"As Time Goes By (TV series) As Time Goes By is a British romantic sitcom which aired on BBC One from 1992 to 2005, running for nine series and three specials. Starring Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer, it follows the relationship between two former lovers who meet unexpectedly after not having been in contact for 38 years. The programme's original working title had been Winter with Flowers but was changed during its first day of filming due to the cast's protestations. The new title was taken from the 1931 Herman Hupfeld song ""As Time Goes By"", which was used as"
"Geoffrey Palmer (actor) Geoffrey Dyson Palmer, (born 4 June 1927) is an English actor known for his roles in British television sitcoms playing Jimmy Anderson in ""The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin"" (1976–79), Ben Parkinson in ""Butterflies"" (1978–83) and Lionel Hardcastle in ""As Time Goes By"" (1992–2005). His film appearances include ""A Fish Called Wanda"" (1988), ""The Madness of King George"" (1994), ""Mrs. Brown"" (1997), and ""Tomorrow Never Dies"" (1997). Palmer's early television appearances included a variety of roles in Granada Television's ""The Army Game"", two episodes of ""The Baron"" and as a property agent in ""Cathy Come Home""."
"2005, ""As Time Goes By"" returned for two reunion specials, aired in Christmas that year, and this was his final television appearance. Middlemass never married, and for forty years he had a room in the house of his close friend, actor Geoffrey Toone, who died in 2005. Middlemass died, aged 87, in Northwood, London. Frank Middlemass Francis George “Frank” Middlemass (28 May 1919 8 September 2006) was an English actor, who even in his early career played older roles. He is best remembered for his television roles as Rocky Hardcastle in ""As Time Goes By"", Algy Herries in ""To Serve"
"Frank Middlemass Francis George “Frank” Middlemass (28 May 1919 8 September 2006) was an English actor, who even in his early career played older roles. He is best remembered for his television roles as Rocky Hardcastle in ""As Time Goes By"", Algy Herries in ""To Serve Them All My Days"" and Dr. Alex Ferrenby in ""Heartbeat"". Middlemass was also active in the Royal Shakespeare Company and was the fourth and final actor to play Dan Archer in ""The Archers"". Born to Thomas Middlemass and Mary Elizabeth Hoggett, Frank Middlemass was the youngest of four children after sisters Dorothy Mary (born"
"third generation character Rich Hardbeck in 2011 and 2012. He took over the role of Harry (Sandy's husband) in the special reunion episodes of BBC sitcom ""As Time Goes By"" alongside Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer, the first actor to portray the part being David Michaels. Ryan also appeared in the 2008 ""Doctor Who"" episode ""Midnight"". In 2014, he appeared in ""Salting the Battlefield"" as Bill Catcheside. He is also known for playing the role of Dan in the Sky Living comedy-drama, ""Mount Pleasant"" since 2011. In 2015 he appeared as Colonel Anthony Forbes-Leith in the BBC TV series ""Father"
"Joan Sims Irene Joan Marion Sims (9 May 1930 – 27 June 2001) was an English actress remembered for her roles in the ""Carry On"" films, including ""Carry On Nurse"" (1959), ""Carry On Cleo"" (1964) and ""Carry On Camping"" (1969). She played Mrs. Wembley, the cook with a liking for sherry in ""On the Up"" (1990–92), and Madge Hardcastle in ""As Time Goes By"" (1994–98). Sims was born on 9 May 1930, the only child of John Henry Sims (1888-1964), station master of Laindon railway station in Essex, and his wife Gladys Marie Sims, née Ladbrook (1896-1981). Sims's early interest"
"that in 1993, Middlemass first appeared in the sitcom ""As Time Goes By"" as Rocky Hardcastle, a role that continued regularly until 2002, and then also in the 2005 two-part reunion specials, his final television appearance. He appeared in both British TV adaptations of ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"", ""The Blue Carbuncle"" playing Peterson in the BBC adaptation and Henry Baker on the Granada TV series. Middlemass also appeared on radio, most notably playing patriarch Dan Archer, the fourth actor to play the role, in the long-running radio soap opera ""The Archers"". He played this role from 1982 until 1986,"
"Tremors (1990), Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001) and Police Story: The Watch Commander (1988) The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie (1976). He is married to Caren. John Pappas John Pappas (born November 11, 1951) is an American actor, playwright and former comic who has appeared on television and in film since the 1970s. Pappas is best known for his recurring role as ""Pappas"" on the television series Hardball (NBC 1989-1990). Pappas is also known for his recurring role of Leo Sullivan on the NBC Soap Opera ""Days of Our Lives"" (NBC1994). In 2001 Pappas returned to ""Days of Our"
