

11: Angela Lansbury, 96, English actress (‘Murder She Wrote’)

13: Joyce Sims, 63, American R&B singer/songwriter (‘Come Into My Life’)

14: Robbie Coltrane, 72, Scottish actor/comedian (‘Cracker’/’Harry Potter’)

20: Bettye Crutcher, 83, American songwriter (‘Who’s Making Love?’)

Josephine Melville, 61, English actress (‘Eastenders’/’The Bill’)

24: Leslie Jordan, 67, American actor (‘Desperate Housewives’/’Will & Grace’/’Ally McBeal’)

27: Geraldine Hunt, 77, American R&B singer (‘Can’t Fake The Feeling’)

28: Jerry Lee Lewis, 87, American singer/musician (‘Great Balls Of Fire’)

November

1: Takeoff, 28, American rapper (Migos)

3: Noel McKoy, 62, English soul singer

5: Aaron Carter, 34, American singer

Tyrone Downie, 66, Jamaican keyboardist (Bob Marley & The Wailers)

7: Leslie Phillips, 98, English actor (‘Doctor In The House’/’Carry On’ films)

8: Dan McCafferty, 76, Scottish rock singer (Nazareth)

9: Gal Costa, 77, Brazilian singer

11: Keith Levene, 65, English guitarist (The Clash/Public Image Ltd.)

Rab Noakes, 75, Scottish musician (Stealers Wheel)

21: Wilko Johnson, 75, English guitarist (Dr. Feelgood)/actor (‘Game Of Thrones’)

25: Irene Cara, 63, American singer (‘Flashdance’)/actress (‘Fame’)

30: Christine McVie, 79, English singer/songwriter/musician (Fleetwood Mac)

December

5: Kirstie Alley, 71, American actress (‘Cheers’)

Jim Stewart, 92, record producer/co-founder of Stax Records

6: Jet Black, 84, English drummer (The Stranglers)

9: Ruth Madoc, 79, English actress (‘Hi-De-Hi’)

10: J. J. Barnes, 79, American R&B singer

11: Angelo Badalamenti, 85, American film and TV composer (‘Blue Velver/’Twin Peaks’

13: Sol Amarfio, 84, Ghanaian drummer (Osibisa)

16: Rick Anderson, 75, American bass player (The Tubes)

17: Mike Hodges, 90, English screenwriter/director (‘Get Carter’/’Pulp’/’Flash Gordon’)

18: Terry Hall, 63, English singer (The Specials/Fun Boy Three)/songwriter (‘Our Lips Are Sealed’)

Martin Duffy, 55, English keyboard player (Felt/Primal Scream)

19: Sonya Eddy, 55, American actress (‘Barbershop’/’Daddy Day Care’/’Coach Carter’/’Seinfeld’)

20: Iain Templeton, English drummer (The La’s/Shack)

21: Harvey Jett, 73, American guitarist (Black Oak Arkansas)

22: Thom Bell, 79, Jamaican-born American artist/songwriter/arranger/producer (‘Betcha By Golly Wow’/’I’ll Be Around’/’You Are Everything’/’The Rubberband Man’/’La-La (Means I Love You’))

23: George Cohen, 83, English footballer (member of 1966 World Cup-winning side)

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A Kind of Loving (1962) John Schlesinger

May 30th 2021

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TVTimes London edition 19-25 August 1962: The Casualties

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JACK SMETHURST (1932-Died February 16th 2022,at 89).British actor,best known for portraying the bigoted Eddie Booth,in the British tv sitcom,Love Thy Neighbour (1972-76,ITV) and its 1973 film,and Australian sequel tv series in 1980. The sitcom was notable for its poor handling of racial issues,usually centred around Eddies conflict with his equally acerbic West Indian neighbour,Bill Reynolds,played by Rudolph Walker,.But,some still regard it as a classic comedy in the vein of Till Death Us  Do Part.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smethurst

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Jack Smethurst has died aged 89, it was confirmed February 16, 2022.  Smethurst died at home while surrounded by his family.  The TV legend had a long and varied career, but he will also be best remembered for his daring portrayal of racist bigot Eddie Booth in the iconic 1970s British sitcom, Love Thy Neighbour (1971-76).  While those with weak stomachs wrongly label the sitcom as being racist itself, it’s real purpose was to show the stupidity and pointlessness of racism.  To that end, it couldn’t be realistic without using at least some confronting language as it could never be credible with dialogue like something off The Brady Bunch.  Jack played Eddie as the stupid fool he was, but gave him enough humanity to make him as real and occasionally likeable as he was also misguided and childish.

