Nicholas Lyndhurst stars as Del Boy’s younger brother Rodney, with Lennard Pearce playing their grandad Edward Kitchener.
Despite his passing, Jack Walker remained a presence in the Rovers thanks to a photo, displayed by Annie on the mantelpiece in the pub’s parlour until she moved out (in 1983, when Speed left the show).This week marks 50 years since the death of actor Arthur Leslie. It’s not only a wonderful part but the script is tremendous. It was beautifully done.“Always in our foughts,” read the card on a wreath. “The first two were so well constructed that I didn’t think John Sullivan could keep it up, but I was wrong. 31/05/2020 . I never heard him criticise or be spiteful about anyone – he was a gentleman.”“He had a lovely voice,” said Sullivan, “reminiscent of everyone’s grandad from where I grew up.” After Pearce left the audition, Sullivan turned to Ray Butt and said, “That’s him.”Pearce had suffered a bout of serious ill health in 1980. Lennard Pearce (9th February 1915 - 15th December 1984) was an English actor of theatre and television success. After Monteith died of a drug overdose, the show’s creators wrote tribute episode “The Quarterback”. In the Fifties he joined the Court Players, and in the early Sixties he understudied for Alfred P Doolittle, Eliza’s father, in My Fair Lady. He began acting at 15, and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Sullivan immediately liked his soft, croaky and (in truth) cigarette-ravaged voice.We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism.Del Boy – the man who could fall into a viper’s pit and come out wearing snakeskin boots, or smell a fiver in a force nine gale – lets the façade slip, and betrays the emotional conflict beneath: this dreamer and wannabe millionaire is forever bound by deep family ties.“Get over it?” Del fires back. “I was a workaholic, never took a holiday and never relaxed,” he said in a Radio Times interview. When actor Norman Painting, the voice of Ambridge patriarch Philip Archer – at the time, The Archers’ longest-serving cast member with an epic 59-year stint – died in October 2009, Radio 4 producers tactfully decided not to kill off Phil straight away and let him spend one last Christmas with his family.He left behind a heartbroken wife. I didn’t want to, but I had to. That’s perhaps the last great influence that Lennard Pearce would have on the show, long after he passed away.Director Ray Butt broke the news to David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst, who were shooting on location.
Thank you”).Alexander soon bowed out herself, explaining: “Her other half had gone and I didn’t want Hilda to just scrape along.” The couple have since been voted viewers’ favourite ITV characters, edging out Minder’s Arthur Daley and Prime Suspect’s DCI Jane Tennison.A respected repertory theatre performer and playwright, Leslie found fame late in life for his role as Coronation Street linchpin Jack Walker, genial landlord of the Rovers Return Inn, which he ran alongside his snobbish wife Annie (played by Doris Speed).Jack first appeared in the soap’s second episode in December 1960 and remained a fixture behind the bar until 1970, when Leslie died suddenly of a heart attack. Lennard Pearce (9 February 1915 – 15 December 1984) was an English actor who worked mostly in the theatre, but also appeared in British television programmes. Her family had arranged a surprise 60th birthday party for her at the Rovers when news arrived that Deidre had died. He’d peacefully passed away while listening to his beloved Elgar, a cup of tea by his side. Former Corrie star Bruno Langley, 36, who was sacked from his role in the show after being placed on the sex offenders register, is now earning a living photographing teen girls on … However, he died in December 1984 after suffering a heart attack aged 69. I ain’t even started, bruv. He may no longer be a household name but Leslie certainly was during the Sixties – and he has a bittersweet distinction in the annals of television history. The cast and crew abandoned filming for the day.“He phoned to say that he’d just got home from doing his weekly shopping and some people had called him Grandad,” said John Sullivan, recalled in Graham McCann’s book on the making of the series. But the role still belongs to the late Lennard Pearce, who played the character for the first three series of Only Fools and Horses, broadcast between 1981 and 1983. The net is closing in on Gary Windass (Mikey North) in Coronation Street as his murder of loan shark Rick Neelan is in danger of being exposed, thanks to … Death is a regular occurrence in soap opera, and over the years has been handled in the most melodramatic of ways. “David and I would often have lots of lines and he’d be sitting there watching the telly and then he’d have just one line and he’d bring the house down.