"Alex Hardcastle Alex Hardcastle is a British television director and producer who has worked on television shows and movies in both the UK and the United States. He is best known for his directorial work on the American comedies ""New Girl"", The Mindy Project, ""The Office"" and ""Parks and Recreation"" as well as his series ""A Young Doctor's Notebook"" starring Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe. Hardcastle directed multiple episodes of the musical comedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend for the CW, Grace & Frankie for Netflix and the comedy drama You're the Worst for FX. He directed the Warner Brothers / Paramount Network"
"Lee Hardcastle Lee Hardcastle (born 21 January 1985) is a British animator who specialises in stop-motion techniques. He is famous for his handmade independent animations. His work includes original remakes of emblematic 1980s action and horror films, as well as parodies of animated series and video clips. His work is known for its violent and gory content. Lee Hardcastle was born in Leeds, United Kingdom. His love of cinema began when he was a teenager, and when he was eighteen years old he decided to study cinema in the Northern Film School of Leeds Beckett University. After graduating in 2006,"
"Quest"", ""Wallace and Gromit"" and ""Celebrity Deathmatch"". He has sometimes cited John Carpenter's ""The Thing"" as his favourite horror film, and as one of the most important inspirations for his works. Lee Hardcastle Lee Hardcastle (born 21 January 1985) is a British animator who specialises in stop-motion techniques. He is famous for his handmade independent animations. His work includes original remakes of emblematic 1980s action and horror films, as well as parodies of animated series and video clips. His work is known for its violent and gory content. Lee Hardcastle was born in Leeds, United Kingdom. His love of cinema"
"John Pappas John Pappas (born November 11, 1951) is an American actor, playwright and former comic who has appeared on television and in film since the 1970s. Pappas is best known for his recurring role as ""Pappas"" on the television series Hardball (NBC 1989-1990). Pappas is also known for his recurring role of Leo Sullivan on the NBC Soap Opera ""Days of Our Lives"" (NBC1994). In 2001 Pappas returned to ""Days of Our Lives"" in another recurring role of a convict named ""Buddy"". Pappas is an award-winning actor receiving a 1990 best actor award from the L.A. Weekly, for his"
"to guide an elderly spinster (Geraldine McEwan) to the next world as easily as possible. By this time Larbey was also solo-writing the long-running BBC series ""As Time Goes By"" (1992–2005), starring Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer. While continuing his partnership with Esmonde, Larbey had been writing several sitcoms on his own throughout the 1980s and 1990s, most notably ""A Fine Romance"" starring Dench and her husband Michael Williams, which ran from 1981 to 1984. Along with the later ""As Time Goes By"", these two series were credited with ""catapulting Dench into the nation's affections"" as they gave prime-time recognition"
"Noel Drayton Noel Drayton (October 7, 1913 – December 7, 1981) was an actor who remains perhaps best known for playing supporting roles in Hollywood films like ""Elephant Walk"", ""The Court Jester"", ""Plymouth Adventure"" and ""Botany Bay"" during the 1950s. He also appeared as a guest actor on television shows like ""You Are There"", ""Perry Mason"" and ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"". He is also known for the role of Mr. Hardcastle in nine episodes of the popular television show ""Family Affair"". There is little information provided about Drayton's life. Born in South Africa, he made his film debut with a notable"
"1993 and starring Miriam Margolyes as Mrs. Hardcastle. The most famous TV production is the 1971 version featuring Ralph Richardson, Tom Courtenay, Juliet Mills, and Brian Cox, with Trevor Peacock as Tony Lumpkin. Courtenay, Mills and Peacock also performed in this play at The Garrick Theatre, London, in 1969. The 1971 version was shot on location near Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, and is part of the BBC archive. This play was one of 13 BBC productions that formed the series called Classic Theatre, the Humanities in Drama. The series was funded in the U.S. by the N.E.H. and used as a study"
"Adam J. Harrington Adam John Harrington (born November 26, 1972) is a Canadian-American actor and producer. He is known for his roles in the video games ""L.A. Noire"" as Roy Earle and ""Battlefield Hardline"" as Tyson Latchford. He also appeared as Bartholomew in ""Supernatural"" as well as the television series ""The Secret Circle"", ""Queer As Folk"" and ""Dexter"". Adam John Harrington was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and raised in the nearby towns of Dundas and Burlington, where he attended Burlington High School. Harrington earned a Masters of Science degree in Marine Biology before becoming an actor. He currently resides"
