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Michael Reid (19 January 1940 – 29 July 2007) was an English comedian and character actor, who is best remembered for playing Frank Butcher in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He was well noted for his gravelly voice and strong Cockney accent. Image File history File links Current_event_marker. ... // The following is a list of notable deaths in 2007. ... January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney was a metropolitan borough of the County of London from 1899 to 1965. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() â€“ on the European continent() â€“ in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Government Constitutional monarchy - Monarch Queen Elizabeth II... is the 210th day of the year (211th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Location of Marbella Municipality MÃ¡laga Government - Mayor Without Mayor Area - City 114. ... A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Mike Reid (born 1939) is a fast-talking, gravel-voiced British cockney comedian and character actor. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup because: A trick photograph of Mike Read Mike Read (1 March 1951 is a British disc jockey, writer and former television presenter. ... January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 210th day of the year (211th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() â€“ on the European continent() â€“ in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Government Constitutional monarchy - Monarch Queen Elizabeth II... A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Francis Frank Butcher was a fictional character in the popular British soap opera EastEnders. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is 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 GBÂ£4 billion. ... For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ... EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985[4] and continuing to date. ... St Mary-le-Bow The term cockney refers to working-class inhabitants of London, particularly east London, and the slang used by these people. ...

Biography

Personal life

Michael Reid was born in Hackney, east London in 1940 during World War II, and the Blitz bombings of Central London caused him and his family to relocate to Tottenham, north London, where he attended Rowland Hill School. The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney was a metropolitan borough of the County of London from 1899 to 1965. ... East London (Afrikaans: Oos-Londen, Xhosa: Imonti) is a city in southeast South Africa, situated in the Eastern Cape Province at 32. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Look up Blitz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Tottenham is an urban area of north London in the London Borough of Haringey, situated 6. ... North London is that part of London which is north of the River Thames. ...

In 1958, he married his first wife, Sheila, and they had a daughter, Jane. They divorced in 1967, after which he married Shirley (née Collins) in 1971 and had two sons, Michael and Mark and a daughter, Angela. Year 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ...

He had moved to a villa in Marbella, Spain so he could live close to a golf course which would enable him to pursue his passion of playing golf three to four times each week. Location of Marbella Municipality MÃ¡laga Government - Mayor Without Mayor Area - City 114. ... This article is about the sport. ...

Reid was known to be opposed to plans to introduce blasphemy laws, for the effect this would have on satire, comedy and free speech.^[1]

Career

Mike's first work in entertainment was as a stunt man on films and television, including such films as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines and Spartacus.^{[citation needed]} In the early 1960s Reid worked as a stand-up comedian in clubs and aboard cruise liners. Then he played minor roles in television series such as Doctor Who, The Saint and Department S. He also worked as a stuntman for the films Casino Royale (1967) and The Dirty Dozen (1967). Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 feature film with a script by Roald Dahl and Ken Hughes, and songs by the Sherman Brothers, based on Ian Flemings book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car. ... 1963 Replica of the Bristol Boxkite, now hanging in the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. ... Spartacus is a 1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the novel of the same name by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War. ... Look up stand up in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Doctor Who is a long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The series depicts the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor who travels in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) time ship, which appears from the exterior... 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). ... Department S was a British espionage/science fiction adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. ... An under 16s motorbike display team perform a potentially dangerous stunt A stunt is an unusual and difficult physical feat, or any act requiring a special skill, performed for artistic purposes in TV, theatre or cinema. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... For the rap group, see D12. ...

He became one of the original stars of The Comedians, a popular TV series of the 1970s produced by Johnnie Hamp for Granada Television, which consisted entirely of short slots by mature stand-up comedians. As a comedian, Reid's well-known catchphrases included 'Terrific' (pronounced in a distinctive way) and 'Move Yer Arris'. NOTE: This article does not refer to the Graham Greene novel The Comedians. The Comedians is a British television show from the 1970s (later reprised in the 1980s) which gave a stage to nightclub and working mens club comedians of the era, including Stan Boardman, Frank Carson, and Bernard... Johnnie Hamp (sometimes referred to as John Hamp, or Johnny Hamp) is a British television producer, now retired. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Richard Pryor hits the money line A stand-up comedian or stand-up comic is someone that performs in comedy clubs, usually reciting a fast paced succession of amusing stories, short jokes and one-liners, typically called a monologue. ...

He capitalised on his initial success with a one-off hit record, a novelty version of The Ugly Duckling recorded on PYE records. In 1975 it reached number 10 in the BBC Top 50 Singles Chart. In 1975 he also became the host of the ITV children's TV quiz show Runaround, fondly remembered for its incomprehensible rules and the incongruity of Reid as presenter. Runaround ended in 1981. The Ugly Duckling (Danish: ) is a classic-contemporary story by Hans Christian Andersen about a duckling, notably larger, clumsier and uglier than the other ducklings in his brood. ... Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... Runaround was a UK childrens television game show, produced by Southern Television for ITV between 1975 and 1981. ...

