Jack Woolgar

[Steve Crook]

Well, this is just magic. Jack's performance is first class.

I'd love to see that in a version that didn't give me a headache watching it

Steve

[HUGHJAMPTON]

I'd love to see that in a version that didn't give me a headache watching it

Steve

Somtimes, Steve, we have to suffer for our pleasures

I know what you mean though. It is one of those cases where it is of such a rarity, that beggars can't be choosers

I see from a previous post, that this is one of only two surviving episodes.

[Gerald Lovell]

Jack even managed to get his visage on a book cover:

Sadly, the cover (by Chris Achilleos in 1976) does rather give away who the mysterious traitor is . . .

[cornershop15]

Jack Woolgar in the 'Budgie' episode Grandee Hotel. Guest: Adam Faith

Jack was porter Luther Benskin at the hotel and is first seen arriving late and using the switchboard to make a call to the hospital ward where his mother-in-law is staying, though he's not as concerned as he pretends to be.

Shortly afterwards, Budgie arrives, and is soon joined by girlfriend Hazell (Lynn Dalby) for a dinner date with Charlie Endell (Iain Cuthbertson) to discuss business. In the reception area's mirror, the flash Cockney can see manager Anthony Valentine and receptionist Sylvia Kay in a moment of secret passion (one of several), while Benskin is blissfully unaware:

But his smile soon disappears when Budgie instructs the randy manager to "give 'er one":

You'll recognise this image, Kelp, from a recent posting at the 'Crossroads Legends in Other Roles' thread.

In this scene, he's just delivered the London couple's luggage and waits for a tip, by the look of it:


Later, Budgie claims the film projectionist he's waiting for hasn't turned up and tempts Benskin with three quid:

"'Ere. Are you a busy man?"

The corresponding image suggests he might just take him up on the offer!:


Original ITV Transmission: 30th April 1971, the final day of T. Rex's six week reign at No. 1 with Hot Love

Good performances all round in one of my favourite episodes, the last to be shot in black-and-white due to the ITV Colour Strike. Other guests included Peter Sallis, Preston Lockwood, Jack Smethurst (just before Love Thy Neighbour) and two 'Where Have We Seen Them Before?' subjects, Reg Pritchard and Richard Butler (past and future, respectively).

[snowy]

did he also play a shop keeper in a tv series called the intruder?, this was a childrens series in the 1970,s about a young boy who worked as a sand pilot and lived with his grandad
snowy