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You ever get that when your watching something on box or hear somethin in the news and you think to yourself
"ah thats right i remember then from years back! Wonder what they are doing now?"
Was watching the telly a few days ago and on comes The Upper Hand
Thought to myself - whats Charlie Burrows doing these days?
Joseph 'Joe' McGann (born 24 July 1958) is an English actor. His most well known role is the lead role of Charlie Burrows, the "housekeeper" in the TV comedy series The Upper Hand (1990–1996). He is also known as a television reporter on the BBC's South Today programme, reporting on local events in the south of England. He was also a key character in ITV's soap Night and Day, who had an affair with the underage main character Jane Harper before her disappearance.
In 2009, he appeared on BBC's Celebrity MasterChef alongside Linda Barker and Ninia Benjamin and dropped out in the semi-finals. In May and June 2009, Joe appeared as Richard in "Lost Monsters" by Laurence Wilson at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre.
As of 2011, Joe can be seen occasionally guest presenting STV's daily magazine show, The Hour, alongside regular host Michelle McManus.
In 2012 Joe was cast as Ray Say in a UK touring production of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. However he dropped out of the tour mid-way through with understudy Phil Andrews taking over his role for the remainder of the tour.
Joe has one daughter, born in 1988.
He currently lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
"ah thats right i remember then from years back! Wonder what they are doing now?"
Was watching the telly a few days ago and on comes The Upper Hand
Thought to myself - whats Charlie Burrows doing these days?
Joseph 'Joe' McGann (born 24 July 1958) is an English actor. His most well known role is the lead role of Charlie Burrows, the "housekeeper" in the TV comedy series The Upper Hand (1990–1996). He is also known as a television reporter on the BBC's South Today programme, reporting on local events in the south of England. He was also a key character in ITV's soap Night and Day, who had an affair with the underage main character Jane Harper before her disappearance.
In 2009, he appeared on BBC's Celebrity MasterChef alongside Linda Barker and Ninia Benjamin and dropped out in the semi-finals. In May and June 2009, Joe appeared as Richard in "Lost Monsters" by Laurence Wilson at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre.
As of 2011, Joe can be seen occasionally guest presenting STV's daily magazine show, The Hour, alongside regular host Michelle McManus.
In 2012 Joe was cast as Ray Say in a UK touring production of The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. However he dropped out of the tour mid-way through with understudy Phil Andrews taking over his role for the remainder of the tour.
Joe has one daughter, born in 1988.
He currently lives in Glasgow, Scotland.
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For those old enough to remember Christopher Trace, from Blue Peter, he wasn't a small bloke.
Wasted away to fack all and died of throat cancer in The London Hospital in Whitechapel in 1992. The only 'celebrity' person who came to see him was Valerie Singleton. |
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Before my time CMAT
its amazing how often you think of folk from the past - good to check up on how life is treating them |
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Whatever happened to Michael Atwell who played Razor Eddie in the cult tv series Turtles Progress ?
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Died 8 years ago
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As well as acting, between 1981 and 1993 Attwell also had a considerable career as a political cartoonist for several British national newspapers including The Sun, Sunday People and the News of the World. A self-taught artist, Attwell signed himself as Zoke, an amalgam of the names of his children Zoe and Jake.
