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"Love Your Chocolates"
- 2. Lower loxley
- 3. Me & Graham
- 4. Skyjump
- 6. Slurry
- 7. Quad bike
- 8. Massey
- 9. Guardian
- 10. Kenton
- 11. Pa 1
- 12. BENTINCK !!!!
- 14. Tim Fenting
- 15. mr t. bentyick
- 16. Mr P. Beninck
- 17. Tim Bentwick
- 18. M.S.J. Bertinck
- 19. Mr T.C. Bestnick
- 20. Mr Bentlack
- 21. Mrs Cenpinck
- 22. Time Bentinck
- 23. Tom Benstink
- 25. The Right Honourable The Earl of Bent
- 26. MrBentdick
- 27. The Great Event
- 28. The Great Event
- 29. Diana
- 31. Ambridge Time
- 33. “I have attended the births of all five of my children, and I can assure you that my wife didn’t sound as if she was being murdered, and that I didn’t turn into a snivelling wreck like David, and neither did any of my friends.”
- 34. David & Ruth today
- 35. Archers-family
- 37. Sorry Haven’t Clue R
- 38. Mind The Gap
- 39. Pirates
- 40. Me as PK
- 41. Sword2
- 42. Sword
- 43. Kingdom
- 44. Sword3
- 45. Sword4
- 46. Square Deal
- 47. Square Deal
- 48. Young VO
- 49. Nimble
- 50. Nimble 2
- 51. Nimble 3
- 52. Mr Kipling
- 53. Accents
- 54. Fiat ad R
- 56. Robin Hood King
- 57. Crouching Tiger
- 59. Nouvelle France
- 61. Orc
- 62. Bond
- 63. Karting 5
- 64. Absolute Power
- 65. Absolute Power R
- 67. UniChal 2
- 68. UniChal 2 R
- 70. INTERVAL
- 71. Earl of Portland
- 72. Earl of Portland
- 73. Mr THEEARLOFPORT
- 74. Mr N.P. Obe
- 75. EARLOBE
- 76. HMS Portland
- 78. Boys on board
- 79. Boys & me
- 80. German
- 81. German
- 82. Enigma2
- 83. Enigma
- 84. Enigma3
- 85. Enigma4
- 86. Enigma5
- 87. Enigma vid
- 88. Dday 1
- 89. Dday 2
- 90. Dday 4
- 91. Dday 5
- 92. Dday 6
- 93. Speidel
- 94. D-Day
- 95. Carlsberg ad
- 96. Australia Ad
- 98. Fergie2
- 99. Fergie2
- 100. Archers 2
- 101. Fergie2
- 102. Fergie2
- 103. Fergie cake
- 104. My Christmas Day
- 105. Keyhole
- 106. Ribena
- 107. Rita
- 108. North Sea Hijack
- 109. North Sea Hijack 2
- 111. Strike Force
- 112. Strike 6
- 113. A Prince Among Men
- 114. Silent Witness
- 115. Heartbeat
- 116. The Thick Of It
- 117. The Thick of It2
- 118. Lead Balloon
- 119. Wade
- 120. Bodyguard
- 121. Sandra
- 122. 2012
- 127. Through The Keyhole
- 128. Lisa Snowdon
- 129. Chocolates
- 130. Spot 1
- 131. Spot 2
- 132. Spot 3
- 133. Spot 4
- 134. Spot 5
- 135. Spot 6
- 136. Spot 6a
- 137. Spot 7
- 138. Spot 7a
- 139. Spot 9
- 140. Spot 10
- 141. Spot 8
- 142. Lambing
- 143. Lamb
- 144. The End
Notes de l'éditeur
- Good evening.Thank you so much for coming here this evening. Welcome to my multi-media experience. A mixture of stories, pictures, videos and music, with a live radio lambing right here on stage!This is Lower Loxley. They got a professional firm to put the banner up this year. I’m not going up there again. I think they’re just getting it down now.
