Rodney Bewes

Whatever happened to Rodney Bewes?

Don't look too good does he?!!

The Likely Lads were good - whatever happened to them?

The Likely Lads was clearly the greatest sitcom ever made.

He is 74 but looks 10 years older sadly

Only caught a glimpse. Other half was watching it.
He did look very poorly

She was a nag, no wonder he looks like he did. Oddie was on the verge of a mental and some of those has-beens didn't even get a caption telling you who they were because no one can remember

Article from the Independent 2010

They were the best of friends – on screen at least. But now a feud that has simmered between the estranged stars of the BBC sitcom The Likely Lads for almost 35 years has erupted. Rodney Bewes, who played Bob Ferris in the series, has accused his former co-star James Bolam of condemning fellow cast members to poverty through his refusal to grant permission for the series to be repeated on network television.

"Jimmy Bolam's killed it, which is such a pity," he said: "I'm very poor so I have to tour one-man shows because Jimmy has buried The Likely Lads. You have to sign a waiver for them to repeat it and he stopped it while he did New Tricks. Well, New Tricks has been on so long, and is so repeated, that he must be very wealthy; me, I've just got an overdraft and a mortgage."

Bewes added: "He should let it be repeated on BBC2 or BBC1; to stop other people earning money is cruel."

Watched by some 27 million people – half the population of Britain at the time – the 1960s sitcom made the pair household names, giving them a level of success they have not matched since. Written by **** Clement and Ian La Frenais, The Likely Lads was about two best mates from the North-east. It spawned a second series in the 1970s and even a feature film. But its stars have not spoken since they made the film in 1976.

It was not always that way, according to Bewes: "We were great friends. When my babies were born, his was the first house I went to. I had a daughter first, Daisy, and then we had three boys who were triplets."

When asked why the pair haven't spoken since 1976, he said: "It's this actor's ego thing: he thinks he is important. Actors aren't important. I'm not important; I have fun. I think Jimmy takes himself very seriously as an 'actor'."

Bolam did not respond to requests to comment on his former colleague's remarks. However, in an interview to promote a children's TV series called Grandpa in My Pocket, he said: "It's irksome that people like you bang on about it as if it's the only thing I've ever done in my life.... When the series is over it's over and you move on to other things. You see, because one played great friends it doesn't mean that you are great friends."

What happened next?

James Bolam went from playing Terry Collier to a series of top TV roles, from When the Boat Comes In to New Tricks. He is an MBE.

Sheila Fearn played Terry's sister, Audrey. Also in George and Mildred, Sorry! on TV and Terry Gilliam's film Time Bandits.

Rodney Bewes had his own sitcom Dear Mother... Love Albert. Now, 72, he still takes his acclaimed one-man shows on tour.

Brigit Forsyth played Bob's wife, Thelma. TV roles span Boon and The Bill to Dr Who and Calendar Girls on stage. She is 69.

I thought they fell out over Bewes letting something slip about Bolam to the press and that he's never forgiven him for it. Sounds pretty pitiful almost pleading to let Likely Lads be shown. Actors are a funny lot. I remember reading how Martin Shaw wouldn't let Professionals be shown (probably because he's justifiably ashamed of it) but relented only when it was pointed out that Gordon Jackson's widow was very hard up.

The other difference is that James Bolam is one of our best television actors and Rodney Bewes is a ham who got a lucky break and could not follow it up.

Jack Nicholson same age,  Rodney looked quite frail imo

http://images.zap2it.com/images/celeb-1257/jack-nicholson-2.jpg

lol your not wrong

Wise words Ken

*by

It's the colossal fk up that will haunt him to his grave imvhaho.

Bewes is the sort of baby-faced man who would kill you with miniscule doses of rat poison over a period of years, same as the rarely mentioned Hywel Bennet imo. Evil cherubic cowards, polar opposites of raging testosterone thunderstorms like Worral-Thompson.


If chit-chat was a stone tablet hewn from the rock of a mountain in a land that was soaked in the blood of peoples from 1000's of years and destined to remain in turmoil until the appearance of amysterious man from the east then this should be the writing thereon.

BonVivvy, that bloke still looks like the 'forgotten and not-mentioned at family parties' brother of the farmer off countryfile.

Wouldn't surprise me if Bewes is on here before long blaming Basil Brush for blacklisting him from children's TV.

As an ageing and bitter Brush commented to Yentob in a recent BBC2 tribute: "With what was going on under that table, it was hard to tell which of us was the glove puppet. Er, boom, feckin boom."

Brush was a fearsome partner for any luvvie to risk their career for,look at poor Mr Roy,only ever gig he got after Brushs sidekick was playing Ronald Macdonald ffs! While Mr Dereck eeeked out a living as the acne scarred desk sergant making cups of tea for Nick Berry to make ends meet.
I think "Mr Billy" ended up homeless doing favours for sailors.

If only Mr Rodney had known of the curse.

Brush certainly took no prisoners.

There was the infamous incident in the BBC bar when he threatened to glass Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart for "stepping on my lines once too ****ing often, you floppy haired ****".

David 'Diddy' Hamilton stepped in as peacemaker, only to have Brush attempt to choke him with his own wig, until Bewes hauled the enraged fox off.

That Allo Allo bird on masterchef would still get it