...when she first entered [[show business]], she adopted the surname "Davey" from her mother's second husband (the "r" was added years later). Darvey parlayed her popularity from ''The Benny Hill Show'' to appearances on the [[game show]] ''Quick on the

...ie Gilbert Dwyer''' (28 August 1906 – 26 December 1986<ref>GRO Register of Deaths: DEC 1986 21 674 TRURO - Leslie Gilbert Dwyer, DoB = 28 Aug 1906, aged 80</ ...ford]], the son of the popular music hall comedian Johnny Dwyer, and acted from the age of ten and appeared in his first film in 1921. He is perhaps best k

...so collaborated with Tinniswood on the television and radio series ''Tales from a Long Room'', playing the Brigadier, an eccentric [[cricket|cricket]]-love ...at time of preferring to cast lead players that they could bill as "direct from the West End", even if unknown; it was felt that an actor with that billing

...eer began on radio in the 1950s, and his self-titled television series ran from 1963 to 1981.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandr ...imes known as Zelda) Sainsbury and had one son, Gilbert Richard. After the failure of that marriage, he married Irene (Pip) Ansell but the marriage barely las

...itish Academy Television Award for Best Actor]] in three consecutive years from 1994 to 1996. In 2006, Coltrane came eleventh in ITV's poll of [[w:TV's 50 ...World Is Not Enough]]'' (1999), a supporting role in ''[[From Hell (film)|From Hell]]'' (2001), as well as half-giant [[Rubeus Hagrid]] in the [[Harry Pot

...but was stuck on a boat off Normandy.<ref name=McCann/> Despite suffering from [[stage fright]], he continued to work after the war, beginning his profess ...ly in the show ''[[Up Pompeii!]]'' (1969–70), which was a direct follow-up from ''Forum''. His television work was characterised by direct [[Piece to camer