| Frank Middlemass | |
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| Born | Francis George Middlemass 28 May 1919 Eaglescliffe, County Durham, England |
| Died | 8 September 2006 (aged 87) Northwood, Middlesex, England |
Francis George Middlemass (28 May 1919 – 8 September 2006) was an English actor, known as Frank Middlemass, who even in his early career played older roles. Events 585 BC - A Solar eclipse occurs as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Eaglescliffe is a small town within the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and ceremonial county of County Durham, England. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Events 70 - Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem. 1264 - The Statute of Kalisz Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Middlesex is one of the 39 historic counties of England and the second smallest by area. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Events 585 BC - A Solar eclipse occurs as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 70 - Roman forces under Titus sack Jerusalem. 1264 - The Statute of Kalisz Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland An actor, actress, player or thespian (see terminology) is a person who Acts in a Dramatic production and who works He is best remembered for his television roles as Rocky Hardcastle in As Time Goes By, Algy Herries in To Serve Them All My Days and Dr. As Time Goes By is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One from 1992 to 2005 To Serve Them All My Days is a novel by British author R F Delderfield. Alex Ferrenby in Heartbeat. Heartbeat is a long-running British TV police drama series set in 1960s Yorkshire. Middlemass was also active with in the Royal Shakespeare Company and played Dan Archer in The Archers. The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC is a British Theatre company The Archers is a British radio Soap opera broadcast on the BBC 's main spoken-word channel, Radio 4.
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Early life
Middlemass was born in Eaglescliffe, on the Yorkshire-County Durham border, the son of a shipping company director. Eaglescliffe is a small town within the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and ceremonial county of County Durham, England. Yorkshire is a historic county of Northern England and the largest in Great Britain. [1] He was brought up in Newcastle, and educated in Stockton-on-Tees. Newcastle upon Tyne ( (often shortened to Newcastle) is a city and Metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, England Stockton-on-Tees is a market town in North East England. It is the major settlement in the unitary authority area and Borough of Stockton-on-Tees. [2] He entered the Army at the age of 19 and was wounded in the Dunkirk retreat[3] He left the Army when he was 30 and was by then a Lieutenant Colonel. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. The Dunkirk evacuation, codenamed Operation Dynamo by the British was the Evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk Lieutenant Colonel ( Lieutenant-Colonel in English from the French grade 's spelling is a rank of Commissioned officer in the armies [3]
Middlemass started his acting career in rep in Penzance, Cornwall and then went on to join the Old Vic Company. For other meanings of repertory please see Repertory (disambiguation. Penzance (Pensans also Penzans, IPA: /pɛnˈzæns/ is a town Civil parish, and Port in the Penwith district of Cornwall Cornwall ( Kernow ˈkɛɹnɔʊ is the most southwesterly county of England, on the Peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar The Old Vic is a Theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road. [3] While with them he toured North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Lebanon, Russia, Poland and the Far East. South America is a Continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. New Zealand is an Island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (the North Island and the South Island For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. Lebanon (ˈlɛbənɒn Arabic: ar لبنان Lubnān) officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic (ar الجمهورية اللبنانية Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland The Far East is a term often used by people in the Western world to refer to the countries of East Asia. [1] He then joined Anthony Quayle's Shakespeare Memorial Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, and performed in Twelfth Night opposite Vivien Leigh. Sir John Anthony Quayle, CBE ( 7 September 1913 &ndash 20 October 1989) was an English Actor and director Stratford-upon-Avon (ˌstrætfɚd əpɒn ˈɛɪvən is a Market town and Civil parish in south Warwickshire, England. Twelfth Night Or What You Will is a Comedy by William Shakespeare, based on the Short story "Of Apolonius and Silla" by Vivien Leigh Lady Olivier (5 November 1913 &ndash 8 July 1967 was an English actress. [1] During the 1960s, he toured with Ian McKellen's Actor's Company and performed at the Nottingham Playhouse. Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE (born 25 May 1939 is an English stage and screen actor the The Nottingham Playhouse is a theatre in Nottingham England. It was first established as a Repertory theatre in the 1950s when it operated from a former cinema He performed opposite Peter O'Toole in Waiting for Godot. Peter O'Toole (born 2 August 1932) is an Irish and British actor who achieved instant stardom in 1962 playing T Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters wait for someone named Godot who never arrives [1]
His first television role was in 1958, in Dixon of Dock Green. Dixon of Dock Green was a popular BBC television series, which ran from 1955 to 1976 and later a radio series His other early television appearances included Z-Cars, Softly, Softly, The Avengers and Jackanory. Z-Cars (sometimes written as Z Cars) was a British Television drama series centred on the work of beat police in the fictional Softly Softly was a British Television drama series produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966 The Avengers was a British Television series featuring Secret agents in 1960s Britain. Jackanory is a long-running BBC Children's television series that was designed to stimulate an interest in reading. [3] During the 1970s and 1980s he appeared in Doctor at Large, War and Peace, Crown Court, Last of the Summer Wine, Upstairs, Downstairs, Poldark, The Sweeney and Emmerdale Farm. War and Peace was a made-for-television dramatization of the Leo Tolstoy novel of the same name Crown Court was an ITV afternoon television courtroom drama that started in 1972 which was the same year the Crown Court system replaced Assize Last of the Summer Wine is a British sitcom written by Roy Clarke that is broadcast on BBC One. Upstairs Downstairs is a BAFTA and Emmy award-winning British Drama set in a large Townhouse in Edwardian Poldark is a series of Historical novels by Winston Graham, and a popular BBC television series of the 1970s based on the books The Sweeney was a British Television Police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, an elite branch of the Metropolitan Emmerdale, known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989 is a British Soap opera that has aired on ITV since 1972
