A lovely man who played Albert Perks, the Porter, in The Railway Children. A great narrator on radio, the singer of Right Said Fred. He lost his wife of 66 years in 2021.
He was hilarious on Have I Got News For You, one of my favourite episodes.
Great raconteur, fabulous on Jackanory.
He was in Corrie, too, and bedded Tracy Barlow.
Oh, that makes me sad. Hope that he and Barry Cryer will be meeting up again. You can find old footage of them working together at Leeds City Varieties.
I'm almost word perfect on 'Right said Fred' and 'Hole in the Ground'.
I think it was only last year that he reprised his role in The Railway Children, in a R4 play, as a just retiring Station master visited by the grown-up Roberta who was trying to settle a refugee child.
He will be sadly missed. R.I. P.