- My god! The Ghost of Nigel Pargetter!!Winchester CathedralWho has no idea what that was I’m talking about? That’s good cos I’ve written a short song specially for you, to explain.SONG. “Banner”They took a photo of me and Graham after he ‘fell’. I thought I had a ‘poor old you’ sort of face on, trying to look sympathetic, but I just managed to look insufferably smug…
- Someone asked if we have to wear uniforms to record the Archers…Mind you, if you want to see a real fall from a high building, this is what I did in New Zealand last February…
- Notice the self censoring. 30 years of not swearing when being recorded.I’ve programmed the computer to run the show, cos I’m a geek on the side, so I just do what it says. If it crashes we’re stuffed.
- So, badgers are in the news again, David’s finally going to be allowed to shoot one again, which he’s been dying to ever since they destroyed his slurry pit…
- So this is a slurry pit.I’m so glad we’ve had the excitement of being intimidated by the mystery Bristolian, ‘we know where your children are’, because slurry was a bit of a comedown from the Shock Ambridge To The Core story of Nigel’s death.Elizabeth, honestly. How long can you hold a grudge. I’m not sure where we’re up to, has Freddie fallen of the horse yet?Before that all the stuff with Pip and Jude
- When the little fool nearly killed my daughter on the quad bike.Some bloke wrote to me and said ‘Tim, you’ll lose your daughter if you keep on treating her this way’. Not David, me! Blurring fiction and reality.Before that was when the wife nearly had it off with the cowman and David went into “The Great Sulk”, smashed up the kids’ treehouse, had a deep and meaningful affair with ….
- This. A beautiful old Massey Ferguson 65 Mark 2.Guardian did a great cartoon of me in full vent…
- I thought, ’Blimey is that how I come across?Thing is, if there’s 5 million listeners, there’s 5 million David Archers – and I’m quite sure that I don’t look like your image of David.Mind you I probably look more like your David than Richard Atlee looks like your Kenton…
- Particularly in high heels!“Kenton’s bald???”Now you might be wondering why this show’s called, ‘Love Your Chocolates’ . Well, my dear old father died 14 years ago.
- Extraordinary man, I’ll come back to him later. When he died the vicar came round to discuss the funeral, but he was new in the parish and we’d never met him.So I thought I’d better check the pronunciation of our name, to make sure, when he was up in the pulpit that he didn’t get it wrong – ‘you know it’s Bentinck, not Bentik’. ‘Oh yes yes of course’When he was leaving he came up to me and said, ”Can I just say…”. Usually that heralds, “I’m a huge fan of the Archers”, which is fine - if no-one was listening I’d be out of a job, but I did actually think that it was rather bad timing, anyway I was preparing to be polite when he continued, “My wife and I love your chocolates… Bendick’s Bittermints, our annual Christmas treat”. NEXT SLIDE.
- That’s BENTINCK you great turnip. Mind you we’re used to it. It’s an old Dutch family, and in Holland ‘…inck’ is quite a common ending, but it confuses the English eye, for some reason, the additional C makes it more difficult to read.Here are some examples
- Monsieur Beatnick
- Tim Fenting
- mr t. bentyick
- Mr P. Beninck
- Tim Bentwick
- M.S.J. Bertinck
- Mr T.C. Bestnick
- Mr Bentlack
- Mrs Cenpinck
- Time Bentinck
- Tom Benstink
- Signore Timoteo Benedictine
- The Right Honourable The Earl of BentMy favourite though was an Irish guy on the Dell computers helpline who asked for my customer number. I gave it to him, there was a pause then he said, incredulously, “Is that Mr Bent Dick???”
- He was actually great value, when I asked him what use my old 286 computer was in the early nineties, he said, “sure ’twould make a grand anchor for your boat.”
- So, anyway, the Archers.I’ve been in in for 30years now and it has got me into some extraordinary situations. Here’s a rare example of us being filmed onstage, live in front of the Queen at an enormous show at Olympia in 1992 called The Great Event.40 years of broadcasting to her majesty and everyone was there, film stars, TV stars, sports stars … and us.
