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Old 11-12-2007, 02:59 PM
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I'm pretty sure he has a son.

I've been watching Robin's Nest lately. If you compare how he looks in series one to how he looks in series' three or four it's quite alarming. He seems to age about ten years. Must be all the smoking and boozing I expect..

Just off for a fag....

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Jacobean: Thanks for the up to date photo of Richard O'Sullivan. I have to say he certainly looked well at that time. I had visions of him being bent and twisted. with long hair and a beard. Thankfully I was wrong.

Does anyone know if he has any living family. Was he ever married? Any kids?
Tessa Wyatt's affair with Richard O'Sullivan ended her marriage to Tony Blackburn who made a bit of a fool of himself on live radio talking about it!

O'Sullivan and Wyatt married and had a son of their own (she already had one with Blackburn). According to Granny Lovett, she read an article that said Tessa Wyatt and their son visit him a lot at Brinsworth House - and she also swears that the article said that they are still legally married.

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Thats quite sad to hear of Richard O'Sullivan's present situation, I guess the demon alchohol (too much of it) has a lot to answer for as it sounds like that was instrumental in his health problems. I recall an early film appearance by O'Sullivan as Mia Farrow's "companion" in "A Dandy in Aspic"
I thought Man about the House was highly entertaining but how funny to think the situation it portrayed was daring, nowadays young people share flats through financial neccessity and its the norm to have a mixed household especially in London.
I guess O'Sullivan's change of circumstances is a text book example of how up and down the acting profession can be.

Richard O'Sullivan is skint
Jonathan Ross is not
I know who I prefer, I just wish that the O'sullivans and Wyngardes of this world would have put some money away for a rainy day.
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Just don't hear anything about him..Thought he was great in man about the house and george and mildred.

I have read Robin Askwith's book, and he said they were drinking partners but Robin said.. he gave it up because he thought it was going to kill him at the rate and the amount they used to drink..

I bet they had a great time

Found the other thread now..
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Just don't hear anything about him..Thought he was great in man about the house and george and mildred.

I have read Robin Askwith's book, and he said they were drinking partners but Robin said.. he gave it up because he thought it was going to kill him at the rate and the amount they used to drink..

I bet they had a great time
You don't hear much from or about him now because he retired in the mid-nineties. Apart from the occasional ad or voiceover.

He suffered a stroke late in 2003. He is now living in Brinsworth House, a retirement home for actors and performers

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Richard can be heard on the commentary track for the Carry On Teacher DVD. Commentary was recorded in late 2006.
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Just an update to say that Richard is in good health at the minute according to his agent.
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A great cast of actors in what was a mediocre, if funny, series, really.
I've looked on the net regarding Richard O'Sullivan [just seen him in the film version of Father, dear Father] and it offered that he was living in an actors retirement home-type place. I know he did a dvd commentary thing for Carry On Teacher, i think.
A great comedic actor and someone with a very charasmatic screen presence.
If you can get a hold of a copy of Robin askwith's autobiography, he was pals with ROS in their 1970s heyday when such actors were always playing charity football matches, he mentions him therein.
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I liked him in the Dick Turpin series' he did, nice Saturday/Sunday tea time entertainment.
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I thought he was terribly dashing in Dick Turpin, as well, and am glad I was able to find the DVDs.

Still remember Man about the House, though, and Jack losing Chrissie to his brother!
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didnt Richard O Sullivan live with Tessa Wyatt the ex wife of Tony Blackburn at one time. shame hes fallen on hard times, so sad.
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Richard played Cleopatras son didnt he in the Liz Taylor blockbuster, just shows how long ago that was .
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Cleopratra was released in 1963 and Richard was in Carry On Teacher in 1959.

Shame he has had such troubles with his drink problem, if he was still working today his CV would have been quite lenghty given the fact that he started acting as a child..

Richard did have a relationship with Tessa Wyatt when she was married to Tony Blackburn, Blackburn poured his heart out on his programme on Radio One.

Hearing the name of Richard O'Sullivan trapsports me back to the seventies and comfy old sit coms from Thames with that famous station ident of the Thames.

The Mortimer Cooke sitcoms always had thosewonderful pre-credit sequences.

Man About the House, Father Dear Father and the like are dismissed by some comedy devotees today and never mentioned when ever people rack their brains thinking of great ITV comedies.

Rising Damp was a good sit-com of course but personally I always thought each episode degenerated into franitc farce.

Great cast, Leonard, Frances De La Tour, Richard Beckinsale and Don Warrington very distinguished actors.
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