Bill Maynard

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  [Deleted User] Posts: 666

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  19/11/10 - 01:43 #2

  Not according to IMDB. The last thing they've got for him is The Royal back in 2003 as Claude Greengrass.
  
  http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0562732/

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  19/11/10 - 11:06 #3

  I've seen Bill in a lot of good stuff but Selwyn Frogitt and The Gaffer
  were absolute garbage in my opinion. Magic our Maurice! I don't think so

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  ftv Posts: 31,668

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  19/11/10 - 15:02 #4

  Bill has retired from acting after a series of strokes

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  ianradioian Posts: 74,941

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  19/11/10 - 15:03 #5

  He must be a right old boy now. Ive got a dvd of Selwyn Froggit!

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  I love Ellie Posts: 8,009

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  19/11/10 - 15:06 #6

  He was the special guest at our village carnival in the late 1970s!

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  19/11/10 - 15:35 #7

  I remember reading some time ago that Bill wasn't well liked by the cast and crew on Heartbeat.

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  tauran_shammy Posts: 5,847

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  19/11/10 - 15:37 #8

  He was doing a radio show on bbc radio leicester a couple of years ago.

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  tauran_shammy Posts: 5,847

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  19/11/10 - 15:38 #9

  i see he still is
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/content/articles/2006/01/04/presenter_bill_maynard_feature.shtml

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  John Dough Posts: 146,632

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  19/11/10 - 15:48 #10

  He's 82 according to this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Maynard

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  North Downs Posts: 2,471

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  19/11/10 - 19:58 #11

  I remember him on tv in the fifties, he was a stand up comic in those days.

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  19/11/10 - 20:11 #12

  Saw him once in the Co-Op in Leicester when I lived there.
  
  My colleague used to work at Leicester General Hospital and came across him in a waiting area once, getting very rude at the receptionist at being told to wait, apparently it was a proper "Don't you know who I am" moment, wanting to be bumped up the queue.
  
  Was very funny in Heartbeat though.

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  19/11/10 - 20:30 #13

  NoelMG wrote: »

  
  Was very funny in Heartbeat though.

  
  Claude Greengrass should have been the richest man in the village. The amount of compensation he'd have got in wrongful arrest cases against the police would have been staggering.

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  Terry Wigon Posts: 6,831

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  19/11/10 - 22:49 #14

  Doesn't he have an unusual marriage where his wife lives in the USA and they only meet up occasionally? I'm sure I heard that somewhere but it may just be an urban myth.

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  wur86 Posts: 10,494

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  19/11/10 - 22:54 #15

  Terry Wigon wrote: »

  Doesn't he have an unusual marriage where his wife lives in the USA and they only meet up occasionally? I'm sure I heard that somewhere but it may just be an urban myth.

  
  I read that somewhere too.
  
  Loved the scene in the 'Gaffer' where he had a whipround with his employees and then divided it out to pay their wages.:D

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  19/11/10 - 23:19 #16

  Pheasant Pluckers Son sung by Bill Maynard

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  19/11/10 - 23:20 #17

  He is often sighted in and around Hinckley.

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