Brian Wilde
Brian George Wilde (13 June 1927 – 20 March 2008) was an English actor, best known for his roles in television comedy, including Mr Barrowclough in Porridge and "Foggy" Dewhurst in Last of the Summer Wine. His lugubrious world-weary face was a staple of British television for forty years.
Career
Though born in Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, he was brought up in Devon and Hertfordshire and attended Hertford Grammar School. He trained as an actor at RADA.
He had a small part in the horror film Night of the Demon (1957). He had an earlier role as a small time crook in the 1954 film "Forbidden Cargo" (uncredited) starring Jack Warner and Nigel Patrick. Early television roles included the series The Love of Mike (1960) and supporting Tony Hancock in episodes of his ATV series in 1963. He also played Detective Superintendent Halcro in a series of two-part thrillers about undercover Scotland Yard officers, The Men from Room Thirteen (BBC, 1959–61). He had minor roles in films such as Life for Ruth (1962), The Bargee (1964), The Jokers (1967) and Carry On Doctor (1967), and on television in Room at the Bottom (1966–67) as Mr Salisbury. His first major television success was in 1970 as refuse depot manager "Bloody Delilah" in the ITV sitcom The Dustbinmen. He showed his sinister side as the mischievous magician Mr Peacock in the children's drama series Ace of Wands between 1970 and 1972. That year he starred as a murderer in The Uninvited, an episode of the BBC's supernatural thriller series Out of the Unknown. Also in 1971, in the television drama Elizabeth R, Wilde played the efficient, merciless 'rackmaster' Richard Topcliffe, who was charged with the torture of prisoners in the Tower of London. He also played a character in the 1970s British comedy series on Children's TV The Ghosts of Motley Hall" by Richard Carpenter.
Wild, Brian Filmography
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1981, role: actor , character name: Member - Brian Wild & Livewire
Wilde, Brian Filmography
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2003, role: actor , character name: Foggy
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2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2001, role: actor , character name: Mr. Barrowclough
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1997, role: actor
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1997, role: actor , character name: Narrator
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1991, role: actor
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1986, role: actor , character name: Roland Simpson
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1981, role: actor , character name: Tredwell
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1979, role: actor , character name: Barrowclough
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1978, role: actor , character name: Owl
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1978, role: actor
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1976, role: actor , character name: Doctor
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1976, role: actor , character name: Harold
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1976, role: actor , character name: Black Room Attendant
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1974, role: actor , character name: Sir John Reith
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1973, role: actor , character name: Policeman
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1973, role: actor , character name: Major Forster
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1971, role: actor , character name: Warder
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1970, role: actor , character name: Henry Cash
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1970, role: actor , character name: Taxi Driver
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1970, role: actor , character name: Ellerman
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1970, role: actor , character name: Lambert
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1967, role: actor , character name: Man from Cox & Carter
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1967, role: actor , character name: Sgt. Catchpole
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1967, role: actor , character name: 1st Policeman
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1966, role: actor , character name: Vassily`s Father
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1965, role: actor
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1964, role: actor , character name: Policeman
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1964, role: actor , character name: Fred
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1963, role: actor , character name: Cemetery Superintendent
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1963, role: actor , character name: Chief Warden
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1963, role: actor , character name: Lipson
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1962, role: actor , character name: Newspaper Photographer
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1962, role: actor , character name: Mr. Brill
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1962, role: actor , character name: Petty Officer Gilors
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1961, role: actor , character name: Porter
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1960, role: actor , character name: Bill Seddon
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1959, role: actor , character name: Supt. Halcro
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1959, role: actor
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1958, role: actor , character name: Bill
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1958, role: actor
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1958, role: actor , character name: Man in Operating Theatre Audience
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1957, role: actor , character name: Rand Hobart
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1957, role: actor , character name: The Monk
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1956, role: actor , character name: Trumps
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1955, role: actor , character name: Peter Harbottle
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1954, role: actor , character name: Smuggler at Airfield
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1953, role: actor , character name: 1st Clerk
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1953, role: actor , character name: Pinky - Bogus Detective Sgt
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1952, role: actor , character name: Colonel Talchine
Wilde, Brian Filmography
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2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - Panelist
Born Late '58
Baby took me out last night
Got a little cadillac bite.
Shook me about - inside out
Didn't get home 'till light.
She's a grower, a goer - you gotta get to know her
No chooser, a cruiser - you turn around she'll lose you
Burned out as the light turned green
Smoke-screened off her rail.
He didn't see me comin' but he shoulda saw me runnin'
Faster than the U.S. mail.
She's a speeder, a leader
You're really gotta meet her
You see her, she thrills you, you look at her she'll kill you.
Listen, fella, baby don't you sell her
Don't you try and steal her away
Hush, man logs in her dam
Think you better fade away
Detonator, jail-baiter - a radar radiator
She'll annoy ya, destroy ya - she'll bring ya down in fire
Create her, mistreat her - no use tryin' to beat her