Television fame
It was not until 1980, when Middlemass appeared in the post-World War I drama To Serve Them All My Days, that he first took a leading role in a television series. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All To Serve Them All My Days is a novel by British author R F Delderfield. [1] He followed this up with a notable performance as The Fool to Michael Hordern's King Lear. Sir Michael Murray Hordern ( 3 October 1911 &ndash 2 May 1995) was an English Actor, knighted in 1983 for his services King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606 and is considered one of his greatest works He went on to play minor characters in Yes Minister, Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (as Lord Derby), Juliet Bravo, Only When I Laugh, All in Good Faith, Yes, Prime Minister, Oliver Twist (as Mr. Yes Minister is a multi-award winning satirical British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted Winston Churchill The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of Winston Churchill, and particularly his years in enforced Earl of Derby is a title in the Peerage of England. The title was first adopted by Robert de Ferrers 1st Earl of Derby under a creation of 1139 Juliet Bravo was a British Television series which ran between 1980 and 1985 Only When I Laugh was a British television Sitcom made by Yorkshire Television for ITV between 1979 and 1982 All in Good Faith is a British sitcom that aired on ITV from 1985 to 1988 Yes Minister is a multi-award winning satirical British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted Oliver Twist (1838 is Charles Dickens' second Novel. The book was originally published in Bentley's Miscellany as a serial Brownlow), and Miss Marple, in the 1989 episode A Caribbean Mystery. Miss Marple was a long-running and popular British Television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie A Caribbean Mystery is a work of Detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November From 1992 to 1993, he appeared in 20 episodes of the police drama Heartbeat as Dr. Heartbeat is a long-running British TV police drama series set in 1960s Yorkshire. Alex Ferrenby. Following that in 1993, Middlemass first appeared in the sitcom As Time Goes By as Rocky Hardcastle, a role that continued until 2002.
Other work
Middlemass also appeared on radio, most notably playing patriarch Dan Archer, the fourth actor to play the role, in the long-running radio soap opera The Archers. The Archers is a British radio Soap opera broadcast on the BBC 's main spoken-word channel, Radio 4. [3] He played this role from 1982 until 1986, when the character was killed off. [1] He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984 and his Shakespearean roles included Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet, Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Holofernes in Love's Labour's Lost. The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC is a British Theatre company William Shakespeare ( baptised Friar Laurence (or Friar Lawrence) is a character in William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the In William Shakespeare 's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Peter Quince is a carpenter that works in Athens. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, suggested by " The Knight's Tale " from Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare 's early comedies believed to have been written in the mid-1590s and first published in 1598 [3] Middlemass also appeared widely in classic plays such as Rosmersholm, Heartbreak House and You Never Can Tell. Rosmersholm is a play written in 1886 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Heartbreak House is a play written by George Bernard Shaw in 1919 You Never Can Tell is an 1897 four-act play by G Bernard Shaw that debuted at the Royalty Theatre.
Later years
Even in his eighties, Frank Middlemass was still performing on stage, notably in The Importance of Being Earnest[2] and toured with a one-man show called Frankly Speaking. The Importance of Being Earnest is a play by Oscar Wilde. It premiered on February 14, 1895 at the St In his final years, he made appearances in Kavanagh QC, Casualty, The 10th Kingdom, Doctors and Midsomer Murders. Kavanagh QC was a British Television series made by Carlton Television for ITV between 1995 and 2001. Casualty is the longest running emergency medical Drama series in the world and the second-longest-running medical drama in the world behind America's General The 10th Kingdom is an epic fantasy TV Miniseries written by screenplay writer Simon Moore and released by Hallmark Entertainment Doctors is a British Daytime television Soap opera, which started in 2000 Midsomer Murders is a British television Drama that has aired on ITV1 since 1997 In 2005, As Time Goes By returned for two reunion specials, aired in Christmas that year, and this was his final television appearance. Middlemass never married, and for 40 years he had a room in the house of his friend, actor Geoffrey Toone, who died in 2005. Geoffrey Toone (15 November 1910 Dublin Ireland – 1 June 2005 Northwood, England, UK) was an Irish character actor [1] Middlemass died in 2006, aged 87, in Northwood, Middlesex. Middlesex is one of the 39 historic counties of England and the second smallest by area.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Obituary - Frank Middlemass", The Daily Telegraph, 21 September 2006. For "The Daily Telegraph" in Australia see The Daily Telegraph (Australia.
- ^ a b "Obituary - Frank Middlemass", The Guardian, 11 September 2006. The Guardian (until 1959 The Manchester Guardian) is a British Newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group.
- ^ a b c d e f "Obituary - Frank Middlemass", The Times, 12 September 2006. The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.
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