Who played the part of Budgie in the 1970’s drama series?
"Budgie, and that he wants to leave Hazel for a stripper he has recently slept with who then tells him that she is moving abroad, makes Budgie even more depressed and eventually makes him head off into a new life. This is where the series ended; nothing more was heard of Budgie. The title role, a chirpy cockney petty criminal newly out of prison, was played by pop singer Adam Faith; it was his first starring role for television. The character's name was Ronald 'Budgie' Bird, nicknamed after the budgerigar birds sometimes kept as pets in England, and generally known"
"the show to the prime time slot of 8 pm. After 15 episodes and two years of broadcast, the show was cancelled. Wayne Laryea Wayne Laryea (born 11 April 1952) is a British musician and television actor. Laryea is best known to American audiences for his role as the bumblebee Harmony in ""The Bugaloos"" (1970), and to British viewers as Johnny in ""Pipkins"" (1973). In 1978, Laryea featured in the BBC's first black drama series, ""Empire Road"", and in ""Crown Court"" the same year as Bryon Whittaker. Laryea became the anchorman of regional news programme ""Channel Report"" between 1989 and"
"Buck Rogers (serial) Buck Rogers is a 1939 Universal serial film starring Buster Crabbe (who had previously played the title character in two ""Flash Gordon"" serials and would return for a third in 1940) as the eponymous hero, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran and Anthony Warde. It was based on the Buck Rogers character created by Philip Francis Nowlan, which had appeared in magazines and comic strips since 1928. In 1938, Lieutenant Buck Rogers (Buster Crabbe) and Buddy Wade (Jackie Moran) are part of the crew of a dirigible flying over the North Pole. They are caught in a savage storm"
"spinoff series ""Wollongong the Brave"". A more exaggerated version of the character was revived as the ""last living bodgie"" in the 1985 comedy series ""News Free Zone"". Former Prime Minister of Australia Bob Hawke was nicknamed the Silver Bodgie by the Australian media for his thick silver-grey hair worn in the bodgie style and loutish behaviour before entering politics. ""Bodgie"" is a 1959 ABC television play. Bodgies and widgies Bodgies and widgies refer to a youth subculture that existed in Australia and New Zealand in the 1950s, similar to the rocker culture in the UK or Greaser culture in the"
"Board of Film Censors. In autumn 1969, he took the lead in a touring production of ""Billy Liar"". In the 1970s, he went into music management, managing Leo Sayer among others. Sayer claimed in an interview with British newspaper ""The Daily Telegraph"" that ""He handled everything for me, but although he was a very good mentor, he was less trustworthy with my money. In the end, Adam Faith made more out of Leo Sayer than I did."" He starred as the eponymous hero in the 1970s television series ""Budgie"" (LWT/ITV), about an ex-convict, but his career declined after a motor"
"Bootsie and Snudge Bootsie and Snudge is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1960 to 1963 and in 1974. The show is a spin-off of ""The Army Game"", a sitcom about soldiers undertaking national service, and follows two of the main characters (played by Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser) after they returned to civilian life. The first series is titled Bootsie and Snudge in Civvy Life. Between the 1963 and 1974 series, a spin-off called ""Foreign Affairs"" was broadcast. Private Montague 'Bootsie' Bisley and Sergeant Claude Snudge are two of the main characters in the successful sitcom ""The"
"Budgie (musician) Peter Edward Clarke (born 21 August 1957, St Helens), known professionally as Budgie, is an English drummer. His first recording was with the Slits in 1979. He then became the drummer of the influential band Siouxsie and the Banshees (1979–96) and the drum-and-voice duo the Creatures (1981–2004). Budgie worked with other musicians including John Cale, Leonard Eto (formerly of the Kodo Drummers) and John Grant. In 2013, ""Spin"" rated him at No. 28 in their list of ""The 100 Greatest Drummers of Alternative Music"", writing: ""Post-punk introduced a lot of amazing drummers, but none more influential than Budgie."