"Philip Bretherton Philip Bretherton (born 30 May 1955) is an English actor best known for his role as Alistair Deacon in the British television series ""As Time Goes By"". Bretherton was born in Preston, Lancashire, and studied English and drama at the University of Manchester, where he decided to become an actor. Bretherton appeared in ""Rumpole of the Bailey"" in ""The Barrow Boy"" as Hugo Shillingford in November 1988 and made a brief appearance as ""Rod"" in ""Coronation Street"" also in 1988. He then returned as ""Robert Weston"" in 1991, and again as ""Ian Davenport"" in 2004. Bretherton appeared in"
"He is married with two sons and three grandchildren. Leslie Hardcastle Leslie Hardcastle OBE (Born 8 December 1926, Croydon) was Controller of the British Film Institute's (BFI) National Film Theatre (NFT) complex on London’s South Bank from its early beginnings through to his retirement in the mid 1990s. After service in the Royal Navy, he worked his way through the ranks of the BFI and led the NFT through its pioneering days including the founding of the London Film Festival (LFF) in 1957, the setting up of NFT2 and the clubroom and restaurant. His annual Controller’s lunch at LFF was"
"father of Vlad Dracula's bodyguard Talitha. As a young man Bretherton was in an episode of Agatha Christie's Marple: ""At Bertram's Hotel"", playing the character Detective Inspector Campbell. He played Matthew Woodley in Midsomer Murders “Made to Measure Murders”. Bretherton is probably best known in the role of Alistair Deacon in ""As Time Goes By"" from 1992 to 2005. He is also active in theatre, performing as Henry Higgins in a nationally acclaimed production of ""Pygmalion"" at Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold, Flintshire. In 2013 he appeared in ""The Fifth Estate"" in the role of Bill Keller. Philip Bretherton Philip Bretherton"
"""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"", ""Things to Come"", and ""The Ghost of Frankenstein"". It was unveiled in November 2005 and is located at Lye Cross where he lived as a child. Thorns School and Community College in neighbouring Quarry Bank has renamed its drama theatre in his honour, as the Hardwicke Theatre. Hardwicke has a motion pictures star and a television star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Cedric Hardwicke Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke (19 February 1893 – 6 August 1964) was an English stage and film actor whose career spanned nearly fifty years. His theatre work included notable performances"
"Leslie Hardcastle Leslie Hardcastle OBE (Born 8 December 1926, Croydon) was Controller of the British Film Institute's (BFI) National Film Theatre (NFT) complex on London’s South Bank from its early beginnings through to his retirement in the mid 1990s. After service in the Royal Navy, he worked his way through the ranks of the BFI and led the NFT through its pioneering days including the founding of the London Film Festival (LFF) in 1957, the setting up of NFT2 and the clubroom and restaurant. His annual Controller’s lunch at LFF was a highlight of the festival. In the 1980s, Hardcastle"
"Micah Hauptman Micah A. Hauptman (born December 26, 1973) is an American film and television actor, known for playing the lead role of David Gallo in the film ""In Stereo"", August Hardwicke in the film ""Parker"", and real-life character David Breashears in ""Everest"". In 2013, Hauptman played August Hardwicke, a gang-member in the action-thriller ""Parker"" along with Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez. In 2015, Hauptman appeared as guest in the fifth season of the Showtime's drama series ""Homeland"", he played the role of Mills, a CIA tech. He played the lead role as David Gallo in the romantic comedy film"
"man. The third member of the trio would be recast four times over the next three decades: Foggy Dewhurst in 1976, Seymour Utterthwaite in 1986, Foggy again in 1990, and Truly Truelove in 1997. After Compo died in 1999, his son, Tom Simmonite, filled the gap for the rest of that series, and Billy Hardcastle joined the cast as the third lead character in 2001. The trio became a quartet between 2003 and 2006 when Alvin Smedley moved in next door to Nora Batty, but returned to the usual threesome in 2006 when Billy Hardcastle left the show. The role"
"running jokes and subplots to the show and often becoming reluctantly involved in the schemes of the trio, or on occasion having their own, separate storylines. After the death of Owen in 1999, Compo was replaced at various times by his real-life son, Tom Owen, as equally unhygienic Tom Simmonite, Keith Clifford as Billy Hardcastle, a man who thought of himself as a descendant of Robin Hood, and Brian Murphy as the cheeky-chappy Alvin Smedley. Due to the age of the main cast, a new trio was formed during the 30th series featuring somewhat younger actors, and this format was"
"""As Time Goes By"", Jasper Carrot and Robert Powell in ""The Detectives"", John Thaw in ""Mirch"", James Bolam in ""Second Thoughts"", Tom Conti in ""Old Boy Network"", Adam Faith in ""Love Hurts"", David Jason in ""Diamond Geezer"", Warren Clarke in ""The Case of the Frightened Lady"", Anthony Andrews in ""Ivanhoe"", Eric Sykes in ""If You Go Down in the Woods Today"", Michael Kitchen in ""Home Run"", Larry Lamb in ""Fool's Gold"" and Bill Paterson in ""The Interrogation of John"". Harris also appeared in the BBC children television series, as the naive Mr Boyes in ""Bad Boyes""; and the environment polluter,"
