"Yus, My Dear Yus, My Dear is a British sitcom that ran for nineteen episodes over two series in 1976 featuring Arthur Mullard and Queenie Watts in the lead roles. It was written by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe, and produced and directed by Stuart Allen for London Weekend Television. It was screened by the ITV network during 1976, and marked an early regular TV appearance of the comedian Mike Reid. A sequel to Chesney and Wolfe's earlier series ""Romany Jones"" (1972–75), the characters Wally and Lily Briggs (Mullard and Watts) have left their caravan for a new life in"
"Tommy Godfrey Tommy Godfrey (20 June 1916 – 24 June 1984) was an English film and television actor, mostly playing working class Cockney characters. His television credits included ""Love Thy Neighbour"", ""The Saint"", ""The Persuaders"", ""Mind Your Language"", ""The Avengers"", ""Bless This House"", ""Till Death Us Do Part"", ""Z-Cars"", ""Softly, Softly"", ""The Goodies"" and ""On the Buses"". His film credits included ""Passport to Pimlico"" (1949), ""Hide and Seek"" (1964), ""Work Is a Four-Letter Word"" (1968), ""If..."" (1968), ""Ring of Bright Water"" (1969), ""The Best House in London"" (1969), ""Simon, Simon"" (1970), ""A Severed Head"" (1970), ""Bless This House"" (1972), ""Straight"
"Edd Byrnes Edd Byrnes (born July 30, 1933) is an American actor best known for his starring role in the television series ""77 Sunset Strip."" He also was featured in the 1978 film ""Grease"" as television teen-dance show host Vince Fontaine, and was a charting recording artist with ""Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)"" (with Connie Stevens). He was born Edward Byrne Breitenberger. He had two siblings, Vincent and Jo-Ann. When he was 13, his father died. He then dropped his last name in favor of ""Byrnes"" based on the name of his maternal grandfather, Edward Byrne, a fireman. Byrnes"
"Yes, Dear Yes, Dear is an American television sitcom that aired from October 2, 2000, to February 15, 2006, on CBS. It starred Anthony Clark, Jean Louisa Kelly, Mike O'Malley, and Liza Snyder. Much of the show's humor comes from the fact that all four adult leads are largely stock characters. Greg is the stereotypical ""nice guy"", constantly being henpecked by his high-strung wife. Both the upper-middle-class Warners contrast to the decidedly working-class, less-restrained Hugheses; Jimmy has an oafish personality and Christine is somewhat more crass. From the third season, the show's production and writing staff tried to move away"
"which give Mullard his highest profile, playing Wally Briggs, a crafty caravan-dweller. Popular in its time, the show did not find critical favour and has subsequently been named as one of the worst British sitcoms ever made. So popular was Mullard's character that a sequel, ""Yus, My Dear"", was broadcast in 1976, in which Wally and his wife Lily (Queenie Watts) had moved out of their caravan into a council house. The series gained modest ratings, though it too received critical broadsides as one of Britain's worst-ever sitcoms. Mullard (or ""Arfur"" as he was widely known) was regularly a guest"
"(in which he also appeared) with Albert Finney. Both Courtenay and Finney received nominations for Best Actor in the 1984 Academy Awards for their roles, losing to Robert Duvall. He played the father of Derek Bentley (Christopher Eccleston) in the 1991 film ""Let Him Have It"". And for an actor known to be cast in good or great films, he surprisingly co-starred in what's been considered one of the worst movies ever, the infamous ""Leonard Part 6"" starring Bill Cosby. Courtenay's television and radio appearances have been relatively few, but have included ""She Stoops to Conquer"" in 1971 on BBC"
"Cockney comedian and variety actor and he was regularly heard in his Cockney Coster Band (the act was top of the bill at the Adelphi in Slough in 1936 and appeared in the 1937 film ""Calling All Stars"") and ""The 'Appy 'Alf 'Our"" on BBC Radio during the late 1930s and early 40s and also became known for his Shakespearean comedy parodies. In addition to his frequent film and television roles Cortez continued to work on the stage for much of his life as well as being a regular in pantomime. His television appearances included ""Dixon of Dock Green"" (1960–62);"
"Leonard Cracknell Leonard Cracknell (20 January 1941 – 13 March 1998) was a British actor. Raised in Hornchurch, Essex, Cracknell was a television, radio, film and theatre actor, mainly during the 1960s and 1970s. He first came to the attention of the British public in the late 1950s when he starred in one of the first BBC television costume dramas, the 1956 production of ""David Copperfield"". He played the lead role as the young David Copperfield, appearing on the front cover of the ""Radio Times"". As his acting career developed, he starred in the BBC television soap opera ""199 Park"
