Roy Hudd

[Windthrop]

Just read Hudd's memoirs - A Fart in a Colander. No really great annecdotes but a short piece on his work on Curse of the Blood Beast Terror is entertaining enough. Hudd comes across a man of robust good humour whose glass is always half full. I can imagine in person he could be very wearing.

[Mr Sloane]

I have always liked him and I'll be adding this to my Christmas list.

[jch]

I've always liked Roy Hudd. I wish he would make a return to Coronation Street as Archie Shuttleworth.

[Windthrop]

Talking of Hudd, does anyone remember a drama or series he starred in as a music hall entertainer. I think it was in the early eighties, possibly CH 4 or a schools programme. Can't find it on IMDB but sure I haven't imagined it

[Nick Dando]

I recall a series where he was (possibly) riding or pushing a bike through the countryside, dressed in a deck-chair stripe blazer, talking about music hall acts.



Nick

[George Bailey]

Roy Hudds book A Cavalcade Of Variety Acts is worth getting hold of. It gives info on so many Music hall acts and old radio stars.

[Chris B]

I can remember him playing a Cinema Organist named Harold Atterbow where he was always lusting after the usherette Sylvia, played by Louise Germaine (I did myself come to think of it) in LIPSTICK ON YOUR COLLAR

[orpheum]

name='Chris B']I can remember him playing a Cinema Organist named Harold Atterbow where he was always lusting after the usherette Sylvia, played by Louise Germaine (I did myself come to think of it) in LIPSTICK ON YOUR COLLAR

That was of course the Dennis Potter series.I enjoyed it at the time.Shame it has not been revived since.

[Windthrop]

name='orpheum']That was of course the Dennis Potter series.I enjoyed it at the time.Shame it has not been revived since.

Potter now tends to reduced to Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective in retrospectives.

[mallee59]

I have always liked Roy Hudd too, always a font of knowledge on the old music hall acts

[EHV_Emmetts]

name='mallee59']I have always liked Roy Hudd too, always a font of knowledge on the old music hall acts

Didn't Dennis Potter regard him as one of the best actors who appeared in his TV plays and films?



I also enjoyed his weekly satirical radio show The News Huddlines.

[Gerald Lovell]

I first came across Roy Hudd in a sketch tv series called, I think, THE ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY HUDD. Probably tame stuff now, but it made me laugh!