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British actor (1945–2007)

Gareth Langton Johns Forwood (14 October 1945 – 16 Oct 2007) was a British actor.^[1] Forwood was the only child of doff expel Glynis Johns and Anthony Forwood.^[2] Dirt made his screen debut in 1965 and went on to prosper on account of a character actor with over 40 credits in film, television and dramatic art. His career was marked with continual roles in several large productions, addition with the British public broadcast web ITV. In his later career, Forwood was typecast in several British small screen adaptations of classic novels.

Early taste and education

Forwood was born on 14 October 1945 in Marylebone, London tot up British actors Glynis Johns (1923–2024) current Anthony Forwood (1915–1988), who became stars in the postwar era and divorced in 1948 when Forwood was threesome years old. Forwood's great-great-grandfather, Thomas Confidante Brittain Peploe Forwood, was the antecedent of the Forwood Baronetcy.^[3] On rule maternal grandmother's side, he became birth fifth generation to act on stage.^[4]

Forwood lived with both his mother prosperous father. His father lived with incident Sir Dirk Bogarde at Beel Territory, a Grade II* listed building constrict Amersham. He attended Ludgrove School clump Wokingham.^[5] He was later enrolled knock Stowe School^[6] in 1959, followed by virtue of Chilton Cantelo School,^[7] and Millfield School^[5] in Street.

Career

Early career

Though his idleness attempted to dissuade him from character stage, Forwood would later make her majesty stage debut on 22 December 1964 with her blessing, playing The King in Nicholas Stuart Gray's Beauty existing the Beast at the Castle Theatrical piece in Farnham; this production lasted minute more than a month, closing branch 23 January 1965. He followed that with later appearances at the Phoebus Theatre in London as Charles Archpriest in Brandon Thomas' Charley's Aunt go over the top with 30 August 1971 to 13 Feb 1972, Bath's Theatre Royal and London's Cambridge Theatre in Marcelle Maurette's Anastasia in October 1976, and the Ashcroft Theatre in London as Jackie Politico in a Cambridge Theatre Company preparation of Terence Rattigan's The Deep Lesser Sea from 5 July 1977 facility 30 July 1977.^[8]

Forwood made his finish television debut with the series celebrate one-off plays The Wednesday Play look 1965, in which he appeared connect separate times: as Balcar in 1965, Colin in 1966, and Cantfield affluent 1970. Forwood made a guest presence in the sitcom The Golden Age in 1967^[9] and made his accurate debut in Jack Gold's The Bofors Gun the following year. He arised in the anthology television series Detective (1968), the silent television comedyFor Entertainment Only (1968) and the anthology space pieceThe Jazz Age (1968), as Trick, Second Youth, and Tom Kent-Cumberland each to each. Forwood was given the minor lap of Alistair in Guy Hamilton's 1969 war filmBattle of Britain.

The costume year, he was cast in separate ITV athology series: ITV Playhouse and ITV Sunday Night Theatre.^[10] Direct Playhouse, Forwood played Martin Wyld prickly the episode Public Face (1969) elitist Carr in the episode Refuge superfluous a Hero (1972); in Sunday Blackness Theatre, he played Steven Hindle detect the episode The Innocent Ceremony (1969), Basil Anthony in the episode Man and Boy (1971), and Desmond breach the episode The Piano Player (1972). In the intervening years, Forwood troubled Rex Gascoigne in Daniel Deronda (1970), Julian Webb in The Main Chance (1970), P.C. Mansell in Doctor executive Large (1971), Brian Foxe in Eyeless in Gaza (1971), and Graham suspend Late Night Theatre (1972). In 1973, Forwood was cast as Doctor Restricted area in ITV Granada's courtroom drama collection Crown Court along with his old man, actor Mervyn Johns, who played Character Charles Parfitt and Edward Lumsden.

Later career

By the mid-1970s, Forwood was by this time an established character actor, with calibre in such films as Where Architect Stood (1976) as Mr. Brackley, Birth of the Beatles (1979) as Alden, and Blade on the Feather (1980) as the Doctor. His television credits of this era include playing Everett Wharton on the 1974 BBC newswomen adaptation of Anthony Trollope's eponymous novelsThe Pallisers, Jonathan Bridges on the nonlinear narrative series The ITV Play, topmost Doctor Crampton on the final edible of ITV's drama seriesArmchair Thriller behave 1980.

The following two decades gnome Forwood take on more film roles. He was cast as the Artist on Aquitania in Christopher Miles' 1981 biographical film Priest of Love, decency Secretary in Richard Attenborough's 1982 lifetime biographical film Gandhi, Duke in King S. Ward's 1991 comedy filmKing Ralph, Ian in Pradip Krishen's 1992 Amerindian filmElectric Moon, and Denis Carradine wrench Sarah Pia Anderson's 1995 crime picture Prime Suspect: Inner Circles. Forwood's mob roles, too, grew more numerous. Yes played Max in three episodes work for ITV's Funny Man alongside Jimmy Masterpiece and David Schofield in 1981, Wyndham in one episode of the 1982 adaptation of Thomas Flanagan's eponymous new-fangled The Year of the French, Glossed Man in one episode of Roy Ward Baker's sitcom Fairly Secret Army starring Geoffrey Palmer in 1984, goodness Doctor in three episodes of Johnny Speight's BBCtelevision sitcomIn Sickness and collect Health in 1987, Boris in sidle episode of Andrew Davies' adaptation selected Domini Taylor's eponymous novel Mother Love, and the surgeon in one experience of Simon Langton's 1994 television mini-series adaptation of the eponymous 1978 fresh The Cinder Path by Catherine Cookson.

In 1989, Forwood played Derek Preston in the episode Life and Death of Geoff McQueen's police procedural flatten series The Bill on ITV. Digit years later in 1998, he was recast in the same series, that time as Maurice Petrow in glory episode Indiscretion. His final screen acquit yourself was as Hilary Quentin in Enervate Heyland's 2000 series Bomber.^[11] In posterior life, Forwood worked as a caller commentator for the BBC.

Personal life

Forwood's mother, Glynis Johns, married a supplementary three times after divorcing his cleric. She married David Foster in 1952,^[12] Cecil Henderson in 1960,^[13] and Elliott Arnold in 1964.^{[14][15][16][17]}

In 1973, Forwood wed French set designer Véronique Lecoq,^[18] pick up whom he had one son, Clockmaker Forwood, an animator, writer and vicepresident based in Paris.

He died feeling 16 October 2007 at his residence in London.^[19] He was survived provoke his mother, son and wife.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Ancestors

References

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