In 1987 he joined the cast of the popular BBC television soap opera EastEnders as Frank Butcher for which he gained much popularity. The part of Butcher earned Reid the public persona of being pessimistic that he enjoyed acting against, for instance in television adverts for the soft drink Oasis. His character was involved in many popular storylines and the most famous of these storylines was his character's long turbulent relationship with Pat Evans. In 1994 he took a long break from the show due to stress. Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ... For Philippine soap opera, see Teleserye. ... EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985[4] and continuing to date. ... Francis Frank Butcher was a fictional character in the popular British soap opera EastEnders. ... Patricia Pat Evans (nÃ©e Harris; formerly Beale, Wicks, Butcher) is a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. ...

That same year he also starred alongside other fellow EastEnders actors Barbara Windsor and John Altman in his classic adult pantomime Pussy in Boots a spin off of Puss in Boots where Reid played the main role of 'Big Dick'. ^[2] EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985[4] and continuing to date. ... Barbara Ann Deeks MBE (born 6 August 1937), better known as Barbara Windsor, sometimes known as Babs Windsor, is an English actress. ... John Altman John Altman (born March 2, 1952 in Reading, Berkshire, England) is an English actor best known as Nasty Nick Cotton in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. ... Pussy in Boots is a cult 1994 VHS adult pantomime starring the late stand-up comedian and Eastenders actor Mike Reid and co-stars Barbara Windsor and John Altman as well as Coronation Street actress Lynne Perrie. ... Gustave Dor s 19th century engraving of le chat bott Puss in Boots is a European folktale collected by Charles Perrault in his Contes de ma m re lOye (Mother Goose Tales), and earlier in 1634, by Giambattista Basile as Gagliuso. ...

He then made several re-appearances on EastEnders between late 1995 and early 1997 and returned full time in December 1997. He remained on the show until May 2000 when he announced he would be leaving the soap for good due to exhaustion from the long filming schedules.^[3] His last episode aired in November 2000. Later that same year he appeared in the popular British gangster film Snatch playing mob boss Doug "The Head" Denovitz. He has since appeared in several low-budget British films such as Hey Mr DJ, Moussakka and Chips and a Spanish film titled Oh Marbella. Snatch is a 2000 film by British writer-director Guy Ritchie. ...

He was also persuaded to return to EastEnders a number of times for brief stints. He returned for a week stint in January 2002 and then for a spin-off special episode titled "Perfectly Frank" in 2003. He made his final comeback to EastEnders in early December 2005, for another week stint. He later appeared on The Paul O'Grady Show and made it clear that he had no interest in any possible future re-appearances in the programme, and then in 2006 he rejected another offer to return to the series. Also see: 2002 (number). ... A spin-off (or spinoff) is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one such as a new company formed from a university research group. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The New Paul OGrady Show (formerly The Paul OGrady Show) is a British comedy chat show on Channel 4, formerly aired on ITV1. ...

He retired from show business and lived in a villa in Spain. He returned to England in early 2007 and appeared in two episodes of the long-running ITV police drama series The Bill where he played a corrupt businessman named Brian Stevens. This was his last broadcast television appearance, though he had filmed a reality series for ITV entitled The Baron; the network remains undecided as to whether it will be aired.^[4] Independent Television (generally known as ITV, but also as ITV Network) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting... The Bill is a long-running British television police procedural first shown on ITV, at 8pm on Wednesdays and Thursdays. ...

Death

Mike Reid died in Marbella, Spain on 29 July 2007, aged 67^[5] from a suspected heart attack. Two weeks before he died, he had received a full medical examination and had been given a clean bill of health.^[6] The 30 July 2007 EastEnders episode featured a dedication to him following the end credits. Mike's funeral was held on Tuesday 14th August 2007 at Little Easton Parish Church, Essex, and was attended by over 250 people including his former EastEnders co-stars Pam St Clement (Pat Evans) Sid Owen (Ricky Butcher) Michael Greco (Beppe Di Marco) and Barbara Windsor (Peggy Mitchell.) Location of Marbella Municipality MÃ¡laga Government - Mayor Without Mayor Area - City 114. ... is the 210th day of the year (211th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... is the 211th day of the year (212th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Essex is a county in the East of England. ... EastEnders is a popular BBC television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC1 on 19 February 1985[4] and continuing to date. ... Pam St Clement (born 1942) is a British character actress who since 1986 has played the role of Pat Wicks (later Pat Butcher) in the BBCs popular EastEnders series. ... Patricia Pat Evans (nÃ©e Harris; previously Beale, Wicks and Butcher) is a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. ... Sid Owen (born David Sutton on 12 January 1972 in London) is an English actor. ... Richard Ricky Butcher was a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. ... Michael Greco (born to Italian parents in 1970 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland) is a British actor and poker player, now living in England. ... Barbara Ann Deeks MBE (born 6 August 1937), better known as Barbara Windsor, sometimes known as Babs Windsor, is an English actress. ... Margaret Peggy Mitchell (nÃ©e Martin, previously Butcher) is a fictional character in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. ...

Selected filmography

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References

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