"Beggar My Neighbour (TV series) Beggar My Neighbour is a British sitcom starring Reg Varney, Peter Jones, June Whitfield, Pat Coombs and (later) Desmond Walter-Ellis. Made in black-and-white, it was broadcast from 1966 to 1968 and was written by Ken Hoare and Mike Sharland. Rose Garvey, and her husband Gerald, live next door to her sister Lana Butt, and her husband Harry, in Larkworthy Road in Muswell Hill in North London. Gerald is an underpaid junior executive, while Harry is a well-paid fitter. The slightly snobbish Gerald makes sure that he and Rose keep up a pretence of doing well"
"programme on Radio Four called ""Listen to This Space"", which by the standards of its time was very avant garde, and he received the Radio Personality of the Year Award for his work on this programme in 1967. In the 1950s and 1960s, he appeared in many supporting roles in British films. Also, in the late 1960s, he portrayed David Courtney in the short-lived American sitcom ""The Ugliest Girl in Town"". He was the subject of ""This Is Your Life"" in 1978 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews. In 1988 he appeared as himself in ""The Comic Strip Presents"""
"Robert McQueeney Robert McQueeney (March 5, 1919 – April 24, 2002) was an American actor, best known for television roles during the 1950s and 1960s. During and after his acting career, he also worked as a golf pro and instructor. After the annulment of his marriage, he was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest. For twenty years until his death, he was the spiritual director for the Padre Pio Foundation of America in Cromwell, Connecticut. A versatile character actor, McQueeney appeared in guest roles on such television series as ""Bonanza"", ""Lawman"", ""The Alaskans"", ""77 Sunset Strip"", and ""Gunsmoke"". His one"
"comedy too, including episodes of ""Father Knows Best"", ""Hey, Jeannie!"", ""I Love Lucy"", ""Batman"", and Walter Brennan's ""The Real McCoys"". Coffin was married to model Vera Duke. Coffin died of lung cancer in Santa Monica, California, at the age of 80. His ashes were scattered at sea. Tris Coffin Tristram Chockley Coffin (August 13, 1909 – March 26, 1990) was a film and television actor from the latter 1930s through the 1970s, usually in westerns or other action-adventure productions. Coffin was born in the gold and silver mining community of Mammoth in Juab County in central Utah and reared in"
"for sex and for domestic purposes. Alfie frequently breaks the fourth wall by speaking directly to the camera narrating and justifying his actions. His words often contrast with or totally contradict his actions. This was the first film to receive the ""suggested for mature audiences"" classification by the Motion Picture Association of America in the US, which evolved into the modern PG rating. The film had its World Premiere at the Plaza Theatre in the West End of London on 24 March 1966. Handsome Cockney chauffeur Alfie Elkins (Michael Caine) enjoys the favours of women, while avoiding any commitment. He"
"Quincy, M.E. Quincy, M.E. (also called Quincy) is an American medical mystery-drama television series from Universal Studios that aired from 1976 to 1983 on NBC. Jack Klugman stars in the title role, as a Los Angeles County medical examiner. Inspired by the book ""Where Death Delights"" by Marshall Houts, a former FBI agent, the show also resembled the earlier Canadian television series ""Wojeck,"" broadcast by CBC Television. John Vernon, who played the ""Wojeck"" title role, later guest starred in the third-season episode ""Requiem for the Living"". Quincy's character is loosely modeled on Los Angeles' ""Coroner to the Stars"" Thomas Noguchi."
"until the mid 1980s. Chuck Faulkner Charles Stephen Faulkner (21 October 19224 December 2000), professionally Chuck Faulkner was an Australian actor and US radio talk show host, he was best known for his role as Det. Snr. Sgt. Keith Vickers in the Australian television police drama ""Division 4"", appearing in 300 episodes from 1969-1975. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, after relocating to Australia he was one of Australian television's first news presenters at the Nine Network with studio TCN from 1956-1964. Faulkner moved to the United States in the late 1970s and became a talk show host on radio station"
"Arnold Johnson (actor) Arnold Herbert Johnson (November 15, 1921 – April 10, 2000) was an American actor who played the lead role in the film ""Putney Swope"" (1969); in the film, his voice was dubbed by Robert Downey, Sr. because Johnson could never remember his lines. Johnson appeared in ""Shaft (1971 film)"" as Cul, a friend of John Shaft and the owner of a shoeshine parlor. He also played a role in the film ""My Demon Lover"" (1987) and had roles in ""Rocky"" (1976) and ""Menace II Society"" (1993), as Thomas, the religious Christian grandfather of the lead character Caine"
"hit was the novelty record ""Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)"", with words and music by Irving Taylor, which reached #4 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. It was nominally performed by Warner contract actor Edd Byrnes, who played the wisecracking hipster character Gerald Lloyd ""Kookie"" Kookson III on Warner's TV detective series ""77 Sunset Strip"". The story behind the recording illustrates the sharp practices often employed by major recording companies. Actress and singer Connie Stevens (who appeared in the Warner TV series ""Hawaiian Eye"") sang the song's chorus, but although her record contract entitled her to a 5 percent royalty"
