The Likely Lads Actor Rodney Bewes Dies

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42067506

Now this is very sad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42067506

[Calibax]

Sad news.
RIP kidder

[Captain2]

Watch the earlier Repeats Tilly, James Bolam has not been in New Tricks for a few years now.

[tonyav]

Not since 2013.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0092639/

[marval]

Sad to hear this, RIP Rodney.

[DTCwordfan]

A shame, such the news this week.....

[jourdain2]

Saddened. I went to Bingley Grammar School - so he and I knew the same environment when we grew up. Very definitely R.I.P. and I hope James Bolam will reflect quietly.

[Sipowicz]

James Bolam. Grandpa in my pocket.

[cupid04]

RIP Rodney Bewes. My favourite episode of the Likely Lads was when they were trying to avoid hearing the score of the football match.

[Eleena]

" In the chocolate box of life, the top layers already gone, and someone's pinched the Orange cream from the bottom" .. brilliant.

[murraymints]

had not seen this news.. sad , I loved the likely lads..

[emmie]

now that is sad news, RIP Rodney.

[Jomlett]

A Classic Likely Lads when they were trying to avoid hearing the score of the football match.

https://footballpink.net/2017/07/22/football-on-the-small-screen-part-1-whatever-happened-to-the-likely-lads-no-hiding-place/

[Ric.ror]

Wrong one died if you ask me

[jno]

I understand they'll both die, Ric.ror. Both series of the Likely Lads are occasionally broadcast and available on DVD, so Bolam's block on repeats didn't last. He was annoyed, I believe, that Bewes told a reporter that Bolam's wife was pregnant. I can understand that, though refusing ever to speak to him again is feuding above and beyond the call of duty.

[fiction-factory]

I also loved the Likely Lads (particularly the 60s black and white one rather than the 70s Whatever Happened to...series). I also liked him as Mr Rodney in Basil Brush. The chemistry with James Bolam was a joy to watch. Unlike Bolam, though, he didn't really play many other major roles- I am not sure why, but maybe he didn't like the limelight

[New Judge]

He did enjoy the limelight but preferred the stage to TV.

[mikey4444]

NJ...it was on the stage ?.....I never knew that !

I listen to the Radio 4 Extra version, whenever it is on.

[Mamyalynne]

I think NJ meant that Rodney liked to perform on stage.

//Bewes remained active as a stage performer in the 1990s and later with one-man versions of Three Men in a Boat and Diary of a Nobody, both of which shows he toured extensively in the UK. At the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1997 he won the Stella Artois Prize for his one-man production of Three Men in a Boat. In July 2013, he was The Marshal (Philippe Pétain) in the Southwark Playhouse production of Peter Ustinov's The Moment of Truth.//