Jack Smethurst 1932 - 2022

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DVD review: “Love thy neighbour” (1972-1976)

DVD review: “Love thy neighbour” (1972-1976)

“Love thy neighbour” (1972-1976) Television/Comedy Fifty-three episodes Created by: Vince Powell and Harry Driver Featuring: Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Nina Baden-Semper, and Kate Williams Joan Booth: “Nobody dances at work socials. It’s mainly drinking to music.” Released on DVD is the early 1970s long running comedy “Love thy neighbour” (1972-1976) which sought to analyse in its own…

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Love Thy Neighbour (Full TV Series) 1972 - 1976

A British television sitcom broadcast from 13 April 1972 until 22 January 1976. The series spanned eight series and 53 episodes (plus an unaired pilot included here). The principal cast consists of Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Nina Baden-Semper, and Kate Williams. In 1973, the series was adapted into a film of the same name, and a later sequel series was set in Australia. Created and largely written by Vince Powell and Harry Driver, and was based around a suburban white working class couple (Eddie and Joan Booth) in Twickenham and a black couple (Bill and Barbie Reynolds) as next-door neighbours. One of the leads, Rudolph Walker, who played Bill Reynolds, wrote for The Guardian in 2001, it is about "a black guy and a white guy being damned stupid" The theme song, "Love Thy Neighbour", was composed by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel and sung by Stuart Gillies. Since 1972, when Love Thy Neighbour was first transmitted, it has been criticised for its politically incorrect handling of issues of racism, it was made in an era when Britain was perceived to be struggling to come to terms with mass immigration. Its writers stated that each episode included both anti-white and anti-black sentiment, in this "mutual racism", racist attitudes were "shown as a reciprocal, inevitable and petty process". The views of the main white male character (Eddie Booth, played by Jack Smethurst) were presented so as to make him appear ignorant and bigoted and were contrasted with the more tolerant attitude of his wife. "In nearly every show, the white neighbour was shown to be wrong", Rudolph Walker wrote in 2001. The main male black character (Bill Reynolds, played by Walker) was better educated, although also stubborn and capable of using insulting phrases, such as the terms "Honky", "Snowflake", "Paleface" or "Big White Chief" to describe his white neighbour (often in response to being called "nig-nog" or "Sambo"). The comedy invariably fixated on the "Blackness" of Bill and Barbie or rather, "television's interpretation of Blackness (limbo-dancing, voodoo/Black magic)." Repeats of Love Thy Neighbour have not been seen on British terrestrial television for many years. Rudolph Walker, who defends the series, regrets the programme's reputation in a "very politically correct climate" and asked in 2003 why "We can't take the piss out of each other and laugh".

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David McCallum α:19 de septiembre de 1933

David Keith McCallum (Glasgow, Escocia, 19 de septiembre de 1933) es un prolífico actor británico e hijo de un concertino, David McCallum, Sr. Es más conocido por su papel como Illya Kuryakin, un agente ruso en la popular serie de los sesenta The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (El Agente de C.I.P.O.L. en su versión en castellano), y por su papel del doctor Donald "Ducky" Mallard en NCIS. Nació en Glasgow, Escocia, siendo el segundo de dos hijos. Empezó su carrera como actor con pequeños papeles en las películas británicas de los cincuenta. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (El Agente de C.I.P.O.L.), previsto para el lucimiento de Robert Vaughn, imprevisiblemente convirtió a McCallum en un sex symbol, su corte de pelo al estilo Beatle rubio, daba un toque moderno que contrastaba con la apariencia más tradicional de Vaughn. La adoración al personaje llevó a la grabación de un tema, Love Ya, Ilya, realizado por Alma Cogan bajo el nombre de "Angela and the Fans" ("I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish that Ilya loved me"), que fue un éxito de la radio no convencional en Gran Bretaña en 1966. Aunque McCallum llegó a ser un rostro familiar en la televisión, nunca alcanzó el mismo nivel de popularidad que con su papel de Kuryakin. Sus más conocidos papeles fueron en Sapphire & Steel (dando réplica a Joanna Lumley), protagonizó el remake de los 70 de El Hombre Invisible, y como Judas Iscariote en La historia más grande jamás contada. En los 60 grabó varios álbumes para Capitol Records con el productor David Axelrod, como A Bit More of Me (1966) y It's Happening Now! (1967). La más conocida de sus piezas es posiblemente The Edge, que fue grabada por Dr. Dre como la introducción y melodía de The Next Episode. Existe alguna controversia sobre el papel de McCallum en estas grabaciones, puesto que no canta en las canciones (son instrumentales) ni fueron escritas por él. McCallum coprotagonizó con Charles Bronson la película La gran evasión en 1963. Él presentó a su esposa Jill Ireland a Bronson en el set de rodaje, y después ella lo abandonó y se casó con Bronson. McCallum se casó con Katherine Carpenter en septiembre de 1967, y tienen dos hijos: Peter y Sophie. Desde agosto de 2014, es el único superviviente de las estrellas de esa película, entre las que se encontraban Steve McQueen, Gordon Jackson, James Garner, Richard Attenborough y John Leyton. McCallum comenzó una nueva etapa en Australia cuando apareció en Run For Your Wife durante 1987-1988, y la producción recorrió el país. Otros miembros del reparto eran Jack Smethurst, Eric Sykes y Katy Manning. Desde 2003 interpreta al Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard en la serie de la CBS NCIS. En una broma, cuando al Agente Jethro Gibbs le preguntan: "¿A quién se parece Ducky cuando era más joven?", Gibbs contesta simplemente: "Ilya Kuryakin". De acuerdo con las escenas adicionales que aparecen en el DVD de 2006 de la 1ª temporada, McCallum decide convertirse en un experto forense para interpretar mejor su papel del Doctor "Ducky" ("Patito") Mallard; incluso aparece en convenciones de examinador médico. Donald P. Bellisario dijo que los conocimientos de McCallum eran tan extensos que (en el momento de la entrevista) consideró seriamente hacer de él asesor técnico de la serie.