- So afterwards we’re all lined up…The Queen & Prince Philip troop past.I’m introduced to Duke of Edinburgh, this is Tim Bentinck who plays David.‘That’s a familiar name…’Yes, your wife’s (urggh) Grandmother.‘Oh I thought you said Bentine’
- Then DianaA radio star, how romanticDon’t get recognised in the streetRadio PrincessSounds divine
- Then Charles, the cuckold.Bicycle pump for champagne. “Used to do it with the Goons”.Perhaps you’d like to come up to Ambridge and do our sound effects?“Now you’re being silly”
- On June 30th I celebrated being in the Archers for 30 years. They gave me a cake. And a £10 rise!!On my first day I was told there were 5 million listeners.A female friend had told me that she and all her girl friends listened to the omnibus on Sunday in the bath.So not only was I broadcasting to 5 million people, but half of them were naked. Terrifying!
- That’s me and Ruth (Flick) when young.You might think that this gives us some security. Graham Seed thought that too. The message boards and Twitter were full of speculation about SATTC . Quite a few wanted David to peg it. Thanks message boarders.Any of you post to the message boards? Mustard land? God you’re harsh. The Dopeys. One wag posted that David and Ruth were the ‘Moral and intellectual vacuum at the heart of the Archers’Book launch, Marxist view of Roman Empire, Neil Faulkner. ‘It was David’s voice, but you sounded so intelligent!’Before message boards, letters. Birth of Pip – Me, projectile tears. Flick screaming. Torture scene. Retired Major:
- How many of your friends were at the five births?“Come on Deirdre, push. The rugger’s about to start.
- That’s us now, I’ve aged, she hasn’t.
- A rare shot of the Archers family all togetherJudy Bennett – ShulaPaddy Greene – JillRichard Atlee – Kenton – (BALD!!)Alison Dowling – ElizabethNorman Painting – Phil – Norman Bentinck
- Anyway, away from the Archers for a moment. Here’s some other weird stuff that I’ve got up to over the years.One day I was minding my own business, listening to I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, when I heard this…
- Not only ISIHAC, but Mornington Crescent! No greater accolade, I can die happy!I was indeed the voice of the Piccadilly Line between King’s Cross and Earl’s Court for about 15 years. I kept quiet about it because I didn’t want my sons to be teased at school, but they said they thought it was comforting when traveling on the tube to feel that their dad was looking out for them. Here it is…
- Every time I heard it I used to hope that someone would fall down the gap, so I could say, “I warned you!” and really freak them out!
- In the eighties my agent kept putting me up for musicals, which was a bit silly as I’m not a trained dancer or singer, but one day I got a part as a pirate in the film version of the Broadway hit update of Pirates of Penzance, with Kevin Kline and Linda Ronstadt. It was a big year. Also got Archers.Did movie, then Drury Lane. ‘It’s ok we got backing singers in the wings.’“You’re on”. Where’s Tim. Ill. Where’s Chris? in court. But I’m the second understudy!You’re on in 20 minutes.
- So this is me.This wasn’t what I looked like the first time because they hadn’t got a costume for me, and as I’d only had one music rehearsal, with just the piano, and had never actually rehearsed it on stage, it was a bit rough. Well after that Tim Curry got very ill and had to bow out so I moved down to the number one dressing room and got all this sexy kit. Didn’t help that every night, the announcement, “The part of the Pirate King will be played by Timothy Bentinck” was met with sustained groans of disappointment.Still I had the number one dressing room, dresser, stage door autographs, knickersAfter six weeks there was a cast change and I had to give up my boots for Oliver Tobias.Taught me about the transience of fame.Still, it got me a lead in a BBC series called By The Sword Divided, which took up the next two years of my life.
- Basically for four years I earned my living with a sword round my waist and an earring in my ear.I thought it was always going to be like this!