Attwell died in London on the 18 March 2006 aged 63 from complications following surgery. His life and work was honoured at the British Academy Television Awards in 2006. RIP KENNY BEALE  |
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Sad to hear that. Didn`t realise he was Zoke the famous cartoonist. One learns something every day. He was brilliant in Turtles Progress. Thanks
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lots of folk dying these days mac
following on from earlier post - love piece of music from the upper hand when tv was good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLY-qT5rTWg |
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roger moore was on radio 2 yest talking about being friends with frank sinatra .said he was a great guy.in story he told ab britich actor was ill and in hosp and frank phoned him and said "ont worry about your bills just get better" the actor cant mind his name said why frank?iv never even met you,frank replied "dont matter i enjoy your work"
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so frank sinatra covered the mans bills till he got better.might have been peter otoole
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good to even just give a mention to the folk that everyone forgot about loads of folk on the telly gone in a flash GEORGE COLE - living a good life Cole was given up for adoption at the age of ten days and adopted by the Cole family. He left school to be a butcher's boy but landed a part in a touring musical, and chose acting as a career. He appeared in a film with British stage and film actor Alastair Sim, and Sim and his family took in Cole and his adoptive mother when he was 15. They helped him lose his Cockney accent and he stayed with the Sims until he was 27.[2] Cole began appearing in films in the early 1940s, debuting in the 1941 film Cottage to Let. He attributes the success of his career to Alastair Sim, who became his mentor. Cole appeared in a total of 11 films with Sim, starting with Cottage to Let, and ending with the somewhat obscure 1961 independent film The Anatomist. He also acted opposite Laurence Olivier in The Demi-Paradise (1943) and Olivier's film version of Henry V (1944). He and Renée Asherson are the last surviving members of the large cast of Henry V. His career was interrupted by his service in the Royal Air Force from 1944 to 1947. He was well known for his lead role in the 1953-1969 radio comedy A Life of Bliss where from the eighth episode (David Tomlinson played Bliss in the first seven episodes), he played an amiable but bumbling bachelor, David Alexander Bliss, with his dog Psyche, voiced by Percy Edwards.[3] It lasted for six series and just six of the 118 episodes made of the radio series now survive. This became a TV series in 1960. He became familiar to audiences in British comedy films in the 1950s. Cole appeared with Sim in Scrooge (as the young Scrooge) in 1951, but his best known film role was as "Flash Harry" in the St Trinian's films (two of which also star Sim), and in the comedy Too Many Crooks (1959). He also starred in the 1973 film Take Me High alongside Cliff Richard and Deborah Watling. His most memorable television role was as crooked used-car dealer Arthur Daley in the Thames Television series Minder which he played from 1979 to the show's conclusion in 1994. George has recently been cast in a new crime-horror film called Road Rage, in the role of Cyril, which will be released in cinemas in 2015. |
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never knew he was still alive or started of in life like that.i raise a glass to him george cole the legend that lives
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what a man mate
george laid down the law |
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sold a car way grass growing out of it.but ye always had the arthur daley golden handshake to fal back on.man of his word,gave terry a job when out of prison and no one would help him.good old arty
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that just brought a smile to the face
arthur good lad gave terry a job keep him on the straight and narrow could neck a vodka in 2 seconds - no questions asked must be where old pedro got his drinkin skills [ This image is no longer available. ] |
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 .hopefully someone will take on pefro when he gets out.steve would but bar no good.maybe a job a cabs way steve and loyd.pedro would do more bangin than his taxi doors as a cabi |
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if only the bookies were still open
pete must have stape on the old speed dial - i refuse to believe stape is dead i would give tim a job - help him into writing and lay a few daft bets in the meantime peter needs the bookies protectin from huge liabilities |
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tim would make a good bookies apprentice i agree
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blanches union jack and lucky 15 bets for ten bob were a thorn in petes side.she even mocked him at the aa meetings
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when blanche line stoated the bookies was doomed with no stape to lay before the 4rth stoated
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blanche now dead
she done peter off with a lucky 15 best odds guarenteed - peter done what he had to do rip blanche |
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im pmsl here mate
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What happened to Dave Compton?
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he went to use and done poker for a living
i missed him on atr |
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USA sorry
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Dave Compo Compton @_Compo_ · 2 May 2012
Spurs back in the driving seat for a place in Europe!! Not that I saw much of it- the £20 super turbo needed full concentration. last tweet over 2 years ago  |
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DC poker stats.
England All Time Money List 3,971st All Time Money List Current Rank 72,880th All Time Money List Best Rank 24,055th Popularity Ranking 7,166th Best Live Cash $8,406 |