"Bodgie (film) Bodgie is an Australian television movie, or rather a live television play with filmed sequences, which aired on ABC during 1959. Originally broadcast on 12 August 1959 in Sydney on ABN-2, a kinescope recording was made of the program and shown in Melbourne on ABV-2 on 2 September 1959. At the time, most live plays broadcast on Australian television were simply performances of overseas plays. ""Bodgie"" represents an early example of depicting Australia in the context of a television drama, along with soap opera ""Autumn Affair"" (1958–1959), hospital series ""Emergency"" (1959), and a few other live plays. (It"
"The show underwent a number of changes in the mid-1970s, most notably moving from a half-hour to one-hour format, as well as a change in theme tune. The music originally used to introduce each episode was Seoirse Bodley's orchestral arrangement of the Irish traditional tune, ""The Palatine's Daughter"". The decision of the actor Tom Hickey to leave the series caused some problems. His character, ""Benjy"" was not killed off but went abroad ""on the missions"" (i.e., to work with the Catholic Church in Africa). A new farm labourer, played by new actor Gabriel Byrne, was introduced in 1978 and he"
"YouTube. Tom Budge Thomas ""Tom"" Budge (born 15 March 1982) is an Australian actor. Budge was born in Melbourne, Victoria. Early in his acting career, Budge appeared in a number of Australian television shows, including ""Neighbours"", ""Round the Twist"" and ""Shock Jock"" etc. After a few years Budge moved from television to film, and has appeared in a number of Australian films, including, ""The Proposition"", ""Kokoda"", ""Candy"", ""Bran Nue Dae"" and ""Last Train to Freo"", for which he was nominated in 2006 by both the Australian Film Institute and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards for best supporting actor."
"Tom Budge Thomas ""Tom"" Budge (born 15 March 1982) is an Australian actor. Budge was born in Melbourne, Victoria. Early in his acting career, Budge appeared in a number of Australian television shows, including ""Neighbours"", ""Round the Twist"" and ""Shock Jock"" etc. After a few years Budge moved from television to film, and has appeared in a number of Australian films, including, ""The Proposition"", ""Kokoda"", ""Candy"", ""Bran Nue Dae"" and ""Last Train to Freo"", for which he was nominated in 2006 by both the Australian Film Institute and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards for best supporting actor. In"
"Boogie Nights Boogie Nights is a 1997 American drama film written, produced and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley and focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn of the 1970s through to his fall during the excesses of the 1980s. The film is an expansion of Anderson's mockumentary short film ""The Dirk Diggler Story"" (1988), and stars Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, Don Cheadle, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Heather"
"Buster and Billie Buster and Billie (1974) is an American motion picture released by Columbia Pictures. The film was of the tragic romance/revenge film genres. It was directed by Daniel Petrie, whose credits include films such as ""Fort Apache, The Bronx"" (1981). In the title roles were future ""Airwolf"" star Jan-Michael Vincent as Buster, and Joan Goodfellow as Billie. In supporting roles, ""Buster and Billie"" also featured Pamela Sue Martin of ""Dynasty"" fame as Buster's girlfriend Margie, and Robert Englund, who later shot to fame in the ""Nightmare on Elm Street"" film series as Freddy Kreuger, in a small role"
"Eddie Applegate Edward Robert ""Eddie"" Applegate (October 4, 1935 – October 17, 2016) was an American television actor, best known for his work in the 1960s, most notably in the role of Richard Harrison, the boyfriend of Patty Lane on ""The Patty Duke Show"". Applegate was born in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. Applegate's career began at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania. He was active in stock theater, particularly on the East Coast, for more than eight seasons in both winter and summer. He also had the role of Hugo Peabody in the national touring production of ""Bye Bye Birdie""."
"The Smith Family (TV series) The Smith Family is an American comedy-drama television series starring Henry Fonda and Ron Howard and produced by Don Fedderson Productions in association with CBS television. The series aired on ABC from January 20, 1971 to June 7, 1972, for 39 episodes. Chad Smith is a police detective in Los Angeles. The show covered the exploits of Sergeant Smith and his relationships with his wife Betty and their three children, 18-year-old Cindy, 15-year-old Bob and 7-year-old Brian. The opening season theme song was ""Primrose Lane"", composed by Red Callender (as George Callender) and Wayne Shanklin."
"The Smith Family (TV series) The Smith Family is an American comedy-drama television series starring Henry Fonda and Ron Howard and produced by Don Fedderson Productions in association with CBS television. The series aired on ABC from January 20, 1971 to June 7, 1972, for 39 episodes. Chad Smith is a police detective in Los Angeles. The show covered the exploits of Sergeant Smith and his relationships with his wife Betty and their three children, 18-year-old Cindy, 15-year-old Bob and 7-year-old Brian. The opening season theme song was ""Primrose Lane"", composed by Red Callender (as George Callender) and Wayne Shanklin."
