Post by codystarbuck on May 8, 2022 19:47:27 GMT -5
RIP to British actor Dennis Waterman....
Waterman co-starred with John Thaw in the seminal 1970s police series, The Sweeney, as DS George Carter. He followed that up with another massively popular series, Minder, playing Terry McCann, opposite George Cole (young Scrooge, in A Christmas Carol/Scrooge, with Alistair Sim as the elder Scrooge). If that wasn't enough, he came back to tv screens, in the new millennium for the detective series New Tricks, as former DS Gerry Standing, the thieftaker. Waterman also sang the theme song for both Minder and new Tricks, which led to a running sketch on the comedy series, Little Britain, where David Walliams played a version of Waterman (depicted as tiny, next to oversized props), as his agent gives him offers of new roles, but he only wants to take them if he can "write the theme tune, play the theme tune, sing the theme tune." Waterman appeared on stage, in a cameo, interrupting the sketch, for Comic Relief.
Waterman began acting in 1960, at the age of 12 and appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as playing Oliver Twist, in Oliver!, in London, for which a cast recording was done, in 1961. He was later married to Rula Lenska, known in the US only for her VO5 commercials and Johnny Carson asking, "Who the hell is Rula Lenska? in his monologue, which became a recurring gag. They divorced, with accusations from her that he was abusive. he later admitted to hitting her.
His daughter, Hannah Waterman, appeared in several episodes, as a detective, who though Gerry Standing was her father (DNA tests prove otherwise).
Here he is (with John Thaw) on Morecombe and Wise....
Waterman co-starred with John Thaw in the seminal 1970s police series, The Sweeney, as DS George Carter. He followed that up with another massively popular series, Minder, playing Terry McCann, opposite George Cole (young Scrooge, in A Christmas Carol/Scrooge, with Alistair Sim as the elder Scrooge). If that wasn't enough, he came back to tv screens, in the new millennium for the detective series New Tricks, as former DS Gerry Standing, the thieftaker. Waterman also sang the theme song for both Minder and new Tricks, which led to a running sketch on the comedy series, Little Britain, where David Walliams played a version of Waterman (depicted as tiny, next to oversized props), as his agent gives him offers of new roles, but he only wants to take them if he can "write the theme tune, play the theme tune, sing the theme tune." Waterman appeared on stage, in a cameo, interrupting the sketch, for Comic Relief.
Waterman began acting in 1960, at the age of 12 and appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as playing Oliver Twist, in Oliver!, in London, for which a cast recording was done, in 1961. He was later married to Rula Lenska, known in the US only for her VO5 commercials and Johnny Carson asking, "Who the hell is Rula Lenska? in his monologue, which became a recurring gag. They divorced, with accusations from her that he was abusive. he later admitted to hitting her.
His daughter, Hannah Waterman, appeared in several episodes, as a detective, who though Gerry Standing was her father (DNA tests prove otherwise).
Here he is (with John Thaw) on Morecombe and Wise....
