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Always loved the Professionals :0(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25135934

In reply to Denni:



Too hard to play Bond? LC was evidently bonkers. As the utterly loathsome Martin Shaw's career grew, LC couldn't get work because he seemed to find it difficult to distinguish between being a fey actor and playing the SAS warrior. He ended up in court after trying to settle a dispute with a charity that he was involved with and let off a shotgun over their representative's head.

Odd that he found it hard to get a part after that.

In reply to Denni:

I can only hope that the hearse bursts through a wall of cardboard boxes before doing a few handbrake turns in a scrapyard.

Or was that The Sweeney?

In reply to Denni: Condolences, etc to his family.

That said, he always struck me as a man trying to deny his sexuality in the few occasions I saw him on TV. Doesn't mean he was or wasn't gay or was or wasn't happy about it, it's none of my business anyway and ultimately doesn't matter a damn. But he always seemed to be sublimating his anger about something in his moody tough guy parts.

T.

On reflection, perhaps 'roles' would have been a better word to use than 'parts' in that last sentence.

In reply to Denni:

He was our generations Ross Kemp.

Didn't Keith Allen do a The Bullshitters parody?

In reply to Denni:

First Cowley, now Bodie? Sounds like somebody is out to take CI5 down.

In reply to Pursued by a bear:

His best rolls were usually over the bonnet of a Granada.

In reply to Tom Valentine:
It was a Capri wasn't it? (The Sweeny had a Granada.)

In reply to deepsoup:

My mistake, guv.

In reply to deepsoup:

Cowley drove a Granada, innit?

In reply to deepsoup:

Didn't they do a series or two with a Ford Escort? Cosworth maybe?

In reply to Tony the Blade:

They started out with a P6 according to this: http://www.personal.u-net.com/~carnfort/Professionals/profcars.htm

(And apparently Cowley nicked his first Granada from the Sweeny. That's hardcore. ;O)

In reply to Denni:

Very sad.
Enjoyed the original, enjoy the re-runs, even though I know what happens. What a theme!!....enough to stir anybody into action.

In reply to Denni:

I used to enjoy the professionals .thought he and doyle did a good job playing their parts .believe he may have been part time in the sas at one time too.
died too young sadly.

In reply to colina:

This isn't Lewis Collins the tortoise from Fat Tulip's Garden then?

Phew.

In reply to colina:


Don't be ridiculous. Following the Iranian Embassy siege he expressed a desire to join but the army said that it didn't do celebrity. How times have changed.

What I want to know is how do I remember such details of a minor celeb's career? Oh yeh, it's my specialist subject.

In reply to Mike Highbury:

Where did you get that additional information from? Unsurprisingly it was'nt on the link.

In reply to Blizzard: Hardly the stuff of an obit, is it?

As I said, I remember all of this trivia.

He was quite famous at the time and his derring do was on the news and in the papers.

All caveats apply but my recollection of the court case is this. For some reason he was in dispute with a charity for which he was being a celeb. His father offered to sort it out but, during the conversation, LC burst into the room with a shotgun better to resolve the situation. Off to court where the judge remarked that he was getting himself confused with the characters that he played.

In reply to Mike Highbury:

LC burst into the room with a shotgun better to resolve the situation.

well it would certainly create an impression

In reply to Denni:

Bond makers finally got the tough guy image with Daniel Craig, that LC could have given them 30 years earlier, I think he'd have made a good Bond.

RIP LC

In reply to Denni:
He used to climb at the Sobell. Sad news.

In reply to Denni:

Oh my god, I was so proud to be Britsh when I watched him in Who Dares Wins (I'd do the soundtrack but it won't work here....)

In reply to deepsoup:


Not just any Capri but a 3 litter Capri. A very rare car.

In reply to estivoautumnal:

Probably because most of them were wrapped around trees...

In reply to Denni:

It's SAS or nothing sir.

Legend, RIP x

In reply to Submit to Gravity:
> Probably because most of them were wrapped around trees...

No, it was all the coffee cups and mars bar wrappers accumulated in the passenger footwell during stake-outs that made it a three litter.

In reply to Denni:

Sad news, he grew up 2 streets away from my mum and knew each other well.

In reply to Mike Highbury:


bit harsh words there mate.i was referring to the reserve element of the regiment not the regulars.

however as you are undoubtedly a mine of information on lewis collins you would have known that.

In reply to teflonpete:




I thought it was just because they were rubbish...

In reply to teflonpete:

My ex wife had a 3 litre S Capri. Brilliant engine noise but all the handling and performance of a house brick.