"would sing a segment from opera, a ballad like ""The Golden Vanity"" or ""Up from Somerset"" or fun song such as ""One Fish Ball"" or ""The Green-eyed Dragon with Thirteen Tails"" Harold had perfect diction and wide range of expression, so children clearly heard what he was singing about. The finale was a serialised book dramatisation, usually by an Australian author such as Ivan Southall. An early success was ""Budge's Gang"" with actors Ron Rousel (as ""Budge""), Rodney Jacobs (as ""Tubby""), David Stout (as ""Snick""), Patti Crocker (as ""Dolly"") and Queenie Ashton (as Budge's mother). John Meillon was a later"
"Jeff York Jeff York (March 23, 1912 – October 11, 1995) was an American film and television actor who began his career in the late 1930s using his given name Granville Owen Scofield. He was also sometimes credited as Jeff Yorke. York served in the United States Army during World War II. During his early career, the tall, dark-haired actor was a natural to play characters such as Pat Ryan in the 1940 serial ""Terry and the Pirates"" and was given the lead in the 1940 film ""Li'l Abner"". However, he is perhaps most remembered for his role as Bud"
"on guitar and vocals, and Ray Phillips on drums. After performing several gigs in 1968, the band changed their name to Budgie the following year and recorded their first demo. The band originally formed under such names as Hills Contemporary Grass and Six Ton Budgie. Burke Shelley has said that the band's name came from the fact that he, ""loved the idea of playing noisy, heavy rock, but calling ourselves after something diametrically opposed to that"". Their debut album in strong blues-oriented hard rock lines was recorded at Rockfield Studios with Black Sabbath producer Rodger Bain and released in 1971,"
"film drama ""The Strip Tease Murder Case"" in 1950. Prince died in New York in 1960 aged 53 and is buried in Maple Grove Cemetery in Rutland County in Vermont. Hughie Prince Hugh Durham Prince – also known as Hughie Prince – (9 August 1906 in Greenville in South Carolina–15 January 1960 in New York) was an American film composer and songwriter who composed ""Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"" with lyricist Don Raye for the movie comedy ""Buck Privates"" and which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song in 1942. Hugh Prince was the son of Hugh Huckabee Prince"
"Andy Cunningham (actor) Andrew Cunningham (13 May 1950 – 5 June 2017) was an English actor, puppeteer, ventriloquist and writer. He was best known as the creator and main writer of the children's BBC television series, ""Bodger & Badger"", in which he acted as the likeable but accident prone Simon Bodger and his pet, Badger. Cunningham studied at the University of Cambridge, where he read English. He dropped out of this course at the end of the second of its three years, citing academic pressures as the reason for doing so, but later completed his degree at the University of"
"stomach surgery, related to his cancer. Andy Cunningham (actor) Andrew Cunningham (13 May 1950 – 5 June 2017) was an English actor, puppeteer, ventriloquist and writer. He was best known as the creator and main writer of the children's BBC television series, ""Bodger & Badger"", in which he acted as the likeable but accident prone Simon Bodger and his pet, Badger. Cunningham studied at the University of Cambridge, where he read English. He dropped out of this course at the end of the second of its three years, citing academic pressures as the reason for doing so, but later completed"
"Brian Wilde Brian George Wilde (13 June 1927 – 20 March 2008) was an English actor, best known for his roles in television comedy, including Mr Barrowclough in ""Porridge"" and ""Foggy"" Dewhurst in ""Last of the Summer Wine"". His lugubrious world-weary face was a staple of British television for forty years. Though born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, Wilde was brought up in Devon and Hertfordshire and attended Hertford Grammar School. He trained as an actor at RADA. He had an early uncredited role as a small-time crook in the 1954 film ""Forbidden Cargo"", starring Jack Warner and Nigel Patrick, and a"
"Mr. Badger (John Forbes-Robertson) Pamela Dean (Georgina Lane) Jinny (Adele Parry) Josie (Rachel Powell) Nadine (Abigail Fisher) Martin (Dexter Lynch) Lily Spencer (Sophie Buckley) Peter (Alex Moran) Razzle (Fizzy) Jonny Briggs Jonny Briggs is a Children's BBC kitchen sink realism television programme first broadcast in 1985. It revolves around the exploits of a young boy, the eponymous hero (played by Richard Holian), his pet dog, Razzle, and his eccentric family members: Mam (Jane Lowe) and Dad (Leslie Schofield), older sister Rita (Sue Devaney) and older brothers Albert (Tommy Robinson) and Humph (Humphrey) (Jeremy Austin). Another older sister, Marilyn, is mentioned"
"and Zag and Podge and Rodge. In 2010, the entire Channel 4 season was made available to view on the 4OD site. A ten-part series was commissioned by Starz Entertainment and broadcast from 18 April 2007. Guests included Mark Hamill, George Takei, Kelly Carlson, Howie Mandel, Cheech Marin, Beverly D'Angelo, Joely Fisher, Ron Jeremy, Michael Rapaport, Tina Majorino, Wee Man, Method Man, and Eric Roberts. ""Saved by the Bell"" star Dustin Diamond played a recurring role as Bronx Bunny's neighbor, who dropped by unannounced and stole items from the apartment. Other features included: Bronx Bunny and Teddy T went on"
"Duane Boutte Duane Boutté (born March 5, 1966) is an American actor, director, and composer known in film for his portrayal of ""Bostonia"" in Nigel Finch's ""Stonewall"" (1995), and as young ""Bruce Nugent"" in Rodney Evans' ""Brother to Brother"" (2004). Boutté was in the original Broadway company of ""Parade"", and played ""Enoch Snow, Jr."" in the 1994 TONY Award-winning revival of ""Carousel"". His television acting credits date from the 1980s and include episodes of ""What's Happening Now"", ""A Year in the Life"", ""Sex and the City"", and the made-for-television movie ""The Drug Knot"", directed by ""Happy Days"" star, Anson Williams."
