Walter Frederick George Williams (born 8 October 1928 in Heath End, Farnham, Surrey) more commonly known as Bill Maynard, is a British comedian and actor. is the 281st day of the year (282nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... , Heath End is a village in Surrey, England. ... This article is about the English town. ... This article is about the English county. ... A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ... For other uses, see Actor (disambiguation). ...

He attended Kibworth Beauchamp Grammar School and started as a variety performer, taking his professional surname from an advertising board (billboard) for Maynard's Wine Gums, a popular British confectionery. He placed fourth in the UK heat of the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest. With Terry Scott he appeared at Butlins Holiday Camp in Skegness and was teamed with him in the TV series Great Scott, It's Maynard!. Beauchamp College logo The Beauchamp College (pronounced bee chum) is a comprehensive upper school and further education community college, in Oadby, a town on the outskirts of Leicester, England. ... The United Kingdom held a national preselection to choose the song that would go to the Eurovision Song Contest 1957. ... Terry Scott Terry Scott (May 4, 1927 - July 26, 1994) was an actor and comedian who appeared in seven Carry On films. ... Butlins current logo Butlins Holiday Camps were founded by (later Sir) Billy Butlin to provide economical holidays in the United Kingdom and Ireland. ... , Skegness is a seaside town and civil parish within the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. ...

He was at first best known on TV for his role as Selwyn Froggitt in the sitcom Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt! and for playing Fred Moffatt in The Gaffer. In 1973 Maynard teamed up with BBC Television actor & Comedian Ronnie Barker in the (original) award winning one-off called Football Blues in which aired as Spanners Eleven & was part of a series called Seven of One in where he joined the cast & of course Ronnie Barker at the time, Then in 1992 he played Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in the popular and long running television series Heartbeat (until 2001) and its spinoff series The Royal until about 2004. He is also known for small roles in some of the Carry On Films. A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Oh No, Its Selwyn Froggitt! was a popular ITV situation comedy which ran from 1976 to 1978, although a pilot episode was broadcast in 1974. ... The Gaffer was an ITV situation comedy series of the early 1980s starring Bill Maynard and written by businessman Graham White. ... Ronnie Barker Ronald William George Barker OBE (September 25, 1929 – October 3, 2005), popularly known as Ronnie Barker and (as a writer) Gerald Wiley , was an English comic actor and writer. ... Seven of One was a 1973 television comedy series featuring Ronnie Barker. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Heartbeat is a long-running British TV police drama series set in 1960s Yorkshire. ... The Royal is a British medical drama. ... The Carry On films were a long-running series of British low-budget comedy films, directed by Gerald Thomas and produced by Peter Rogers. ...

In the 1980s Maynard stood against Tony Benn in a by-election at Chesterfield as an Independent Labour candidate. It was his only foray into politics and was purely to try to prevent Benn winning the seat and thus reentering Parliament as an MP. Benn won the seat; Maynard took fourth place. Anthony Tony Neil Wedgwood Benn (born 3 April 1925), formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British socialist politician. ... The Chesterfield by-election, 1984 was a by-election held on March 1 1984 for the British House of Commons constituency of Chesterfield in Derbyshire. ...

Maynard wrote his autobiography 'The Yo-Yo Man' and having originally retired from acting in 2001 following a series of strokes he made a return & comeback to radio presenting in March 2003 for BBC Radio Leicester where he had last worked in 1968. His show goes out every Sunday afternoon from 2-4 pm. Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... A stroke or cerebrovascular accident (CVA) occurs when the blood supply to a part of the brain is suddenly interrupted by occlusion (an ischemic stroke- approximately 90% of strokes), by hemorrhage (a hemorrhagic stroke - less than 10% of strokes) or other causes. ... March 2003 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - → // Events March 1, 2003 Iraq disarmament crisis: The Turkish speaker of Parliament voids the vote accepting U.S. troops involved in the planned invasion of Iraq into Turkey on constitutional grounds. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... BBC Radio Leicester is the BBC Local Radio service for the English counties of Leicestershire and Rutland. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

His son is Maynard Williams. He is a vegetarian. Ryder was a purpose-made pop group led by Maynard Williams whose primary purpose was to represent the United Kingdom at the 1986 Eurovision Song Contest in Bergen, Norway. ... For animals adapted to eat primarily plants, sometimes referred to as vegetarian animals, see Herbivore. ...

Selected Fimography

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External links

• Bill Maynard at the Internet Movie Database
• Bill Maynard at tv.com
• Bill Maynard's "Stock Car Racing is Magic" record;

• see bottom of [1] for more info. on the above!