Derren Nesbitt

[Moor Larkin]

I always thought of the chap as a good solid performer so why did work dry up for him? Change in film/television content?, a drift away from tough guy productions? From choice?

From above...................

So what happened to RADA’s golden boy?
“I was never ambitious and I took long holidays,” he says. “I didn’t need the money, so I treated my work as a well-paid, enjoyable hobby. I always thought enjoying life was more important.”

[Richard_in_wales]

I read that but somehow it didn't ring totally true. It would be nice to see him on the TV again.

[Moor Larkin]

He was very busy in the theatre in the 1980's. In 1984 he was referred to as "the most-worked actor" in the last six years. Demand for his TV work might have been affected by the mild spanking scandals he was embroiled in, in the 1970's I suppose, and maybe he just got fed up asking and so got himself a proper job instead.

Nowadays of course he would be guaranteed a spot on the next Celeb Big Bro. and endless Brekkie TV chats

[Richard_in_wales]

I'd not heard of the spanking issue lol, had no idea how many spanking web sites there were until I just looked up the 'scandal'

[Moor Larkin]

He was also a backer of his brother, as originator/owner of Our Price Records, so that might have given him some independence too.

Our Price was started in the early 70s under the name “Tape Revolution”, the legend being that founder Gary Nesbitt couldn’t find the cassette he wanted in existing record shops, so opened his own. By 1981, there were about 70 branches, and the chain would eventually swell to over 300, swallowing up Harlequin, Sound FX and Virgin’s high street stores before it was eventually overtaken by a reinvigorated HMV, and then terminally absorbed into the Branson empire in the 90s. Our Price « Front of Store