RIP Derek Fowlds
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Dr Jekyll

Original Poster:

23,820 posts

285 months

Friday 17th January 2020
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The last surviving star of Yes Minister now gone.

ClaphamGT3

12,041 posts

267 months

Friday 17th January 2020
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Incredibly talented actor - so sad

Munter

31,330 posts

265 months

Friday 17th January 2020
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As the tweet says: Excellent in Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister. And had one of the best lines in sitcom history
https://twitter.com/CameronYardeJnr/status/1218128...

Troubleatmill

10,210 posts

183 months

Friday 17th January 2020
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Goodbye Mr Derek,

Boom Boom!!

williamp

20,124 posts

297 months

Friday 17th January 2020
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...juat as Basil Brush makes his Tv comeback in Crackerjack.

RIP to somdone who always seemed, or, played a very nice person

Cantaloupe

1,056 posts

84 months

Friday 17th January 2020
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Sad news, never a John Hurt or an Albert Finney, but a jobbing character actor who had a good number of TV roles.

Halmyre

12,307 posts

163 months

Friday 17th January 2020
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Great in Yes Minister.

Humphrey: You're talking in riddles, Bernard.
Bernard: Oh, thank you.
Humphrey: That was not a compliment!

megaphone

11,484 posts

275 months

Friday 17th January 2020
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I met him and Basil Brush when I was taken to see them at BBC Shepherds Bush Theatre, would have been 1970 ish, I met him again 30 years later, very nice man.

ninepoint2

3,923 posts

184 months

Friday 17th January 2020
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Munter said:
As the tweet says: Excellent in Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister. And had one of the best lines in sitcom history
https://twitter.com/CameronYardeJnr/status/1218128...
Superb, doubt that would be acceptable now in this land of PC-ness gone mad.

K12beano

20,854 posts

299 months

Saturday 18th January 2020
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Ahh!

Mister Derek!