- Those were the days, look at that golden hair. Even I fancy myself. Now look at me…
- That was in Kingdom 2 years ago. Age eh?
- I got to fight three major duels, bliss. Not going to show them here, but all on my website www.bentinck.net – you know how to spell it!
- Julian Glover half fee for being dead.No-one got rich working for BBC – except Jonathan Ross
- Then I abandoned the sword and went into comedy, starring in two seasons of this, Square Deal.With Lise-Anne McLaughlan and Brett FancyWe were a Sloaney couple with Brett the rough boy from next door, who for some reason I’ve now forgotten, I challenge to a boxing fight.
- Henry Cooper gym down the Old Kent Road. Anthony Daniels, C3PO.But earning more money really from becoming a successful voice artist.
- I’ve got history with this, I was born into advertising really. This is me with my father, who was a producer at JWT, he created the Nimble balloon commercials,
- This was the first year, 1968 in Spain using a hydrogen balloon
- This was in 1973 in Switzerland with a hot air balloon
- And here’s me hanging underneath it, just before it caught fire!I could write a book about those Nimble days.
- Mr Kipling campaign. Pa wrote the line “Mr Kipling makes exceedingly good cakes”
- So yes I’ve done a lot of commercial voiceovers.Always been good at accents – what got me into acting in the first place. Can get you into trouble though.Jamaican Fiat story, then next clip
- I did a voice once for an American children’s animated version of Robin Hood.I was playing the Sheriff of Nottingham and Richard the Lionheart.Here’s the Sheriff…
- Worth a whole life of insecurity to be allowed to say, “Seize Him!”When it came to the King she said, “Can the King have less accent?
- The only time a Bostonian ruled these shoresNEXT
- I did languages at A level, then went to UEA and got a degree in History of Art, but just did plays all the time. So then I decided to go to drama school.At the BOVTS there was a teacher called Rudi Shelley. Anyone who went to that school will tell you how important he was. In my year there was Dan D-L, Greta Schacchi, Amanda Redman, Miranda Richardson, Nicholas Farrell, AND ME! so he must have been doing something right.The first thing I ever heard him say was in our very first lesson with him. ‘Dubbing Porno Movies’ – luckily I haven’t but I’ve dubbed everything else. It’s a great technical exercise, as well as an art.Explain. Bulgarians become Brian Blessed.Here’s me re-voicing Chow Yung Fat in Crouching Tiger. I’ll play a bit of the original Mandarin first.
- Easier than Japanese
- I can’t resist showing you a bit of this too, me as Gerard Depardieu in a film called “Nouvelle France”
- His English is better.
- I do a lot of voices for computer games. A lot of orcs and monsters. My sons keep coming up against me in battle. I come on looking this this and go,“Die human!” They go, “Oh it’s Pa, let’s kill him!”
- I play James Bond in the computer game of The World Is Not Enough. I actually get to say, “The name’s Bond, James Bond” – Another die happy moment.Which is a perfect cue for a song.SONG “Sean”
- Now.Jeremy Paxman.Here’s me apologising to him for having knocked him off the track at a Pro/Celebrity karting marathon a few years ago. I didn’t like to tell him I had actually played him on screen…
- … in an episode of Absolute Power with Stephen Fry and John Bird. They’d tried to get Paxo but he’d refused, so I did it instead…
- We met again when the Archers were invited to represent Actors in “University Challenge – The Professionals”.
- I was made captain and took it very seriously because I dreaded spending the rest of my lfe having people say, ‘Oh you’re the thick one on UC!’.Swatted up. Learned prime Ministers, US presidents, periodic table, greek gods, artists, romantic poets, we even had a practice session at my house with the dear late Nick Clark being our questionmaster….
- We were driven up to Manchester in a luxy minibusCharles. “Don’t drink – dulls the reactions”Soroptimists (an orginisation of professional women) Archers fans, intimidated.Charles. “Never hurts to have a glass or two of the old vino before the show – helps calm the nerves.”Nothing that I’d revised came up, however I was on fire, we won by miles by inspired guesswork. None of us was any good on classical music so we agreed if a question came up, we’d say Beethoven or Mozart. Here’s the first question. Look how fired up I am.