FILMOGRAFIA 1957 Mal conocido por la luz de la luna Estos años peligrosos Robo bajo los brazos Controladores del infierno El lugar secreto 1958 Una noche para recordar Zona de juegos violentos 1961 Lo largo y lo corto y lo alto Calle de la selva 1962 Freud: la pasión secreta Billy budd 1963 El gran Escape 1964 Para atrapar a un espía 1965 El espia con mi cara La historia más grande jamás contada 1966 Alrededor del mundo bajo el mar El gran show de TNT Falta uno de nuestros espías 1967 Los asesinos de karate Tres mordiscos de la manzana  1968 Los espías del helicóptero Sol madrid Cómo robar el mundo 1969 Escuadrón de mosquitos El barranco Bribón 1972 Ella espera 1975 El Kingfisher Caper 1976 Perros 1977 El tesoro del rey Salomón 1980 El vigilante en el bosque 1985 Elección de terminal 1986 El viento 1990 El Haunting de Morella 1991 Escucha mi canción 1993 Herencia fatal 1993 Fin de semana sucio 1994 Curador 1999 Cereza 2008 Batman: Caballero de Gotham 2009 Mujer Maravilla 2014 Hijo de batman 2015 Batman contra Robin

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Love Thy Neighbor - ITV - April 13, 1972 - January 22, 1976

Sitcom (53 Episodes)

Running Time: 30 minutes

Stars:

Jack Smethurst as Eddie Booth

Rudolph Walker as Bill Reynolds

Nina Baden-Semper as Barbie Reynolds

Kate Williams as Joan Booth

Keith Marsh as Jacko Robinson

Tommy Godfrey as Arthur Thomas

Paul Luty as Nobby Garside

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King Ralph (1991) Review

King Ralph (1991) Review

The British Royal family are left without a monarch and the search discovers that the next in line to the throne and to become King is Ralph an American lounge singer!

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Jack Smethurst  (Eddie Booth)

Love Thy Neighbour ~ 1973

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June Ritchie and Alan Bates in A Kind of Loving (John Schlesinger, 1962) Cast: Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird, Bert Palmer, Pat Keen, James Bolam, Jack Smethurst, Gwen Nelson, John Ronane, David Mahlowe, Patsy Rowlands. Screenplay: Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse, based on a novel by Stan Barstow. Cinematography: Denys N. Coop. Art direction: Ray Simm. Film editing: Roger Cherrill. Music: Ron Grainer. What we call "the Fifties" -- including the sexual naïveté and conformity to societal norms -- lasted well into the 1960s, as John Schlesinger's first feature film, A Kind of Loving, demonstrates. It also features Alan Bates in his first starring role as Vic Brown, a young man who lets his hormones and adherence to the values of his working-class family and dreary factory town trap him into a marriage to Ingrid Rothwell, a young woman he quickly falls out of love with. Bates is still a bit green as a film actor -- he hasn't yet developed the sexy bravura that would make him a star in films like Philippe de Broca's King of Hearts (1966), Ken Russell's Women in Love (1969), Joseph Losey's The Go-Between (1971), or Paul Mazursky's An Unmarried Woman (1968) -- but he gives a convincing performance. June Ritchie, who plays the tempting but essentially innocent Ingrid in what was also her debut film, never made it as a big star in an era dominated by the likes of Julie Christie, Vanessa Redgrave, and Glenda Jackson. The film's villain is Thora Hird as Ingrid's sour, shrewish, widowed mother, who dooms whatever chances the marriage had. The film is a bit slow to start -- it spends too much time on establishing Vic's family and work milieu before settling down to the business of the ill-fated relationship of Vic and Ingrid -- and it's less successful in its portrayal of the postwar British working class than such films as Karel Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) and Tony Richardson's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962).

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Jack Smethurst dead: Love Thy Neighbour actor dies aged 89 at home with family

Jack Smethurst dead: Love Thy Neighbour actor dies aged 89 at home with family

Jack Smethurst has died aged 89. The Love Thy Neighbour actor, who was best known for his role as Eddie Booth in the controversial sitcom, is believed to have been surrounded by family when he died peacefully, according to the Daily Star. He also appeared in a number of other beloved British TV shows over his career, including Dinnerladies, Here’s Harry, Watch Your Stern, Doctor At Large, For The…

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TVTimes Anglia for 3-9 May 1975: Fan Fever