Him out of Ken Russell’s The Devils
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Him out of Ken Russell’s The Devils
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And also this
I was sad to hear this news. He was a very funny actor.
George to Mildred : “I bumped into those identical twins from down the road while I was out”
Mildred : “Oh really? How are they?”
George : “Much the same…”.
George: Where have you been?
Mildred: Down at the beauty parlor
George: Shut was it?
Mildred roper nee tremble.
@Johnb
A nee trembler indeed
Poor old Yootha had a very sad life. She was also wonderful as Milo O’Shea’s long-suffering girlfriend in Hugh Leonard’s Me Mammy
My girlfriend-at-the-time’s gran acted the part of the Mammy in question.
How brilliant is that! Good to see the show isn’t forgotten
There was another show not long after called Tales From The Lazy Acre which was every bit as good.
Given the grip the Catholic Church had on Ireland in those days, Hugh Leonard (who wrote both shows) was not a popular figure with the high-ups
G&M was 1976-’79. So Brian was about 45.
People in their 40s in the 1970s looked old, didn’t they?
Everyone and everything looked old in the ’70s. Almost as grey and grim as the ’50s.
Here he is on the left in 63 in ‘Oh What a Lovely War’ . He would have been 31/32 at the time. He was probably one of those people who always looked old.
Blackeyed theatre performed a revival of it, which he visited a few years back. “So sad to hear that Brian Murphy has passed away. He was also a prolific stage actor and an original member of Joan Littlewood’s groundbreaking 1963 production of Oh What A Lovely War. And we were privileged to have him see our 2008 production at Portsmouth’s New Theatre Royal. One of the industry’s true gents who will be greatly missed.”
My mother said G & M was “common”, and we were not allowed to watch it. Did I miss anything?
Come round the back of the bike sheds and me and the lads from the sink estate will fill you in
George & Mildred was on ITV, so by association got tagged “common”.
It was pretty rubbish at the time, but watching now (a fair regulat on ITV3) … it’s still pretty rubbish. But one can make a case for brave social commentary (with added dolly birds and social climbing gags).
The film version though … no, that was pretty rubbish too
I like the sound of the G&M film tie-in. Almost all those film-length comedy show movies were weak. But I recall seeing big queues outside our local cinema for the “On The Buses” couple, which played for several weeks, such was their popularity.
I always thought him a doppelgänger for Richard Thompson
RT is the George Roper of folk-rock.
And Annie Lennox is his Mildred
ROFL.
Overflow from the doppelganger thread there..
I was pleased to see him pop up in an episode of Callan I watched recently.
Must have been interesting to see him and Russell Hunter squaring up