"recurring role as Captain George Brent in ""Colditz"". Chapman's other TV credits include ""Waiting for God"" (""The Helicopter"" episode as Councillor Ferguson), and in the BBC's 1971 adaptation of Jane Austen's ""Persuasion"", as Captain Benwick. He was known in the late 1980s for playing Harwell Mincing, in ITV's children's costume drama ""Return of the Antelope"". In recent years, it is probably Chapman's portrayal of Stephen Johnson in the BBC sitcom ""As Time Goes By"", alongside Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer, for which he is best known. Chapman took on the role in Series 2 and appeared regularly until the show"
"Michelle Hardwick Michelle Hardwick (born 26 February 1976) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as hospital receptionist Lizzie Hopkirk in the ITV drama series ""The Royal"". In 2012, she accepted the role as a regular in ITV soap opera ""Emmerdale"" as Vanessa Woodfield. Hardwick studied Performing Arts at Park Lane College, Leeds, and then attended Scala Performing Arts, Leeds, following which she has acted in the theatre as well as appearing on television. She has taken notable roles in ""Heartbeat"" and ""Coronation Street"". Michelle has appeared in three different episodes of the ITV UK TV"
"Lee Pace Lee Grinner Pace (born March 25, 1979) is an American actor. Pace has been featured in film, stage and television. He starred as Thranduil the Elvenking in ""The Hobbit"" trilogy, and as the protagonist Joe MacMillan for four seasons in AMC's television drama ""Halt and Catch Fire"". He also played Roy Walker/the Masked Bandit in the 2006 film ""The Fall"". He has appeared in film series, including """" as Garrett. He also starred as Ned in the ABC series ""Pushing Daisies"" for which he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead"
"James D'Arcy James D'Arcy (born Simon Richard D'Arcy; 24 August 1975) is an English actor. He is best known for his portrayals of Howard Stark's butler, Edwin Jarvis, in the Marvel Entertainment and ABC series, ""Agent Carter"", and murder suspect Lee Ashworth in the second series of the ITV series ""Broadchurch"". D'Arcy also co-starred as Colonel Winnant in Christopher Nolan's action-thriller ""Dunkirk"" (2017). D'Arcy was born on 24 August 1975 in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, and was raised in Fulham, London with his younger sister, Charlotte, by their mother, Caroline, a nurse. His father died when he was young. He has family"
"Edward Hardwicke Edward Cedric Hardwicke (7 August 1932 – 16 May 2011) was an English actor, who had a distinguished career on the stage, as well as being known for his portrayal of Dr. Watson in the Granada TV series ""Sherlock Holmes"". Hardwicke was born in London, England, the son of actors Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Helena Pickard. He began his film career in Hollywood at the age of 10, in Victor Fleming’s film ""A Guy Named Joe"" which starred Spencer Tracy. He returned to England, attended Stowe School, and fulfilled his national service as a pilot officer in the"
"Jonathan Jackson (actor) Jonathan Stevens Jackson (born May 11, 1982) is an American actor, musician (see Enation) and author. His first well known character was Lucky Spencer on the ABC Daytime soap opera ""General Hospital"", a role that has won him five Emmy Awards. In 2002, he played Jesse Tuck in the film ""Tuck Everlasting"". In 2004 he started the band Enation with his brother, actor and drummer Richard Lee Jackson and friend Daniel Sweatt. From 2012–2018, he portrayed Avery Barkley in the ABC/CMT musical drama series, ""Nashville"". Jackson was born in Orlando, Florida, the son of Jeanine (née Sharp),"
"tribute, called ""The Unforgettable Richard Beckinsale"". It featured interviews with his widow, the actress Judy Loe, as well as his father, sister, closest schoolfriend and two daughters. Also contributing were his co-stars, Barker and ""Rising Damp""'s Don Warrington. Richard Beckinsale Richard Arthur Beckinsale (6 July 1947 – 19 March 1979) was an English actor, who played Lennie Godber in the BBC sitcom ""Porridge"" (along with its sequel series ""Going Straight"") and Alan Moore in the British ITV sitcom ""Rising Damp"". He is the father of actresses Samantha Beckinsale and Kate Beckinsale. Beckinsale was born in Carlton, Nottinghamshire, to an Anglo-Burmese"
"PBS stations' pledge drives. She is the daughter of Victor Brooker and Ethel Bassett. She has an older sister, Janis. Brooker married actor Anthony Milner in 1985 and has two children. Milner died in July 2015. Moira Brooker Moira Brooker (born 1957) is an English actress. She played Judith Hanson in the British sitcom ""As Time Goes By"" (1992–2005). The programme lasted for nine seasons and was popular in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and the United States, where it is still broadcast weekly on PBS. In 1995, Brooker appeared in the series ""Ghosts"" in the episode ""Blood and Water"""