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Chris Haywood
Australian actor
Chris Haywood (born c. 1948) is an English-born Australian actor, writer and producer, with close to 500 screen performances to his name. Haywood has also worked as a casting director, art director, sound recordist, camera operator, gaffer, grip, location and unit manager.
Early life and education
[edit]Haywood was born around 1948[3] in Billericay, Essex, England.[citation needed] He spent his early childhood in Chelmsford before moving to High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire where he attended Royal Grammar School from 1959 to 1965. He then started working in the cellars of a local wine shipper before gaining a place at E15 Acting School. After graduating in 1970 he emigrated to Australia.[3]
Career
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Soon after arriving in Sydney, Haywood became involved with the Nimrod Theatre Company, helping to build the pre
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A recent flurry of visits to my past reviews of episodes of the BBC Dalziel & Pascoe adaptations of Reginald Hill’s mis-matched detectives reminded me that there were still two episodes I had not watched, so I decided to enjoy these as a brief interlude before resuming my film slot with the latest bunch of discoveries from YouTube.
‘Deadheads’, which I was delighted to note was adapted by fellow Yorkshireman Alan Plater, was adapted from the seventh Dalziel and Pascoe novel, pubkished in 1983 but updated to 1996 to match the year it appeared. It was the third episode of the four part second series, continuing the adaptation of Hill’s novels in asfaithful a manner as time constraints and television mores could do. Warren Clarke is still brilliant as Andy Dalziel but, like Gary Oldman as Jackson Lamb in the Slow Horses TV series, he simply can’t be as gross as the book would demand. But here I must quote a friend who opined, “I thought W
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Actor Warren Clarke died 12 Nov, aged 67, after a short illness. Warren Clarke appeared in several BBC Pebble Mill dramas including: Battle of Waterloo 1983, Nice Work 1989, and perhaps most famously, Dalziel and Pascoe 1996-2007.
Warren was born in Oldham, and began acting at the Liverpool Playhouse. He appeared in the controversial, 1971, Stanley Kubrick rulle, A Clockwork Orange. He has been described as having a ‘hangdog’ expression, perfect for rather grumpy character parts, like Vic in Nice Work, and the detective, Dalziel, in Dalziel and Pascoe.
I remember seeing Warren Clarke at several Midlands, Royal Television Society Awards ceremonies, where he was frequently nominated, and often won awards – he seemed to enjoy a good party!
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Warren Clarke and Haydn Gwynne. Nice Work
Warren Clarke, Battle of Waterloo
Warren Clarke, Nice Work