- We slaughtered them, and happily our total wasn’t enough to get us into the next round – I couldn’t have done that again!Celebrity Eggheads and Celebrity Mastermind.Heffalump.
- Ever travelled on Easyjet? Ever used Speedy Boarding?I’ve got a friend called Ray. He runs the local pub in Holloway. He’s always moaning, usually about travel disasters.He went to Spain one year on Easyjet and didn’t take the Speedy Boarding option. “Speedy Boarding?” he said, “ All these bastards prancing gaily past with their looks of smug contempt”I thought, “Prancing gaily” – love it. There’s a song in that.
- Time for a breather and a drink. Shall we say 15 mins?
- Now you may or may not know that I am a bit posh, my ancestor, Hans Willem Bentinck came over with William of Orange as his most trusted of advisors, for the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Some say more than advisor. ‘That’s the bugger’Recent research. King and van Keppel, not Bentinck. Wonderful conclusion.Too dull to be gay.This is our coat of arms. My father has been termed ‘an intellectualeccentric’ and a rebel and always hated anything conventional, so he asked an artist friend to design something more flamboyant, and he came up with this…
- Didn’t go down well with the College of Heralds!My father wasn’t always an Earl, he inherited the title from his sixth cousin in 1990, unfortunately with no money or land, but a seat in the House of Lords - and I became Viscount Woodstock – probably the coolest title you can have for someone of my generation. After Pa died in 1997 I became the Earl of Portland, and had three extraordinary years attending the House of Lords before they chucked most of the hereditaries out, including me. This put me in the unique position of being best known for being an Earl, David Archer in The Archers, and the voice of Mind The Gap on the Piccadilly Line.I can also promise you it has no advantages, doesn’t get you seats in restaurants, (IVY) doesn’t get you an upgrade on an aeroplane, indeed causes total confusion for their booking systems, as computers just can’t cope with it.This is what gets printed on your boarding pass if you try to book in with a title.
- I’ve given up having a credit card in the name of The Earl of Portland, most people say, “Is that a pub?”Going back to the theme of mis-spelling names, after Norman Painting was honoured with an OBE, he used to sign himself as such. Norman Painting OBE. Then he got a letter..
- Addressed to Mr N.P. ObeWhich made me think that if I were ever to receive a similar honour
- I’d be an earlobe
- One day I got a letter inviting me to the commissioning of HMS Portland, a Duke Class Type 23 Frigate. Each frigate is named after a ducal family and has an association with that family. Well the Dukes of Portland had died out, so not only did they only get an Earl, they got me!The letter referred to ‘your ship’ which I did think was a step up from the canoe I’d once built as a child, on the Grand Union canal in Berkhamsted.
- In a slightly absurd juxtaposition, that morning I had been doing a voiceover for Finish Dishwasher Tablets.Arrived at the studio in my suit, was asked if I was off to go to a wedding,“No I’m off to Plymouth for the commissioning of a Royal Navy Frigate.” “Why?” – “It’s mine”.So that afternoon I found myself being piped on board and inspecting the ships’ company, behaving exactly like Prince Charles, “So what exactly do you do?” “I’m the communications officer.” Desperately tried to think of something intelligent to say, and knowing that if their communications got knocked out during a battle they’d have to revert to something more basic than their incredibly sophisticated satellite systems, I asked, “Do you still have to learn Morse Code?” “No my lord, we use Semaphore.”
- I’ve been back a few times, spent two nights at sea with them, presented medals, and have twice taken my two sons Will and Jasper, who got to fire machine guns, and take part in what’s called Thursday War, which is a day of simulated warfare.
- The boys are seriously impressed. It also means that if ever any rich friends start boasting about their yachts, they can say, “Well ours is the length of a football field, has an attack helicopter and is armed with nuclear missiles”.
