Produced by Any Harries, this British television pilot featured what actor best known for his roles in "The Fast Show" and "Men Behaving Badly"?
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Pilot (Cold Feet) Cold Feet is a British television pilot directed by Declan Lowney. It stars James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale as Adam and Rachel, a couple who meet and fall in love, only for the relationship to break down when he gets cold feet. John Thomson, Fay Ripley, Hermione Norris and Robert Bathurst appear in supporting roles. The programme was written by Mike Bullen, a BBC radio producer with little screenwriting experience, who was tasked with creating a one-off television production that would appeal to middle-class television audiences, who the executive producer Andy Harries believed were underepresented on British television.
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John Thomson (comedian) John Patrick Thomson (born Patrick Francis McAleer on 2 April 1969) is an English comedian and actor, best known for his roles in "The Fast Show", "Men Behaving Badly" and "Cold Feet".
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Ben Keaton Ben Keaton (born 1956) is an Irish actor who appeared as Jeff Brannigan in ITV soap opera "Emmerdale". He appeared in BBC's "Casualty" playing the part of Spencer between 1999-2002. He guest starred as Father Austin Purcell in "Think Fast, Father Ted", an episode of the Channel 4's sitcom "Father Ted". He had a small part in the British film "East is East" as a priest.
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Thief Takers Thief Takers is a British television crime drama series, created by Roy Mitchell, and produced by Central Independent Television for the ITV network. The series depicts the work of a team of officers based in the Metropolitan Police Service's Flying Squad, which Reece Dinsdale, Brendan Coyle, Grant Masters and Nicholas Ball appearing in the principal roles. The series was Carlton's attempt to rival Thames Television's "The Bill", after the producer unexpectedly retained the series despite a major take-over by Carlton. A total of three series were broadcast between 1 February 1995 and 18 December 1997, with a total of twenty-five episodes broadcast. Each episode features a stand-alone case, with the exception of a small number of two-part episodes. However, the personal lives of each of the officers in the team provide the backdrop for a continuing story arc throughout all three series.
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Philip Franks Philip Franks (born 2 February 1956) is an English actor and theatre director, known to the public chiefly for his roles in British television series.
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Don't Spare the Horses Don't Spare the Horses was a British television comedy series which aired on the BBC during 1952. It featured Jimmy James, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, and Spike Milligan. It aired live for three episodes. These live transmissions were not recorded, as the BBC very rarely telerecorded shows prior to the mid-1950s.
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Harry H. Corbett Harry H. Corbett, OBE (28 February 192521 March 1982) was an English actor. Corbett is best known for his co-starring role in the popular and long-running BBC Television sitcom "Steptoe and Son" which was first broadcast in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Benny Hill Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992) was an English comedian and actor, best remembered for his television programme "The Benny Hill Show", an amalgam of slapstick, burlesque and double entendres in a format that included live comedy and filmed segments, with him at the focus of almost every segment.
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Christopher Biggins Christopher Kenneth Biggins (born 16 December 1948) is an English actor and television presenter.
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Ian Hendry Ian Mackendrick Hendry (13 January 1931 – 24 December 1984) was an English film, television and stage actor. He was best known for his work on several British TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, including the lead in the first series of "The Avengers" and "The Lotus Eaters", as well as for his roles in films such as "The Hill" (1965), "Repulsion" (1965), "Get Carter" (1971), and "Theatre of Blood" (1973).
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Frazer Hines Frazer Hines (born 22 September 1944) is an English actor best known for his roles as Jamie McCrimmon in "Doctor Who" and Joe Sugden in "Emmerdale". Hines appeared in 117 episodes of the original series of "Doctor Who"; only the first four Doctors appeared in more episodes.
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John Collin (actor) John Collin (18 October 1928 – 25 February 1987) was a British actor frequently seen on UK television during the 1960s and 1970s, mainly in supporting roles. Collin's best-known role was as Detective Sergeant Haggar in the long running BBC police series "Z-Cars". Another notable role was as Guardian officer Tom Weston in the 1971 ITV political fantasy "The Guardians".
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Leslie Ash Leslie Ash (born 19 February 1960) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Deborah Burton in the BBC sitcom "Men Behaving Badly", Vanessa Lytton in the BBC medical drama "Holby City" from 2009 to 2010 and Karen Buckley in the ITV drama "Where the Heart Is" from 2000 to 2003. Her book "My Life Behaving Badly: The Autobiography" was published in 2007.
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William Beck (actor) William Beck is a Welsh-born actor, best known for his appearances on television in the United Kingdom as Royston White on BBC One drama series "Robin Hood", and Dylan Keogh on BBC One drama series "Casualty". He has also appeared in popular feature films such as "Snatch", directed by Guy Ritchie.
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Dave Atkins (actor) David James "Dave" Atkins (11 October 1940 – 23 April 2008) was an English actor mostly known for portraying Sharkey in "Britannia Hospital", Moving Man No.1 in Clive Barker's "Hellraiser" in 1987, and pub landlord Les in "Men Behaving Badly".
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The Armstrong &amp; Miller Show The Armstrong and Miller Show is a British sketch comedy television show produced by Hat Trick Productions for BBC One. It features the double act Armstrong and Miller and a number of notable scriptwriters including Andy Hamilton, co-creator of "Outnumbered", and Jeremy Dyson, co-creator of "The League of Gentlemen". It has run for three series and been nominated for two BAFTAs, winning one.
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Julian Harries Julian Harries is a British actor and playwright who works mostly in Suffolk, England.
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Alan Halsall Alan David Halsall (born 11 August 1982) is an English actor known for playing Tyrone Dobbs in "Coronation Street", a role which he has played since 1998.
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Simon Shepherd Simon Stephen Shepherd (born 20 August 1956) is an English actor. He is best known to TV audiences from many appearances, including as Dr Will Preston in five series of ITV's "Peak Practice" and Doctor Jonathan Barling in Casualty in Five Days.
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John Levene John Levene (born John Anthony Woods, 24 December 1941 in Salisbury, Wiltshire) is an English actor. His best-known role was that of Corporal, Sergeant, and later Warrant Officer, John Benton, of the UNIT in the science-fiction television series "Doctor Who."
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Ricky Groves Richard "Ricky" Groves (born 23 April 1968) is an English actor best known for playing Garry Hobbs in "EastEnders" from 2000–09. Before his role in "EastEnders" he appeared in the series "Burnside", a spin-off from "The Bill". He trained at The Poor School in London.
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Cold Feet Cold Feet is a British comedy-drama television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network. The series was created and principally written by Mike Bullen as a follow-up to his award-winning 1997 Comedy Premiere of the same name. The series follows three couples experiencing the ups-and-downs of romance, originally Adam Williams and Rachel Bradley (James Nesbitt and Helen Baxendale), Pete and Jenny Gifford (John Thomson and Fay Ripley) and Karen and David Marsden (Hermione Norris and Robert Bathurst). As the original series progressed, the Giffords divorced and Pete married Jo Ellison (Kimberley Joseph), whilst Karen and David also separated forming relationships with Mark Cubitt (Sean Pertwee) and Robyn Duff (Lucy Robinson).