Geoffrey Hughes as his character Onslow in Keeping Up Appearances.

Geoffrey Hughes (b. 2 February 1944 in Wallasey, Wirral, England) is an English actor, best known to UK TV viewers for his portrayal of Eddie Yeats, Hilda Ogden's scallywag lodger in Granada Television's soap opera Coronation Street, a role he played from 1974 to 1983, and the slobbish Onslow in the popular BBC sit-com Keeping Up Appearances. Image File history File links Onslow. ... Image File history File links Onslow. ... Onslow played by actor Geoffrey Hughes Onslow is a comical fictional character in the British comedy television series Keeping Up Appearances portrayed by actor Geoffrey Hughes. ... Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom starring Patricia Routledge as social snob Hyacinth Bucket. ... February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Wallasey is a large town on the mouth of the River Mersey, at the north-eastern corner of the Wirral. ... Wirral is a metropolitan borough in Merseyside, North West England, which occupies part of the Wirral peninsula, more commonly known locally as The Wirral. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Alexander in character as Hilda Ogden, in a still from an episode first aired in the early 1970s. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ... Coronation Street is Britains longest-running television soap opera, first broadcast on Friday December 9, 1960, in the Granada region of ITV. The programme is consistently the highest-rated programme on British television. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion (US$7. ... Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom starring Patricia Routledge as social snob Hyacinth Bucket. ...

He started his career in repertory at the Victoria Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent. This was followed by his first West End production, the Lionel Bart and Alun Owen musical, Maggie May. His other West End productions include the stage version of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Say Goodnight to Grandma, The Secret Life of Cartoons, and several seasons of Run for your Wife. He has recently played 'Pistol' in an open air production of Henry V at Barnwell Manor. He has also toured extensively in Britain and abroad. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... For the Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall click here. ... This page is about Stoke-on-Trent in England. ... // West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland . Along with New Yorks Broadway Theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of theatre in the... Lionel Bart (1930-1999) was a British composer of songs musicals, best known for Oliver! Bart was born Lionel Begleiter in London to Galician Jews, and grew up in Stepney. ... Alun Owen (November 24, 1925 – December 6, 1994) was a British screenwriter, predominantly active in television but best remembered by a wider audience for writing the screenplay of The Beatles debut feature film A Hard Days Night in 1964. ... Maggie May is a song written by Rod Stewart and musician Martin Quittenton and recorded by Stewart with his band The Faces in 1971. ... // West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre in London, or sometimes more specifically for shows staged in the large theatres of Londons Theatreland . Along with New Yorks Broadway Theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of theatre in the... For the film, see The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a childrens book written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow. ... Title page of the first quarto (1600) Henry V, also known as The Cronicle History of Henry the fift, is a play by William Shakespeare based on the life of King Henry V of England. ... Barnwell Manor is the historic former home of the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. ...

Among his many other appearances on television are, An Arrow for Little Audrey, The Saint, Shadows of Fear, 7 Cars, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Flying Lady, Making Out, Coasting, Doctor Who, Spender, and Boon, and as spiv/quick rich scheming Vernon Scripps in Heartbeat. He played 'Trinculo' in an all filmed version of The Tempest for the BBC and 'Squire Clodpoll' in Good Friday 1663, one of Channel Four's new avant-garde operas. His comedy appearances on TV include, The Likely Lads, Please Sir, Curry and Chips, The Upper Hand and the aforementioned 'Onslow', the less than salubrious brother-in-law of Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC comedy series Keeping Up Appearances. He has also starred alongside Ricky Tomlinson in the BBC comedy series The Royle Family as Jim's mate 'Twiggy'. The Saint was a long-running British action adventure television series, made by ITC Entertainment, that aired on ITV stations between 1962 and 1969, and on American television as a syndicated show (1962-1967) and on NBC (1967-69). ... Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) is a cult late 1960s British private detective television series starring Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope as the private detectives Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk. ... The Spirit of Ecstasy on the hood of a 1971 Silver Shadow Spirit of Ecstasy is the name of the hood ornament on Rolls Royce cars. ... Making out is a slang phrase of American origin and usually serves as a colloquial term or euphemism for the act of two people engaging in prolonged kissing (also known as getting off, snogging or pulling in the United Kingdom, or meeting in Ireland) or sometimes, as two people engage... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, (and a 1996 television movie). ... Boon is a British television drama series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker and later on Neil Morrissey. ... Heartbeat is a long-running British TV police drama series set in 1960s Yorkshire. ... Prospero and Ariel from a painting by William Hamilton The Tempest is a play written by William Shakespeare. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion (US$7. ... Channel 4 is a television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... The Likely Lads was a hit British sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. ... The Upper Hand was a sitcom, produced by Central Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. ... Onslow played by actor Geoffrey Hughes Onslow is a comical fictional character in the British comedy television series Keeping Up Appearances portrayed by actor Geoffrey Hughes. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion (US$7. ... Keeping Up Appearances is a British sitcom starring Patricia Routledge as social snob Hyacinth Bucket. ... Ricky Tomlinson (born September 26, 1939) is an English actor. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion (US$7. ... The Royle Family is a popular BBC television situation comedy (sitcom) that ran for three series between 1998 and 2000. ...

Geoffrey's film credits include Smashing Time, Till Death do us Part, The Bofors Gun, Virgin Soldiers, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall, Carry on at Your Convenience, and TV films, Needle, and The Man from the Pru. He was also the voice of Paul McCartney in the Beatles' cartoon film Yellow Submarine. Smashing Time is a 1967 comedy film starring Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave. ... Sir James Paul McCartney MBE (born June 18, 1942) is an iconic Grammy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of the Beatles. ... The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. ... For the song, see Yellow Submarine (song). ...

He usually appears in pantomime over the Christmas period. The Christmas Pantomime colour lithograph bookcover, 1890 Pantomime (informally, panto) refers to a theatrical genre, traditionally found in Great Britain, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and Ireland, which is usually performed around the Christmas and New Year holiday season. ... Christmas is an annual holiday that marks the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. ...

His off-stage interests are sailing, golf, cricket, music, trees, and beer. Born south of the city proper, he was brought up in Liverpool. In more recent years, he overcame prostate cancer. He now lives on the Isle of Wight. For either of the songs named Sailing, see Sailing (song). ... Golf is a sport in which individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and also is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. ... Bowler Shaun Pollock bowls to batsman Michael Hussey. ... Dendrology, from the Ancient Greek δένδρον meaning tree and λόγος meaning study, is the science of trees, and more generally the study of woody plants. ... Beer in the glass Schlenkerla Rauchbier direct from the cask Beer is the worlds oldest[1] and most popular[2] alcoholic beverage. ... Liverpool skyline. ... Prostate cancer is a disease in which cancer develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. ... The Isle of Wight is an English island and county, off the southern English coast, to the south of the county of Hampshire. ...

References

• Biography from britcoms.com

External links

• Geoffrey Hughes at the Internet Movie Database