- I did German A level at school. Five years of hell. I’ve had quite a few jobs as a result of being able to speak it though, most notably going through lines with Claudia Schiffer, who was doing a movie in German and needed to brush up on the language.So I found myself in her flat, sitting opposite a supermodel in pyjamas, who is looking lovingly in my eyes and saying, “Ich liebe dich, ich liebe dich so…” and me saying, “I’m sorry I’m just not feeling it Claudia.”Worth those five hellish yearslearning the bloody language just for that moment. My father had recommended I learn it because but for his smattering of German he’d have been killed in the war and I’d never have been born.
- I played an old German soldier called Hans Gothard in an episode of Born and Bred, but the first German speaking role was in the film Enigma, as the U-boat commander.
- It was directed by Michael Apted and was filmed in the huge tank at Pinewood.
- I did this in Photoshop – shows what you can do with a green screen
- This is the tank at Pinewood
- My fellow U boat commander
- It’s a night scene, and the sub is hunting a British convoy. A lax sentry on the British ship lights a cigarette, which is seen by a lookout on the U-boat. So there I was, looking forward to finally being seen in a big movie again, when I was handed a pair of huge darkened glass goggles. So I said to the director, ‘but these are used inside the submarine, to get your eyes used to the dark, so that when you go up top you’ll be able to see. I can’t wear them on the conning tower, I’d be blind!’ ‘Sorry Tim’, he says, ‘out of my hands, it’s the historical advisor’. I thought, ‘well you’re the bloody director’ but didn’t want to make a fuss, so this is what went out.
- How could I have seen anything, let alone a convoy at night two miles away, in the North Atlantic, with those on?So next time you se the film on telly you’ll be able to point out the glaring continuity error!
- My next German part was as General-Leutnant Speidel in the drama/doc of D-Day for the 50th anniversary of the Normandy landings
- We filmed at an army barracks in England first.
- Here we are driving around in a German staff car with my mate Albert Welling playing Rommel.
- There were lots of German actors as well but the two leads were being played by Englishmen, which pissed them off. More so because there was a dialogue coach with us to check our German, but he too was English!
- Anyway we’re driving round this barracks and we pass this group of squaddies who’d just come back from an exercise, unloading their kit on the grass. Not surprisingly they were astonished to see a German staff car driving past, so I couldn’t resist leaning out and yelling, “Is it becoz we is Nazis??”So this is my character Speidel
- Who as you can see has got proper Nazi type specs on.When we got to France, the wardrobe department hadn’t got any glasses, so they produced some enormous girl’s glasses. In cases like this, you take them off…
- Sorry, nothing funny there, just wanted you to see David Archer being a Nazi!I’ve done loads of adverts over the years, often filming abroad. I’ve done an ice-cream ad in the Masai Mara in Kenya, I’ve done cossack dancing with the Bolshoi for an airline advert in Vienna, and I went up into the Arctic Circle in Norway to shoot this.
- So when I was offered a very highly paid job in Oz doing a huge advertising campaign for the Australian Tourist Board, I jumped at it, specially as I was born in Tasmania and even though this meant reneging on an Archers commitment of one episode.This is why you join up – getting paid to do things like this…
- When got back – Coke can - Shit Ruth that’s terrible. William Smethurst. “Tim, just think about it eh?”
- In the bunff about the Archers it always says that I’m the only one in the cast with farming experience. Well I was born on a sheep station in Tasmania after my father had decided to emigrate from England on the Assisted Passage scheme after the war. There’s me on an old petrol Fergie, just like the one Phil mentioned in the film.
- Here I am 18 years later on a similar Fergie in Germany…
- And again aged about 23 with my nephew on a similar Fergie, because although my father brought the family back to England after five years – no-one to talk to except sheep– in 1976 he went and did it again…
- … giving up being an adman and creating an organic smallholding in Devon, which Judy and I helped him and my stepmother to set up.I’d worked on farms in Hertfordshire where I was brought up, but this was a year full time.Describe photos
- So now I keep being photographed on old grey Fergies whenever I can!
