British actor Geoffrey Palmer, known for the long-running series “As Time Goes By,” “Butterflies” and “The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin,” has died peacefully at home, his agent told the BBC. He was 93.
In “As Time Goes By,” Palmer co-starred with Judi Dench. The two reunited in the 1997 James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies.” Other notable films he was in include “The Madness of King George,” “A Fish Called Wanda,” “Mrs. Brown,” and “Paddington.” His last appearance is in “An Unquiet Life,” a film currently in post-production.
Palmer appeared in several iconic TV series, such as “Doctor Who,” “The Saint,” “Fawlty Towers” and “The Avengers.”
Tributes have been pouring in after Palmer’s death.
“Baby Driver” director Edgar Wright tweeted a reference to Palmer’s role in “Reginald Perrin”: “The flight path gag wiping out the lines of Reggie Perrin’s brother-in-law is one of my favourite running gags in comedy.
In “As Time Goes By,” Palmer co-starred with Judi Dench. The two reunited in the 1997 James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies.” Other notable films he was in include “The Madness of King George,” “A Fish Called Wanda,” “Mrs. Brown,” and “Paddington.” His last appearance is in “An Unquiet Life,” a film currently in post-production.
Palmer appeared in several iconic TV series, such as “Doctor Who,” “The Saint,” “Fawlty Towers” and “The Avengers.”
Tributes have been pouring in after Palmer’s death.
“Baby Driver” director Edgar Wright tweeted a reference to Palmer’s role in “Reginald Perrin”: “The flight path gag wiping out the lines of Reggie Perrin’s brother-in-law is one of my favourite running gags in comedy.
- 11/6/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Writer David Nobbs has passed away at the age of 80, the British Humanist Association has confirmed.
Nobbs was best known for creating the comic television character Reginald Perrin, played in the BBC series by Leonard Rossiter.
Nobbs created the BBC sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, which ran between 1976 and 1979, from his series of novels.
The novels follow the story of a middle-aged middle manager, Reginald "Reggie" Perrin, who is driven to bizarre behaviour by the pointlessness of his job.
The Yorkshire-born writer also provided material for The Two Ronnies, Ken Dodd and Frankie Howerd.
Nobbs wrote over 20 novels during a prolific career that spanned nearly 50 years.
Watch a clip from The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin below:...
Nobbs was best known for creating the comic television character Reginald Perrin, played in the BBC series by Leonard Rossiter.
Nobbs created the BBC sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, which ran between 1976 and 1979, from his series of novels.
The novels follow the story of a middle-aged middle manager, Reginald "Reggie" Perrin, who is driven to bizarre behaviour by the pointlessness of his job.
The Yorkshire-born writer also provided material for The Two Ronnies, Ken Dodd and Frankie Howerd.
Nobbs wrote over 20 novels during a prolific career that spanned nearly 50 years.
Watch a clip from The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin below:...
- 8/9/2015
- Digital Spy
Actress Pauline Yates has died, aged 85.
The British star was best known for her starring role in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin from 1976 to 1979, as the title character's wife Elizabeth Perrin opposite Leonard Rossiter.
She also played the wife of comic-strip artist Dudley Rush (Robert Gillespie) in Keep It In the Family, and starred in Bachelor Father.
Yates's family have said that she "died peacefully in her sleep" yesterday (January 21) in Denville Hall nursing home in Northwood, Middlesex.
During a career that spanned six decades, Yates became a regular performer in 1960s TV series, including Armchair Theatre, Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Gideon's Way, Nightingale's Boys, The Human Jungle and The Ronnie Barker Playhouse.
She returned as Elizabeth Perrin for The Legacy of Reginald Perrin in 1996, and continued to perform on stage. Her most recent roles were in Rose and Maloney and Doctors in the early 2000s.
Yates...
The British star was best known for her starring role in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin from 1976 to 1979, as the title character's wife Elizabeth Perrin opposite Leonard Rossiter.