"My Old Man (TV series) My Old Man is a sitcom starring Clive Dunn as retired and embittered engine driver Sam Cobbett. ITV broadcast 13 episodes in two series during 1974 and 1975. Set in London, Sam Cobbett is the last tenant to leave an old house on a council-condemned road. He goes to live with his daughter, her posh husband (Arthur), and their young teenage son (Ron), in a flat nearby. The pilot was one of a series of seven one-offs in a BBC Two comedy anthology series called ""Seven of One"" (1973). The pilot starred Ronnie Barker with"
"actor. His other son, John Kirby, is an acting coach. Bruce Kirby (actor) Bruce Kirby (born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu, April 24, 1928) is an American character actor. Bruce Kirby started his television career in the 1950s with appearances in ""Goodyear Television Playhouse"". During the 1960s, he appeared in ""I Dream of Jeannie"", ""The Nurses"", ""The Defenders"", ""Car 54, Where Are You?"", and ""The Patty Duke Show"" among others. He played in ""Bonanza"", ""Ironside"", ""Barney Miller"", ""Hogan's Heroes"", ""The Rockford Files"", ""The Marcus-Nelson Murders"", ""Kojak"", ""M*A*S*H"" and ""Alice"" during the 1970s. In the 1980s, he appeared in ""Remington Steele"", ""Night Court"","
"Chuck Faulkner Charles Stephen Faulkner (21 October 19224 December 2000), professionally Chuck Faulkner was an Australian actor and US radio talk show host, he was best known for his role as Det. Snr. Sgt. Keith Vickers in the Australian television police drama ""Division 4"", appearing in 300 episodes from 1969-1975. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, after relocating to Australia he was one of Australian television's first news presenters at the Nine Network with studio TCN from 1956-1964. Faulkner moved to the United States in the late 1970s and became a talk show host on radio station WNIS in Norfolk, Virginia"
"Jeremy Brett Peter Jeremy William Huggins (3 November 1933 – 12 September 1995), known professionally as Jeremy Brett, was an English actor. He played fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in four Granada TV series from 1984 to 1994 in all 41 episodes. His career spanned from stage, to television and film, to Shakespeare and musical theatre. He is also remembered for playing the besotted Freddie Eynsford-Hill in the 1964 Warner Bros. production of ""My Fair Lady"". Jeremy Brett was born Peter Jeremy William Huggins at Berkswell Grange in Berkswell, then in Warwickshire. His birthdate was actually on 3 November 1933 but"
"Barney Phillips Bernard Philip Ofner (October 20, 1913 – August 17, 1982) – better known by his stage name Barney Phillips – was an American film, television, and radio actor. His most prominent roles include a recurring supporting role as Sgt. Ed Jacobs on the 1950s ""Dragnet"" television series, appearances in the 1960s on ""The Twilight Zone"" such as a Venusian living under cover on Earth in ""Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"", and a supporting role as actor Fletcher Huff in the short-lived 1970s series ""The Betty White Show. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Harry"
"Jeremy Young Jeremy Young (born 1934, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK) is a British actor of Scottish descent. Young has numerous television credits, including ""Deadline Midnight"" (1960), ""Doctor Who"" (appearing as caveman Kal in three episodes of the first serial ""An Unearthly Child"" in 1963) and ""Coronation Street"" as nightclub owner Benny Lewis in 1972. His film credits include appearances in ""The Wild and the Willing"" (1962), ""Crooks and Coronets"" (1969), ""Eyewitness"" (1970), ""Hopscotch"" (1980) and ""Photographing Fairies"" (1997). He has worked for BBC Radio and teaches and directs at the Court Theatre Training Company which is part of the Courtyard,"
"the Back Seat"", and ""Strongroom"". His last screen credit was in 1963. Keith Faulkner Keith Faulkner (born 25 July 1936 in Richmond, Surrey) is an English-born Australian film and television actor. Faulkner started his career at Corona Academy at the age of eleven and moved on to an adult career in film and television in the late 1950s and early 1960s before leaving the ""business"" and moving to Australia, with the telecommunications company he then worked with, along with his wife Pat and two sons Lee and Simon. In the late 1940s, he appeared at the London Coliseum in ""Annie"
"Dwayne Hickman Dwayne Bernard Hickman (born May 18, 1934) is an American former actor and television executive at CBS. The usually brown-haired Hickman portrayed Chuck MacDonald, Bob Collins's (played by Bob Cummings) crazy teenaged nephew, on the 1950s NBC series ""The Bob Cummings Show"" (a.k.a. ""Love That Bob"" later, in syndication), and the blond title character in CBS's ""The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"". Born in Los Angeles, California, and raised Catholic, Hickman is the younger brother of child actor Darryl Hickman. He graduated from Cathedral High School in 1952 and intended to become a Passionist priest, but ultimately chose"