"1972 and 1979. Australia's Charles ""Bud"" Tingwell starred in the series as surgeon Alan ""Digger"" Dawson, enjoying a heart-throb status because of his role. Its haunting closing theme tune was ""Silks and Satins"" by Peter Yorke. In March 2008, Network released a DVD set containing the 24 earliest surviving episodes which date from 1959 and 1960. A second 24-episode volume was released in July 2008, while a third 24-episode set was released in 2010. A 1966 episode was included on Network's ""Soap Box Volume One"" DVD as was the sole-surviving episode of spin-off ""Call Oxbridge 2000"". Emergency – Ward 10"
"Boogie."" It was one of the first stand-alone, live FM Top 40 stations in the U.S. John Tenaglia served as Vice President of General Cinema Corp., George Burns as consultant and Steve ""Shotgun"" Kelly as P.D. (program director). The legendary Hy Lit from 990 WIBG radio was brought on board as the morning drive time personality along with Bill Figenshu (Wild Bill Elliot) middays, Steve ""Shotgun"" Kelly in afternoon drive, Fritz Coleman (Bobby Walker) and John Rivers nights. The Boogie Bug was created from a Volkswagen Bug and then the VW Thing was added along with Boogie book covers for"
"Roller Boogie Roller Boogie is a 1979 American romantic musical drama film starring Linda Blair and introduces Jim Bray, a former competitive artistic skater from California. The film also stars Beverly Garland, Mark Goddard, and Kimberly Beck, and is directed by Mark L. Lester. The film is set in the Venice, California suburb of Los Angeles at the height of the roller skating fad of the late 1970s. Two characters, Bobby James (Bray) and Terry Barkley (Blair), fall in love while boogie skating to disco music. Along the way they must thwart a powerful mobster who wants the land their"
"Wallace Langham James Wallace Langham II (born March 11, 1965) is an American actor. He played the role of David Hodges in the American crime drama television series """". Formerly billed as Wally Ward, Langham got his start in the John Hughes film ""Weird Science"", as well as in ""The Invisible Kid"" and the ABC Afterschool Special entitled ""Just a Regular Kid: An AIDS Story"", but later moved to roles as a young bigot in ""Soul Man"" and as a gang leader in ""The Chocolate War"". He appeared in the Eddie Murphy comedy ""Daddy Day Care"", and the critically acclaimed"
"Anthony 'Scooter' Teague Anthony Scott Teague (born Edwin Ardell Teague, January 4, 1940 – June 2, 1989), also known as Scooter Teague, was an American actor and dancer. Born to Herman Charles Teague and Oleta Jones Teague in Jacksboro, Texas, Teague graduated from North Hollywood High School, class of Summer 1958. Teague first appeared on television on ""The Danny Thomas Show"", ""Alcoa Theatre"", and ""The Donna Reed Show"". In film he appeared as ""Big Deal"", one of the Jets, in ""West Side Story"" (1961), as Bud Frump in ""How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"" (1967), and as Clarence"
"Hughie Prince Hugh Durham Prince – also known as Hughie Prince – (9 August 1906 in Greenville in South Carolina–15 January 1960 in New York) was an American film composer and songwriter who composed ""Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy"" with lyricist Don Raye for the movie comedy ""Buck Privates"" and which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song in 1942. Hugh Prince was the son of Hugh Huckabee Prince and Florence Emma (née Durham). In 1920 he was living with his parents on Westover Avenue in Norfolk, Virginia. His father died in 1921 and by the 1930s Prince was"
"Chelcie Ross Chelcie Claude Ross (born June 20, 1942) is an American character actor, most known for ""Major League"", ""Basic Instinct"", ""Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey"", ""Hoosiers"" and ""The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"". He served in Vietnam as an officer in the United States Air Force where he had been awarded a Bronze Star, and earned an MFA from the Dallas Theater Center. He left the air force in 1970. His son, Ian Ross, plays bass in the band John 5 and The Creatures, the instrumental group fronted by guitarist John 5 (Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie.) In 2007, Ross appeared,"