Heartbeat - Give a Dog a Bad Name - 5:50 pm Friday, June 5 on ITV3

Bill Maynard (Actor) .. Claude Jeremiah Greengrass

Born: October 08, 1928 in Farnham, Surrey

Best Known For: Playing Claude Greengrass in Heartbeat.

Early-life: Walter Frederick George Williams was born in Farnham, Surrey, on October 8, 1928. He was eight when he sang Leaning On a Lamppost in his first public appearance at a working men's club in Leicestershire. He went on to work as a young performer on the local working men's club circuit and built up an act that included songs and monologues.

Career: Maynard's big break came in 1951 when he worked with comedy actor Terry Scott at Butlins in Skegness. Maynard began getting work on radio shows for the BBC and it was at this time he changed his name. His first TV appearance came in 1953 when he performed on Henry Hall's Face the Music. In 1955, he partnered with Terry Scott again on popular comedy TV series Great Scott, It's Maynard! He then switched to acting and was soon starring in the West End in You Too Can Have a Body. He continued to have success on the stage throughout the 1960s but by the end of the decade he was forced to return to doing stand-up in working men's clubs to earn a living. An offer to play a part in the film version of Till Death Us Do Part (1969) came out of the blue and this led to work on the big screen in the Carry On films and the Confessions Of movies, and on the small screen in popular sitcoms Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt, Selwyn, and The Gaffer. In 1992, he landed the role of Greengrass in Heartbeat, a part he would play on the series until 2000 when he was forced to retire temporarily from acting after suffering a number of strokes. He returned to the Greengrass character in 2003 in Heartbeat spin-off The Royal.

Quote: 'To do comedy is fifty times harder than any drama, you've got to be a specialist to do comedy but not drama.'

Trivia: In 1973, Maynard appeared as the baker in a Ridley Scott-directed Hovis commercial. He wrote and performed the theme song for The Gaffer.

Derek Fowlds (Actor) .. Oscar Blaketon

Born: September 02, 1937 in London

Best Known For: Yes, Minister, Yes, Prime Minister and Heartbeat.

Early-life: Born in London on September 2, 1937, Derek left school at 15 and worked in a factory as an apprentice painter. It was during his national service that he was encouraged to take up acting. He went on to win a scholarship and grant for Rada.

Career: Fowlds made his stage debut in the West End in The Miracle Worker and continued to win stage work and small roles in films before he became known to millions as Mr Derek in children's series The Basil Brush Show, which ran from 1969 to 1973. His big break came in 1980 when he landed the role of Bernard Woolley in BBC sitcom Yes, Minister and its sequel Yes, Prime Minister. He went on to play Oscar Blaketon in long-running ITV police drama Heartbeat from 1992 until 2010.

Quote: 'I'm still waiting to be discovered.'

Trivia: He married Blue Peter presenter Lesley Judd in 1974. They divorced four years later.

Jason Durr (Actor) .. PC Mike Bradley

Born: December 02, 1967 in Singapore

Best Known For: Playing Mike Bradley in Heartbeat and David Hide in Casualty.

Early-life: Born on December 2, 1967 in Singapore and raised in Hong Kong. Jason trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before attending the Royal Shakespeare Company. Here, he worked with director Trevor Nunn in Measure for Measure and The Blue Angel and with director Adrian Noble in Macbeth.

Career: Since his days with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Durr has made a number of TV appearances in such shows as Inspector Morse and A Dark Adapted Eye and in television films like Gawain and the Green Knight (1991) and Sharpe's Battle (1995). He landed the role of policeman Mike Bradley in the TV series Heartbeat in 1997 and played the character until 2003. His other TV credits include Above Suspicion, Lewis and New Tricks. Durr also played the lead role in Down Dog (2014). More recently, he has played David Hide in Casualty.

Quote: 'I have lived all over the world but my heart now lies in the English countryside - if only it didn't rain quite so much.'

Trivia: He enjoys rock climbing.

William Simons (Actor) .. PC Alf Ventress

Mark Jordon (Actor) .. PC Phil Bellamy

Philip Franks (Actor) .. Sgt Raymond Craddock

Kazia Pelka (Actor) .. Maggie Bolton

Tricia Penrose (Actor) .. Gina Ward

David Michaels (Actor) .. Dr Neil Bolton

David Lonsdale (Actor) .. David Stockwell

Arbel Jones (Actor) .. Mary Ward

Keeley Forsyth (Actor) .. Sue Driscoll

Rupert Vansittart (Actor) .. Lord Charles Ashfordly

Bryan Marshall (Actor) .. Josh Roberts

Martin Troakes (Actor) .. Jim Cullimore

Andrew Greenough (Actor) .. Paul Roberts

John Phythian (Actor) .. Len Jackson

Heather Phoenix (Actor) .. Sheila Jackson

Peter Gibbs (Writer)

Keith Richardson (Executive producer)

Gerry Mill (Producer)

Brian Farnham (Director)

Heartbeat: Give a Dog a Bad Name

5:50 pm - 6:55 pm, Friday, June 5 on ITV3 (10)

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Give a Dog a Bad Name
Season 8, Episode 7

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