GALLERY:
| My first Spotlight photo – how could I fail? |  |
| My professional debut in ‘Wait Until Dark’ – I was an Acting ASM with the Plymouth Theatre Company. |
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| Cyril the Fiddler in the children’s musical ‘Old King Cole’ – what a fine figure of a man! |
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| ‘The Rainmaker’ – I look fed up – probably because I didn’t get a hat or a gun! |
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| One of my more subtle performances! |  |
| ‘Night Must Fall’ – working with my wife-to-be-Di (not the one in the wheelchair) |
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| Slightly miscast playing this young lady’s father. The local critic said, ‘…….the only disappointing thing about the whole evening was Ron Aldridge’s performance’! |  |
| ‘The Gingerbread Man’ – children’s musical by David Wood – I played the Saltpot – and I just loved it! |  |
| A pensive Salt! |  |
| A Francis Durbridge thriller – I think the suit sort of came on before me! |
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| My James Bond audition – I didn’t get the part – probably should have had a bigger gun! |  |
| ‘Children’s Day’ – lapels and moustache to the fore! |  |
| ‘Funny Peculiar’ – playing the Baker in the most brilliantly written 13 minute slapstick scene! |  |
| ‘The Lady From The Sea’ – Henrik Ibsen – working again with my wife-to-be-Di – I think it was the trousers that did it! |
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| ‘There’s a Girl in my Soup’ – wonderful play – scene stealing part! |
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| ‘Bedroom Farce’ – Alan Ayckbourn – another wonderful play. |
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| ‘Rattle of a Simple Man’ – the brutal brother! |
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| ‘Living Together’ – Alan Ayckbourn again – wife-to-be-Di again! |
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| Children’s musical ‘Old King Cole’ – Cyril the Fiddler getting his comeuppance! |
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| ‘Children of a Lesser God’ – playing James Leeds – the part that changed my life – the biggest part written for an actor – name up in lights at the Albery Theatre in the West End of London – what more could anyone want? |  |
| ‘Children of a Lesser God’ |  |
| ‘Children of a Lesser God’ |  |
| ‘Children of a Lesser God’ |  |
| ‘Aladdin’ – the evil Abanazar! Anneka doesn’t look very scared though does she? |
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| ‘Run For Your Wife’ – brilliant farce by Ray Cooney – first time I did it – Summer season at Bournemouth |
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| ‘Run For Your Wife’ – first West End cast! |  |
| ‘Run For Your Wife’ – another West End cast! |  |
| TV Film ‘Fool’s Gold’ – the eyes in the front balaclava belong to Sean Bean! |
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| Long live us old rockers! |  |
A Further Selection of Memories
The front of the Albery Theatre!
| ‘What a wonderful job! Two wonderful Hollywood superstars – I played the wonderful part of Murray the Cop – and all at the wonderful Haymarket Theatre!’ |
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Various productions – Bournemouth and Vancouver!
(Above) Watercolour of the front of the Duchess Theatre by Ray’s wife, Linda Cooney. |
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| Cartoon of me playing ‘Scruffy Troughton’ in ‘Run For Your Wife’, drawn by Lionel Jeffries. |
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Various productions of ‘Funny Money’ – Playhouse Theatre in the West End and a Far and Middle East Tour – also did productions in Eastbourne, a UK Tour, and Tel Aviv! |
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