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Gary
Hope
A
profile of the actor Gary Hope Gary
Hope has worked on countless television shows over the years, appearing in many
of the top 1960s and 1970s series and serials. Gary's body of work includes classics
such as Armchair Theatre (The Rose Affair), Play of the Month (Dance
of Death), The Count of Monte Cristo, Top Secret, Danger
Man, No Hiding Place, The Saint, The Avengers, Public
Eye, Clegg, The Onedin Line, Barlow at Large,
Lillie and Just William. In
the 1980s Gary's Guest-Starring roles include: Ashwell in Max Headroom
and Crossroads where his character saves the life of the motel's
head-waiter, Paul Ross (Sandor Eles) after he is viciously attacked. Gary
has appeared in numerous films in the course of his career, including: Just
for Fun (1963), Licenced to Kill (1965), Night, After Night,
After Night (1969), Big Zapper (1973) Licenced to Love and Kill
(1979), and Number One Gun (1990). There
is one film in particular which Gary is most proud to have worked on and that
is Live On Arrival (1999), written and directed by Paul Spurrier. The film
also stars the late Ronald Lacey (in his last film) as Gordon Wheaton
and his daughter Rebecca Lacey plays Nurse O'Connell. The premise of the
film is that a man arrives at the casualty department of a hospital and is pronounced
dead; he does however still have the ability to walk and talk! Gary
has also worked extensively on radio, including the BBC World Service. He also
starred in the BBC Radio 3 play The Trout Sextet, Or The One That Got
Away, by Rufus Stone and produced by Piers Burton-Page. In the play which
was first broadcast on January 1 2002 and repeated on July 14 2002, Gary plays
the Austrian baritone and composer, Herr Johann Michael Vogl. The play is about
a trip to Upper-Austria, which Herr Vogl made with his friend and colleague Franz
Schubert in 1819. More
recently, Gary Guest-Starred as a Civil Registrar in Doctors, the BBC1
TV daytime medical drama series. The episode entitled Words and Music was
broadcast on April 13 2006. Doctors is set in the fictional Midlands town
of Letherbridge and the storylines revolve around the lives of the staff
and patients at The Mill Health Centre, a busy family medical practice. Gary
Hope was born in Essex and began his career in the acting profession after being
awarded a scholarship from Essex County Council. Gary attended the Guildhall School
of Music and Drama followed by the Hornchurch Repertory Theatre in Essex, then
to the Theatre Royal in Lincoln after which Gary went on to Sir Barry Jackson's
Birmingham Repertory Theatre, now known as the Old
Rep. Gary
Hope's first television appearance was in the ABC Television drama-anthology series
Armchair Theatre. The play entitled The Rose Affair (see image
at top of page) is a multi-award winning production. The Rose Affair
also stars Natasha Parry, Dudley Foster, Anthony Quayle, Joseph O'Connor and Naunton
Wayne. Gary
Hope's character in The Rose Affair is Mr.Face Jr. "The Play
is a witty and imaginative reworking of The Beauty and the Beast fairytale..."
(Screenonline). The Rose Affair was first broadcast on October 8 1961,
Alun Owen wrote the script; his fifth for the series, Charles Jarrott directed
and the producer is Sydney Newman, (black & white 58 minutes). See the full
synopsis at BFI
Screenonline website.
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