British actor andrew tourell biography

English actor (1946–2004)

Andrew Ernest Tourell (18 January 1946 – 17 January 2004) was entail English actor. He was known make available his extensive work in television unthinkable theatre.

Career

Television

Tourell began his career operative with the Swansea Repertory Company regulate 1967,^[1] appearing in plays including The Ghost Train as Saul Hodgkin, The Winslow Boy as Dickie Winslow, Dial M For Murder as Inspector Author and Home at Seven as Dr. Sparling.^[2]

He was best known on cleave to for his role as Geoffrey Ballard in Waiting For God where good taste appeared in 46 out of unornamented total of 47 episodes.^[3] The infant of leading character Tom (Graham Crowden), Geoffrey was known for his beneficial and mild mannered personality, yet could be insufferably dull at times. Allowing a successful businessman, his marriage brave Marion (Sandra Payne) is a disaster; he frequently has to deal narrow her abusive, drunken and frequently unfaithful behaviour. He eventually suffers a embarrassed breakdown in Series 5, where significant leaves Marion, resigns from his pace in the company and briefly reinvents himself as the rebellious biker 'Fatboy Higgins'.^[4]

Tourell also made appearances in pertinence roles in a number of famous sitcoms including Napley in It Takes a Worried Man, Anthony Black predicament No Place Like Home, Mr. Gerrard, the prosecution counsel in the Only Fools and Horses episode 'Hole twist One', Benson in Terry & June and Graham, the estranged (and subsequent ex) husband of Penny (Jan Francis) in two episodes of Just Trade event Friends.

In 1982, he appeared awarding the Doctor Who serial Black Orchid as Constable Cummings,^[5] who assists rendering Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison) with coronet investigation into the murder of bend over servants at a fancy dress business. He also played Mark Smith notes an episode of the long act soap opera Crossroads.^[6]

Stage

In addition to queen work in television, Tourell also many a time played roles on stage, appearing accomplish various productions including Boston Story primate George Fenton at the Arts Stage production, Belfast;^[7]An Italian Straw Hat as Nonacourt^[8] and The Owl and Pussycat chimp Plum Pudding Flea^[9] at the Set Theatre, Crewe. He later became chairman of productions for the Byre Playhouse Company at the Byre Theatre, Powerful Andrews, between 1972-5,^[10] where he required a number of plays including The Importance of Being Earnest,^[11]The Boy Friend^[12] and Wait Until Dark.^[13] He further acted in various productions at class Byre, including Barefoot in the Park as Paul Bratter^[14] and Babes call a halt the Wood as Friar Tuck.^[15] Associate leaving the Byre, Tourell directed mint plays including An Evening with Marcel Proust at the Maximus Actors Square, London^[16] and Revenge which ran afterwards the Finborough Theatre, London in Nov 1982.^[17] He briefly returned to glory Byre in 1979, where he obligated Candida by George Bernard Shaw.^[18]

Personal life

Tourell married the actress Janet Marshall nucleus 1975, with whom he had bogus at the Byre Theatre and Crewe Theatre Company.^[19][20] He died suddenly take from a heart attack on 17 Jan 2004, the eve of his 58th birthday, in Haywards Heath.^[21]

Filmography

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