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  1. saintKlopp

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    Andrew Sachs, who played Manuel in Fawlty Towers, has died.<rose>
    He was 86, so a good innings.

    He's the one that springs to mind when I think of Klopp trying to get through to Moreno.
     
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    organic red and Bumps like this.
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    Bumps Well-Known Member

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    One of - if not the greatest comedies of all time. None of it improvised - always found that amazing. Everything scripted down to the last by Connie and John
    Amazing !
    RIP Mr Sachs <rose>
     
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    Timeless humour. The part was made for him. RIP.
     
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  6. Milk not bear jizz

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    Very sad. Great role.
     
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    <rose><rose><rose>The price everyone have to pay.
     
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    <rose><rose><rose>The price everyone have to pay.
     
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  9. Red Hadron Collider

    Red Hadron Collider The Hammerhead

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    What for? Being born? <yikes>
     
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  10. moreinjuredthanowen

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    He got dementia yes?

    Very hard.

    Its a amazing such a sort series can define a whole career

    so here is a wiki list

    Voice work and narration[edit]
    Sachs was frequently heard as a narrator of television and radio documentaries, including all five series of BBC's BAFTA-award-winning business television series Troubleshooter presented by Sir John Harvey-Jones MBE[13] and ITV's …from Hell series.[18] He also narrated several audio books, including C. S. Lewis's Narnia series and Alexander McCall Smith's first online book, Corduroy Mansions[19], as well as two audiobooks of the popular children's TV series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends "Thomas and the Tiger" and "Thomas and the Dinosaur".[20] In 2000, Sachs narrated the spoof documentary series That Peter Kay Thing.[21]

    Sachs performed all the voices in the English-language version of Jan Švankmajer's 1994 film Faust.[22] He also did voices for children's animation, including William's Wish Wellingtons[23], Starhill Ponies[24], The Gingerbread Man[25], Little Grey Rabbit[26], The Forgotten Toys[27] and Asterix and the Big Fight.[11]

    In 1978, BBC Radio 4 broadcast The Revenge, a ground-breaking 30-minute play totally without dialogue (an experiment in binaural stereo recording), written and performed by Sachs,[10] dismissed by playwright Jonathan Raban as a "wordless sequence of noises" and "a well-puffed curiosity". The play has subsequently been repeated a number of times on BBC Radio 4 Extra, most recently in February 2016.[28]

    Other roles for radio have included G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown,[29] Dr. John Watson in four series of original Sherlock Holmes stories for BBC Radio 4,[30] Jeeves in The Code of the Woosters as Jeeves,[31], Edmond Dantès in The Count of Monte Cristo on BBC Radio 7's "Young Classics" series,[32] and Tooley in Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere.[33]

    Later work[edit]
    Although no other role brought in the attention of Manuel, Sachs continued to star in a range of productions, both comedic and dramatic. In a role reversal to his Fawlty Towers work, he was the hotel manager in the 1977 Are You Being Served? movie,[34] and in 1980 Sachs starred in the title role of a four-part BBC adaptation of the H. G. Wells' The History of Mr Polly.[35]

    In 1996, Sachs portrayed Albert Einstein in an episode of the American PBS series NOVA entitled "Einstein Revealed",[36] and the year after, Sachs played opposite Shane Richie in Chris Barfoot's Dead Clean.[37] A tale of mistaken identity, Sachs as airport window cleaner Kostas Malmatakis is hired to assassinate a businessman by his greedy partner (Mark Chapman). The British short won a Gold Remi at the Houston Worldfest in 2001.[38]

    Sachs has had several roles in Doctor Who productions. He played "Skagra" in the webcast/audio version of the Doctor Who story Shada, completed by Big Finish Productions and in 2008 he played the elderly version of former companion Adric, in another Doctor Who story for the same company, The Boy That Time Forgot. In the 1980s, Sachs had submitted his name to be considered for the part of the Seventh Doctor in the television series.[39]

    In 2007, the BBC broadcast an adaptation of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency with Sachs portraying Reg (Professor Urban Chronotis, the Regius Professor of Chronology).[40] He would later appear in another Adams adaptation as the Book in the live tour of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy during its run at Bromley's Churchill Theatre.[41]

    On 17 November 2008, it was announced that Sachs had been approached to appear in ITV soap Coronation Street.[42] He later confirmed on 14 December that he was taking up the offer, saying, "I'm taking Street challenge". In May 2009 he made his debut on the street as Norris' brother, Ramsay.[43] He appeared in 27 episodes and left in August 2009.[44]

    With the Australian pianist Victor Sangiorgio, he toured with a two-man show called "Life after Fawlty", which included Richard Strauss's voice and piano setting of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "Enoch Arden".[45][46] 2012 saw his last major role, as Bobby Swanson in the movie Quartet.[47]


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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Sachs
     
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