Damaris Heyman And Julian Orchard

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Damaris Heyman and Julian Orchard were always on telly in the sixties and seventies two of many of those know the face but not the name actors who supported comedians in various shows.



Julian Orchard worked with Harry Secombe on his bbc shows in the seventies and Damaris Heyman appeared with Les Dawson on Sez Les for YTV.



Of coures there were many others who frequently popped up on such shows, Michael Sharvel Martin, Roland Mcleod, Rita Webb, Norman Chappell and then there were the ones who became household names like Nicholas Parsons, Herny Mghee and Bob Todd.



I saw Damaris Heyman being interviewed on a Youtube clip taken from a Tony Hancock documentary, she apeared to be very warm and caring about Tony, I was very touched.

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Damaris is truly a remarkable lady - she has the most amazing memory for all of the stuff she has worked on over the years. You start her off on a thread and she can give you a complete run down of how things happened. When I met her after an interview I complimented her about how interesting it was to hear such clear recollections. She signed my event brochure, "Damaris 'Total Recall' Hayman!"



Lovely lady and, like the late Pattie Coombes, seems to have worked with everyone who was anyone in the golden age of British television...



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[Dame Starry]

Wasn't Damaris 'adopted' by Margaret Rutherford?



DS x.

[CaptainWaggett]

The received Whovian wisdom is that she's wearing an old cloak of Rutherford's in The Daemons

[Dame Starry]

That's common knowledge, but I have read on several occasions that Damaris Hayman was adopted by Margaret Rutherford and Stringer Davis.



DS x.

[cornershop15]

I've just posted a couple of captures at Michael Bilton's thread (one of them included below), which has also been neglected for the last three years, at least in terms of contributions.

They both appeared in an episode of forgotten sitcom Dear Mother ... Love Albert called The Compulsive Gambler as two of the contestants on fictional quiz show Double Another. The third was Rodney Bewes, the eponymous Albert. Damaris is introduced by jovial American host Al Mancini as "Miss Bridget McCarthy, the eminent sociologist":

"Hello"

With Michael Bilton as university lecturer Professor Desmond Sage (Rodney has just dropped his pencil!):


Original ITV Transmission: 8th February 1971 (40 years ago yesterday), when George Harrison's My Sweet Lord was No. 1

This series of Dear Mother ... Love Albert was affected by ITV's Colour Strike, which ended the day this was broadcast.

Damaris Hayman has made occasional appearances during my DVD viewing and is always a pleasure to see, usually only very briefly. Her two episodes of Steptoe and Son often come to mind, as the Lady at Cinema Cash Desk in Sunday for Seven Days and one of Harold's committee members in My Old Man's a Tory.

Earlier today, I received the box set for And Mother Makes Three, with Wendy Craig, and look forward to seeing Damaris playing a 'School meals supervisor' in one show! I also have her guest contributions to The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder (as one of his weekly secretaries), The Sweeney, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Robin's Nest, and Clarence, starring Ronnie Barker. I am relieved to know her appearances in The Basil Brush Show exist and may even get to see them one day.

As for Julian Orchard, my most recent viewings of him have been as The Padre in episodes of The Pathfinders. I dimly remember him as some kind of reporter or interviewer chasing Les Dawson, in one of the latter's sketch shows, and being shocked by his early death. Julian can sometimes be seen in repeat viewings of the wedding scene in Half a Sixpence (to the tune of Flash! Bang! Wallop!), as the Photographer.

[Gerald Lovell]

Julian Orchard puts in a marvellous turn as an extremely camp French Ambassador with an outrageous accent in Carry On Henry. But startlingly, he can also be seen as an uncredited concentration camp prisoner in Battle of the V-1.

[Colpepper]

I recall Julian Orchard (known in our household as "Horse-Face") as being a stalwart of the wonderful "World of a Beachcomber". This great, lost, classic featured Spike Milligan at his most out-there. There was a wonderful mock advert for "Threadgold Thorough-grip Garteretts" - a kind of sock support.

[wearysloth]

Here's Julian Orchard in the Bless This House movie

Here's some more tv listings for Monday, 8th February 1971
BBC1
4:40 pmJackanoryHaki the Shetland Pony
7:05 pmZ CarsThe More We Are Together : 1
9:20 pmDoomwatchThe Web of Fear

BBC2
8:50 pmGentryEpisode#2
9:20 pmHorizonThe Expert Witness
10:10 pmThirty Minute TheatreMe MacKenna

ITV
6:40 pmDavid Nixon's Magic BoxEpisode
8:30 pmDear Mother... ...Love AlbertThe Compulsive Gambler
9:00 pmMan at the TopChange Partners

Midlands
5:10 pmTimeslipThe Year of the Burn Up: Part 8

[Windthrop]

Heyman turned up in a documentary about Hancock only a couple of years ago, certainly this century, looking little changed

[CaptainWaggett]

Heyman turned up in a documentary about Hancock only a couple of years ago, certainly this century, looking little changed

She was interviewed for the most recent Hancock biography - IIRC she worked on his last British series and seems to have been one of the few women he had a non-sexual friendship with.

Her surname is Hayman though

[Windthrop]

She was interviewed for the most recent Hancock biography - IIRC she worked on his last British series and seems to have been one of the few women he had a non-sexual friendship with.

Her surname is Hayman though

Yes she gave that impression but said he was beyond help by the time of their friendship

[Tonch]

Damaris Hayman as Miss Hawthorne was of course one of the real treats in my favourite Doctor Who story, The Daemons. Many years later she appeared at one of those fan convention gatherings alongside Jon Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney, John Levene, Barry Letts and other key members from that classic adventure - and proceeded to politely but firmly correct all their misremembered anecdotes from the show

Didn't Julian Orchard appear in the revived (colour) series of Whacko! with Jimmy Edwards? One of the main things I remember about him was his party piece - playing the saw! I always wished he would team up with Deryck Guyler who played a mean washboard to give us a bit of small screen improvised skiffle

[man-in -the-moon]

I recently rented the film Smokescreen starring Peter Vaughan and to my pleasant surprise Damaris Hayman had an uncredited role playing a nurse.

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My wifes nan was a schoolmate of Julian's - just thought I'd mention it.