She also played the wife of comic-strip artist Dudley Rush (Robert Gillespie) in Keep It In the Family, and starred in Bachelor Father.
Yates's family have said that she "died peacefully in her sleep" yesterday (January 21) in Denville Hall nursing home in Northwood, Middlesex.
During a career that spanned six decades, Yates became a regular performer in 1960s TV series, including Armchair Theatre, Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Gideon's Way, Nightingale's Boys, The Human Jungle and The Ronnie Barker Playhouse.
She returned as Elizabeth Perrin for The Legacy of Reginald Perrin in 1996, and continued to perform on stage. Her most recent roles were in Rose and Maloney and Doctors in the early 2000s.
Yates...
- 1/22/2015
- Digital Spy
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- 6/15/2013
- by Andrew Reynolds
- Kasterborous.com
Director: Lee Daniels; Screenwriter: Peter Dexter; Starring: Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, Matthew McConaughey,John Cusack, David Oyelowo, Scott Glenn; Running time: 106 mins; Certificate: 15
What a cast. What a disappointment. Shoddy execution scuppers what should have been an involving potboiler, with the directional style and screenplay structure providing an inadequate treatment to a complex narrative that occasionally hints at greatness. Not even Nicole Kidman emptying her bladder onto Zac Efron's writhing body can save this one...
Set in 1960s South Florida, this attempt at film noir charts the efforts of investigate journalist Ward Jansen (Matthew McConaughey), younger brother Jack (Efron) and pal Yardley (David Oyelowo) to prove that creepy swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack) was framed for murder. The focus soon shifts to Jack's lust for Hillary's horny admirer Charlotte (Kidman), who sent a flurry of sexually explicit letters with the inmate prior to meeting him. A few unconvincing...
What a cast. What a disappointment. Shoddy execution scuppers what should have been an involving potboiler, with the directional style and screenplay structure providing an inadequate treatment to a complex narrative that occasionally hints at greatness. Not even Nicole Kidman emptying her bladder onto Zac Efron's writhing body can save this one...
Set in 1960s South Florida, this attempt at film noir charts the efforts of investigate journalist Ward Jansen (Matthew McConaughey), younger brother Jack (Efron) and pal Yardley (David Oyelowo) to prove that creepy swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter (John Cusack) was framed for murder. The focus soon shifts to Jack's lust for Hillary's horny admirer Charlotte (Kidman), who sent a flurry of sexually explicit letters with the inmate prior to meeting him. A few unconvincing...
- 3/15/2013
- Digital Spy
A child star as Oliver Twist, he became a key figure in epoch-making TV comedy
'Please, sir – I want some more." Rationing was still in force when, under the eye of David Lean's camera, a thin, pale eight-year-old boy named John Howard Davies raised his gruel bowl and dared to request a second serving. That image of Davies in Oliver Twist (1948) spoke to the mood of the moment – suggesting the sort of deprivation that postwar Britain was attempting to legislate out of existence. One scene called for Davies, who has died of cancer aged 72, and his fellow child actors to look on enviously as the bigwigs of the workhouse devoured a great pile of pastries, hams and chicken. The astonished expressions are genuine. None of these boys had ever seen food like it.
The film's production company, Cineguild, had launched a national campaign to secure a talented unknown for the title role.
'Please, sir – I want some more." Rationing was still in force when, under the eye of David Lean's camera, a thin, pale eight-year-old boy named John Howard Davies raised his gruel bowl and dared to request a second serving. That image of Davies in Oliver Twist (1948) spoke to the mood of the moment – suggesting the sort of deprivation that postwar Britain was attempting to legislate out of existence. One scene called for Davies, who has died of cancer aged 72, and his fellow child actors to look on enviously as the bigwigs of the workhouse devoured a great pile of pastries, hams and chicken. The astonished expressions are genuine. None of these boys had ever seen food like it.
The film's production company, Cineguild, had launched a national campaign to secure a talented unknown for the title role.
