Colin Jeavons is a Welsh character actor, born 20 October 1929 in Newport, Monmouthshire. Look up Welsh, welsh in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Newport (disambiguation). ... Monmouthshire (Welsh: ) is both a historic county and principal area in south-east Wales. ...

Versatile Actor

He is well known for his part as Max Quordlepleen in the BBC television serial of Douglas Adams' space opera comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or the part of the undertaker, Shadrack, in the television situation comedy written by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall from Waterhouse's novel Billy Liar. Also he was the narrator to the series "Barnaby the Bear" and sang the theme tune. Barnaby is very fondly remembered by British people of a certain generation. There are many minor characters in the various versions of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. ... For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ... Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ... The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhikers series, from a late 1990s printing. ... A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ... Keith Waterhouse (born 6 February 1929 in Leeds, England) is a novelist, newspaper columnist, and the writer of many television series. ... Willis Hall (6 April 1929 - 7 March 2005) was an English playwright and radio and television writer who drew on his working class Leeds roots in much of his material. ... For other uses, see Billy Liar (disambiguation). ... It has been suggested that Barnaby (TV series) be merged into this article or section. ...

His most critically acclaimed role was as the neglected and abused child, Donald, in Dennis Potter's Blue Remembered Hills (1979). He also has featured prominently in the 1990 dramatisation for television of House of Cards by Michael Dobbs, as Tim Stamper, Tory Whip and ally of Ian Richardson's Francis Urquhart. The character returned - promoted initially to Chief Whip, then to Party Chairman - in the sequel, To Play the King. Liber Amoris Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935—7 June 1994) was a controversial British dramatist who is best known for several widely acclaimed television dramas which mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social. ... Blue Remembered Hills is a television play by Dennis Potter, originally broadcast in January 30th 1979 as part of the BBCs Play for Today series. ... House of Cards was a political thriller novel written by Michael Dobbs, a former Chief of Staff at Conservative Party headquarters, which was set at the end of Margaret Thatchers tenure as British Prime Minister. ... Michael Dobbs (born 1948) was a British politician and is author of books and TV, mainly political fiction. ... Ian William Richardson CBE (7 April 1934 – 9 February 2007) was a Scottish actor best known for playing the Machiavellian politician Francis Urquhart in the House of Cards trilogy for the BBC. // Born in Edinburgh, Richardson was educated at Balgreen Primary School and Tynecastle High School in the city,[1... Prime Minister Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson) and the King (Michael Kitchen) in the BBC Television Drama To Play the King. ...

Jeavons' general acting credits are numerous and varied: he is known as a regular character actor on television classical adaptations; he hosted Play School for a time; and was both Moriarty in The Baker Street Boys (1982), and Inspector Lestrade in the Granada Television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (featuring Jeremy Brett as Holmes). In 1985, he played Adolf Hitler in Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil He also appeared in Doctor Who in the 1966 story The Underwater Menace and the 1981 spin-off K-9 and Company; as Briggs, the lawyer who halts the marriage between Jane and Rochester in the 1983 BBC version of Jane Eyre, twice in cult TV series The Avengers and once in Adam Adamant Lives!. Play School was a long-running British series. ... Several people have the name Moriarty, mostly as a surname: Professor Moriarty, an important villain in the Sherlock Holmes series of mysteries Dean Moriarty, character in the novel On The Road by Jack Kerouac Jack Moriarty, a mostly-hallucinated nemesis of Gregory House on the Holmes-inspired television series House. ... The Baker Street Boys is a British television serial made by the BBC in 1983. ... Inspector Lestrade arresting a suspect, by Sidney Paget Inspector Lestrade in the Granada television series Inspector Lestrade is a Scotland Yard detective appearing in several of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the name given to the series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company Granada Television between 1984 and 1994, although only the first two series bore that title on screen. ... Peter Jeremy William Huggins (November 3, 1933 – September 12, 1995), better known as Jeremy Brett, was an English actor famous for his portrayal of the detective Sherlock Holmes in the British television series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. ... This article is about the year. ... Hitler redirects here. ... For other uses, see Doctor Who (disambiguation). ... The Underwater Menace is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from January 14, 1967 to February 4, 1967. ... Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and K-9. ... Charlotte Brontës novel Jane Eyre (1847) has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations. ... The Avengers is a British 1960s television series featuring secret agents in a fantasy 1960s Britain. ... Adam Adamant Lives! was a television series that ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC. The show was the BBCs attempt to emulate the success of ITVs The Avengers, with a comedy adventure theme that would take a satirical look at life in the 1960s through the...

External links

• Colin Jeavons at the Internet Movie Database
• Colin Jeavons ...an appreciation, fansite