"Dwayne Hickman Dwayne Bernard Hickman (born May 18, 1934) is an American former actor and television executive at CBS. The usually brown-haired Hickman portrayed Chuck MacDonald, Bob Collins's (played by Bob Cummings) crazy teenaged nephew, on the 1950s NBC series ""The Bob Cummings Show"" (a.k.a. ""Love That Bob"" later, in syndication), and the blond title character in CBS's ""The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis"". Born in Los Angeles, California, and raised Catholic, Hickman is the younger brother of child actor Darryl Hickman. He graduated from Cathedral High School in 1952 and intended to become a Passionist priest, but ultimately chose"
"laughing at me!"". He began to appear on British television in mainly comedy roles in the 1970s, and is probably best remembered for playing the truculent and somewhat bolshy (though not entirely unsympathetic) maintenance man, Mr. Harman, in ""Are You Being Served?"" which he played from 1976 to 1985, including the 1977 film adaptation. He played Arthur, Alf Garnett's mate, in ""In Sickness and in Health"", a follow-up series to ""Till Death Us Do Part"" from 1985 to 1990. He also appeared in ""The Sweeney"". He had more likeable roles in two British children's TV series: ""The Ghosts of Motley"
"""My Husband and I"". Frank Lawton Frank Lawton (30 September 1904, St Giles, London – 10 June 1969, Marylebone, London) was an English actor. His parents were stage players Daisy May Collier and Frank Lawton (I). His first major screen credit was ""Young Woodley"" (1930). In the mid-1930s, Lawton appeared in some Hollywood films, most significant as the adult David Copperfield in MGM's literature adaption ""David Copperfield"" (1935). However, Lawton never made the breakthrough in Hollywood and returned to the British film and theatre. He was married to actress Evelyn Laye until his death. They acted together several times, including"
"acting roles alongside their father. He is also an avid motorcyclist and regularly participates in charity rides. Danny John-Jules Danny John-Jules (born 16 September 1960) is an English actor, singer and dancer. His most successful roles have been Cat in the sci-fi comedy series ""Red Dwarf"" and policeman Dwayne Myers in the crime drama ""Death in Paradise"". He was also a protagonist in the hit CBBC children's spy drama ""M.I. High"", in which he portrayed Lenny Bicknall, the caretaker. On 13 August 2018 he was announced as one of the celebrity contestants on the current 2018 series of ""Strictly Come"
"Chubby Oates Chubby Oates born Arthur Oates (23 December 1942 – 10 November 2006) was a Cockney clubland comic and character actor. Born in Bermondsey South London Oates started out as a reporter for the ""South London Observer"", he shared an office with future editor of ""The Sun"", Kelvin MacKenzie.<br> In the evenings Oates began to perform as a comic and by the early sixties he'd turned professional. He was also a noted pantomime performer usually appearing as the dame. In this capacity he played ""Mum"" to some of the biggest and best names in showbusiness. He also claimed the"
"James were born. The family moved to Malibu, California, where daughter Kathy was born. Rainey remained in Malibu with his wife while he acted and enjoyed hobbies such as beekeeping and bird breeding until his death on July 25, 2005, of a stroke, at the age of 96. His interment was in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. Ford Rainey Ford Rainey (August 8, 1908 – July 25, 2005) was an American film, stage, and television actor. Rainey was born in Mountain Home, Idaho, the son of Vyrna (née Kinkade), a teacher, and Archie Coleman Rainey. He first acted on the"
"Academy of Dramatic Art. After two years doing repertory theatre in Northampton, he became resident in London in 1961. Courtney's first television work was in the 1957 series ""Escape"". He made guest appearances in several cult television series, including ""The Avengers"" (1962, 1967), ""The Champions"" (1968), ""Randall and Hopkirk"" (1969) and as a racing driver in ""Riviera Police"" (1965), and briefly appeared as a TV panel chairman in the film ""Take a Girl Like You"" (1970), hosting a debate between John Bird and John Fortune. Director Douglas Camfield originally considered Courtney for the role of Richard the Lionheart in the"
"and shown at the NFT in 2000. It proved popular with audiences as a camp classic. His Lordship His Lordship is a 1932 British musical comedy film directed by Michael Powell. It was made as a Quota quickie. Cheerful Cockney Bert Gibbs inherits a title from his father and becomes Lord Thornton Heath. But then he meets up with movie star Ilya Myona and when his mother asks about her, Bert implies they are engaged. After some adventures with some dubious Russian types Bert's girl Lenina eventually wins him back. ""His Lordship"" was declared to be ""Missing, Believed Lost"" by"