- 8/25/2011
- by Matthew Sweet
- The Guardian - Film News
The Inbetweeners: The Movie sees Will, Simon, Neil and Jay transported, in all their puerile glory, to Crete. But do the writers and cast realise this is the end?
The feature film-of-the-sitcom is one of the less heralded genres in cinema. Forty years ago, when Hollywood's vision of a low-budget hit was the cool and radical Easy Rider, the British film industry couldn't have been eulogising a less glamorous form of transport, when Hammer brought the sitcom On the Buses to the big screen.
That first On the Buses film made more than a million pounds, and sparked a gold rush. 1973 saw nine films based on sitcoms, including Love Thy Neighbour, Father, Dear Father and even For the Love of Ada. By the end of the decade, though, the notoriously thin quality of the adaptations meant the genre had become irrevocably tarnished.
But in 1997, the astonishing success of Bean,...
The feature film-of-the-sitcom is one of the less heralded genres in cinema. Forty years ago, when Hollywood's vision of a low-budget hit was the cool and radical Easy Rider, the British film industry couldn't have been eulogising a less glamorous form of transport, when Hammer brought the sitcom On the Buses to the big screen.
That first On the Buses film made more than a million pounds, and sparked a gold rush. 1973 saw nine films based on sitcoms, including Love Thy Neighbour, Father, Dear Father and even For the Love of Ada. By the end of the decade, though, the notoriously thin quality of the adaptations meant the genre had become irrevocably tarnished.
But in 1997, the astonishing success of Bean,...
- 7/15/2011
- by Jim Shelley
- The Guardian - Film News
British actor Geoffrey Palmer helped re-open a charity shop in Princes Risborough – a small town in England’s Buckinghamshire – this week.
The shop raises money for the local branch of Iain Rennie Hospice at Home, a charity that offers anyone who has a life-limiting illness the choice to receive the care and support that they need in the comfort and security of their own home. Palmer – who has appeared in classic British TV shows such as The Fall And Rise of Reginald Perrin, Doctor Who, Fawlty Towers, The Goodies and As Time Goes By – is a patron for the charity.
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The shop raises money for the local branch of Iain Rennie Hospice at Home, a charity that offers anyone who has a life-limiting illness the choice to receive the care and support that they need in the comfort and security of their own home. Palmer – who has appeared in classic British TV shows such as The Fall And Rise of Reginald Perrin, Doctor Who, Fawlty Towers, The Goodies and As Time Goes By – is a patron for the charity.
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- 1/27/2011
- Look to the Stars
The British sitcom The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin aired three seven-episode seasons between 1976 and ’79, each following the efforts of the title character—a frustrated middle-class businessman played by Leonard Rossiter—to find some meaning in his increasingly absurd life. Each season told a full story, broken up into half-hour installments generally built around one or two big comic setpieces. While ambitious in intent, Reginald Perrin was bound to the conventions of its place and time. It was very much a mid-’70s Britcom, complete with catchphrase-spouting supporting characters and laughter punctuating even the most banal line ...
- 5/13/2009
- avclub.com
Hey Britcom fans! To celebrate the release of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin: The Complete Series on DVD today, JustPressPlay is giving away three copies of the box set! If you have heard of it, you know the series has "Comedy Classic" written all over it. In short, it's about a business man at the end of his rope and the funny things he begins to do as he loses his mind. Or you could read our review!
For those of you that have never heard of Reginald Perrin before today, consider the following:
Do you like The Office (UK or Us)? Do you think obsessive compulsive disorder or anxiety attacks can be funny? Do you wish Monk was funnier? Do you like Monty Python? Do you like Fawlty Towers?
If you said yes to one or more of these questions - you ought to enter the contest.
For those of you that have never heard of Reginald Perrin before today, consider the following:
Do you like The Office (UK or Us)? Do you think obsessive compulsive disorder or anxiety attacks can be funny? Do you wish Monk was funnier? Do you like Monty Python? Do you like Fawlty Towers?
If you said yes to one or more of these questions - you ought to enter the contest.
- 5/12/2009
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
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