- Here’s another one. I’m becoming The Face of Ferguson!
- Even cutting a Fergie cake at MERL with Vanessa
- Now, back to Ray. Last Christmas he was taking his family to his mum’s and broke down.He was moaning again and said, “I was sitting by the side of the road……”
- So when, last year, I was invited to come “Through the Keyhole”, I did think I might have done enough to be guessed by the panel.I’ve shown you some stuff already, and I did start early. Here’s me in a Ribena commercial in 1960…
- Michael PortilloAfter Drama school I did a load of theatre, fringe, regional and West End, Shakespeare, Ibsen and StoppardMost recently playing Frank in Educating Rita at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury
- With the delightfully talented Claire Lams.
- My first film was North Sea Hijack, with Roger Moore. That’s me, about to be thrown overboard by Roger.
- James Mason, Anthony PerkinsSince then I’ve done loads of TV and films.I won’t bore you with my CV but a few highlights have been…
- Sharpe’s Rifles. Amazing adventures in Russia just after the fall of the Berlin wall.
- Strike Force, a pilot episode for a series which was never commissionedI was Wing Commander Raikes, ‘Awesome in the air’
- The call sheet on this day said “Set dressing – 3 Tornado GR1 fighters” – about £15million quid’s worth of set.
- A Prince Among MenChris Barrie12 epsCliff Parisi, now Eastender. Nationwide.
- Silent WitnessDodgy Pharmaceuticals importer
- Heartbeat – looking more like Brian Aldridge
- The Thick of It. The first 15 minutes of the very first episode were of me being sacked by Peter Capaldi and being replaced by Chris Langham.
- Getting the sack from Peter Capaldi is a very scary experience.
- Lead BalloonWith Jack DeeJacob Langley, quizmaster of Watch Your Language. Spoof of Just a Minute.Met Nicholas Parsons and told him about it and he panicked thinking he was being replaced!And just last year. The pinnacle of my career. I played the lead in a western.The Pride of Wade Ellison. Here’s a clip…
- Another very serious die happy moment.Then at the end of last year I thought I’d finally cracked it.
- A six part TV series called The Royal Bodyguard, starring David Jason, Geoffrey Whitehead and me! Option for three more series. I thought I could finally relax. I’d be a star again! Here I am with my SAS crew, and here’s David Jason in drag
- He’s going into Number 10 undercover!Unfortunately it was a turkey, everyone hated it and we only did one series.Harder than you might think this acting business!
- In May I was in the 1st episode of the second series of 2012, with the brilliant Hugh Bonneville.And also an episode of Doctors.
- The last few monthe I’ve been doing a series of short films, as failed northern standup, Stanley Kovack. ‘Don’t judge me’.
- A bank robber who locks himself in his getaway car
- A tyre shop owner who offers entertainment to up his sales
- And most recently a part in a series with David Tennant.So there I am in Through the Keyhole, and when it came to trying to guess who I was, it didn’t help when Frost, who’d clearly not done his research, came up with this…
- I mean what do you have to do? However there was one bonus to that little farce, when Lisa Snowdon came to be filmed in our house, my son Will was seriously impressed, fancied the pants off her and asked me to get a photograph of her in our house. Well I did better than that…
- That’s his bed. Greater love hath no father….At the end of the show we were in the green room and as I was saying goodbye to Frost, his parting shot was, “Can I just say….Love your Chocolates”!So I thought, well, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.Here’s our new family range!
- Bentinck’s Chocolate Mint Crisps!So, even though, over the years, it’s been apparent that nobody really knows who I am, I hope that after this evening you’ve got to know me a bit better, and that you have loved my chocolates as much as I have loved feeding them to you.Thank you so much.Now, time for some sound effects:PipIroning boardLambing
- Ok, so here’s how we do it…
- Da daa. One lamb.
- Goodnight