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Peter Grimes
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« on: 16:13:39, 20-03-2008 »
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/20/television4?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
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« Reply #1 on: 16:49:51, 20-03-2008 »
A great shame.  He was always associated with 'nice guy' parts, but he could play tough with the best of them when required (witness a marvellous cameo he had in Elizabeth R).
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« Reply #2 on: 17:52:44, 20-03-2008 »
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Foggy in Last of the Summer Wine and Barrowclough the long-suffering prison officer in Porridge
I never realised it was the same person!! Shocked
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« Reply #3 on: 18:35:37, 20-03-2008 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 17:52:44, 20-03-2008
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Foggy in Last of the Summer Wine and Barrowclough the long-suffering prison officer in Porridge
I never realised it was the same person!! Shocked

Yup. Very good comedy straight man.
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« Reply #4 on: 08:49:50, 21-03-2008 »
Quote from: time_is_now on 17:52:44, 20-03-2008
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Foggy in Last of the Summer Wine and Barrowclough the long-suffering prison officer in Porridge
I never realised it was the same person!! Shocked

Neither did I! He must have been a good actor.

I always had a sneaking affection for Last of the Summer Wine. I recognised the type of people. Also, my mother was born in Holmfirth, where it was filmed, though she didn't live there beyond the age of two or so.
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« Reply #5 on: 13:50:54, 22-03-2008 »
  May I address an omission on this thread, apart from the link in the initial posting?     The actor who played Foggy and Barrowclough was Brian Wilde.

I worked with Brian on a couple of occasions and, yes, he was an actor of exceptional skill.   In the early 1970s, we played in a documentary style reconstruction of "The Scottsborough Boys", a notorious trial in the American south.   In our conversation, Brian was deeply concerned that comedy - at the time - was being displaced by unsavoury programmes; blasphemy and nudity (the West End staging of "Hair" a particular target).    He could be delicious in his disdain, unaware,of course, that "Porridge" and "Summer Wine" lay in the offing.     A dear man; a sweetie.

RIP  Brian Wllde
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