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The Beiderbecke Affair is a television series produced in the United Kingdom by ITV during 1985, [1] written by the prolific Alan Plater, whose lengthy credits in British television since the 1960s included the four-part mini series Get Lost! for ITV in 1981.
James Christopher Bolam MBE (born 16 June 1935) is an English actor. [1] [2] He is best known for his roles as Terry Collier in The Likely Lads and its sequel Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In, Roy Figgis in Only When I Laugh, Trevor Chaplin in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, Arthur Gilder in Born and Bred, Jack Halford in New Tricks and the title character of ...
The central characters Plater created for The Beiderbecke Affair – Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne – were virtually identical to that of Neville Keaton and Judy Threadgold from Get Lost!. Both were teachers of woodwork and English respectively and Trevor was a fan of football and jazz music (especially Bix Beiderbecke) and Jill was an ...
Plater claimed his two best-known characters, Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne in the Beiderbecke series, were based on himself. Trevor represented his personal interests, jazz, football and snooker (the parallel of someone from the northeast in Yorkshire also fitted) while Jill represented his political beliefs such as conservationism ...
The Beiderbecke Affair: Jill Swinburne Miniseries, 6 episodes 1986 Day To Remember: Judy TV film Season's Greetings: Belinda TV film 1986–1988 A Very Peculiar Practice: Dr. Rose Marie Main role, 14 episodes 1987 The Beiderbecke Tapes: Jill Swinburne Miniseries, 2 episodes Inspector Morse: Monica Height Episode: "The Silent World of Nicholas ...
Actor Leslie Jordan's official cause of death has been confirmed: he suffered "sudden cardiac dysfunction and arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease," the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office ...
Kenneth Waller was born in Lowerhouses Huddersfield, Yorkshire on 5 November 1927. [1] [2] In 1931 during the depression, he moved to Hythe, Hampshire in the New Forest and they were living there at the breakout of World War II.
Jacklyn Zeman, who became one of the most recognizable actors on daytime television during 45 years of playing nurse Bobbie Spencer on ABC’s “General Hospital,” has died. She was 70.